#don't meet your heroes

[taylortruther]

i love all these pretty posts about the girls you meet as a kid at a hotel or a park and never see again, like yes it's really sweet, the winds of time, innocence!!! but then i always think of the girl i met at age 9 who years later found me on social media and i was so excited and she turned out to be a crazy right-wing evangelical

[starlightshadowsworld]

Frisk afraid of monsters

Chara hiding Frisk from Sans because even tho he's never hurt Frisk.

Both are terrified of the possibility.

Terrified of him.

Frisk who went through the underground thinking Sans was trusted.

A friend.

Only to realise their survival relied on a promise.

All those smiles.

All those jokes.

It was all a lie.

Chara who grew up in the palace and knew about the Skelebros.

Who groaned at Sans and Frisk's bad puns with Papyrus.

But made their own to cheer up Frisk.

Only to find the truth.

Chara realising Sans could see them all along.

And hiding Frisk from him.

Frisk saw Sans true colours.

And so did Chara.

Chara looking at Sans like "When I was a kid, I thought you were cool..."

Like they aren't still kids.

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Also Sans later realising the woman he's been flirting with, dead child is the one of the 2 humans kids he has possibly helped to traumatise.

... Whoops.

[gaasubap]

"you can't judge people in the past" doesn't even apply to past paleontologists.

Y'all telling me they couldn't find a single butcher to ask about how to puzzle them bones?

Nah. They were dumb rich kids and you can't prove me wrong.

(I also don't know shit about Chinese paleontology history. Or any other country actually. I wonder who got closest fastest)

((also also the bone wars))

(((tangent. Did you hear what that one guy did to Troy?)))

[the-daughter-of-lilith]

I don't think I could ever stomach DJing a Relentless Beats event. Obviously my style of music is catered to the more dark, avant-garde, so I'd prefer people that listened to my sets actually feel they're apart of an experience and not just giving me money.

Relentless Beats books big artists and many local DJs see being booked by them as a badge of honor. It's not. Artists let their art speak for itself, regardless of who's promoting the event. The perception of being recognized by someone or something "bigger" than you as a means of climbing the ladder seems nice in theory, but in reality it's all a facade.

Your art is the only thing that matters. Not the ones promoting it.

[wild-at-mind]

God the absolute drama of running a band's fan website.

[dayz---ll]

I'm a firm believer that you shouldn't meet your heros but, like, about everyone. You just shouldn't meet people.

[hazeyydaisyy]

tb to when I met Jeffrey Combs at a convention and while I was waiting in line he saw that I was really excited and gave me one of those winks that your grandpa gives you

tb to when I met Jeffrey Combs at a convention and when I told him that I had watched a bunch of his movies the night before he asked which ones and I named quite a few but when I mentioned The Evil Clergyman he was shocked and was like I "I forgot I made that! I can't believe you remember that!" as if there isn't a whole active fandom behind that film

tb to when I met Jeffrey Combs at a convention and he gave me an extra signature for free but then I put my books on the original signature and messed it up and he had to sign the original signature again

tb to when I met Jeffrey Combs at a convention and when we took a picture I bent my knees to make him look tall and when he noticed he started dying and gave me a hug

[i-dont-know-how-this-site-works]

Don't meet your heroes, people.

I have a feeling Tom (or Owen, for that matter) wouldn't be against playing out a gay ship or shipping the characters themselves, but you never know. You don't know them, you don't know what they are like privately and we only get to see what they allow to be seen in public.

But just because the actors might not be on board, doesn't mean that we, the fans, can't ship them in our own corner of the fandom.

Am I the only one afraid of what Tom Hiddleston could say about lokius?

Like, I don't want a Jensen Ackles 2.0🫠.

Because I really care about what Tom thinks about lokius because he understands his character so well.

[necrotic-nephilim]

there is not enough femslash in batcest circles. the girls deserve to be just as weird about each other as the boys are. if BruDick gets to be weird father/son/brothers/lovers/friends/rivals/soulmates then it is only fair that Babs/Cass get to be mother/daughter/sisters/lovers too. Something about that deep intrinsic but undefinable love that is born out of trauma, especially if you consider Cass not knowing what healthy love looks like in the first place. i think it's fun and deserves just as much fandom content.

besides that, you can get even more niche with rarepairs like Helena/Steph. Huntress/Spoiler: Blunt Trauma is already a fantastic comic and even though it's their only real canon interaction it has so much potential. very comparable to TimJay in how Helena tries to get Steph to understand her morals and the corruption you could play with it.

batman: huntress/spoiler: blunt trauma (1998)

that comic also highlights on how both Steph and Helena are outcasts of the Batfamily and don't have the approval of Bruce to be doing what they do in "his city". I think there's so much Potential in Helena taking Steph under her wing because Bruce won't let her in and it becomes a weird codependent toxic sapphic mess. I think the protectiveness Helena feels over Steph from the get-go is so clear and the way she wants to look out for Steph, wants to make sure Steph understands the real world? I love them. Helena should be allowed to steal Steph, actually. I think it'd be fun.

there are a lot of other possibilities too like Babs/Steph or even getting weird with Helena Bertinelli/Helena Wayne and the existential question of "is it selfcest or not." But these two specifically live in my head rent-free, especially Helena/Steph and one day I'll convince everyone else to ship it too.

[wildflowercryptid]

Hope its okay if I ask about your versions of Florian and Juliana, thanks ^ _ ^

- Are they siblings?

- What are both their personalities?

- Were they actually raised in Paldea? The MC's in the game are implied to originally be from Galar so I was just wondering that

- Which storylines from the game are each the of them the main character of?

I'm so sorry if I've missed out an info sheet on them hhhhghg

Thank u again!

oh, it’s more than okay to ask about them! i actually really like talking about my interpretations of the pokémon characters, but i just struggle to articulate my ideas a lot of the time. or forget to share them. i’ve been meaning to drop lore for these two so i’ll do that now!

( putting the answers under a cut because i kinda ended up rambling. oops. )

are they siblings?

yes, they are! juliana is the older of the two, but they’re actually super close in age ( with jules not even being a year older than florian. ) because of that, they’re pretty close and sometimes get mistaken for twins. they still bicker and annoy each other like any other typical sibling relationship, but they respect each other a lot and consider each other their greatest confidant. their relationship kinda ends up paralleling carmine and kieran’s own dynamic as siblings, with juliana and florian seeing each other as equals while the same can’t really be said for carmine and kieran.

what are both of their personalities?

while they’re both pretty level-headed, juliana is definitely the more outgoing and confident of the two. florian is more of the reserved type, someone who typically keeps to himself and would much rather wait in the wings than be center stage, ( too bad he’s basically the major protagonist of the story. ) they’re both fairly friendly, but he struggles connecting with others more when compared to his sister. essentially, they’re kinda like a dialed-back version of mabel and dipper pines. florian generally is a very sweet and open-hearted kid who tries to see the best in others, which often leads to his kindness being taken advantage of and getting pushed around easily, ( i.e. carmine convincing him to keep the secret about ogerpon from kieran. ) because of that, juliana is a little protective of him and isn’t afraid to step in when he struggles to stand up for himself. and while she does like to be seen as reliable, that doesn’t mean that she doesn’t encourage florian to be more confident and advocate for himself more. he does end up growing more of a backbone during the timeskip, which makes her very proud. meanwhile, juliana is a lot more outspoken and doesn’t hold back when things need to be called out. she’s still just as compassionate as her brother and is extremely reliable, along with having a very strong moral compass. she definitely fills the cool, reliable older sister role pretty well.

were they actually raised in paldea?

they grew up in galar like what’s implied in canon, but the details are a little different. they’re actually paldean on their mother’s side, who was originally from cabo poco herself. their family decided to move from wyndon back to her hometown after their father lost his job at one of macro cosmos’s now defunct finance subsidiaries. luckily, he was able to land a new desk job in medali and now larry’s his boss. ( the two get along well, they talk about their kids during lunch breaks. )

which storylines from the game are each of them the main character of?

juliana takes on the victory road and starfell street storylines while florian tackles the path of legends and filling out the pokédex, with both of them coming together for the way home. initially, i conceptualized them as co-protagonists and they still kinda are… but florian has definitely taken on the role as primary protagonist with how much shit keeps on just happening to him. i would expand the specifics of how the path of legends plays out for florian and how his friendship with arven develops, but i’ve already rambled enough so i’ll try to talk about that in another post.

hope this answers all your questions and sorry if it's a little long, i've just gotten attached to these kids and have a lot to say about them.

if you have any other questions ( about the paldea kids or mjverse in general, ) please feel free to ask them! it might take me a sec to reply, but i'll try my best!

[itz-pandora]

Starling could still simp over eggman. He seems like the sort to become obsessed with someone’s legacy. It would also open the avenue for him to not get proven wrong and project onto eggman even more

Thank you for this I will kill Eggman

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

One day

One day I hope people realize that Kitsunami already "broke through his programming" back by issue #56 of Idw Sonic

He had an entire mini arc where he dealt with being without Surge for the first time, and in the real world. He met Sonic and his friends directly, tried to work out what his purpose would be without Surge in his life (gave it a shot trying to devote himself to Sonic, seeing him as the next best thing after Surge). And when it was all said and done, he decided after experiencing more that at Surge's side is where he wanted to be.

As of the recent IDW issues, Kit isn't sticking with Surge "because of programming" and "because he just needs for other characters to friend him and turn him into a better person". He is at her side because he wants to be. He protects her and aids her because he cares about her, not just because he's serving the strongest guy in the room. And he's not interacting with others because he's decided not to give a shit about anyone else other than Surge (because from his pov, even the "good guys" are fake. From his pov, everyone is someone trying to lie and manipulate their way into pulling him and Surge to their side)

Kit already has decided what he wants to do with his life. And he decided it on his own. Not because of anyone else's wants or wishes. That's the whole point of his speech at the end of #56.

He's burying whatever his and Surge's past is and moving forward with his conviction to be with Surge because it's what he wants.

[youre-a-bruiser-baby]

Arin: Unlike most people, I don't give into mindless consumerism. Arin: sees a new plushie line of the ninja Arin: I need to have it with me every second of the day.

[aeolianblues]

I'm not an extrovert. At all. In everyday life, I'm a yapper, sure, but I need someone to first assure me I am okay to yap, so I don't start conversations, even when I really want to join in sometimes! It's just the social anxiety acting up. God knows where from and why I lose a lot of my inhibitions when it comes to talking to people about music. I don't know where the confidence has suddenly sprung from. I've made a crazy amount of friends in musical circles, either just talking to people about common music or (since it is after all in music circles) talking to bands about their own music. I let out a sigh of relief any time an interaction goes well, because in truth it's going against my every instinct. I wish I could do that in everyday life

[swarnpert]

honestly i think if judas priest tours again i would be tempted (at least right now) to buy a meet n greet ticket just because i'd want to tell rob halford how much he means to me as a gay man in an 80s heavy metal band and also for his love of cats. i think he would love bagel tbh

[ronearoundblindly]

If you could meet someone from tumblr IRL who would it be?

Well, so many of my moots are basically welcome at my house even now, like, I've never heard their voice, but if they needed me, I'll get in my car (right after I put some pants on).

However, that's because a whole bunch of them are in my region/country/continent.

I wish I could say this was a difficult choice that I had to think long and hard about, but alas, it was about 3 seconds of thinking.

@anika-ann, hands down. We'd fangirl, maybe geek out a little concerning language, I'd learn some swear and naughty phrases, and then she might realize I am an idiot American but we'll be friends forever!

Thank you for asking!