#despite also being nothing like it used to be and a lot of normies being run out of the community but

[aurentaie]

i survived midterms, and sucktober is almost over, but i also think i'm going to continue to stay offline here at least for now? not that I have much going on here, but I have so much going on school-wise and I am getting back into my workout routine and in my small amount of free time I'm trying to hang out with people who arent in law school (and also very very very slowly reading Piranesi and playing Metaphor) ... i miss rp and being in fandom spaces and writing for fun, but i definitely need to rethink how and where i'm exerting that energy.

[kitsuga]

Loading Screen. {Leviathan x Reader/MC}

Description: 

A fic in which Levi tries to express his feelings but MC makes the move. 

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Tags: fluff, kissing, not beta'd, not edited, gender neutral reader, leviathan/levi x reader/mc, obey me!/obm/om, leviathan/levi

Word Count: 1,086

A/N: Written on: June 27, 2021 

I just felt like writing this one day for my best of all friends and I have nothing else to say beyond that, really. Also, nervous levi agenda thank you  

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“Woo-hoo! Another series: done. Hurry up MC, I’m gonna start the next one!” 

“I’m coming, I’m coming.” MC called, rushing over to plop onto the floor-bound makeshift blanket fort with an arm full of snacks to restock their supply. “Don’t hit play yet!” 

“Too late! No time! Gotta play it now!”  

“Levi!” They whined, pushing him over and rewinding the previous 10 seconds they missed just to prove a point while he laughed. 

He bounced back up, pretending to have done it too hard and bumped into their side, causing them to fall over a bit as well. The two of them fought back and forth for a short while, laughing comfortably with each other until their new show’s opening ended—that was when they settled down. MC leaned their head against his shoulder, and Levi suddenly realized the position he was in and stiffened up; he started to get nervous and shy despite being in the same situation time and time again.  

Once the show actually started, it was easy for him to get lost in it and forget the warmth of MC cuddling up beside him, wrapping their arms around his waist and mindlessly feeding him snacks as time went on. As the episode came to an end, however, the cursed black loading screen reminded him once more of his (epic!) predicament. MC nuzzled against him for a bit before sitting up, noticing his nerves plain as day on his face in the very same reflection. 

“I think this one’s going to be good; what did you think about it?” 

“The premise is good but the executions a little slow. If they had used proper elements of a magical girl anime instead of trying to fake it and make their own, it would hold more attention of the viewers but instead they made it seem more like an off-brand mecha and that--” 

He continued on his rant relentlessly, MC wasn’t sure he ever took a breath within it. He spouted off a lot of explanations, most of which they picked up a few words from, but mostly just nodded in silence with a smile on their face. They looked content, happy to listen to him and pretty interested in what he had to say—whenever it was cohesive, at least. Their gentle smile is what caused Levi to pause and stare at them. 

“You know,” he started, “I’m glad you’re here. I’m pretty happy that you’re willing to do this with me.” His face started to heat up, and his face contorted to a pained look as though he were battling with himself to get words out. “I mean, I have no one else to do this with. I’m just--” 

“Aw, Levi,” they teased, a small smirk growing on their lips, “are you trying to compliment me?” 

“No!” A lie. “Let me talk!” 

MC threw their hands up in defense, nonchalantly twisting their lips to the side and eyes following suit as they pretended not to care. Levi took a deep breath before launching back into his speech. 

“I’m just, glad that you like me—and that you like me enough to sit here and do all that gross couple stuff with me, and that you listen to me even if you’re a bit of a normie and don’t understand the golden depth of my reviews, and--” he quickly started to spiral into a nervous, embarrassed fit and fidgeted with his hands, “and you know I just, I... I lo- lov- I lo-” 

The more Levi stuttered, the worse he felt. As his heart started to leap out of his throat, he could feel it breaking into pieces; this wasn’t how he wanted to do it. This wasn’t how it was supposed to go. Now he looks like a complete fool—MC wouldn’t like him back after this! Even if they were already dating—they'd definitely want to leave after this, he certainly did. His eyes shot up from his hands to their own eyes as their hands covered his. Their smile was so gentle, he almost shattered into pieces under the sheer intense pressure he found himself under. 

“Hey,” their teasing tone replaced with something he’d describe as angelic, “if you can’t say it out loud, go ahead and use this.” 

It was only then that he realized they dropped his phone in his hands. They tilted their head and smiled even brighter, knowing just what would make him feel better. His hands shook as he typed out a text message to them at lightning speed, thumb now hovering over the send button; he closed his eyes shut tight as he hit send and groaned, throwing himself backwards and laying on the floor. He complained to MC that they insist on making his life difficult, when all he wanted to do was watch anime.  

‘I love you. I wanted to say it without stuttering, or in some cool like, shojo-style way since it was the first time, but I ruined it.’ 

Levi was almost too afraid to look at his phone whenever it went off. 

‘Sit up.’ 

Reluctantly, he did as he was told and had already opened his mouth to complain, apologize, deflect, anything he had to do to save face but instead of needing to save it, MC held it instead. 

Gently, they cupped their hands around his face and leaned in slowly, only kissing the tip of his nose. The small kiss was so full of affection, Levi wondered if he was going to cry; his body relaxed a bit, his face melting into their hold as he looked at them through his lashes and a pout on his lips to offset the look of love in his eyes and blush on his face.  

Words didn’t need to be said. He didn’t need to say it again, they didn’t need to say it to him. He didn’t need to ask them to kiss him again, they leaned in again and gave him a deep, loving kiss. When they pulled away, he stared at their lips until they leaned in again and again. His heart was racing and he felt as though he were on Cloud 9; he didn’t know what he did to deserve this, but he thanked whatever god may have had a hand in it. 

The anime played through episode after episode, long forgotten in the background; their love reflected on the black background between them. He’d definitely be able to tell them the right way next time. 

[inbarfink]

I mean, the thing is that fiction about aliens is almost always going to be about some sort of Other on some level. Whatever it’s about demonizing or fear-mongering about some sort of Outsider Group or trying to get the audience to sympathize with the Other via the metaphor of a lovable alien. 

And Invader Zim is kind of an interesting spot there because, like, it’s not just ‘Bad Outsider Out to Destroy Our Beloved In-Group’ or ‘Poor Sympathetic Outsider Being Put-Down by the In-Group’. First thing first because Zim is kinda both. He is both the Outsider secretly hiding inside the in-group plotting their destruction - but the narrative and framing also sympathizes with him and supports his view of the in-group (that humans are stupid and gross).

So he can’t really be A Scary Demonized Outsider when he gets so much narrative sympathy and support, but also… he is a murderous little world-conquering bastard and most of his suffering is generally just him gets exactly what he deserves so he can’t be your classic sort of Sympathetic Outsider either. 

And the other thing is that the in-group is not even really involved in Zim’s conflict. Zim’s biggest challenge in conquering the earth is Dib, another Outsider. Often, despite being a human and thus part of the literal in-group, Dib is an even bigger Outsider to humanity than Zim is.

Zim and Dib are both Outsiders, and Zim isn’t just an Outsider as an Alien on Earth - among his own people he is in the same situation as Dib is, an Outsider in his own in-group. (Not that he can ever admit to himself that is the case). So these two Weirdos are fighting to protect/further the goals of two in-groups that will never actually accept them. 

And so often their main weapon against each other and the primary danger and the source of their suffering for themselves is the same thing; the in-group conformity and enforcement of social norms. 

Dib’s main evidence that Zim is an Alien is, most of the time, just the fact that he looks and acts weird. But also he himself is constantly bullied for looking and acting weird.

And Zim’s most constant source of anxiety while undercover on Earth is the fact that he’s going to get caught being Too Weird and then not just fail his mission, but get brutally dissected and experimented on. But his best defense against being exposed is… basically just to point out just how much Dib also Diverges From the Norm.

It’s the story of two Weirdos trying to get the other punished for being weird in some way, while the Normies just kinda look on and laugh at them both. And the actual thing they want, recognition and acceptance from their in-group is the one thing they are doomed to never actually get. 

And honestly, I think that's actually what makes a lot of real-life Outsiders cling to IZ, especially while we’re teens. I think, in a way, the fact that it’s kind of a messy Outsider narrative makes it more relatable to the messy middle-school/high-school experience than something more neatly crafted to be uplifting to the Weird Kids.

I mean, I certainly see the obvious value in fiction that’s actually trying to create a positive narrative for queer teens or autistic kids or maybe just scene kids or any combination of the following. This sort of media is very good, and can be just as important to some folks.

But... also the truth is that when you’re an edgy teen wrecked with self-loathing for Weirdness you don’t even fully understand “There’s nothing wrong with me and all the people making me feel like they are Bad!” can be a hard message to really believe in. Sometimes it’s easier to start from “Maybe I am all the terrible things people say that I am but.. still deserve love and sympathy, I can still be the hero of the story”. 

And because, sadly, the problem of Weirdos attacking each other for being Weirdos using the same rhetoric that’s used to hurt them, just for the sake of approval and recognition from in-groups that are never going to treat either of them as nothing but a joke - is not a phenomenon exclusive to the Silly Alien Invader Nicktoon.

And Dib and Zim’s rivalry is a great basic framework to explore it both in analysis of the canon and in fanworks.

[thyandrawrites]

On "dream doping", or the lesson to be learned from despair

Alteratively titled: why breaking up with your high school sweetheart is vital for a career in soccer (with or without said sweetheart. Signed: Ego Jinpachi)

buckle up, this is a long one

We know that Reo went into this match with several hungups as to why Nagi would leave him behind, even going as far as asking Chigiri and Kunigami why they'd pick him

And his voice shaking (notice the wobbly speech bubble) as he repeats the validation, like he doesn't quite believe it to be true anymore. And then during the match he kept alternating between talking himself up and trash talking Isagi with increasingly frantic urgency. He needed to test his worth against Isagi and come out victorious to prove that he was worthy of being the genius' partner, yes, but one important factor is that he did all of this specifically seeking Nagi's approval. He needed to hear it from him, because it's Nagi's departure that crushes Reo's confidence in the first place. Before that moment, Reo was self-assured and cocky, even looking down on other players he felt were beneath him. But we could argue that confidence was born from a shaky foundation—the idea of staying a team with Nagi until the world cup and their eventual victory together for Japan.

I think a factor that doesn't often get brought up in Reo commentaries is that Reo derives a lot of his winning self-image from tag-teaming with a genius

And it's from "borrowing" his talent that Reo feels he lifts their collective value to genius level

And in the process, Reo also tends to undersell his own skills by comparison, and letting them stay an accessory to Nagi's brilliance,

despite how it's been remarked that Reo's a bit of a genius in his own light. If he honed that potential, he could be a big threat, too. Alone.

This is by design, of course. He foils pre blue lock Rin for this reason, too. Reo and young Rin are similar in that they both consider their soccer partner the true star of the show, subordinating their own skills as just a fancy accessory to make their partners shine and become world's best with them right at their heels.

The unfortunate consequence of this is that they end up internalizing that their dream is not achievable without their partner(s), because they ingrained being a sidekick so deep into that plan that they simply see themselves unwilling or unable to chase it on their own.

Hence why, for the continuation of their dream, it becomes vital to have their partner's approval. They just don't see the point in going on alone. Losing the partnership means losing the reason to play altogether.

Now, of course this mindset is incompatible with blue lock. Nothing really new there. Reo was always framed as the delusional oddball for signing up for the program with the intended goal of using it to make Nagi the best, rather than himself. In other words, for trying to bend the system into accommodating his dream rather than accepting Ego's philosphy and playing by Ego's rules. And of course, that plan was bound to be put to the test when Reo&Nagi got the first taste of "despair".

The series posits that despair is the feeling you get when your dream doesn't measure up to reality and threatens to crash and burn. Ego posits that there's only one way out of it that doesn't involve self-destruction. And that's avoiding the trap of the so-called "dream doping".

But what does "engraving despair" even mean in simple terms? I think Ego's point is that after experiencing a crushing, frustrating defeat, some players (the normies, or those who don't go very far) simply think "next time we'll win" without putting any active energy into changing their playstyle and rebuilding it anew to face the growing challenges and "devour" them along the way.

Think of Barou, and how he managed to come back after Isagi and Nagi made him effectively useless in the field. What Barou did was evolving into someone even more chaotic and unpredictable, and devouring them right back. Barou himself cites the despair he felt during that match as the catalyst of his growth and winning goal. In other words, instead of dream doping, Barou adapted and survived in a battlefield that would've otherwise left him in the dust.

But not every player has the presence of mind to pick themselves back up as the match is still unfolding, and when the defeats rolls around, they fold under the weight of that despair. We see this in action. When Sae evolves so rapidly in Spain and eats Rin for breakfast during their 1v1, Rin's reaction to despair is dream doping (at least at first). So is Reo's when he loses to team white. Faced with opponents that had an explosive soccer growth, they struggle to keep pace, and then refuse to face reality and admit they also need to change their playstyle to keep staying in the game.

In Reo's case, he even goes as far as saying he doesn't have "the courage to let himself be destroyed and reborn." And that defeatist attitude is what leads team white to choose Chigiri instead. A real egoist doesn't think "I cannot do it" but instead keeps fighting tooth and nail until the end.

But Reo isn't there yet. If you analyse his body language at the end of the match, it's clear he expects a rejection before it even comes. Notice his posture

Having just had a taste of the limits of his skills against strong opponents, his reaction is resigned. His stance is defensive and closed off. His arms and legs are crossed, he's the only one on the ground, his head is hung in defeat and avoiding Nagi's eyes. Even the camera angle looks at him from above, like he's already doomed himself by deciding to stay on the ground, not picking himself up. Remember, it's Kunigami who lifts him from his collar. Reo doesn't have that strength alone.

This transition here also shows it well imo. True to fashion, he only shows a reaction when Nagi's directly addressing him. A part of him is still wishing for things between them to mend, to go back to how they were. There's hope written all over his face in that second panel, but the moment he hears what Nagi has to say, it abruptly morphs into pain.

Nagi echoes the words Reo wanted to tell him when they split, but to Reo it doesn't come across as the approval he was seeking. Rather, as the opposite: while Reo couldn't bring himself to encourage Nagi to go ahead in fear that Nagi wouldn't look back (that is, in fear Nagi wasn't as attached to him and their dream as Reo was)... Nagi says them easily enough. And to Reo, that's more crushing than the loss itself because he misconstructs it as indifference towards their promise.

It all circles back to Reo's insecurity. While Nagi just showed him he's able to change even without Reo as his partner, Reo is insecure about being able to do the same because he sees them as his biggest weapon, not anything inherent to Reo alone. Thus, once Nagi mines the foundation of Reo's confidence (their team up), any step Nagi takes in an effort to get them closer to the world cup in Reo's eyes is just another step away from it (and from him). Reo always assumed they'd crossed that finish line together, that he'd build Nagi up into the world's best striker. He wasn't prepared for a path where Nagi teams up with other people, leaving Reo powerless in the sidelines—their combo (and thus himself) a weapon that outlived its usefulness.

Much like Rin declaring that he'd lose his reason to play soccer if he can't chase his dream with Sae the way they had agreed to, Reo metaphorically sees his future as the "abnormal monster duo" crumbling away (notice the decaying effect on the square with his internal narration). Instead of taking steps towards ensuring their dream still has a chance of happening in the future, he sees it as already doomed.

The thing is, Reo isn't ready to give up on it, though. He doesn't want to. I could be wrong about this but him seeking out a clean cut from Nagi came across to me less as if he was blaming Nagi for leaving, and more like he seeked a fight as self-punishment for his thoughts during the match. In the previous chapter, he tried stifling Nagi's potential and then resented himself for it. Now, his internal narration is almost goading Nagi's anger. I think it's still up in the air whether he was lashing out because he was overwhelmed by his conflicting feelings or if he was seeking out Nagi's rejection because he hated himself for not measuring up to his own standards during the match. Maybe a bit of both.

Point is, Reo is refusing to face reality. By saying "then pick me", to cite Ego, he's denying that he was powerless in the match, and putting the entire brunt of his loss onto Nagi's shoulders for not choosing him. Simply put, he's relying on Nagi to open up the door to go further in blue lock instead of growing into the player that gets to choose who to pick.

And Nagi recognizes this and feels hurt by it, cause if Reo refuses to evolve, switch up tactics and try new things, he's also implicitly refusing to go further in the program. From Nagi's perspective, it's Reo that's breaking their promise by being unwilling to put in the effort to keep staying in the game. Remember, the consequence for failing blue lock is no longer being allowed to play professionally for Japan. If Reo quit putting up a fight, his dream would be over for good.

And the story tells us, the measure of a great striker is how they react to the challenges thrown in their path. Nagi's growth happens specifically because he doesn't tie his success to Reo, but knows when to throw in other variables and when cooperating with Reo makes them stronger. In Nagi's eyes, their dream is not reliant on their combo, but their combo is a weapon that makes their dream achievable. Whereas Reo based his plan to get the world cup around his partnership with Nagi, and let his own skills lay dormant and underdeveloped cause he always defaulted to passing to Nagi to score.

But when Nagi leaves the equation for good, Reo's forced to address where his own strengths really lie and how to weaponize them to avoid elimination. That's why the chameleon awakens for the first time. It gets roused by Reo's despair, which gets "engraved" only when it dawns on Reo that their combo is not an option anymore, and it's on Reo and Reo alone to fight his way back up, evolving and devouring rivals along the way. And much like Nagi's talent for trapping, Reo's stregth was also inherent, and never just reliant on them being a team.

[blueikeproductions]

Transformers fans have been going over a new quarterly report and there’s good news and bad news. The former is Transformers is Hasbro’s strongest performing brand, the later is RotB and EarthSpark’s toy sales are stinkers. In particular, EarthSpark’s considered an underperforming product, with the show’s ratings in the smelting pool. As some of us anticipated, the second season is the most we’re gonna get, no third season or beyond.

So as much as some don’t want to hear it: EarthSpark is essentially a flop, and the second season coming at all is more because it’s too late to axe it.

What’s carrying the toys so far are the collector lines: Legacy and Studio Series. For better or for worse, do NOT doubt the power of nostalgia. Also pricing. A friend was telling me a parent audibly freaked out at the prices of the EarthSpark toys, so that’s keeping parents away.

Do kids still like Transformers? Well in my experience they do, but they largely liked G1, Prime, RiD15, Bayformers and Rescue Bots. They did NOT like Cyberverse (especially in Japan where I’m told toys are STILL rotting on shelves down there), and now apparently EarthSpark. I didn’t see RotB in theaters so I can’t speak for that, but I did see a lot of kids at Bumblebee when it was in theaters.

The easy answer on its failure, and we all know GriftTubers will latch on to it, is Nightshade. Transformers making it on to Fox News is NEVER a good thing… not helped as the owl continues to be controversial due to the Japanese dub deciding to make them male. (Personally I say split the difference if Nightshade ever reappears and make them he/they but still.) I’ve been clear on my stance that NS is fine and cool, but I’ve also placed more importance on their skills, interests and personality. Their gender is not important to me to get them to like them, but the unfortunate problem is too many people on both sides focus on their identity and it scared off normies and parents. Again, well meaning like the Blue’s Clues Pride Parade, but read the room. There was a way to make NS work and still let them be NB, but they didn’t do it, and I still say the old “they’re Terran because gender means nothing to them as a robotic life form” was the way to do it.

The more nuanced answer however is more complicated. ES wound up being another kids show that was actually for adult fans and not kids, choosing to instead focus on a sense of identity and HYUGE importance on family. Stuff that isn’t bad on its own, but most modern writers and executives don’t understand subtleties: resulting in a lot of Bludgeoning of well meaning ideas in a show that doesn’t feature the Master of Metallikato. Most kindergarten and elementary school kids aren’t THAT interested in that stuff, they like Pokémon, Mario, classic Disney, classic Star Wars and anime in my experience. And Transformers has a certain expectation among people, and while there’s been stuff in the past that involves talking about things (Rad having environmentalist tendencies and Optimus respecting his feelings on needing to protect the environment when a fire breaks out during a Mini-Con Panel hunt, with Tigatron, Optimus and Dinobot having a similar conversation more than once in Beast Wars), if the Autobots AREN’T waging their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons, most aren’t interested.

This feeds into the show’s writing which also I think killed it: the show’s writing is decent but it only gets weaker as it goes along. The overfixation on making the Decepticons into misunderstood bullies who need a hug, despite also showing them perfectly content to kill people, the mixed signals of all the known Earth Decepticons now being friends with the Maltos, Optimus being a doofus the longer the show went on, the heavy IDW slants that weren’t popular at all with general audiences like Autobot Megatron, and Fix Fic Blue Eyed TFP Starscream. There’s also lack of proper follow up on plot threads like Ravage and Mandroid’s friendship with Alex, Schloder’s reasoning for hunting Bee being stupid, mysterious Transformer artifacts, poor reasoning on Energon aliens running amuck, why Cybertron never re-established contact, the lack of understanding why Quintus Prime seems to have such an interest in Earth and why the Emberstone is even here at all and more. Sure some of this might be touched on better in season 2, but do I trust this writing team now? No. No I do not. I think this can be summed up by the rejected episode pitch with Ratchet and Drift. More focus was put on them being husbands, and while both tried offering their own reasonings for the Cyber Sleeves, there was no concrete answer provided on why the kids had the sleeves. Its especially odd in that I wager they would’ve played up Ratchet’s atheism from IDW, but never once have Quintus actually speak up through the sleeves, like a joke in Family Guy where Stewie calls out Brian’s atheism because Jesus crashed on their couch recently. The episode is just… more fluff. People don’t want fluff in Transformers, and we’re seeing that with how well the Energon Universe is continuing to kick everything’s afterburner in comics. IDW never did that. The best selling stuff towards the end was the Marvel G1 prequel and sequels, and the Beast Wars reboot and those were still low in the rungs.

So what can be done to get kids more on board with new TF content? Go back to basics. Transformers desperately needs a new Beast Wars style show to give it a kick in the pants tv show wise. Earthspark I think fancied itself as that but was not meant to be. The Energon Universe is a good start: the true Neo G1 successor to the 80’s cartoon canon so far. The easy joke me and a friend have made is to just adapt the Energon Universe for tv, but it’s not ready yet. I think using it as a spring board would be useful and having the Void Rivals be supporting characters would help expand their exposure. But the simple matter is this: absolutely under no circumstances use IDW/MTMTE post war stuff. I’m willing to go as far as using characters like Adaptus, Nova Prime, Nominus Prime and the Guiding Hand for certain things but that’s it. Classic good Autobots vs evil Decepticons. Megatron is full on evil like in G1, the movies & Unicron Trilogy: no more of this making him into a repentant Anakin nonsense. More of stuff like Optimus’s friendship with Sparkplug and Spike and his consoling of the deer. Earthspark was on the right track making him more lighthearted and closer to the well meaning dad he was in G1, but they pushed it too far the other way like Cyberverse did. Maybe ease back on Bumblebee a smidge, that worked with ROTB and Energon Universe so far, and other than maybe a little mixing and matching (Like Strongarm, Iguanus, Fixit, Barricade, Blackout and other guys being main Bots and Cons for a change), stick to the basics.

Edit: adding more because I had to go run an unexpected errand. Not only the basics, but let’s revisit the idea of a proper anime again. It’s the second major modern anime boom in the States, why DON’T we have a new RiD or Unicron Trilogy type thing? And no I refuse to consider Prime Wars and War For Cybertron anime. I don’t care what Netflix calls it. The fact we don’t have a TF anime currently is baffling; the last time we had an anime was Transformers Go!, and that was more of a one off spiritual Brave successor. I’d rather at this stage Takara commission a new kids anime for Transformers with writers over in Japan scripting the premise who know what they’re doing to make a fun children’s show. Then it can be dubbed and we get Blum, Kaplan, Zeno and other popular/veteran anime dub voice actors to reprise roles/do new ones. I don’t care if Trigger, Toei, Polygon, Science Saru or whoever animates it, my stipulation going forward is 2D animated TF anime, but with designs that are easier to hand draw. Like somewhere between G1 and Transformers Animated. I liked the Armada designs but I can see why Energon and Cybertron opted for CGI for the robots because they became way too technical to draw outside of very specific scenes. If full on 2D robots wasn’t acceptable, the CGI technology used for SSSS. Gridman and Bravern is acceptable, but a full return to 2D animation is preferable.

As for a setting: Earth. Autobots protecting their human friends against the Decepticons. A new gimmick properly implemented from the toys into the show, with the Quintessons as a villainous third party with a stake in the affairs, hiring Mercs like Devcon, RoughEdge, Lockdown and Rampage, or freelancers like the Skuxxoid and villainous Void Rivals to do their dirty work.

Something like that, but above all else cast wise: Blaster and his Cassettes MUST return. And to acknowledge EarthSpark, Hashtag can be his kid sister, with Twitch as one of Hashtag’s own cassettes. Everybody wins.

[butch-reidentified]

You say your reason for debating TRAs is so that any normies/fence sitters will see what radfems actually believe and are really like; that's exactly how I got into radical feminism, and I considered myself trans at the time.

Seeing innocuous, only vaguely feminist posts get derailed by accusations of transphobia, when the posts themselves had literally nothing to do with trans people (like saying women shouldn't have to shave or wear make-up), everyone dogpiling op who's begging for forgiveness, and then radfems coming in and being the only reasonable and kind ones. Who op often turns against and insults to further distance herself from them and to mollify the crowd.

Or seeing radfems in the comment sections of trans posts mostly politely asking questions and explaining things, and noticing how no one was ever actually able to answer, and how I didn't have any answers either. Only for them to be responded to with rape and murder threats, as well as suicide baiting.

Obviously there's a few radfems who are rude, or use language I disagree with, but it's outweighed by vastly more who are great.

And wow, surprise surprise, no rape threats coming from this side!

thank you for this! this is a pretty common story, I've found. a lot of people, especially formerly trans-identifying ones (and even some who still do!) have told me similar. actually this was a huge part of my journey from semi-transmedicalist (semi bc i never was on board with their weird gender essentialism, saying to be trutrans you had to be totally gender conforming with your identified gender) to radblr icon 😎

playfulness aside though, I really do think that it's one of the most important things I do on here! don't get me wrong, rudefems are based and are a needed part of the community. but we ALSO need people who are very loud but still "approachable" to the fence sitters, the people like I used to be who are trans or trans allies but never stopped dissenting, never fully got on board with all the rhetoric. because those are the women who deep down are LOOKING for a community like this one, they just don't realize it exists. a place for women to be outspoken and to dissent freely, even from each other, and still fight by each other's sides at the end of the day.

I do struggle to be polite a lot of the time. I definitely have a hard time and sometimes just want to roast the ever loving shit out of a male TRA who thinks he's God's gift and is condescending as fuck arguing with me despite being wrong about every basic scientific fact as well as what radical feminism actually is. it's messages like these that I hold present in my mind in those moments, remind myself why I'm here. because yeah, seeing a radfem explain her views and realizing you've been deceived, all while she's being kind and rational and the "right side of history" folks are talking about raping and murdering her... it's a powerful moment for so many women who end up coming to radical feminism.

[otherion]

jeremy fitzgerald has no canon characterization ofc but to me it's so important that he be a complete normie. in general i think that it's a mistake to solely focus on the agonizing tragedy of the aftons & victims/collaborators to the exclusion of mining the fact that fazbear entertainment locations are staffed by people who DON'T have dead family members and are just here for a paycheck.

fredbear and spring bonnie? not henry and william ALL the time, fredbear was also tony and spring bonnie was also julian. there are servers on the day shift, and the day shift guard before william took over, and of course, there is jeremy fitzgerald, who in his one piece of dialogue indicates nothing at all except that he was stressed out by the workload(which indicates that he's built different with that dog in him for sure but not in a way that makes him not a normie with no connection to anything except getting a paycheck).

which he's almost entirely unique in! this honor is shared only with ralph(and is arguable, considering the length of his involvement with the company) and phone dude in terms of canon characters. as the protagonist of fnaf 2, he and potentially frights guard are the only people who are literally just here for the bag.

i'm actually not even sure about people making him one of the bullies, at least not if he remains in contact with michael, because isn't it better if he's... not? if that's either not a factor or something in his past he's processed/repressed at this point and he's working at a different location in a different position after four years. maybe that's why he hallucinates the shadows, some remnant of that trauma returning when he sees the characters again, but it doesn't define him the way it defines the aftons.

now you might ask WHY and the answer is honestly just that it's way funnier! jezza applying for the night shift because he heard it's pretty slow and he might be able to balance it and school pretty easy, reluctantly deciding to show up on day 2 because otherwise he won't get paid for day 1, and then just. getting used to it, the way people get used to dangerous jobs for low pay. it's a living! he gets to sit down, at least. he's still relieved when he gets swapped to the day shift, before abruptly becoming a part of freddy's history... which he survives. he's the only one who survives! he loses the ability to speak canonically and likely a lot of other stuff, but he survives! hell, he might still be alive in the modern era. peepaw jeremy watching the TV advertise fazbear's frights like "WHAT." but he's never mentioned again, so he just got away from freddy's. kept on living with a workplace injury from his shitty job's lack of proper safety procedure.

that said i do like the idea of him and dave miller being work buddies. as a night and day shift worker i can attest that night shift workers are entranced by my flexible hourly swag, and it's pretty easy to form a work friendship with someone you would otherwise never talk to. and wouldn't that be so goddamn funny? jems shows up, befriends dave, gets through his gruff "i'm just here to do my job and not blow my cover" exterior, maybe he even opens up to him a little about his divorce, and then on the last day he just gets a call that his friend who for some reason didn't show up for work today is suspected of murdering five children. and maybe, just maybe, he sees william afton on TV in the hospital, and he figures it out. he doesn't, can't do anything, but even after the fnaf 6 fire burns almost everyone, there is one man in Hurricane who randomly, through sheer chance, despite having no involvement whatsoever, knows.

[narhinafan]

SasuSaku or normies who knew little or none of Tekken always wanted to parallel how JinXiao is like SasuSaku when looking into the dynamics of JinXiao, there is no similarity, even on the personalities of Jin and Xiaoyu to Sasuke and Sakura.

Jin and Sasuke

- Jin is stoic while Sasuke is emotional.

- Jin distanced himself from Xiaoyu and his friends to protect them from the Devil inside him and the Mishimas while Sasuke betrayed his own village for power and tried to kill his friends.

- Jin"'s hairstyle remained constant from child to adult while Sasuke's hair changed a lot, particularly during post-war and Boruto.

- Jin actually cared for Xiaoyu and did what he had to do to protect her. Sure, he did tell her not to follow him in Tekken 5 despite her protests but it's more of keeping her safe rather than a rude and outright dismissal. He never tried to hurt her physically (sparring is not counted). Sasuke dismissed Sakura outright and even hurt her physically. Jin also supports Xiaoyu's aspirations while Sasuke doesn't even care about Sakura's.

Xiaoyu and Sakura

- Xiaoyu's personality is bubbly and while she has a crush on Jin, she's still a very supportive friend to her bestfriend Miharu. Sakura, while kind at times, is overtly insecure to Ino after she learns that the latter has a crush on Sasuke. To give credit to where its due, Ino is willing to let go of her crush to Sasuke as long as it will keep her friendship to Sakura while the latter was quick to treat her as a rival.

- Xiaoyu is actually a competent fighter that got her noticed by Heihachi Mishima and taken under his wing as a ward. She also trains a lot. Sakura, on the other hand, has passable taijutsu skills for self-defense but is utterly useless on offense unless controlled by Chiyo or fighting mindless mobs.

- Xiaoyu opted to chase after Jin by the events of Tekken 6 in order to know why he decided to put the world in chaos. She wasn't even pushy or trying to show off when they got reunited in Tekken 8. Sakura, on the other hand, was willing to become a deserter to follow Sasuke and decided to use her skills when he joined the fight despite those skills that could have helped earlier in the war.

Sorry for the long post but I really hate it when they try to pair SasuSaku to JinXiao when if they have similarities, it's mostly superficial. NaruHinas also noted some similarities with JinXiao but unlike SasuSaku who went for the superficial, NaruHinas noted the personalities on how Jin cares for Xiaoyu, wouldn't dare to hurt her and personality changes around her is kinda similar in a degree to how Naruto does with Hinata.

P.S. - the Naruto fandom still suffers from the so-called "Narutards" and their penchant to try to put Naruto as the stronger verse compared to Bleach and other manga series. This is sad though since that minority wrecks the perception of the Naruto fandom as a whole.

I know I am not even that into Tekken and can easily say Sakura is nothing like Xiaoyu just from first impressions of her, same with the ship being compared to SasuSaku of all things.

Yeah its one of the reasons I just don't take part in cross over matches every series has its own way of scaling and don't always translate well to each other. The closest comparison I would make is that characters are more or less equal to their role counter part that is how cross over games usual do things, but if you try and break down or apply scaling exactly things just don't work out well.

[ehc-on-ao3]

Where did “Willa” come from?

Apologizes if this is old news but I found this interesting and wanted to share.

So many fics have Enid using "Willa" as a nickname for Wednesday that I figured it must've been in the show at some point. Yet, nothing I looked up seemed to support this (and no, I haven't gotten to watching the show yet, sue me). I remember doing an online search a couple of months back but the results were inconclusive. Well, I recently gave it another shot and found the following:

First, this name wasn't pulled out out of thin air. There are a number of articles that state the main character of Wednesday was actually named Willa Addams, with her nickname being Wednesday. This is corroborated by a couple of articles that shared the following synopsis released by Netflix:

After getting kicked out of eight schools in Five years, Willa, aka Wednesday Adams [sic], is beginning a new chapter of her life at the academy, the two-century-old boarding school attended by her parents. However, Willa wants nothing to do with their alma mater and she's already planning her escape. But this academy is like no other school she's ever attended. It's a school of outcasts with four main cliques, the Fangs (vampires) the Furs (werewolves), the Scales (sirens) and the Stoners. It is also a piece of the mystery that holds dark secrets about her family's past.

(Note: I could find no official statement from Netflix that matches this, but then again, it's been at least a year and a half, so said statement may not exist any longer.)

While this could be a simple matter of accidentally flipping a couple of names around, I did find an article dated August 10, 2021, that used the name Willa extensively when listing the various supporting characters in the upcoming show:

Enid Sinclair – Enid is a werewolf, but you would never know it thanks to her Californian smile and sunny disposition. Enid is the roommate of Willa and the complete opposite of her. Wearing heart-shaped, rose-colored glasses, she dresses in the school’s purple uniform accessorized with velvet scrunchies and rainbow-colored nails.

Xavier Thorpe – Xavier comes from wealth and privilege, which is shown through his preppy artistic swagger and his handsome charm. Just like Tyler, he is fascinated by Willa. Xavier is also a talented artist and expert fencer.

Bianca Barkley – Bianca is the closest thing that the academy has to royalty, and it shows in her attitude. As a Siren, Bianca has the ability to morph her body between scales and skin. Bianca is frequently at odds with Willa, but there’s a lot more to the Siren underneath her scaled exterior as her life has been far from easy.

Principal Weems – Principal Weems constantly clashes with Willa, who she believes is a trouble maker, and very reluctantly accepted her into the academy. While to the other students her demeanor is warm, she hides her true feelings like a skilled diplomat.

Dr. Kinbott – Dr. Kinbott can be considered eccentric thanks to her love of roadkill taxidermy, Diptyque candles, and cashmere ponchos. Despite her eccentricities, Dr. Kinbott is a thoughtful, perceptive, and professional therapist, who takes a keen interest in her latest patient Willa.

Ms. Novak – The only “normie” teacher of the entire academy, Ms. Novak is the dorm mother and the A.P. Bio teacher. Smart, quirky, and perceptive, she feels a particular connection to Willa.

To me, what gives this article credence is the mention of Ms. Novak, a character who was going to be in the show but was cut very early on due to the actress leaving production for personal reasons. This announcement hit the news around December, 2021, just a few months after the above article was released. Maybe it was decided during filming that the name "Willa" would be dropped completely? That makes sense, as Wednesday doesn't strike me as the type to tolerate nicknames and would likely threaten bodily harm to anyone who tried to give her one.

But why "Willa," specifically? I think I may have an answer. In a Q & A with Percy Hynes White, the actor that plays Xavier Thorpe, that posted on December 4, 2022, the following question was asked:

Q: How did this show land on your radar? A: The same as any other audition, I just got an email and I think there was some kind of code name for it. It was called "Willow" or "Willa" or something. I sent in a video of me doing one of the scenes and stuff just went from there.

If Willa really was the codename for Wednesday (the series), which is also the name of the main character, I can see how a spotty info leak could've turned the codename into an actual name. If correct, Wednesday was never named Willa at all, but the internet being what it is, the name stuck around.

Any thoughts on Willa as a nickname? Others I've seen in fics are Wends and Wenny, which are so much easier to figure out. Only time will tell if I opt to use any of these in future works.

[tea-with-evan-and-me]

Man I feel bad for Frances. I know I know. I agree with everything you said about her contradictory statements and her edgelord behavior. But, human to human, seeing your ex upgrade BY A LOT has to hit different. I would definitely fall into the trap of comparison and I only ever dated normie guys. I can’t imagine what it feels like to see your famous ex with a woman that COULD have been you. It sucks because it’s not like she has no ambition, she just has no drive to follow up with that ambition and that’s 100% on her. That’s what’s getting me; she had it at an arm’s reach and she blew it !

Like if she was smart, she could have asked Evan for help with one of her projects or taken courses or seminars or go to networking events. Make silly indie movies with mediocre actors to at least start somewhere. She could have networked on the set of AHS but she was taking selfies instead. Hell, she lives in fucking LA she could have done THINGS!

She could have done so many things, she could have so many opportunities and now…. well….

May this be a lesson not only to her but also any other girly thinking someone else will give you the life YOU want.

that last part is inportant. you cannot sit idly by and wait for someone else to wave a magic wand. i really feel that the root of her lack of career movement is her sitting on the fence of what she actually wants. the contradiction and lack of drive is what has held her back, because she’s had opportunities laid in her lap and done nothing substantial with them. and she herself has said she loathes modeling, something i believe she could build a decent career out of - she is stunning and her modeling photos showcase this, and the way she can emote on camera and seem like a totally different girl. i don’t think she actually knows and could say that she wants a career as an artist and a creative despite it seemingly being her passion.. based on the fact she frequently talks about wanting a man to pay her bills as opposed to her talent, i believe she wants to tinker with it as a fun hobby when she feels like it, without a societal expectation that it’s going to cover her cost of living. which isn’t a negative on its own - plenty of people have artistic outlets that they don’t brand into a side hustle or main source of income.

in fran’s perfect world, her rent, bills and luxuries are paid for by a man who asks for next to nothing in return. this enables her to do her fun projects, make videos with friends on her own timeline, digital art, etc. unencumbered by a 9 to 5. this is just my personal belief, but i don’t think she would be railing against the bourgeoisie and lamenting anyone else’s inability to pay their rent or bills. all of her posts on this matter come across as self-centered given her past history and what she seemingly expects of others. this may be a situation where she simply has to grow a bit older and come to terms with her own reality; to make peace with herself and the life she has, and not covet what others have. yeah, she’s made some public mistakes and done/said offensive things, but i wish the best for fran because she’s just a mixed up girl and not the anti-christ some people portray. she will get there eventually, i do think the exposure of being evan’s girlfriend and the subsequent negative attention and drama stunted her a bit. just like her posts the other day, she’s constantly been trying to prove to the haters watching her that she’s doing good and “winning” - which used to be that she had evan, now it’s that she’s prettier and talented than the next woman.

[papermint-airplane]

Well well well, who are these fine looking werewolves?

They're my first werewolf pack, from my first werewolf save, that are now unfortunately all in the void thanks to my old computer hard drive dying a horrible death before I was able to back up my saves. 😭😭 These are the only pictures that survived thanks to me sending them to a friend on Discord. I had so many more but they're all gone now. If you take away nothing else from this post, take this: always remember to back up your saves!!!!

This is my old werewolf pack from last year. I have been grieving their loss this whole time and I'm just now able to talk about them without getting a pit in my stomach. It's wild how much losing your favorite save can affect you. Starting a new werewolf save has helped heal the pain though, so let's do a retrospective/post-mortem of my original pack.

Gia (center, seated): The pack leader, the alpha bitch, the legend. Gia was one of those Sims who thought she was a badass, feared by all, when really most people saw her as a nuisance. She liked to terrorize everyone she thought were "normies" in Moonlight Falls, including the established werewolves there. When she wasn't starting fights for no reason, she was tapping away at her typewriter. She wrote a series of werewolf-themed romances that sold...well, they sold. And she was lucky, too, because they were all horrible trash but she was so convinced of her literary genius, she kept churning them out even when the publisher begged her to stop. She definitely didn't need the money since she and her dog kept finding tiberium pretty much daily, but it was never about the money, man. It was about the art. Maybe you've heard of her highest earner -- Anytime, Anywerewolf -- though if you admit to it, it's a self-report on your taste level. You might wanna keep that quiet.

Duchess (center, seated, dog): Duchess was the goodest of the good girls, end of story. Gia found her as a puppy and raised her to be the scourge of furniture everywhere. I was so sad to learn that dogs and werewolves don't have any special interactions and can't even hunt together, but regardless, the bond between these two was less like the relationship between owner and dog and more like siblings. Therefore, despite being a different species, Duchess was an undeniable member of the pack.

Marilyn (back, far left): Oh Marilyn, a precious little cinnamon roll who never hurt anyone except bees. Well, no, that's not right. The bees hurt her, not the other way around. Marilyn was a Sim Finder app acquisition. At the time, I was just looking to fill out the pack and hadn't yet come up with my "rule" (in the loosest possible sense) about using only premades so I used the app to generate zero-faces with the traits I wanted, then I'd make them over in CAS. In retrospect, I could have saved a lot of time just making them in CAS to begin with but, hey shut up, get off my back. Anyway, Marilyn was our pack gardener, or she would have been if she had been the slightest bit interested doing anything other than following River around like a lovesick puppy. Part of her gardening duties also entailed beekeeping but she was...just...the freaking worst at it. Every time she even thought of approaching the hive, the bees attacked her. Ever seen a Sim get stung five times in a row? I have. It was Marilyn. The girl subsisted on Benadryl and false hope. Maybe that's why she almost never gardened. Another of her quirks was that she had the coward trait, yet it almost never manifested itself with anything other than Bonehilda. She didn't freak out when pack members transformed in front of her, she didn't freak out when she got bitten, she didn't freak out when it was the full moon, she literally only screamed and fainted when Bonehilda was out of her coffin. I think she was skele-phobic.

Noel (back, second from left): Some of you are squinting at the screen right now going, "hey wait, that Sim looks really familiar". That's because I didn't make him, our wonderful @happy-lemon did. Noel, in her game, was the husband of Kana, her second gen heir. She was kind enough to send him to me to let me play with him, which is honestly such a sacrifice, seeing as how we've been friends for a while and she knows what I'm like. Absolute saint, that woman. Anyway, Noel was just as much of a sweetheart as he was in her game, and he was one of my favorites. He was one of everyone's favorites, really. He was a generally nice guy who got along with everyone, even Gia. Most Sims, when they get the cursed bite get an instant ➖➖ with the werewolf that bit them, and Noel was no different, but he never let his dislike of Gia show. He still tried to be kind to her despite her being...her. Nobody disliked Noel. Nobody. His highest relationship in the pack, though, was with Duchess. He adored that dog. He was always playing with her, giving her belly rubs, talking to her. God it was so cute. Noel's official role was pack chef. This was not a popular decision. See, Noel is a vegetarian, even as a werewolf, and his pack mates were...very much not. Normally, it's not wise to serve tofu hot dogs to a pack of ravenous slavering semi-feral werewolves, but Noel got away with it because he's just that nice. He didn't even take it personally when the pack refused to eat his cooking and chowed down on raw steaks instead. Angel.

River (back, middle): River was another Sim created by a dear friend of mine, Caralline. River didn't really have an official pack designation. I think I tried to give him one but he rejected everything but "pack hot guy all the girls fawn over". So, yeah, that was his official role. He was there to charm all the ladies and inadvertently become a hub of drama. He didn't do anything maliciously, though, he was just too darn charming for his own good. As previously mentioned, Marilyn was obsessed with him. She was always following him around, talking to him and rolling wishes to interact with him. She was the first Sim to get the attraction pop-up for him but oh lord, she was not the last. For his part, he was friendly with her but he didn't seem to be as interested in her as she was in him. He had eyes for Gia, which, again is very strange considering the ➖➖ cursed bite thing. He and Noel seemed to rise above their programming in that regard. He thought she was attractive (he thought everyone was attractive, though) and kept rolling wishes to get to know her better. I think there may have been some autonomous flirts, there, too, which, if my computer hadn't died, could have lead to some interesting dynamics between him, Gia, and Marilyn. I truly wish I could have seen that triangle through. The fireworks would have been spectacular.

Bailey (back, second from right): We all know her, we all tolerate her, ladies and germs, it's Moonlight Falls' very own Bailey Swain! This save made me do a complete 180 on my previous stance on premades, I'll tell you what. Before, I never really paid them much attention, preferring to do my own thing, but now I'm looking at all of them with a new light. Why? Because Bailey is awful. She's just the fucking worst. Absolute moron. Smooth-brained idiot. Big dumb baby whose IQ matches her shoe size. I LOVE HER! God, what a fool. Ok, ok, I'll explain myself. Go look her up on the Wiki. Look at her traits. Does she have the coward trait? No. I'll save you the click, she does not. She starts as a teenager in the game because she's based on Bella Swan from Twilight and she has loner, clumsy, supernatural fan, and light sleeper. I aged her up, of course, and I forget what I gave her as a fifth trait, but it might have been something like bookworm or born saleswoman. Definitely. not. coward. Why am I stressing this so much? Because she screamed and fainted every time anyone transformed into a werewolf in front of her, even after she herself was transformed into a werewolf. Every. time. EVERY TIME!!! She was so stupid and I loved her with everything I had in me. She never knew what was going on ever. Her loner trait made her a great pick for pack alchemist and she turned out to be very talented at it. She maxed out her alchemy skill faster than any Sim I've ever seen. She was making the pack thousands with every batch she consigned. She was also the only one able to harvest honey from the bees without them attempting to murder her. You'd think that clumsy trait would mean she'd open up the hive and accidentally insult the queen or something, but no, they loved her. It really was just Marilyn they had some unexplained beef with.

Ephraim (back, far right): Poor Ephraim. He was the newest member, another Sim Finder Sim, and the one I never really got to know. Shortly after he joined (that's such a nice way of saying "cursed and kidnapped"), my hard drive died so he didn't have time to settle into a role. It's really a shame, because he had one of the most interesting dynamics with the other pack members. It wasn't that he didn't get along with everyone else, it was just that he seemed very wary of everyone. He hated Gia though. Like full-on "I want to see your flaming ghost" hate. He seemed to struggle with being turned into a werewolf, constantly rolling wishes to be cured as fast as I could delete them. It would have been so cool to see how he adapted to his curse, if he ever did.

And that's it. That's all that remains of my first werewolf pack. They'll always be legends in my eyes. I miss them.

Here's hoping that my new wolfpack can hold a candle to them. Connor certainly has big Gia energy, even though his traits are radically different from hers and make him even more unlikeable. Gia was just so convinced of her badassery that she didn't really care what other Sims thought of her. Connor just outright hates most people and things. I feel like it's important to have a Sim who is unaffected by the relationship hit they get when they curse other Sims to add to the pack. I didn't want to go full evil with him to the point where he would enjoy their misery, though. I think it's more interesting to start at rock bottom in a relationship and see if they can salvage it or if they just never get along. Plus, I just don't want my new pack to be an imitation of the first one. That would be boring and it would never measure up. I really do enjoy playing this way, though, and sometimes I wonder if coming up with a challenge based on my werewolf play would be fun for other people. It'd certainly be fun for me to see how others interpret the concept, but Idk. Official challenge rules are difficult for me to follow personally so the idea of coming up with a bunch of rules for others feels kinda...hypocritical? Idk if that's the right word but hopefully you know what I mean.

If you have read this far, let me know what you think! Not just about my old pack or my new pack, but about the challenge idea in general. If you had to come up with rules for something like this, what would you consider a good challenge that's still fun and not too restrictive? Would this be a good idea to develop? Would you be interested in playing a werewolf save with or without rules? And if you do start a werewolf pack of your own, please tag me. I freaking love werewolves and I would love to see more interpretations.

[ninjapotatohead]

it’s funny some of you people still think that just because some section of idiotic sonic fans sent death threats to Pontac and act stupid to your folk that it makes it ok for some of your people in your community to do the same when honestly it’s clearly not ok nowadays to actual sane people in and outside of the community looking inside. (also yes some people do get reprimanded for that behaviour nowadays especially on my discord and and other mutual servers/twitters since they’re run by actual sane people despite what your cesspool of tumblr posts say) criticisms are fine against the stories and people write but the fact you lump people who’s criticize some of your community’s people are "bootlickers" when I know the normie fans hardly don’t interact with him same with me it’s just when we just see piles and piles of posts of writers of not just Ian but other writers as well it shows how fall this small section of a community has fallen.

Honestly the reason why a most sonic communities don’t take all too well to your group nowadays is because they’re sick and disgusted by you lot is that recent posts and vids have shown that all of y’all are so desperate for some people to agree with you you still accept a self proclaimed "cub fetisher" by still talking to him afterwards (also another one of the reasons why his Twitter was in the cutting shop he was pushing it with his disturbing posts and is just a bad person in general especially with recent multiple death threat posts that I can still see on his tumblr) which honestly just shows all you in a horrid light and also why is the constant posting about this topic and yelling into the void about how the community is wrong for enjoying different recent writers and insulting them almost daily which is extremely unhealthy no matter how "vindicated" you feel you all are.

Doesn’t help that even people on sonic tumblr who don’t post weekly about such things are noticing and calling out the behaviour when people like drop-ship-colony past posts are saying that the behaviour like threats to a human beings life wasn’t "that big of a deal" in the sonic community when it fucking absolutely is in real life and I’m other "healthy sane fanbases" and is absolutely disgusting human behaviour in general no matter how much shit y’all had to deal with with other stupid sides of the community that doesn’t mean your community isn’t exempt from criticism T H A T ‘ S NOT H O W T H E R E A L W O R L D W O R K S no matter if it’s on the internet with you folk hiding behind their screens it can be dangerous it always has consequences and how you’ve reacted to it has also been shown to even people on tumblr which is why there’s more people on even on this app noticing it and posting about the behaviour even more so now likely in the future. In the end people aren’t taking you seriously in the majority of the fandom not because their "boot lickers" hardly but because recent actions just show your small group is made up of nothing but FILLED with posts of writers not just Ian basically insulting them and threatening them and is basically a life style filled with bitterness and that’s just a fact just looking and your catalogues of past posts that’s why people even on here recently are tired of y’all your community no longer has any standing in the community due to all these factors not just in and now I’ve decided with my friends advice to just block you group of few since that’s why communities have just ignore/block you all on tumblr especially on my mutual’s discord. better to just let your community just be filled in your own bitterness and be ignored since people in the main fanbase have recently have as well farewell.

Nice copypasta, bruv. Could use some punctuation, though.

[genderisareligion]

Happy New Year 🖤 Anons I got y’all soon. January is a nostalgic month for this blog cause it’s the two year anniversary of me being (formerly) shadowbanned also January 6th 2021 was what I like to call a Peak Everything moment for me. Peak Christianity, peak crackerdom, peak toxic masculinity, peak gender, peak humanity lol shit. Spent a year and some change invisible (but not termed 🙏🏽) for the crime of making too many trans racial jokes I guess and the blog I tried to make a replacement for this @genderisareligion immediately received the same fate. I suspect what actually caused it was my constant participation in my pinned post back then and the lack of answers anyone had for me but who knows. And I don’t know why because I didn’t request it but my blog’s visibility came back suddenly this April I wanna say. Here’s hoping it sticks🤞🏽

Anyway in 2023 along with finally publishing WOCTBI (Women of Color Taking Back Intersectionality, a little chapbook/magazine I wanna put together documenting nonwhite radblr’s posts and conversations, will likely be an ebook now instead of print) I do kinda wanna go in a different direction here. It’s not that I don’t think the trans conversation still needs to be happening, it does, homosexuals and women’s boundaries are still being eroded at an alarmingly rapid rate, I’ve just always been critical of all gender, “cis,” trans, up, down, no matter who’s participating. I’m not a “TERF blog” it’s in my url as a joke lol I’m just a black woman who got fed up with being polite on main being told to kill myself for reminding people humans are sexually dimorphic. Never even been a “TERF” cause I fully admit I’m a hypocrite and will in real life fully respect the pronouns/experiences of transmed normies who mind their own business, especially lesbian TIFs, but crackers like Dana Rivers and Dylan Mulvaney and all these “suck my girldick” transbians get he/him idgaf. So many of these males are so comfortable in their privilege they won’t combust if one less black women gasses them up

Wild how hypocritical and unable to admit it the “tolerant progressive left” is claiming that actually trans liberation is the key to ending black women’s oppression despite it being a recent invention and inherently having nothing to do with us and causing these crackers to run around telling me I look more like a male than other females. Like until this backwards shit ends I guess my opinions will continue to be “TERFy” cause I will never think this is okay, black women always come last and are always expected to be an expendible emotional and rhetorical resource to activist groups. This is why I’ve been politically homeless for so many years, doesn’t seem to matter where I go the message is the same: you exist to prop someone else up and you’re not allowed to complain about anything or it means all the help I’ve been giving you is bunk. BLM is something a shit ton of people just say and don’t do anything about because it’s too difficult. #SayHerName couldn’t keep the masses attention long enough and black women are still being killed with seemingly no end in sight. Will never not be crazy to me that in a decade “lesbians don’t like dick” did a complete 180 and became sacreligious to liberals.

I’ll just be here with my popcorn waiting for when inevitably sometime within the next decade or two a lot of these begendered crackers and their allies wake up and look back at the catastrophic mess they caused for some people and scramble to wipe their hands of it and act like it was all a conservative psyop they played no part in or whatever. Fact of the matter is that not everyone on HRT or going under the knife for SRS are doing so for good reasons and fact of the matter is transtrenders are making a mockery of those with actual sex dysphoria. Acting like any criticism of that at all is “transphobic and genocidal” is batshit insane. Like my intention with this blog at first was to try and help if anyone out there is saved by understanding that gender is fake at the end of the day, like I was.

So anyway I’ll be posting more on just feminism in general and gender criticism in general because imo radical feminism is just feminism or at least it used to be. This “TERF” shit gotta go can’t believe such a boogeyman nondescript term got so popular

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Hi! So, I absolutely love your series where the MC is the kid of Lucifer, and I was wondering if I could request that with Diavolo and Barbatos? •v•

:0 you definitely can! Right now I’m just doing Diavolo, but Barb’s will be up sometime soon!

MC is Half Demon and Oh Shit They’re Diavolo’s Kid-

Diavolo wasn’t exactly what one would expect of the prince of Hell, I mean, he was suppressing the urge to bounce in his seat from pure excitement. I mean, his exchange program was starting! Humans, demons, and angels, all together, his dream was coming true.

All that was left was for the student to arrive, the portal opened, and the human fell flat on their back. Oof, maybe Diavolo should have set up some kind of landing zone filled with pillows. No matter! The human was-

…

What peculiar eyes this human had…

Oh… oh dear…

Dad-volo

The MC was his child, no question about it. This was… very unexpected. Well, the entire assembly hall was completely quiet, and the kid looked like they were getting impatient.

“HEY! Mind telling me what the hell is going on?!”

After that, Diavolo launches into his explanation, also the explanation that he’s definitely this kid’s dad. Kid was not impressed, they tried to square up with Diavolo and Lucifer had never been more confused as to what to do.

Well, the moment MC sprouted wings and launched themselves at Diavolo, Dia caught them with one hand and continued speaking like nothing happened.

MC, please calm down… Diavolo didn’t know they existed, let him make it up to them! They’re going to stay at the Demon Lord’s Castle! Dia’s going to be a good dad!

“This feels like the plot to the world’s most messed up fairytale.” MC jammed their hands into their pockets and grumbled. “I get sucked into hell and find out I’m royalty there. Great.”

Diavolo managed to smile and awkwardly reach out to give them a pat on the head, then retracted his hand after the kid shot him a glare. “Well, it’s not a very traditional fairytale, but I’m sure you’ll enjoy your time here.”

“Mm, sure.” MC mumbled.

Okay, so his child wasn’t that enthusiastic about the exchange program, but Diavolo was sure they’d come around.

Dia tried everything he could possibly think of to get his kid to both like him and enjoy their time as an exchange student. A lot of things had… mixed results.

Also, legally recognizing MC as his child and legitimizing them caused a big stink amongst the nobles who were opposed to the exchange program to begin with. So MC then had to deal with a few assassins. Wonderful. Fantastic. Show stopping. Dia, be a good dad and comfort your angsty murder target- I MEAN preteen.

They do manage to build a good relationship fairly quickly despite their less than stellar first impressions, and Diavolo made them a promise that he knew he wouldn’t ever break: he would let them live as normal a childhood as possible.

This means that MC gets to do all the normal kid stuff that Diavolo wasn’t allowed to do. It honestly works out great for everyone. MC gets to live their life, Diavolo gets the satisfaction of knowing that his kid’s having fun, and Barbatos doesn’t need to worry about MC causing chaos in the castle.

Man… does this kid’s magic potential scare the shit out of everyone though…

Tired Uncle Lucifer

No. This has to be a violation of his worker rights. It cannot be legal for him to be this stressed.

He knew this exchange program was a bad idea. LUCIFER FUCKING KNEW IT. This kid was judging him. Why did he suddenly feel self conscious about every single one of his features? This child was picking him apart and they hadn’t even said anything!

He confiscated Asmo’s phone immediately, this was a matter of national security! Satan’s too! Beel as- oh shit Lucifer may have to give Beel the heimlich maneuver, then take his phone.

When all the brothers eventually got back to the HOL, they were greeted with Mammon getting shaken down by Levi.

“Lucifer! Ya won’t believe this! Levi- what’s wrong with you?” “The exchange student is Diavolo’s child.” “What..?” “*pops the cork off a bottle of Demonus* the exchange student’s Diavolo’s child.”

The worst part about this kid was that they took to the privileges of being royalty like a fish to water. MC went out and did whatever the fuck they wanted, and Lucifer needed to make sure a state of national emergency wasn’t called just because MC picked a fight at RAD.

It didn’t help that MC was just so unimpressed with Lucifer. Anytime Lucifer would tell them not to do something they would just raise their eyebrows and challenge his authority without saying a word.

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The things he does for his prince boyfriend…

Cool Uncle Mammon

Huh, so this little pipsqueak is Lord Diavolo‘s kid? Hm, do ya think they’d let him into the royal treasury? No? Okay… lame.

Mammon then decides this kid would be just perfect for scamming people! Who is going to say no to the Crown Prince’s kid? A suicidal person, that’s who!

And the kid is… up for it? Wow, Mammon didn’t even have to grovel! Awesome!

It’s such a shame that Lucifer came in and promptly removed MC from Mammon’s presence. Tsk, killjoy…

Mammon and MC do get along swimmingly after MC stops angsting. Whenever they hang out it’s pure chaos.

And they would have gotten away with it too- wait, they do get away with it. Because who’s going to question the Crown Prince’s kid? >:)

Reclusive Uncle Leviathan

Levi was in the middle of throttling Mammon for his money back when Lucifer burst through the door looking like he had spent over 1000 Grimm on a gacha game only to not get the card he wanted.

And where was that human he said would be staying with them? Huh? The human’s HUH????!!!!

… wack. Maybe he shouldn’t have skipped out on that Student Council Meeting…

Either way, ew, new person he needed to talk to. NO THANKS. Well, no thanks until MC started to visit the HOL to hang out with Mammon. Of course those two normies decided to bug him. OF COURSE.

Levi finally snapped when MC loudly proclaimed that they could totally beat Levi in Mario Kart. Haha, NO. Levi challenged the little runt to a 1 v 1 race on Rainbow Road.

Kid lost. Obviously. Rainbow Road is rigged.

Honestly, kid’s alright. Still a total normie, but not completely terrible.

Cat Uncle Satan

Huh, a half human child of the soon to be demon king, how very interesting.

Oh, and just look at Lucifer’s face. :D priceless. Satan wished he was fast enough to get his DDD out to snap a picture, but he wasn’t able to…

But back to MC, oh how very intriguing. How much power do they have in comparison to Diavolo? Will using that power rip their fragile little body apart? Would they learn to control it? Satan was just dying to find out.

His feelings on the child themselves were mixed at best. They were clearly unhappy with the situation and Satan could sympathize, being thrust into a completely new world and then being told you can’t leave and are also royalty? That has to be hard. But this kid was still being an unreasonable little shit.

Satan continued to try and study MC from afar until the kid themselves walked right up to him and half demanded half pleaded for his help in studying for a test.

Not being one to avoid an opportunity to flex how smart he is, Satan agreed to help out. (Nerrrrd)

And honestly, it went well. When the kid wasn’t being a little shit, they were actually quite pleasant to be around.

Overly Affectionate Uncle Asmo

…wut

Listen, when Asmo asked Lucifer to pick a cute human, he didn’t mean cute as in CHILD.

This kid was DIAVOLO’S?! What lucky human had gotten to have the experience of [Jesus Fucking Christ, Asmo I’m not writing what he said for the sake of the nation]

Anyhoo~ little MC just made his heart go “SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SO CUTE!” They were so cute Asmo could just eat them up!

But they were so mean! That scowl they always had on was going to give them wrinkles and ruin their perfectly cute face!

Sigh, oh well. He can’t manually rearrange people’s expressions. What he can do is take this child shopping. Poor Diavolo was constantly in his RAD uniform, this poor innocent baby shouldn’t have to suffer the same fate.

The kid continued to scowl at everything, but at the same time, their little quips were very entertaining. This little kid spitting verbal venom at anyone who displeased them reminded Asmo of someone… he just couldn’t place who, but they definitely had amazing hair and a cute face :3

Hungry Uncle Beel

Where’s the takeout- I mean human? What’s happening? …are all humans this small? Dang, that’s barely enough for a snack.

So the human’s not going to live with us because they’re not fully human and Diavolo’s kid? Huh. Wild. Anyway, what’s for dinner?

Beel’s not too invested in this drama, he misses Belphie too much to be that interested…

The kid’s weirdly interested in how cool and strong Beel is though. MC tails him to the gym pretty often.

Diavolo and Beel already being gym buddies send tweet-

Since this benevolent little shit likes Beel so much, they decided to take it upon themselves to help with the family drama.

Beel finds that very sweet 🥺

Murder sleepy Uncle Belphie

Oh man… if you thought Belphie was being unfair to L!MC due to their parentage… hoo boy…

When this kid waltzed up the attic steps like they ran the place, Belphie needed to hold himself back from trying to break down the door and throttle this kid.

Pff, of course Diavolo would have a half human kid. Of course.

…kid beat the shit out of him when he tried to kill them. We stan this MC.

After all is said and done, Belphie still isn’t overly fond of MC. They’re brash and rude and only funny 40% of the time. They don’t even like napping 😒

But Beel likes the little runt, so Belphie and MC put up with each other.

Bonus! Your Angelic Uncle Simeon’s Chihuahua

:0 friend!

MC: *speaks*

>:0 not friend! Begone! *throws crucifix*

[dannyphantom-justiceleauge]

Teen Wolf Tucker

okay, i’m ready to write this even though i know nothing about teen wolf.

it’s starts when tucker turns sixteen and ends up going through essentially werewolf puberty. there are probably going to be a lot of signs before his actual transformation that he just writes off. like growing hair on his chest and being sweaty. massive growth spurts. normal puberty. gaining muscles? a result from all the exercise involved in ghost hunting. danny and same a strong too. teeth and nails getting sharper, better sense of smell? eh probably a ghost thing. might need to be checked for ecto-contamination. werewolf never even crossed his mind as an option

it’s a genetic thing. from his moms side. part of her love language is feeding her family meat. tucker also has always had a sensitive nose for meat so it tracks as a wolf thing. his clumsiness could be explained as his dumb puppy stage. still the day he has his first transformation is wild. in part because he was not in his room like he was supposed to be. he’d been out ghost hunting with his friends and therefore abruptly turned into a wolf for no reason right in front of them. he woke up in the opts tower and sam and danny were fine, not a scratch on them. apparently he wasn’t a very aggressive wolf, at least not towards them. course he tries to hide it from his parents but his mom brings it up on her own and tucker is like O.O this is going to happen again? i am a spook? tucker’s parents emphasize that this is something he needs to keep a secret, even from his friends. and off course next scene tucker is kicking danny’s door open and crying “GUYS HOLY FUCK!!”

from there naturally shenanigans occur. they’re trying to figure out how to turn sam into a spook because she refuses to be the teams normy. she’s gonna have to get bitten by a vampire or learn how to be a witch. they just found out other monsters exist, they have to run with this. is tucker going to me more useful in ghost fights? not really. are they going to have monster fights added to their pile of ghost fights. absolutely. their luck is bad. i can also see danny fully delegating monster stuff to tucker because he has his hands full with ghosts. it’s literally true, he really doesn’t have the time, but also rude. tucker helped danny with his ghost problems for two years and this is the thanks he gets? to be fair danny also helps but he doesn’t actively fight the monsters he just kinda stands back and lets tucker do the work unless theirs some kinda monster and ghost team up. much sass is had about this regardless. i also think a side effect of sam desperately wanting to be a monster is that she’s off-putting to the monsters. girl wants it too bad. she’s freaking them out.

tucker being the butt of furry jokes but faster. tucker and wulf hanging out a lot more and just being some dogs in sunglasses. tucker and danny having power centric contests. the trio being considered even weirder than before despite puberty treating all of them well. i see danny as taking on a more dan physique. tucker grows tall and lean, probably more of a runners build, he’s actually considered small by wolf standards but to humans his size is nothing to cough at. sam is a muscle girl, still goth but leaning into more masc fashion.

in wolf form tuckers basically just a goofy dog. sam and danny have probably passed him as that to get out of situations. he can transform anytime, now that he’s has his first turn. but he has to do it on the full moon and he doesn’t remember those nights. like he keeps his human mine the rest of the month but not on the full moon. he has a full wolf form and a half wolf form, the bipedal type of form, similar to wulf. also should be noted wulf was really excited when tucker had his first transformation. like wanted to have a little party excited. they’ve bonded. it’s cute. tucker has super strength in general. most of the typical powers of wolves. better sense of smell and hearing. night vision, claws and fangs. hunting instinct. tucker is more aggressive to his bullies than before and has to an extent chased them off. now that he can mach them in size and strength bullying him isn’t as fun.tucker trying to gain popularity through his wolf powers and succeeding for a bit but finding the experience shallow and empty. he cant talk to the a-listers about his the latest tech, what’s the point.

tuck developing dog habits and just generally being cute in that way. tucker dealing with the changes/paranormal puberty and having danny to help him through it despite being different creatures. sam laying off on tucker being a vegan because technically he’s a carnivores, but being very grudging about it. tuck getting closer to his parents. just the sheer coincidence that tucker happened to be a werewolf this whole time and also happened to be friends with a future ghost boy. their paranormal is completely independent of each other. sam is digging into her family history. it’s like everyone in the friend grop being lgbtq but not realizing until after they graduate and then looking back in hindsight like “damn our friend group was all queer.” only with being spooks. the queer parallels were already there, lets be real. i suggest leaning into it this au. is being a ghost and werewolf metaphors for being lgbtq? yes. are they also lgbtq as a separate thing from being paranormal? also yes

i just see them all having a lot of fun with tucker being a wolf. something needs to be done for sam so she isn’t left out. the jealousy is only funny in the beginning. but has angst potential and i don’t want that for her. she should be able to stick with her friends.but just in general they’re vibing.- Hestia

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I would like to request! Can I request? Well I wish for you to consider what type of person/what kind of situation would cause the brothers to make a pact with someone. Maybe even what they would request in exchange? This can be before or after they met MC. With that out of the way, I totally binge read all of your works after my sister gushed to me about the True Form series, and just thank you??? It made me really happy reading them and it's always impressively detailed and well thought out.

Awww thank you! I’m glad it’s rave-worthy! I plan to add to it soon bc it was an absolute riot to write and research for lol

And wow this one is a toughie! I’ve actually never thought of what would make them want a pact! Hope ya like it!

Lucifer- Pact of Success

Absolutely the hardest brother to do business with, but that is probably a good thing. He is incredibly selfish with his contracts. Sure, they’ll benefit from his pact mark, but he will get the most out of it. Aside from MC he only takes requests for contracts from the human “elite”. They make wonderful feathers in his cap.

But also he takes some enjoyment in breaking them. They always get so cocky with his contracts thinking that they have him on the ropes and at their beck and call. It gives him a good chuckle, humans are so brazen considering their very short lifespan.

He destroys them slowly over time- all the little minutia he peppers in his legal bindings adds up. Not that his normal clientele ever read the fine print. But he designed it that way to make sure they don’t. All their requests are the same and so simplistic. Big boats, fancy cars, climbing the proverbial ladder faster than their friends or enemies - blah-blah-blah. At least the paperwork is easy to complete.

Very rarely does he find a contract he is excited to make. Those contracts are given to artists and craftsmen he sees potential in. He loves good art, and every artist should take pride in their work.

When it comes to the “price” of his pact it is worryingly simple. All he wants is some of their time. It sounds simple, and it is. Which is why it’s dangerous. The contract doesn’t specifically say how or the rules of it. How he takes your time is completely up to him.

Sometimes he simply comes for a drink and to ask how business is going. Or with the pacts he gives a damn about- he pops in to see progress on their artist visions or listen to their latest musings.    

Other times if he grows tired of his pact holders’ ever-growing demands or ludicrous requests he comes and takes time right out of their lifespan. His visits leave them weak and fatigued though they can’t place why. He is a slow siphon of death and they are too foolhardy to notice. If he is feeling especially cruel, or sentimental he takes memories, things that a demon generally wouldn’t want.

Time with family, the first time they met the love of their life, a child’s birthday. He takes them all and leaves them with only a blurry recollection in his wake

When MC crosses his path though he is very apprehensive. He doesn’t want a pact or anything that could jeopardize Diavolo’s upcoming plans. But they make his skin itch with want. He doesn’t want them to be another trophy on his wall. He wants a mutually beneficial pact, one that almost leans in their favor and it grates him. Should/ when a pact is made he won’t use his powers on you as then he would have to take something in return. Instead, he takes his time and coaches them to be successful by their own right, though if he has to eliminate some obstacles- well they don’t need to know that.

Mammon- Pact of Riches

I love his man with all my heart, but even when he isn’t losing bets or getting tricked into pacts he still isn’t the most selective with who he conducts business with. He is the avatar of greed, after all. I guess it comes with the territory.

He scouts for already wealthy humans or people with a good head for numbers and is money smart. Some are too smart to deal with him, knowing that whatever monetary gain they are granted from him will backfire in the end (or their mama’s taught them not to make deals with strange demons). But a sucker is born every minute, and he has nothing but time on his hands.

His pacts are pretty simple and upfront. Sign on the dotted line and they get some of his wicked gamblers’ luck and more riches than one human life span could do much with. While he gets a glorified accountant and a nice percentage of their profits. It’s a win-win… for him.

See he forgets to mention that there are two sides to every coin, and his flip side is particularly detrimental to one’s health. He just so conveniently glosses over that his luck will wear out over time depending on how frequently the pact holder uses it.

But the hunger for more doesn’t. If anything that particular sensation grows into an all-consuming fire in the pit of their pitiful guts. It forces them back into the seedy basements or griming gambling halls. One more roll, one more stack of bills, just one more time and they will hit pay dirt surly! But the losses just keep coming. If one of his pact holders ends up face down in a ditch after one too many bad hands and uncontrollable greed… well ain’t nobody’s fault but their own.

He has a softer spot for humans that seek him out and treat him like a living being instead of some tool to be tossed around at will. It’s refreshing. He will actually take some care with these pacts and tell them to temper their use of his magic so they can get the most out of it in the long run. They still might run into misfortune and he is genuinely sorry for that but there is only so much he can do in the end.

With MC he doesn’t even tell them about what his pact can do or how to use it. He doesn’t want anything bad happening to his human. If they want something tell him he will do it himself no magic or pact summoning required. He wants to keep them happy and healthy for as long as his lifespan will allow.

If MC should find how to use his pact mark he will get pissed. Not so much at them but the situation in general. He’ll be upfront about the whole thing, judge him how they want but he refuses to let greed consume them too. He focuses a lot of time and energy on learning how to reel in his magic with them so they get some of the perks but none of the major downsides. Unlike with his other pacts where he lets it all just run wild (just means they use up their contact faster and he can move on to even bigger fish).

Leviathan- Pact of Wisdom and Skill

Surprisingly, despite his antisocial tendencies with “normies”, he gets around when it comes to contracts. Perhaps it’s jealousy at his other brothers or perhaps he finds collecting contracts a bit of a game on its own.

He has a small niche of people interested in his pacts. Pacts with him give people a strategic advantage in nearly any situation. Seemingly overnight his humans turn into near tactical geniuses. Because of that, he is very popular with military leaders and humans with dangerous careers.

He also makes mini contracts with foot soldiers and humans with dangerous oceanic jobs. They just want to make it out alive and he gets that. With contracts like these, he is more lenient and doesn’t ask for much. Make an offering of fancy food to Henry 2.0 or wait in line for a rare human figuring he wants. Wam-bam thank you ma’am kinda business.

This is completely different from his larger contracts. With the military contracts, he expects them to continue with their duties until they die in the field. Simple as that, he doesn’t mince words in his contract. It’s what he would do as General so he expects it from them. Should they try to define him he will get rid of them.

He takes delight in defiant contract holders. They think they are as clever as he is now. But they forget that they are using his magic. He could take his magic away right after they defy him sure...but he won’t. He lets them stew for a bit, thinking they have had the last laugh on envy. If they wish to play games with a General then he will make sure it’s good.

With MC he plays on easy mode, granting them insight and little touches of his magic during exam week or when playing a game against his brothers. He wants nothing in return from them but some quality hangout time.

Satan- The Pact of Retribution

As the only pure-blooded demon out of the seven, he does these pacts out of necessity like most other demons. While the others do it more so out of monetary gain and an obligation to the crown. Or if you’re Belphie, sheer enjoyment.

He does it because he hungers, it a hole in his very self that he is trying to fill. He hunts for one reason only- relief from his cardinal sin. He will never feel the calm after a storm of rage naturally. Patience and tranquility are the antitheses of his very creation. So he gets it artificially through his contracts.

He looks for the downtrodden, angry, and the most bitterly despondent humans he can find and gives them the chance to seek vengeance. He is very upfront with what his pact entails. Once the vengeance is complete his rage will consume them and they will become another soul for him to consume.

He isn’t cruel about the process or tries to trick a human into a mark. Very few of the ones he approaches turn him down even after hearing the details. It is possible that humans once shot to get even and he gets to feel bliss, to feel calm. He finds out that the longer or more obscure the plan for retribution is the sweeter the outcome is for Satan.

If he is feeling super ornery he will go after people affected by the outcomes of Lucifer’s pacts. They are easy prey and almost as wrathful as Satan himself. Bonus it aggravates Lucifer to no end when he has to go out of his way to clean up the mess Satan’s contract made of his own.  Anything to piss him off makes Satan feel all the better.

With MC he doesn’t need to use his pact magic. Mostly because they are always around him in the Devildom, and no one is stupid enough to mess with someone Satan favors. If someone or something does irritate his MC he will take it out before it can fester into something his magic will try to latch onto. Keeping you calm and happy makes him feel almost tranquil as well.

Asmodeus- Pact of Gratification

Another very popular pact to try to get, and how could it not? He is fabulous~ But as much as people try to find him, he only goes for a certain type of contract. He has his perfectly manicured fingers on the pulse of the fashion and beauty industry.

His name is a whisper among the up and comers in the business. Many-while not looking for a pact - at least want to see him at least once. Many never will, they get cut from their agency or quit before they could get a foothold. It happens, and he hates to see it. Everyone deserves to feel gorgeous, or at least get a chance to be in the same room as him!

But for the ones the perceiver and climb the ranks get invited to one of his many parties. They can only get invited by someone wearing his mark. He trusts them to know who would be amenable to his contract.

His pact grants its bearer a glamor that can’t be broken by any meer mortal or mage. It makes them absolutely irresistible. How they wield that power is completely up to the user, he won’t judge or intervene.

Once they sign the contract all his holders see him frequently. He absolutely loves dropping in on their shoots or fancy dinners to say hi or get a recap on how they are fairing. Not because he is a nice demon or just super friendly (though they would like to think so). No, he just likes to watch.  

His payment is slow, methodical and no one sees it happen until it is already complete. In exchange for beauty and the graduation of getting whatever their little hearts could as for he gets their ability to love, whether that be familiar or sexual. Asmo loves the feeling of being loved; he wants it in all ways possible.

Some pact holders don’t have an issue with this. They got their looks, a successful career, and people to manipulate to their heart’s content. Not having strong contentions with anyone works in their favor. But others don’t and while they search for him to try and get that little slice of humanity back he is long gone. He got what he wanted anyway.

MC is his darling. He can and will make a special contract just for them (reviewed by Lucifer). A beautiful new contract for a beautiful soul! He wants you as unchanged as possible because this MC is the one he fell for.

Beelzebub- Pact of Prowess

His pact is a very elusive one as he isn’t keen on going and looking for one. Beel isn’t a big fan of these trades, but he needs them every once and a while. Nothing is more filling than a contracted soul.

His trade is basic, make a pact and you get his strength. He, like Satan, is upfront about what his payment is and what side effects will plague them. He sees no reason to lie about it. The more they draw on his power the more the host's body gorges itself. Their bones will collapse in on themselves from the stress of it- the magic feeds on anything in the host bodies. It will deplete the iron in the blood, go after the calcium in the bones, sink its teeth in their muscle system.  

It’s all rather gruesome and Beel does feel bad about it. He tells though who are still adamant about binding with him ways they can negate some of the side effects by taking supplements and augmenting their diets.

But it is like patching a deep cut with a bandaid, it just won’t work. His stomach is near bottomless- humans most certainly aren’t. They simply can’t eat enough to sustain their body like he can.

It surprises him that people still seek him out. To some, the pros outweigh that very huge cons. Some really do believe that they can find a loophole or find the right mix of medication to offset it.

He doesn’t get beaten up about it anymore but it gets on his nerves how obstinate humans can be about his very clear warnings. When his magic finally consumes them he takes both the body and soul back down with him and feasts on both.

With MC he keeps an eye out on them. Consistently checking in, making sure they don’t skip a meal, and join him at the gym often. He wants them to be strong and healthy enough to not ever want to use his pact. Though he does speculate that their angelic bloodline buffers both his and his brother’s magic a good bit.

Belphegor- Pact of the Visionary

Dreamers come in every shape and size and from different walks of life. But they are are all suckers to Belphie. He is known as the Lord of Decet for a reason.

He will promise them everything and anything their heart desires. That invention that will change the world? Done. A patent that is long overdue. Easy enough. A sudden rush of ingenuity to complete that nagging project. He is a devil of his word, it will be done. It- just won’t be done in the way they would want it.  

See manipulating the physical realm is hard work. Like a lot of hard work. More than he would ever do for some stupid little human. It’s a lot easier to control outcomes in his realm.

The moment the contract is signed his hosts fall under his control and he takes it from there building a perfect little dream world for them to frolic in and believe they are getting what they want. He feeds off of them here, taking little sips from their energy and exploring these new fresh dream worlds. His dreamscapes get boring every once and a while, so having a new human under his influence is always refreshing.

While his humans thrive inside their minds their bodies waste away in bed as his magic draws them further and further into an endless sleep.

He doesn’t see anything wrong with his contracts. Who would argue with him that the dream realms aren’t real in their own sense? Did his humans not accomplish their goals in the end? He doesn’t think of the outside effects of his magic and pacts. Belphie really doesn’t care about what families he broke apart or lives he inadvertently affected.  

MC is different to him though. He doesn’t keep them under his spell hardly ever (maybe if they are spending too much time with Dia or Lucifer. But he doesn’t push it with them.).He still walks into their dreams whenever he feels but he comes just to visit, not to change. He simply just enjoys keeping you company and relaxing in the little mini paradise you always seem to create in your dreams.