#gerald be like WHY NOT???

[redbreeeeeeeegull]

i have always wondered how shadow knows how to ride la motorcycle. so what, when gerald was putting knowledge in shadow's head, he had a moment and was like "what if the boy could ride a motorcycle???" and then cackling he added that to the pot?

[autisticshadowthehedgehog]

me half the time: the sonic 3 movie can be fucking dogshit for all i care so long as i get to see maria on the screen i will be happy <3

me the other half the time: if this movie isn't good i'm crucifying all the paramount executives outside the theatre

[sumeria]

concept art for hercules by gerald scarfe

[faceeeeee]

I love your Syringeon redesign -

Like, he's so chubby ajqjwkajwjwna...

Old man worm ❤️

[sonknuxadow]

it just hit me that the movie is coming out next month imgonna throw upppppppp

[avichor]

arcane is out which means i have to endure watching people ship two white men together and push aside the black love interest while demonizing her

[rilu-artblog]

I’m sick with Bonkus of the Konkus and haven’t been able to draw lately, have some really old doodles from 2022

[kirkwallguy]

the witcher 3 is so funny. there are like 2 gay people in the entire game but the first area is full of people being period accurate homophobic about a dead guy

[plipple]

ok.

[sage-nebula]

I am this close 🤏 to taking the word "siblings" away from the Sonic fandom and putting it on a shelf. People here seriously use it as a shorthand for "any characters I don't ship that have a good relationship in canon." It's wild. Y'all are out of control.

Because let me tell you, I've had a (step-)brother for 28 years. And I have never once talked to him like this:

(He's the "prince." It's teasing bordering on flirting. And the other two aren't even borderline.)

This isn't a "they're canon dating" post, it's a "they don't interact like siblings" post. Sisters don't flirt with their brothers unless there's something messed up happening in that family. And Rouge, canonically, flirts with Shadow. Meaning that she definitely doesn't see him as a brother, and likewise, we have no reason to believe that, canonically, Shadow sees her as anything more than a friend.

Here are the confirmed sibling relationships in canon:

Sonic & Tails

Scratch & Grounder

Rough & Tumble

Shadow & Maria as of this month

Sonic & Sonia & Manic in Underground

Sally & Elias(? was that his name?)

Aside from some more obscure pairs in Archie or similar adaptations I may have missed, that's it! Everyone else? Friends. They're just friends. And you can say "I see them as just friends" and sound far less clownish than when you decide literally everyone, including characters who flirt with each other (or at least have one-way flirting like Shadow and Rouge), are "siblings."

Thank you and goodnight.

[blackbloodedisabel]

omg beloved gerald!! thank you

[asmodeusamaryllis]

MARIA HAS A SISTER?!??

[etaleah]

I think we as a fandom don’t talk enough about how much trauma Shadow would have had after landing on Earth. Losing Maria was already enough pain for a lifetime, but she wasn’t even the only loss. When the Ark was attacked, they stole everything from Shadow. Not just his “family” and only friend, but his home too. He’s never lived anywhere else and is homeless when he gets to Earth. He has nowhere to go, no one to stay with, no food, no bed, and no money.

He also loses safety. The Ark was a perfectly controlled environment where it was likely never too hot or too cold, and always with plenty of light available. Shadow has never known heat, rain, thunderstorms, snow, wind, or darkness. He has no idea how to navigate any of that because he’s never had to. He’s never seen a car or truck up close, never been in traffic before. No one ever taught him how to cross a street without getting hit. No one ever taught him to stay away from trees when lightning strikes or to take small steps when the ground is covered in ice.

Shadow has to navigate all the dangers of life on Earth for the first time and he has to do it all by himself because everyone he knows is either dead or in jail and it’s not like he can just google it. He has to do it right on the heels of the most traumatic experience he’s ever had, with no time to heal from it or even process it. He has to find his own food and water, find some kind of shelter or safe place, and he doesn’t know how.

Just picture it: a little hedgehog huddled up in a strange place. Lost, cold, confused, scared, hungry, thirsty, exhausted, traumatized, and so, SO lonely.

And all of that is BEFORE the military finds him and locks him up, likely with no explanation.

I imagine that this is where Shadow learns to fight. He would have no need to do so on the Ark other than maybe in a training/testing simulation. He doesn’t even fight the soldiers during the raid because he’d likely never fought anyone up to that point and it didn’t even occur to him. But now he has to learn if he wants to survive.

Is it any wonder he closes himself off and wants revenge?

[sonknuxadow]

[head---ache]

Did eggman ever take revenge on GUN for the ark raid? Or use it as an excuse to screw people over

So, actually, a bit of a bigger lore drop here, but he's actually happy it happened! Because, 1) in this au he isn't a direct family member to Gerald, because remember that this is 3000 years after the ARK, so Eggman doesn't have any attachment to him, in fact he only knows of Gerald because of his research, so he doesn't really care about what happened to him, or María, for that matter. And 2) thanks to the raid he got his hands on Project Shadow! The Ultimate Weapon! So yeah, he's happy it happened because it actually benefits him (until Rouge and Omega steal Shadow lol)

[rukafais]

the coldfire trilogy is about a lot of things, but mostly it's about two men who get increasingly and obsessively intertwined with each other's lives and perceptions of the world while the author is completely convinced she's writing two straight guys being dudes. Truly the rituals are intricate.