#he fails a bunch and acts super cool that's it

[lunarlicorice]

ruby spears and megamix and archie proto man are so different. you cannot convince me those are the same guy

[rubykgrant]

Re-watching RVB, and like... yes, it was VERY cool that they made previous "nonsense" with certain characters very relevant with new context, but also? The order of events drives me crazy! What do you MEAN, they put the super secret original AI crime in a box canyon, in the middle of nowhere, while I guess all this Meta stuff was going on? Like, even if it wasn't clear that what the Meta's plans were, Maine and Sigma absolutely did just wreck a bunch of stuff and run off. Wash just went through the Epsilon incident. Tex attempted some kind of rescue for the Alpha, followed by him being taken away, thus Blood Gulch shenanigans... and somehow Tex is still getting assignments from Project Freelancer? Or "Command", whatever they're pretending to be called.

The whole project just got in trouble for Dr Sadboy doing his AI crimes, Carolina has gone underground, and Wyoming is still doing missions? York is just out there, traveling around, stealing stuff like Robin Hood (he robs from the rich, and gives to the him). South and North are doing stuff somewhere? Tex and Church keep DYING, and you'd think that would get Dr Sadboy's attention, but nooooooooo. Tex says she wants to "kill" the Omega AI, and like... I get that you're mad, but that feels counter productive? Also, the fact that she WAS an AI, who was tricked into thinking she was somebody else, and also got an AI partner... there is so much potential for that, because while Omega was "rage", it also could have been framed as him being "over-protective", and would take over Tex to make sure she could survive missions, but then BOTH of their anger issues combined would get out of control. Do we see anything like that? Nah.

I think it is believable that she may have lost her memories again at some point between the failed Alpha rescue and meeting Church in Blood Gulch, but he sure don't KNOW that, do we? What was happening??? I can also believe that whatever was actually going on, Gary acting like he doesn't now Church and just decides to mess with him makes sense, he WOULD do it for the bit... but Wyoming? Dude, do you know that's the Alpha right there? Do you have a plan for that? Besides time-travel until you shoot all his friends? Freaking FLOWERS? Like, yes, I can imagine my own "reasons" for all of this, I can figure out some kind of background-AU... but in the actual series, everybody is just running around doing whatever

[blackholesun321]

how many bird like instincts do they have in the wings!au? like was shanks dancing around like a goof when he wanted to impress mihawk early in the courtship? or did he only bring shiny things cuz thats a bird thing and also they are PIRATES like come on bringing shiny things is an overlap in courtships so they gotta do that one

Another ask to add the collection. mmmm yes this shall go into the pile.

I'm all for instincts, maybe even imprinting being more pronounced in this world than ours. Adoptions are not just accepted but expected, and parental and protective instincts are stronger. Perhaps everyone has Talon-like claws for preening and a better grasp. When instincts are high, people may chirp, coo, hiss, or rumble at each other. I'm guessing children are more prone to making noises involuntarily. On more than one occasion, Shanks has been known to call at Mihawk when drunk. It's hilarious how red his face gets, especially if Mihawk calls back.

But yes shiny is a given big shiny little shiny all the shiny! I already have the head canon that Mihawk’s necklace was a gift from Shanks in this au that just means it has a double meaning.

Shanks totally trying to act calm and collected and failing: so I found this cool knife necklace that looks like a cross.. do you want it

Mihawk who is the gaudiest person on the planet and wants the necklace more then god: this is.. acceptable 

Shanks: I mean if you don’t like I can always-

Mihawk: no its mine now I’ll wear it forever

Mihawk has so many rare coins, Shanks found rocks, and jewelry, and soft clothes; he's practically drowning in them. He, of course, is not immune to the pull of giving shiny things to his flock, so he starts giving Shanks weapons taken from his fallen enemies, gems he happened to find, and, Oh, here's a few million Berri silks I bought on a whim. And then it hits him – he's courting Red-Haired Shanks. Shanks, on the other hand, just thinks he's integrating Mihawk into his flock. It's cool; he's done this plenty of times before. But see captain goes and steals an earring worn by a Celestial Dragon because he thinks Mihawk would like it, it isn't just integrating! (Benn is so done; he needs a raise... and more booze, and an even bigger raise – he can't keep dealing with his captain's love life; it's giving him grey hair.)

Maybe less dancing around like an idiot (though that would be funny as hell) and more subtle things, like fluffing up your feathers when someone you like is near or stretching them out doing feather flaps to show off how strong they are. Perhaps dancing is a big part of the culture, but more in a human style, with wing movements worked in. Maybe every culture has their different ideas of dances and what they mean maybe some are more reserved about it maybe some are more open, different cultures, each have a different type of marital dance some involving feathers, some involving beautiful dress, even some involving fire.  sometimes is gendered. Sometimes it isn’t… Oh, flying dancing! Like eagles! Two or more partners fly perfectly in sync and then embrace one another, kiss, and do the dive. A fall locked in an embrace, certain that your partner and you can be so in sync that you can leave the clasp at the exact same time! Its practically means to everyone and sundry that your married if you do it correctly, and don’t like die. Though it has mostly fallen out of fashion with in the blues the only ones who still do it is those individuals who are super traditional and or brave enough or grand-line pirates. Sometimes it can happen on accident though start flying with your partner start mimicking there motions next thing you know instinct takes over and your doing a swan dive off a cliff. Most of time this doesn’t happen but it has and it can.

The dive of Mihawk and Shanks happened at the weirdest, craziest, but very 'them' time. They were both fending off a bunch of marines who'd decided to take them on after one of their many duels, thinking they'd be weaker. They were wrong, very wrong, and now two very pissed-off pirates are slaughtering them. It's not that easy; there's probably a vice admiral or two there, but Mihawk and Shanks are still obviously winning the battle. Eventually, it becomes an aerial brawl, and both of them slowly become more and more  in sync with one another, one heart, one body, four wings, and two swords. Mihawk thrusts, Shanks blocks, Shanks parries, Mihawk ducks. It's a deadly dance, all their own, created in seconds from years of dueling, fighting, and knowing each other backwards and forwards. They fight and they dance, and they win. Then comes the adrenaline high, the after-rush of battle. Covered in blood, sweat, and wounds, practically delirious with blood loss, they embrace, they kiss, and they dive off a fucking cliff. They manage to catch themselves before they hit the ocean, of course, but immediately both of them are torn into by Ben, for getting yourselves almost fucking killed. Gods and devils, congratulations on getting married, but fucking never ever do that shit again.

[your-local-hoemie]

ꕥ Genshin Impact ꕥ boyfriend headcanons, Inazuma edition~ part two.

Firstly, why is Itto so pretty in this gif???

Who gave this man the right?????

Secondly, thank you all for 100 followers!!! I honestly didn’t think anyone would really like my writing but knowing that you do makes it even more fun! And ya’ll are all so nice too like I don’t deserve this what T-T

Summary: literally the title.

Warnings: fluff, maybe a lil’ suggestive??, swearing, established relationship, Gn!reader, not proof-read.

Characters: Itto, Ayato, Gorou. (I’m classing scara (aka, wanderer) as a Sumeru citizen now since he’s a new, good boy! What i still wouldn’t give for him to crush me)

Itto~

God bless this man.

He’s so precious.

He openly adores everything you do.

Walked up a bunch of stairs without dying?

You can bet your sweet buns that this man is going to be awe struck.

He’s very strong and even though he acts like a himbo, he’s still got his head in a good place (kinda)

(He’s a complete fucking idiot)

But he is the definition of a golden retriever boyfriend!

Give him head pats and tell him he’s a good boy and he’s mush in your arms!

Boy will go all out on dates hsiduxid

Most of the time they don’t go as planned but you can’t even get mad when he still somehow manages to pull a successful “plan numero two-o” out of nowhere.

Kuki has become his go-to advisor for romance!

She doesn’t know much bless her but she knows more than him jdjdjdhdurj

Man doesn’t get jealous.

He’s too oblivious-

If someone starts flirting with you he’ll probably just join in.

“You think they’re great too?? What am I saying, of course you do! How could you not think that they’re the coolest, most awesomest partner ever!”

Bless his heart I love him T-T

He lets you polish his horns-

He lets you polish his horns.

It might not seem like much but he’s so proud of them that it’s a literal honour-

Loves it when you pet them too or put little jewellery around them!

Honestly I think he’s a really good kisser.

Don’t ask why but he just gives off that vibe.

He’s also been roping you into beetle fights.

Which he totally wins every time!

He doesn’t. You let him win occasionally.

He once found a super cool looking beetle and named it after you!!

He always makes sure to take extra good care of it just because of that.

Ayato~

Imma be honest, if I see this man pull boba out of his arm one more time and make that slurp I might lose it-

I’m not too familiar with his character but my best friend has a intense crush on him so i will get scolded if I make this is too inaccurate.

I know this sounds absurd but istg I will bet everything that this man has social anxiety.

I can smell my people.

He’s just really good at hiding it with his duties!

And you’re the only one who gets to see that side of him because he trusts you more than anyone T-T

Man is extremely busy so dates are rare but he still somehow manages to make time!

A privilege that’s only shared with Ayaka who absolutely adores you!!

She also absolutely wasn’t a little jealous of her brother hdbfhdj

He adores the little things you do!

Like, absolutely worships them!

If you decided to make him the ugliest drawing known to man kind he will frame it and look at it at least twice a day.

He taught you to play chess and much to thoma’s dismay, he taught you extremely well.

Poor boy hasn’t won in months.

Always offers you a taste of his magical sleeve boba!

How it stays fresh, no one knows.

He’s an absolute gentleman!

Hand kisses whenever he greets you, without fail!

Always insist on getting you little trinkets or jewellery!

He thinks you deserve it ok, just accept it-

Always talks about you to thoma and Ayaka!

He wants to make sure you know how much he loves you!!

He is a little possessive over you-

He means no harm by it but he can’t help his sly, mischievous side show a little bit.

“Come now, is that really any way to talk to my future spouse? Hm? Yes I did call you that, do you object, dearest~?”

Just cuts into the conversation with the offending person and grabs you by the waist with zero shame-

Do it back-

It’ll shut him up really quick~

Gorou~

Just like Ayato, I’m not super familiar with his personality hngggg.

Let’s get it out the way, shall we?

Tail.

Ears.

I NEED TO PET HIM!!!!!!

And lucky you!

You get to pet him!!

Yes he allows you to touch the ears.

Maybe be careful with the tail though cough cough

He whimpers

Beach dates aaaAAAA!

He’s constantly in work mode but he does his best to relax!

He loves making seashell necklaces with you and just taking walks together while talking!

Poor boy gets very flustered very easily.

He knows his tail gives off his emotions way too easily and you’re always super quick to tease him about it.

Evil.

He’s a thigh person and you can’t convince me otherwise.

Let him lay in your lap, please.

He’s also super ticklish-

Don’t ask, he just looks the type.

He can’t help but melt into a flustered mess whenever you’re around!

Which of course he gets teased for mercilessly by the rest of the soldiers.

But saying that, he will never be embarrassed by admitting he loves you!

He believes strongly in being open about how you feel.

Always brings you freshly picked flowers whenever you meet up!

He is really strong though, don’t be fooled by his fluff.

One of the reasons he loves you so much is because you never see him as just a pet.

He also asks you to study with him when kokomi lets him read her books!

You’d be amazed by how focused this man can get when in serious mode istg not even a earthquake could shake him.

“Huh? I love you but come on, do I really have to remind you again? It’s vital that we always keep our minds sharp even if there’s no visible threat! Leave the poor lizards alone-”

His patience with you is incredible.

He doesn’t get jealous easily but he does get a little insecure sometimes!

He’ll never cause a scene with it but he will be open with how he feels.

He hates the idea of arguing so he’ll always bring it up in a polite way!

He’s always super respectful of you and will quickly scold anyone who acts differently~

He’s a very good and very precious baby~

IM ALIVE!!! Well, kinda. I’m back at home but I got a lot of recovery to do and when I tell ya’ll that it is frUSTRATING! So writing is a good distraction!

I’m still gonna be taking my time though since my energy is completely gone not to mention I’m not allowed to get too excited since it raises my heart rate so the genshin men might actually end up killing me gdjsgHDJSH

Not that I’d mind either-

[o-chunks-appreciation]

I would like to hear your in-depth thoughts on O'Chunks, Count Bleck, and Super Paper Mario as a whole!

Woah this is just gonna be a big ramble on how much I love the game and why.

I’m gonna start with Super Paper Mario as a whole, I’m a really big fan and I have been since maybe around 2016 or so. I was vaguely aware of it as a kid but after watching a cosplay chess (its where you get a bunch of cosplayers to roleplay and they’re on a big chessboard and they act out in character to defeat each other until there’s a winner or sometimes even a subversion of plot) video that had a Dimentio cosplayer in it I decided to look into the game. By that point I was no stranger to jester characters, I used to rewatch the Marx fight from Kirby Super Star Ultra all of the time so I was immediately going through SPM play throughs, fanfic, fanart. It’s a game I seem to be thinking about all of the time for months and years on end without a break lol. It admittedly catches my attention more than the other Paper Mario games, I’m not sure why, perhaps because it’s so visually different in aesthetic and character design. I enjoy its silly moments and it’s dramatic lore, but I also have a very specific issue with some parts of the lore being vague in Carson’s stories specifically. He’s always ending his stories in a question or talking about how much of a mystery these stories are. Maybe it’s on purpose and maybe this is also wishful thinking on my end, but sometimes I theorize that maybe they were going to reuse some of SPM’s lore for another game. I uhhh can’t say much about the game play because I’ve been enjoying SPM through play throughs.

On to O’ Chunks!

I think he’s in last place in terms of fandom popularity in terms of the Castle Bleck cast. Honestly I sort of get it, he’s not conventionally attractive and most artists sort of struggle with drawing older, bald, and bearded characters. Especially back in 2007 when the game was released when the anime art style was very popular on Deviantart. You could turn everyone else in castle bleck into a cutesy attractive anime character since their designs are just vaguely human enough for you to make your own little interpretations but with O’ Chunks you can clearly see he has a very human design so you can’t really make a Gijinka of him like you could the others. I think there’s something cool yet funny about that though, like he’s some unchanging force throughout everyone’s interpretation of the cast. (But I think it would be really cool as well to see people stray from his main design and interpret his design in the same way people would the rest of castle bleck)

He’s played off as sort of a joke character and then you read up on Carson’s stories of him and then it’s all like Woahh this is the same dude we’re talking about?? Funny characters that are secretly tragic is a trope I really like.

I think it’s really silly how everyone plays into his “chunking” catchphrases like Count Bleck saying: "Very well, O'Chunks. I'll leave the hero-chunking to you. Do not fail Count Bleck." Or Dimentio saying: "Mmm... I do enjoy a good chunking...", it’s really fun that the other characters are willing to hype up O’ Chunk’s catchphrases.

Also I think everyone sort of just glossed over the fact O’ Chunks was begging to die because he didn’t want to go back to Count Bleck and tell him he got defeated for the second time and only changed his mind after Dimentio shows up and talks a bit and afterwards he’s all like: “yeah I wouldn’t kill myself unless the count told me to.”

In conclusion he’s a really cool and underrated character and I like him a lot!! (If you couldn’t already tell by the blog theme and name lol)

Finally on to Count Bleck!

Wahhhh I love his lore and story it’s sooo bittersweet I want to fall to my knees dramatically anytime I think of it. He definitely seems like the type of guy that thought he didn’t care about his crew and everything they’re all doing was purely business because he’s just so caught up in his whole depressive world ending shenanigans that by chapter 8 he’s sort of surprised that he likes his minions as much as they do.

He’s still very much a bad guy, wiping out whole worlds and also lying to his very loyal group about making a way cooler world afterwards, and also on top of that even manipulating some of his minions unfortunate circumstances to get them on his team. (I.E: O’ Chunks) but I will let it slide this time because he’s a cool character to me.

All the memory sections of the game are so cute until it hits chapter six and then it’s like….ouch my feelings. He was mourning her so bad he would’ve unknowingly killed her if he’d succeeded, damn. But he didn’t so they got their nice little happy ending, and they’re just so cute together yaayyy!! (I’m in love with the picture of them under the tree at the end of the credits and I totally start to tear up when I see it with the credits music)

He’s a really interesting character and I can’t find myself finding another Mario character that inflicts this same emotions his lore gave me.

[fancylala4]

The kingdoms don’t really feel real and don’t really react to the situation in modern Disney movies like tangled and frozen.

In tangled, the princess got kidnapped. This would cause the kingdom to be on edge and worried about her safety. What do they do every year? Have a festival that is like a state fair. It’s weird. Can you imagine if we had a party or a happy fair if something bad happened to a major official? We also don’t know anything about this kingdom at all. How do they feel about the princess being kidnapped? Did the kingdom change for the worse? Are they untrustworthy of outsiders? No, they act like everything is normal and are happy. What was the nameless king and queen’s response to this in the kingdom? Nothing but sending a bunch of lights in the sky each year and look sad. The town seems pretty cool, with outsiders and a wanted criminal walking around the streets. The town folk also don’t seem shocked by a girl with super long hair, and acts like it’s normal. They are also pretty stupid, as they don’t see the resemblance between the lost princess and the long haired outsider. Even with a huge picture of her as a baby. They could have easily shown how much it affected the kingdom and the people living there in the movie, but they didn’t. This kingdom feels less like an important place and more like Disney World. Nah, it’s more like a ride there. It’s too perfect and just there for rapunzel to have fun. Even some of the issues the movie shows like the king almost killing Flynn over an ugly crown is glossed over.

Frozen is a bit better, but that’s not saying much. The people in kingdom are chill about everything that happens in the movie. Elsa runs away and has powers? They did have a moment of fear of her, but that’s it. They didn’t seem to care that the kingdom was holding this big secret, wonder what else they are hiding and the fact that their queen runs away. Anna leaves some guy in charge to go get her sister? They don’t care. Elsa’s magic causes a big snowstorm that could kill them all? They cool with that. Sure, they can’t escape, their crops could fail, and they could freeze to death, but they seem fine with it. They also never show any kind of anger towards Elsa, since she was the one who caused all this. The only people in the movie who showed any kind of anger toward Elsa were outsiders. The duke, his goons and Hans were the ones who tried to hurt Elsa, not anyone in the kingdom. They also were ready to turn against Hans in favor of Elsa, even though he was the one who was there in their time of need. He was going to kill Elsa in front of everyone (or not. I didn’t notice anyone in the scene except for the main cast of characters) but for all they know, that was the only way to stop the storm and save the town. They were also cheering for Anna and Elsa after the scene. Showing no signs of anger towards them for leaving the kingdom.

Comparing the two with other Disney movies in the past like Beauty and the Beast, it’s shows how little thought the writers put into the world building.

[hmperil]

Hi hello :>

Can you do a crush hc with the mha boys, you can decided who tho I don't mind. Reader has a huge crush on them and is a hopeless romantic, it's okay if you won't accept my request I don't mind. ;>

(a/n) ahhhh hello ! thank you so much for the request. <3

! crush on mha boys !

includes : todoroki , bakugo

todoroki : oblivious to everything , even if they made it super obvious he wouldnt realise. wasn't until he overhead a bunch of people talking about it, and he was like *wait wut-* THEYVE LIKED ME ALL THIS TIME?! would be super shy to confess even though he literally know that they like him.. in the end he just slips them a note that just says "wanna go get cold soba after school". his crush whoes had a crush on him THIS WHOLE TIME is also like *wait wut-* HE'S LIKED ME ALL THIS TIME?!

bakugo : acts all rough but when he find out that they like him he is like a puppy inside. tries to act cool but he is failing like miserably. goes up to his crush and confidently decodes to say "I know you like me " ( bro really thought he did something there ) while his crush is just there super freaked out but then he says with a small voice ( his confidence really did a just did a 360 ) "umm we could like go get some food after school.. if you want... its okay if you don't.. I-" they end up going to get some food and surprisingly he actually finds a way of not ruining it completely, they end up dating after just a few weeks of talking to each other - so I guess in the end he didn't do too bad.

[sharktoothjack]

It wouldn't even be that difficult to do a good job of a movie version of The Graveyard Book. You just have to:

Get Silas right. He's scary as hell to everyone else, but to Bod he's the very cool but stern favorite teacher who seems to know everything. And make it obvious what he is without ever actually saying "vampire".

Make the rules clear for what Bod can and can't do, as far as entering graves or being invisible or things.

Let the kids act like kids. When Bod is five, he acts like he's five. When he's eleven he's so eleven that it's obvious why he doesn't really want to play with the 5yo ghosts anymore.

Ghoulheim isn't important; you don't need to do anything special to make it extra super duper scary, because it's already scary enough. It's going to be tempting to give a bunch of extra time or lore or whatever to the ghouls, or the Jacks of All Trades, or the Grey Lady or the Honor Guard or whatever, but all the most important stuff is the Bod stuff. It would be more in keeping with the spirit of the book to lean into the slice-of-life angle and spend any extra time on the witch or the failed attempt at school.

It probably needs to be animated in order to be done properly, but please, please (and this is a personal request), let it have colors, and an animation style that isn't exclusively used for horror, and not just look like another Burton knockoff

[ssaalexblake]

I mean this in the nicest way as it's possible to mean something objectively kind of dickish, but at some point, the absolute cynical Need to assume that the people in charge of the media you consume are just bumbling fools never knowing what they're doing only makes the people assuming that look, uh, not super smart, and has absolutely zero bearing on the creators. That this happens on meta posts that Literally Explain what's going on and people still fail to comprehend that the work of a few different people all pitching in and agreeing on it would have been necessary for it to happen, doesn't help. And yes, it's a thing that's happened a whole bunch of times on my posts alone, let alone on random ones.

Me: hey look how theyre showing that 13's messed up!

Person: lol I doubt the showrunner knows that!

Sure, Jan. The 89 times he wrote 13 being as messed up as all the other doctors were just flukes for his blonde fairy-princess of good mental health and goodness regeneration 🤷

Well buddy, that's Your problem. It's one thing to see a messy as hell narrative with no clear ending or moral to it (think of the new star wars trilogy) and clock it was totally on the fly and that anything profound was likely to be an accident (I use this example cuz they admit this is what happened). It's another to look at a complete narrative that includes foreshadowing from the very beginning that tracks all the way to the end, written by a guy who is open about having planned it for a while, who has said that he has A story to tell and then he was done and left, and then go 'yeah he has no idea what he was doing'.

I have no idea when cynicism became the suave fandom thing in Any situation even if none is warranted, but it doesn't actually make people look cool and unaffected if that's what you're all going for, it just makes it look like you're incapable of making separate judgements on a case by case basis. I am cynical as hell over certain things because I actually thought about them and decided I was. I am not like this for everything bc not everything deserves cynicism. Sometimes, it doesn't actually matter what was or what was not intentional to start with. Anybody who has created anything, ever, has unintentionally started something and it turned out to be something they pursued. It just works like that sometimes! It's not a problem!

But if you can Honestly look at 13 doing all that messed up crap she did with no introspection over it and think it was the writer not realising she was being messed up because they didn't hold your hand and point it out every single time like they do in peppa pig, despite the fact that the character is Always to some degree messed up and this tracks with the show outside the era, and Fail entirely to consider that her lack of repentance in 13 was an actual consistent character trait and that you should use your brain to actually analyze what that means for the story and for the person... You should have paid more attention in English classes. You are supposed to think about what that means. I know it's a kids show, but it's not preschool.

The problem is not the material not having the depth to analyse, it is the audience's inability to objectively parse it. It does not matter if you love it or hate it! but people are merely displaying they lack the skills to even decide if they do or not by refusing to look for narrative reasons for things and instead just looking behind the scenes to say Obviously it was all just an accidental written by the clueless to justify not bothering. And then going on to make that fact very public.

And you know what, I don't care if you bother or not, you don't have to justify not wanting to think about it! but when people make it my problem I get sick of the crap.

Like why? Really? If you dislike it why are you blogging about it? And if you like it but feel like you're honour bound to act like chibnall is a moron every time his work is brought to your attention just to Make Sure Nobody Will Think You Like It, I mostly think you need to take a step back and smell some grass (or your own regional equivalent of an outside smellable thing).

[wowwwhi]

make a gender neutral aita post, cas

ur wish js my command dudde

AM I (m?????? youre not getting my age what are you a cop) the asshole for leaving my husband (???? like 33 or smth hell if i can remember) bc he was entirely unhelpful abt matters regarding my boyfriend (im not even going to elaborate on either age or gender here WHY is this relevant riddle me that)

okso to preface this. the matters WERE death. likeeee. he died. that was the problem. dead boyfriend.

so. be me or whatever. leave home. meet a dude. lets call this guy uhhhh carl or something. have a crush on him (and be p sure hes got a crush on you too) so you start like mock dating. but its never that serious. meet dude number two. well call this one uh. richard. get a lot more involved with richard. marry richard. swear ur. undying fealty or whatever to him. the full extent.

important note 2: richard is like SUPER DEFINITELY a murderer. you did not investigate this at the time you juts thought he was cool and quirky and evil or smth but like he TOTALLY kills people. like. if you were to draw a cartoon murderer thats this dude. got that too?

so carl (who ur still dating btw) hates richard bc hes like 'ok that guy definitely kills people hes definitely a criminal what the fuck why would u marry him. and also wdym our relationship isnt that serious'

and richard who ur still married to is not the GREATESTTT fan of carl bc like. obvious reasons i mean.

but ur like guys shut up i can handle this

okay be me again. keep being me. continue. alr. realise youve married like the THE WORST DUDE EVER.

and then u fail to handle it totally. i MEANNN no i didn't. orr well you didn't. what the fuckass tense are we in rn.

and i dont mean the mruder. that too! but. likeeee. you got into this super fast uve never seen him mad yet or any of those other checks and now ur living in a HOUSE with this dhde

his dish managment is HORRIBLE hes superrrr patronisign (i am younger than him ill give u that much) hes got this habit of being smug abt evry fucjin thing and your always a lilllll bit worried the cops or smth are gknna show up at the door lookin for him

and its slowly becomign less and less uhhhh. hunky dory. if u will.

but ur copin. badly but ur coping.

and EEVEY time u try to bring up an issue he just pretends its not a problem or it doesnt exist or smt

ok.

and thn u wake up to the news ur boyfrienf carl (remember him?) has died .

stupdi accident he didnt need to get involved into. u probably could have talked him out of dying inthe first place kind of 'he didnt need to get involved in' situation. wasnt like. cancer.

so.

bring this up to ur husband over breakfast.

hes actually super understanding and really nice and you work through all of NO OFFUCKING COURSEHES NOT. HAVE U MET THIS MAN.

HES AN ARSE ABT JT. HES MET CARL LIKE AMYBE ONCE AND HES ALREADY ACTUNG LIKE HE KNOWS BETTERT HAN YOU ON THSI SUBJECT

grit ur teeth and bear it mostly bc u knw arguing is NOTTT gonan work. continue ur day as per usual trying to act like your FUCKIGN BOYFRIENF hasnt just DIED

proceed to actually get too sick of it and walk out on him without a word. astounding.

and hes all like 'oh this is ur fault oooh ur ruinign this marriage' and its like shut the FUCK up dude

ur husband then proceeds to absolutely spam u with calls and stuff and eventually u answer

then he makes u kill a bunch of people but were not getting onto that

[eisforeidolon]

It really bothers me that people feel like JA is floundering without Jared around to clean up or cover his messes for him. As if Jensen is unable to manage his own career or do things unless Jared is there to help him thorough it like a helpless child. I love Jared and think he is doing great post SPN but to think Jensen is only able to make good decisions if he has Jared involved is ridiculous to me. Jensen is his own person why do ppl feel the need to belittle him like he is not smart.

I mean, I'm guessing by people you mean Jared stans obsessed with the whole idea of competition between the Js. Like the hellers/AAs, neither group is happy with their fave being successful alone, the Other!J has to be actively failing to prove just how inadequate they always were compared to Fave!J. In their heads, Other!J was always just a lesser sidekick who is ridiculous for thinking they could succeed post-SPN without Fave!J to make their projects a success. Everything they've both done since SPN proves this is true!!11!!!

Jensen said a few different times there were various things he'd wanted to do while filming SPN that couldn't be fit around it and still maintain a decent work/home balance, and his approach since SPN ended seems to have largely been to take anything that crosses his radar that sounds cool. Make some albums, voice act Batman, do a western, work with Kripke/be a live action super hero, play a sheriff, do a live action version of a video game character, etc.

Of course, if Jensen is Other!J to you? Well, he can't possibly be doing a bunch of different projects because he wants to. Nope, he's broke and desperate and taking literally anything he's being offered because he has no judgement and is probably secretly having to beg for offers. Putting aside TW, which is a whole tempest in a teacup on its own, but ultimately just a CW-typical YA fantasy drama on a network that no longer wants to be the CW?

When there's really nothing controversial, they go with shit like: The Boys is a terrible show and Jensen was both awful in it and had a blink and you'll miss it role anyway! Actors doing albums is always a pathetic joke, enough said. He only did animated Batman because no one would hire him for the real thing and he's only pretending to like superheroes now after never mentioning it before (lol), and superheroes are a stupid tired trend that is so over.

When there are questionable aspects to something, they're more than happy to bolster any controversy they'd dismiss and/or mock if it were Fave!J: Didn't you hear how Big Sky is misogynist for its first season centering on women being abducted and racist for not making those misogynist abductions Indigenous women because it's filmed in an area where a disproportionate number of abductions have occurred within that population, so it should be about that instead of the novel the show was already being loosely based on?! Obviously there were problems on the set of Baldwin's western, anyone should have known when they were looking for a replacement actor that late something awful was going on and never taken that job (and that's about the least shitty thing said on that one). Why didn't Jensen do in depth research into a game company before agreeing to do a trailer to make sure a random FPS game in a bog standard sci fi setting wasn't controversial? He's just so dumb/careless/desperate and actually a terrible person that he would take such awful, awful projects!

See? See? He's incompetent and literally all of his choices are bad and/or pathetic. This is, of course, COMPELTELY DIFFERENT than hellers/AAs claiming the exact same thing over everything Jared does. Ours are all totes valid complaints, theirs are just bitter stans whining because they refuse to admit they know our fave is better than theirs! Nah, everybody in this bar is ridiculous.

[monstah-fukkah]

hi! i love your fankids, but i’m wondering how they all fit together, like who knows who and what universe/au each is from, or do they all know each other?

oh hey !! awww shucks ty?? that's so sweet ! honestly i work full-time and only work on this whole fankid au thing very sparingly. so it's honestly just a whole bunch of random ideas i slap together when i feel like it.

so sorry if this is long and unorganized !!

but to actually answer your question.

for my main au, i combine a mishmash of the comics/games/etc that i like and roll with it. they do all essentially know each other but some interact more than others !! here's a break down if it helps any !!

six (sonadow fankid) & void (eclipse x surge fankid) are experiment tube siblings. they're trauma bonded bc backstory !! they get along for the most part but fight just as often. they're just very different ppl. but at the end of the day you'll catch them cuddled together somewhere bc they can't be without each other at the end of the day.

six is super paranoid and doesn't trust most ppl. he prefers the company of lil' critters and less so the company of other ppl. he gets along best with knox bc she's super chill and the biggest sweetheart outta all my fankids.

void is best friends with bijou (knuxouge fankid). void's a huge trouble maker and so is bijou. they love to cause mischief. honestly just real lil' shits.

void's technically related to roxxi through surge's dna !! roxxi is much more invested in maintaining a sisterly relationship between them than void is. void's pretty indifferent about discovering she has a half-sister.

knox (knuxouge fankid) is bijou's older sister.

knox is best friends with roxxi (surgeamy fankid) and olive (vectilla fankid). knox is super calm. she's the voice of reason between her two best friends bc they tend to but heads over the smallest things. she takes her job as the next guardian of the master emerald very seriously.

roxxi has a strained relationship with surge. amy and surge tried and failed to make it work between them.

roxxi is super into circus stuff !! she loves everything about it and wants to join it someday. she's always practicing different tricks and trying out different acts.

olive wasn't planned between vector and vanilla but she was a welcomed addition to the blended family. olive takes mostly after vector. she's loud, determined, loves music, and loves to take charge. she can be super stubborn and thinks she's right 100% of the time.

flare the cat (blazamy fankid) is roxxi and the twins half-sibling! amy and blaze end up together and decide to have a tube baby together. roxii and the twins end up as step-siblings. they're just a large weirdly loving mixed family !!

flare tries and fails to hang out with the other fankids her age. void thinks she's annoying and bijou thinks she's creepy. flare is big into matchmaking and fortune telling !! she's best friends with wink (whispangle fankid).

rem & rev (silvaze fankids) are the twins. their parents are divorced so they get shuffled around between wherever the two reside at the moment.

rev's a lot more outgoing than rem. she tries to get along with everyone but she can be pretty loud and obnoxious. some tolerate her more than others. she gets along the best with roxxi !!

rem's super broody and angsty. legit just the stereotypical "i'm to cool for school" kid. they tend to keep to themselves but tolerate olive !! they are both super into music.

wink the red panda was adopted by whisper and tangle !! she's the youngest of the fankids. she's 9 yrs old. she's completely blind and has been from birth. she loves drawing and wants to become a famous artist one day. flare is her bestie and super encouraging of her dreams.

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my 2nd fankid au is something i work even less on. again it's a mismatch of the games/comics/etc but focuses more on multiverses!! it takes inspiration from sonic prime and sonic frontiers.

the short synopsis is that sage is heavily corrupted and is the villian of the au. she makes use of the starfall islands and opens up portals in different universes that house angel island. she plans to lore in ppl and have them play her games.

in one universe that's based in present day mobius, rascal (sonamy fankid), relic (knuxouge fankid), and d.a.t.a (tail's robot assistant) are exploring angel island. they stumble onto the portal and get sucked inside.

in the other universe that's based in the present day sol dimension, rush (sonaze fankid) and his buddy bloom (a super distant relative of taismo) are exploring their version of angel island. they stumble into the portal at the same time as the other crew.

sage says only one group can escape the island so it turns into a team a vs team b thing.

rush the cat is the heir to the sol dimension. he's not very confident and not having great control over his flame abilities doesn't help the matter. he's a huge bookworm. rush lives a very sheltered life and it shows. he's not much of an adventurer so this whole experience really has him out of his comfort zone and panicking.

bloom the foxtail is rush's best friend. they're overly confident and don't have a care in the world. they're very sassy and love to annoy rush. they have earth based powers and can control plants ! they don't take many things seriously and this game of sage's is no different.

rascal rose takes a lot after her father. she loves to run, leap into danger, and hang out with her best friends. the only thing is that she has asthma. if she runs too fast for too long she suffers the consequences. she's super insecure about this and hates to talk about it. she belives her ailment doesn't exist and nothing will stop her !!

relic is rascal's oldest friend. they're a few days apart and have been inseparable since they were in diapers. relic is quiet and stoic ! he doesn't say much but that's fine with rascal who talks enough for the both of them. he'd much rather talk with his hands. he's super into different fighting styles and loves to train with rascal. he's very proud of his heritage and proudly wears the clothing donned by his ancestors. he's the protector or the group and guards his friends aggressively.

d.a.t.a was created by tails under the guise of being a personal assistant. in reality d.a.t.a was created to keep an eye on rascal and her condition since she refuses to take care of herself. he always has an inhaler on hand and will hound her relentlessly about it. he is still rather new to the world and very naive about how things work. he's super curious and absolutely adores learning about the world around him.

sorry again that this was so long but i hope that this cleared some things up !!

[praphit]

Ant-Man 3: “B**ch Be**er have my M**ey!”

It sucks, you know?? When you have a high expectation for something and it turns out to be a dud: whether it's a movie or an album, a restaurant... 

a Super Bowl Halftime Show... With a Marvel movie, you're excited, others see it first, and the reactions are -

You're like "NO!"

BUT, you find the polar opposite reactions as well... although THOSE reactions are coming from kids, or people who were drunk/high while watching, or people who show up to the theater like this guy -

So, what are you supposed to believe? (Kids, Lesson Time: "Don't have expectations.")

I'm sure you've heard certain complaints about Ant-Man 3 already. I will say that most of those complaints are 100. Does that mean the movie is bad?

It starts off with the loveable Scott Lang, skipping and whistling down the street; not a care in the world, and feeling himself, cuz he has taken sole responsibility for saving the world ("End Game"). And why not?? - he's been a joke for a while, so take that victory lap, big boy.

Then, there's of course The QUANTUM REALM, which everyone keeps saying is so dangerous, and yet, in every Ant-Man movie, somebody goes there. This movie is no different and 

OH NOOOOOOOOOOO!

it happened again.

The problem is that this time they really shouldn't have gone back, cuz Janet (Michelle MuthaBleepin Pfeiffer)

 was stingy with the details of her 30 year trip to and back from The Quantum Realm. She failed to mention her Summer fling with the newest super villain KANG (J.Majors - 

known to the acting community as "The Shit").

Was it a Summer fling? They don't paint that picture, but... they were alone for a very long time, they saved each others lives, they were fixing things in a very sweaty manner; banging and grunting, and they were sharing intimate parts of their lives with each other, so... she also may have been banging some military alien, maybe this thirsty piece

, and definitely this guy.

But, I digress :)  (You go, gurl.)

She finds out that Kang is a monster 

(A time/dimension traveler, who has been around for ever and has the most advanced tech as a result.... oh, and he has an Alexander the Great mindset) , and abandons him there to go back to her family.  

She didn't mention any of that to her family! Way to go, Janet!

So, the mission is everyone get home and don't let Kang follow you.

Problem is they got split up.

OK, so this part I loved! 

We got to explore this new world, which is visually very cool. In fact, the CGI throughout most of this movie is satisfying (especially with 3D action). There are a few things that this movie does that are really interesting:

The whole evolution thing (it's a new world with all kinds of life in it, doing lively things).

They do something really cool with the language that different species speak.

There is some sort of "probability realm", which we see a lil bit of in the trailer - an interesting concept, that is unfortunately not explored enough.

The tech is dope! And everytime we see Kang! Whew! Jonathan Majors nails it! He's calm, collected, focused, and scary. The Ant-Man family may be playing around, but he aint, and I love it. Oh, and the ants! I frickin loved the ants!

Have I said enough good things about this? :) Are we clear? I'm a PMB (Proud Marvel Bitch), so it's not always easy for me to criticize them. It feels similar to Rihanna's Super Bowl Halftime Show. I had to say a bunch of nice (and true) things first, before... you know... There's no way to criticize a pregnant woman without sounding like a jerk, especially if that pregnant woman is Rihanna. But...

I love Rihanna, btw.

OK.

Visually, stunning... but everything concerning the story is a hot mess. To save time on this rant I will simply boil the prob down to its root:

Too much going on:

It was a simple plot! Get yo asses home, and tell Kang to bleep off! MARVEL! why couldn't you have just kept it simple?!

There's all of the secrets with Janet; her secret lives (and ex's:), there's all of the family drama ( and the family lessons this movie attempts to teach us), there's all of the natives and their bullshit, there's M.O.D.O.K.... I really hated him; like everything about him. He's supposed to look weird, but... 

MARVEL, YOU'RE BETTER THAN THIS.

They made him some moron from the first movie, and there's a whole thing with him being a dick. For a family movie, they use the word "dick" so much. There's no way that children walk away from this movie, and "dick"  doesn't become their new favorite word.

There is way too much going on with Kang. They explain it, but.... not very well. His story is explained way better in Loki season 1. One of the criticisms of the movie is that this whole film is just a set-up for Kang - which it is. I have no problem with that, but then do it properly. Give us more Kang (in story). We'll be getting all kinds of Kangs soon (time traveling is a dick). I feel like the uncovering of Kang's (and multiple Kangs) story is like helping a hoarder clean out their living room - you've been tossing junk out for hours and it still looks like a mess.

There are also some plot holes, which I won't say anything about, except this - Kang has all of this HI-Tech stuff, so why is he struggling so much with Ant-Man and The Wasp... AND the Cassie.

May I talk about The Wasp and The Cassie??!

In the trailer, all I saw was Kang kicking Ant-Man's ass up and down The Quantum Realm; practicing for "Creed III" He's also in a room where Kang is stomping the hell out of his skull, like Ant-Man owed him some money.

  Don't act like you forgot, Scott!

The whole time, I'm like - "WHERE IS THE WASP?! DOES SHE NOT SEE HER MAN GETTING BEAT UP?!" - her name is still in the title isn't it?! Pull your weight, lady!

Now, she's there, and saves him quite a bit, but my point is they didn't really promote her, because they know that she doesn't really matter. I'm sorry if that sounds mean, but it's true. After that second Ant-Man movie, her character just... idk... becomes forgettable.

She's just a tag-on to the franchise. Was she in The End Game battle? I think so... but I don't remember. Was she at the funeral in that movie? I don't remember. Any other Marvel important moments? Was she in any of the "What If" stuff? I think so, but I don't remember. Is she mentioned at all in any other Marvel movies or shows? I don't remember. Not only do I not remember, but it doesn't matter. We never got to know her that well. She doesn't need to be here. Someone that we care more about could have let Ant-Man get beat up, and then at the last second, save him.

The Cassie? - same thing. And enough with these younger characters who are super geniuses. We only need one, and we have Spider-Man. We all know that most kids are dumb (No offense. Not you kids who might read this... other kids. Your Uncle Rambling Praphit is rooting for you... stay in school). Cassie, whom we don't really know, shows up all ready to fight and hogging up some scene time from Ant-Man.

She was all like "Care about me, audience! I'm young! I'm smart! I'm a girl! And I'm just as good as my dad, Ant-Man, even though I've had no training. YAY! Follow me!"

I was like "Who is this clown? I don't know you. Your daddy cares about you, so I guess I will, but,,, speaking of your daddy, can we get back to him?? " These tag-ons just don't have any personality for themselves. There's no reason to be excited about them.

Tag-on after tag-on: Wasp, Cassie, Michael Douglas, Chidi from the Good Place... 

this chick (who seems cool). 

It's too much! I loved the world, and it's beautiful... the kids out there and or the people who saw this movie while high will love it, but can we stick to a character developement??!

Give me the ever delightful Paul Rudd, skipping and whistling through new world, cracking jokes. Give me Michellle Pfeiffer, action hero, blowing things up in this new world, and having Summer flings with aliens. Give me Kang, torturing and zapping his way through the miracle of life in this new world, while explaining just what the hell his problem is! But, pick one! Dammit, Marvel!

Grade?! I don't even know! I’m exhausted by my own rant. 

Much like The Wasp, it just doesn't matter. We'll say a generous C- Same reaction I had after watching that Super Bowl Halftime Show, I guess... I said afterwards... "Well, she's pregant. How bout that??"

("But, what did you think of her performance?")

"Um... pregnant. I love her though. Her catalog... whew! I kinda wish she did CHEERS tho... I guess she can't promote alcohol at a family event. The aggression of Bitch better have my money and the brutality of football is fine, but not alcohol... everybody knows that."

("But, her performance?") 

There's a show called "Fringe" Once upon a time, it was one of my favs. It was kinda like X-Files meets X-Men... kinda. But, then in later seasons they got into different dimensions and time travel and the show became hard to follow. You knew of one character, but then met a "variant" version, and then had to learn about them all over again.

Marvel is in danger of this. You've gotta be on your game to write stories on this type of level.

On your game like Steph Curry at practice when he shoots like 48 for 50 from half court. I feel like Marvel has been more like 5 for 50. Now, it's game time, and they're like "We're ready! Let's do this!" And I'm like, "We're so f**king  doomed." smh

I hope I'm wrong.

[cuprohastes]

That holiday Special

This one.

Long, boring, snarky.

I heard it’s super bad so obviously I have to watch it for Bea Arthur and the introduction of Jango Fett’s little lad and the Glup Shitto cameo.

First impressions… Grumpy grandpa Wookie needs to punch bratty Wookie’s lights out. The intro is where the last 40 years of Kashyyk architecture has come from, I guess. It also answers the question, do Wookies have boobs? (No).

Sadly and tragically, bratty Wookie fails to plummet off the balcony while using it as a balance beam. Such a tragedy.

The next scene is weird. Granpa Wookie turns on the holochess table which apparently has shitty circus mode.

This raises a question: If all the Starwars arcade games are all wire frame rail-shooters… but they have colour holographic games, then WTF? Is everyone just an atrocious retrogamer for that one year 30,000 years ago when they hadn’t invented filled polygons?

Note: The Star Wars universe had Jedi for 1000 generations which is about 25,000 years and existed for a long time prior to that, when space travel was also easy. From the invnetion of Agriculture to Cyberpunk 2077 was less than 12,000 years. So everyone in the Star Wars universe is just extremely shitty at computer games.

Like all the TV in the late70s and early eighties, it is wildly and unnecessarily horny. There are lots of crotch shots. And costumes that are crimes against humanity. And the Furry fandom. Lots of tails and thongs.

Since the Star Wars universe hasn’t invented mobile phones, they put a video call in to Luke Skywalker who helpfully reveals the names are Mala, Itchy and… Lumpy.

Checks out.

Luke has the biggest vape in 3 systems

I don’t know who was working the makeup for this thing but Luke has been replaced by Ellen Degeneres

Mala: I’m worried that my husband, who hangs around with a notorious flake on a starship that’s a known hunk of junk, and who is hunted by the Empire and about 14 different criminal organisations, may be in trouble. Luke: You’d be prettier if you smiled. R2: [Immediately tries to murder Luke. It’s justified]

Meanwhile… On Wookie Planet C, an imperial gunnery officer is shopping for souvenirs. Darth Vader threatens to do a door-to-door search of several entire planets. Lumpy is still a brat. On TV there’s a drag queen cooking bantha loins. The Wookies have a flat screen TV. Why they’re using CRTs for everything else is not explained. Maybe they shop at Wayland-Utani Screens

Nobody loses any fingers. This is a surprise.

Then the Imperial Muppet shows up on screen and announces a blockade. Fun! He doesn’t get to finish because the foley artist over dubs him with a door knock FX. It’s the shopkeeper. He drops a couple of one liners that were probably hilarious back in the day.

The shopkeeper is weirdly intent on kissing everyone. I think we know who’s trying to keep Mala’s bed warm while Chewie is off yelling at Han.

Everyone gets a present. Mala gets a… thing. Lumpy gets… a thing. Itchy gets porn, apparently. But it’s early 80s TV so it’s a handful of glitter and a bunch of dancers with socks on their hands and some guided meditation. Then horny ASMR.

And now… Leia’s office. Good ol’ General Organa, the only person who’s not dicking about.

Mala: Chewie and han haven’t arrived Leia: Well… you know Han is a screw up and probably flew face-first into that imperial blockade. Hey, put the random shopkeeper on: Dude, look after Mala or I’ll make you fellate a gundark. Leia out.

Shopkeeper: Gimme a Wookie Uckie.

Ok this dude is definitely into WILFs.

And then the fire nation attacked Han arrived in a cardboard cut-out of the Millenial Falcon. Just in time for the EMPIRE to show up and walk vaguely around the room scowling. Itchy show the nice officer your porn.

This officer likes to snap his finger a lot.

Shopkeep loses his cool. First bit of good acting in the special!

Imperial Gunner stops to watch Jefferson Aeroplane. The officer is totes cool with it. And why not? One of his storm troopers just swatted two Wookies out of the way. Where was THAT guy on Endor?

[toxic-potions-productions]

What does Zakiko think of the Sengoku era hashiras, & what do they think of her?

I totally forgot this was in my drafts-

Keep in mind, the boys' thoughts are all from the Sengoku time, & Zakiko & Koku's are mostly Taisho, I just put Koku's human name to make it easier. This is all based on how they remember her when they were alive (If that makes any sense-) & also, these are mostly how I see them that aren't Yoriichi & Michikatsu, so you might see some headcanon personalities (The names are apparently canon, BTW) -------------------------------------------------

Sun hashira, Yoriichi Tsugikuni

Zakiko: "He's a really sweet guy. Kinda quiet for someone who can be so bright & sunny. I've known him & Michikatsu when we were teenagers, so we go way back. I was living with him & Uta when I outlived my parents after turning into a half-demon, & now it's mostly me. I miss him alot. I just wish some of the others didn't turn their backs on him when he failed to kill Muzan. It was out of his control, & they're acting like it was his fault. When it clearly wasn't."

Yoriichi: "I have never been more amazed by her abilities in all my days. My brother made a very smart choice training her. After Uta's demise, she provided a very reassuring sense of comfort. She just seems to get along with everyone she meets. From Sumiyoshi to the hashiras. She's alot braver than she thinks. I truly owe her for everything. She's one of the few that stuck up for me during my failures, & one of the few that kept in touch with me afterwards. She's a very sweet girl."

Moon hashira, Michikatsu Tsugikuni

Zakiko: "I'm the closest to him than I am the rest of them. I used to be his Tsuguko after he saved me from a demon, since it was his idea so I could protect myself back then, & it just sorta stuck after that. I took care of his wife & kids when he disappeared, & now that he's a demon, we're making up for lost time. He & Yoriichi are basically my big brothers by now."

Michikatsu: "I worry about her sometimes, even back in the Sengoku era. She was so worried & scared of her shadow back then, & now she's having a bunch of problems due to being a half-demon & the years catching up to her. She looks ill at times. But, she's just as kind as I remember her. She's the only one that's still here, & I'm glad to see her after so long. Even though I feel horrible for putting so much responsibilities on her when I abandoned everything. It's just nice to see she's still here & not as timid, as she was all those years ago."

Flame hashira, Enjuro Rengoku

Zakiko: "I know his descendent Kyojuro, so I've seen my fair share of flame breathing before. He just reminds me so much of Kyojuro– never complains, always positive, & super cool. Maybe that "Set your heart ablaze" mentality runs in the Rengoku family."

Enjuro: "She's the cutest thing ever! I always wanted to train her, but she's been Michikatsu's student for a while. Wonder how that's going. She's kind, friendly, compassionate, & just overall a sweetheart. No wonder Yoriichi & Michikatsu like her so much. But, I can't help but notice how lonely she can be most of the time."

Water hashira, Yusuke Mizuhara

Zakiko: "Yusuke, huh? He & I haven't talked as much as I wanted to, since our schedules were both nightmares. But, when I finally had a chance to, he's basically exactly like Tomioka. Although, he's not as distant & hard on himself as he is. So, yeah. He's a sweetheart."

Yusuke: "Shibata-San is an enigma. She's constantly fearing for her life due to the demons in the world, which is just as understandable as it is sad since she has so much potential. She's holding back alot, because she can't find it in her to seriously hurt them, as they used to be human, too. She can be so timid one day, & so abrasive the next. But, she talks to me whenever she has the time to. I really hope she doesn't die from gaining the demon slayer mark, she's very nice."

Thunder hashira, Shin Kamanari

Zakiko: "He's a sweet kid. He has a really hilarious sense of humor, he was so energetic, & he was just the definition of a gentleman. He & I would have these gossip talks all the time where we just rambled about anything we thought was worth talking about, & I loved seeing his shocked reactions when he heard something new. Guess that's why I look after Zenitsu alot, not just because of him acting like my old self."

Shin: "Zakiko is awesome!! I always have so much fun talking to her. I feel bad since she's so pessimistic, but that's why I'm helping her out of her shell as much as I can. She's so sweet for listening to me whenever I'm babbling on about something. & sometimes, when I stop by, I always sneak a few treats for her. She can be such a bottomless pit, but that's just a warrior's appetite. She has my full support on her goal of being the first ever female samurai!"

Wind hashira, Takeshi Hayate

Zakiko: "He was a pain in the ass sometimes. He always used to ruffle up my hair & challenge me to a spar, but that was when I was more nervous & scared. If he asked me now, I'd easily accept it. But, sometimes, we'd go out for drinks & just sorta chat. So, we weren't always on the same wavelength, but he was fun to hang out with. Alot more bearable than Shinazugawa, that's for sure."

Takeshi: "She can be such a whiney, pathetic brat sometimes. She's too clingy, too scared, that side of her is just annoying. I prefer her more abrasive & aggressive side much more, she's alot cooler like that. I don't like her occasional "I'm not like all of you" attitude, either. But, she's a good drinking buddy, so that's why I don't completely hate her. It's mostly a frenemies thing. But, for the most part, we just.....tolerate each other."

Stone hashira, Kazuyoshi Iwamoto

Zakiko: "I'm starting to wonder if Gyomei is his reincarnation. He acts exactly like him, that it's scary. He was like the dad of the hashiras, & obviously the oldest one, but just as kind as I remember him. A gentle giant through it all. I was obviously really scared of him when I first met him, but after a while, I softened up & basically saw him as a father figure. He's really kind, & I miss him alot. You'd be surprised at how often I have to catch myself so I don't accidentally refer to Gyomei by his name instead."

Kazuyoshi: "She's a very capable young lady. She might not always be that positive, but her charming smile can brighten the darkest of rooms. She seems to talk to the Tsugikuni brothers the most. I occasionally ask her to my prayers, but she always falls asleep during it. She's a very kind, warm, funny girl. Though, sometimes I worry if her fear is controlling her life. Seeing her so afraid is very upsetting. But, Yoriichi & Michikatsu have brought her out of her shell alot since they met. Which is truly wonderful. She needs it, & more importantly, she deserves it. Always a delight to talk to."

[sordideuphemism]

When I first put up my (still ongoing, in side-stories) fanfic world about (brace for impact) My Little Pony, I got some lovely, lovely pieces and share them, then. They're also shared on the front page of the stories themselves on FIMFic. But OP is right - They should be called out and shared directly. So here we go.

TWO PONIES My first foray into the MLP Fanfic. This was incredibly well-received, much to my (continuing) surprise. The following image was drawn by CoconutJam over on DeviantArt, and shows Spice Drop, a character from Act 3.

ORDER FROM CHAOS / JUSTICE / HOPE

This was initially a one-shot written on a literal dare. IonSturm was a regular in the writing help channels I frequented. I helped with grammar, structure, and characterization. After yet another awful Sonic the Hedgehog in Equestria story that simply couldn't be saved, I told people that I would not longer be reviewing them. His dare was, in effect, 'If you can do better, I'll give you an entire internet.'

After OfC sailed into accolades, he said I hadn't done enough. We needed to have the lead character hit *all* the tropes - marry a pony, meet the princesses, have a kid, and face his nemesis.

So I did that too, through 'Justice', but took liberties on what 'nemesis' meant.

"NO," he cried! "This is still EASY MODE! You need the actual blue blur in the mix. I refuse to admit defeat unless Sonic himself is present." But the poor fool failed to recognize I had fallen in love with the story, and the characters, and by the stars themselves, Snowdrop wasn't going to give me a *minute* of peace until I gave her story time.

So I did that too, in 'Hope'. To much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

He eventually admitted I had done so, and also gave me permission to call him IonStrum, a typo-name that irritated him to no end.

GiantMosquito, again on DeviantArt, drew this piece and I used it as the cover image for Justice.

You might be able to guess who the lead character turns out to be.

But the plot bunnies. Dear fates above, the plot bunnies. I had to get them out. I had to fill out the backstory. I had to tell more about Snowdrop and her family. I had to do this. I had to do that. So I started a collection of vignettes, some chronological, some self-contained, all intertwined, called...

FINE STEPS

In the town of Pasofino lived a pony and his family and all folk he knew. And this is the story of what happened there.

It's still not done. I have been working WAY too much and traveling WAY too much but more chapters will, eventually be coming. When I posted it, Alexstrazsa on FimFic and Wentox on DeviantArt collaborated on this:

I have been a very, very lucky author to have such talented people share these efforts with me and my audience simply out of love for my work. I can think of only one higher accolade for my writing, which I will copy in its entirety here:

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Squeak squeak went my floral magenta bed. Waking up just now this legendary & flukish morning. My Nina is finally letting me watch TV instead of doing chorse. She will come in 2 hours at 10:00 AM. But now I have to feed my dog Allie. So I stared at a musc video. La la! Then I raced outside to see Allie bouncing on my onyx trampoline wiht a pine green alligator in my confusing backyard! The container of doggy bitz scattered (not real dog bitz)! It was shocking all I could do is gape! Allie bulldozed out a bunch of mixed up barks. My fairy self casted a yackin & quackin spell on the alligator to make him have a conversation (because I’m a spellmaster fairy). But he explained that he did not need magi abilities. Intrudcing he cleared his throat & announced his name is, “Gummy Mclede Diddlebob the Eighteenth” (awesome).

We charged into my cramped house & played the brand new super cool fair red Wii2. Yes I won the legend of zelda but Gummy owned me a hungry hungry alligators (I’m positive he would always win). Gummy & I sprung over to my room fater than Pinkie Pie. Gummy was starving (but I think he’s just hungry). So I gave him 3 cans of tuna (blech) & salmon (gummy ate the rusty metal to)! (Weirdo McBoberson).

Imagining to be fairys (well I didn’t have to pretend). Then we hung out (litterally we were upside down), it stunk more than my throwup on the floor (& he did pass gas). So we sprung down & landed on my comfy cozy speckled couch. We got some sky blue gatorate & played Zelda. Score I found the princess of zelda 3 times (magicl)! We watched the replay. “Whoa” yelled I, while I flinched when Gummy snapped at me.

Gaping in amazement suddenly he snapped at me 3 more times. Gummy soon had me knocked out on the floor! What else could go wrong? Suddenly my wand loosened out of my firm grisped fists & most of my magic pranced out like little dancing fairies! Out of nowhere I was in a dusty boxing arena. Ding ding! Looking around seeing if I could reverse the slepp. Looking back at gummy he was charging at me! I leaped up in the misty air & dodged the hit. Gummy was trying to hit me! (Not a surprise.)

Quickly finding my marbled wand & grasped it. I quickly bulldozed out these words, “Stop this brand new you make you blend so we can be friends.” Vroom vroom! Hearing my Nina’s car thinking there’s no way to stop a Wii2! It seemed like my Nina barged in & shook the whole house! When she walked in she gaped & fainted. 10 min later. She woke up & we all rejoiced. She got up & stormed to the backdoor & shooed Gummy away insulting him, but Gummy will come back for playdates.

P.S. Besides we’re having a BBQ tomorrow & I expect some unexpected guests.

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My 2nd youngest, at age 9, wrote that because she loved the time we spent telling stories to each other (whether about MLP or not) and was given a prompt to use her new *adjectives* on a school assignment. The above result is unedited, and utterly charming.

So, thank you, everyone. And if you're curious about these stories and don't mind a little pony in your life (or one unloading her u-haul into your skull to move in and make suggestions when you're TRYING to SLEEP, SNOWDROP), please check out this list on FimFic.

Also, I blame @aleasesrestaurant for her editing assistance. 😇 YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID (which was a lot, and I still need to thank you some more, so get used to it).

[EDIT 1: I forgot to mention, I was so surprised and pleased by the art of Spice Drop that I had a mug made of her sketch form and final edit (above). I'll try to snag a picture once I'm back home again. Spice keeps me company on my desk with my favorite pens at the ready. ❤️ ]

[EDIT 2: I forgot the main thing I wanted to say, of course. OP, and other artsy sorts? A picture or poem or *anything* from twisted pipe cleaners to fiber art to chiseled busts being brought into the world in response to a writer's story is one of the BEST THINGS THAT CAN HAPPEN, so PLEASE, if you feel inspired to create based upon a story we've told, don't hesitate* to share. (*within the bounds of consent) ]

Apparently, my decision to be silly and make fanart of someone's writing (because I genuinely enjoy the story the person is writing and I was struck with inspiration upon reading a particular scene) has benevolent and wildly unforeseen consequences.

I apparently gained a bit of control of the canon because said writer really loved the art and decided what I drew/draw is canon.

2. Writer put said artwork into the document of his story right below the scene, so now it's IN the story where people who read the story will see it (with a link to me)

3. He sent the artwork to all his friends and people he knows because he was so excited

Wholesome interaction and I watched him do all that in real time, good stuff. However...there are two more consequences I was notified of today...nearly a full week after I gave the artwork.

Seeing the artwork caused his friends to become interested in reading and hearing about his story, which means more people are reading what he's writing and giving him critique on the story (which he actively asks for).

Apparently, upon seeing the art, his writer friends got a sudden second wind to pick back up writing they'd abandoned for a few months. Because, I quote, "seeing that someone enjoyed {his} writing enough to take the time to make art of it gave them the motivation that maybe THEY can write something that will inspire someone to also create something." I have accidentally caused a writing frenzy among his writer friends and my silly idea to make art for someone has had a butterfly effect for people who I don't even know.

Uhh...I'm pretty sure there's a moral here but I am tired and have a great deal of emotions about this.