#in pretty much every version of canon he is making sure she's okay! he is trying to protect his big sister!

[house-on-sand]

@misunderstoodthebeatles

barbara & jason as a batgirl & robin who share a family, mission, and murderer. as a sister & brother.

“the lady, or the tigress?” (young justice) // batman: gotham knights (#44) // soirée fantastique (natalie diaz) // batman: gotham knights (#43) // “barbara gordon” (titans) // antigonick (anne carson) // batman: turning points (#3) // the fall of the house of usher (steven berkoff) // batman: under the red hood (2010) // batman: arkham knight // a brother named gethsemane (natalie diaz) // task force z (#8) // batman: arkham knight // batman: urban legends (#3) // antigone (jean anouilh) // gotham knights // libation bearers (ian johnston) // gotham knights // batman: wayne family adventures (#53) // batman (vol. 2) (#17)

[vivi-blue]

IT IS FINALLY DONE!

God, this took me way too long...xD

After days of work I finally finished the challenge that I set for myself: Sending out props to a lot of artist here on tumblr that I really enjoy! (Actually there are way waaay more people, but I really had to set myself a limit, I'm sorry fellas ;w; I still love you!)

These people inspire me every day with their creative concepts, stories, humor and passion for art and give me the drive to continue drawing myself. With this little collection I wanted to say "thank you" for all that you do and create. You rock, guys!

(I really hope I didn't mess up any of the tags and I apologize if I might fu**ed up your designs/characters ;3; I know I'm not the best in proportions and all, but I really tried. <w<´´ Also I really hope Tumblr compresses the text by itself, so that you don't get smacked by this wall of text. I'm still a rookie on tumblr, so I don't know what to do ;w;)

Okay, heeere we go! THE TAGS!

@tv-tower / @uuberwachen - with PB aka Swap Pizzahead (I really love the idea of the au and adore the character designs. PB sure is one of my favorites -w- He is literally the most reasonable of them all XD)

@technically-a-kiwi - with Cosmic Peppino ( The design of Cosmic Peppino is simply beautiful and the idea that this chef has strong star powers and needs to take care of Cosmic Noises shenanigans is super funny to me XD )

@sirtotallynotatimetraveler - with Mel Sproutbloom / Sagebloom (I'm sorry, I wasn't sure which name is canon ;w;) ( I loooove Mel! He is such a gentle, colorful guy and looking at him makes me all happy <3 )

@alextydaisuda123 - with their version of Vigilante ( I can't repeat enough how much I adore their artstyle. I love Vigi's design the most. I don't know it's just...THAT'S Vigi for me, you know? Simply fitting, cool, but also stylish -w- )

@alice-the-demon - with Vittoria ( I was first thinking of drawing Archangel Peppino, since this guy is the softness itself, buuuut I have to admit that I love the lively and passionate personality of Vittoria. She is great -w- )

@misdreavusplush - with Eyelashes ( I can't help it. I saw that character and was in awe. How adorable can you be?? I was barely able to draw her eyes as pretty as they are xD <3 )

@creature-of-pizza - with Pepp ( Seriously, the idea to see a "Fake Peppino" with more cat dna is such a win for me. He is dynamic, sassy, derpy and so damn cool! >w< Also love how colorful their pictures are.)

@eskariolis-con-salsa - with Gnocchi (I was thinking about drawing their version of Fake Peppino first, but...*looks at picture* ...let's be honest, you can't get pass that little guy. ;w; He purifies my soul. Have some soap, little guy.)

@oddpizza - with Caramel Jam aka CJ (Such a creative and powerful character! I've seen so many artworks of them and I adore them. You need more joyful people like this ^^)

@pizza-tower-secrets - with Lycheecheechee ( A small, adorable bundle full of surprises and of course secrets! I love their drive and colorful design. Simply a delight! :3 )

@rhaytronik - with Red ( A dynamic and enjoyable character with their love for adventures! Not only a great character but also the Pizzasona of my best friend. Thanks to them I was brave enough to start a tumblr account myself. So thank you for being there for me <3 )

@cutechan555 - with Mage Gustavo (To be honest, I had a very hard time to pick a character here, since their account is full of stories and ideas. I chose mage Gustavo, since I love his design and story. I'm currently into "Delicious in Dungeon" and to imagine that he goes dungeon crawling with his bros to safe Peppino is such a cool idea XD)

@bigbeastcyruspt - with Trion (I have to be honest, at first I was very startled of Trion, since his design is very mighty and scary. I mean, it's his chase form after all. But the more I learned about him, the more I grew to like him. Very damn cool design! Also couldn't help to add dah baby ;w;)

@lunar-dal - with Pizza Cruise Peppino (Another au I simply adore! The design of the characters is colorful and bright, and to imagine Peppino as a singing gondolier brings me great joy. Also I'm a big fan of otter Brick ;w; )

@smalltimidbean - with Pea Pod, Sugar Snap Pea and Snow Pea (Believe me, I never before had such a hard time to pick ONE of so many wonderful Peppi clones! THAT was torture XD But in the end I guess I picked my favorite. Such a tired, but very cute one. Not to forget about the little ones <3 To draw a PT character with 4 fingers and 2 thumbs on one hand was quite a challenge lol )

@tinderboxofsillyideas - with Coffee Peppino (Probably one of the most adorable au versions of Peppino. Seriously, if I had the chance to get my coffee in his café, I totally would! Give that guy all the tips! <3 First thought of drawing their wizard Peppino version, but the adorable barista won lol)

@xbeih - with Metal Peppino (One of the first au's I started following. Seriously, how cool can one person be?? I mean, the whole au is amazing and I enjoy every person in it. But damn...Peppino takes the cake. ówo He is so badass, you can't imagine <w< Also I'm very sorry, it was my first time drawing a guitar and aaaaaaa )

.....*looks left and right* ...ok, we did it. Wow!

God, I'm exhausted now...XD

Well, thank you very much for reading and sorry for the wall of text ówq I can only recommend you to check these people out. They are all very talented and should be appreciated!

Have a pleasant morning / day / evening / night everyone. (Depending your timezone lul .w. )

See ya next time! Vivi out!~

[gnomewithalaptop]

I am once again thinking about my Reverse Falls plot bunny where Canon!Dipper switches places with his Rev Falls counterpart

Just hear me out! Like -- the dynamics would be so good. Because in either universe, the twins know each other better than anybody else, right? They've known each other their entire lives! So they'd obviously realize something was up pretty quickly, but the way that goes down would vary wildly depending on the combo you've got going on

That's why I really want Canon!Dipper in the Reverse universe -- out of the two of them, I definitely think he could "fake it til you make it" a bit longer than Mabel, but I also think the potential dynamics between him and Rev!Pacifica and Rev!Gideon would be fascinating to see play out. Cause like, let's be real: that kid can hold some grudges, and he's pretty pessimistic when it comes to people and second chances (at least compared to Mabel). I can see him having a really hard time wrapping his head around the personality shifts and trusting Pacifica and Gideon with anything -- which would only make things harder, since they'd already be predisposed to hating his guts. But also, just the idea of Dipper trying to navigate a strange world where his family is full of manipulative bastards and the entire town seems terrified of him makes my inner ten-year-old extremely happy

And then the dynamics with Rev!Dipper and Canon!Mabel would be playing out in tandem with all of this. And the script is completely flipped from Canon!Dipper's, because Mabel doesn't go into this knowing something's wrong. She has to figure that out for herself from context cues, and like. I doubt "evil mirrorverse version of my brother" is going to be her first guess right off the bat. So you get extra wiggle room for Rev!Dipper to get situated as a quasi-antagonist and start screwing things up, and you get fun hijinks while Mabel and the gang make several very wrong choices about what's going on with Dipper

And like. Okay, so: I've always interpreted Reverse!Dipper as somebody who's very pragmatic -- he's very much an "ends justify the means" sort of guy. Don't get me wrong, he's not as vindictive as Canon!Gideon, but he also isn't particularly sentimental either. He's lived his whole life in "every man for himself" mode (with some small exceptions for his sister).

And then I think about combining that kind of mindset with Mabel's unstoppable wave of optimism and endless harebrained schemes where she tries to make things better for a person she doesn't even know that well. And I think about Reverse!Dipper being faced with this realization that his world is dark and cold and uncaring because that's how he relates to the world.

Let's be real: at the end of the day, both sets of twins love each other so fiercely. It's just that the Rev Falls kids have gotten caught up in all these manipulation games and power plays, and once you get caught up in that kind of cycle, it becomes harder and harder to get out again. So I can see this swap having a positive shift on both the Rev Falls kids -- taking them away from their lives and showing them that they don't have to interact with the world this way

I'm thinking about Canon!Dipper seeing the humanity in Rev!Mabel and talking to her straight the way he did to Pacifica in Northwest Mansion Mystery. I think about how she hasn't gotten to be a kid because of the Tent of Telepathy's whole Dance Mom schtick, and finally getting it impressed upon her that that isn't normal. I'm thinking about Canon!Mabel showing Rev!Dipper it's okay to trust people and let them in. That he doesn't have to treat the entire world like it's out to hurt him, doesn't need to strike first to make sure the other guy never gets a chance to

Anyway. This got so long but -- yeah. I yearn for the Gravity Falls Mirror Mirror episode that exists only in my mind

[klm-zoflorr]

Fanon Lukas family tree!! Well, it's for my AU, but I'm sure we can make it work for canon as well ahah

& dark mode... it looks cool okay

I've been working on it for a month lowkey, ever since I started on that Evan/Naomi wip, just... Slowly building up lore and a story and characters and rough estimates of ages and tidbits of brainstorming and a timeline and daddy issues and coming up with names and in this case, well, superpowers too because that's what the AU is about. But anyways, I'm super excited to dig in further, because YES all of these characters pretty much have some amount of personality and interesting details about them so far. Woohoo!! It's also interesting for the same reasons Gerry is interesting; because powers pass down genetically!! Yeehaw!! I get to give them all slightly different versions of the same powers and see how it informs their relationships!

You can see here what was basically my very first version of it. How underdeveloped! It grew a lot, damn. Also some minor changes I made along the way, as for the reasons why... Well they're pretty interesting if I do say so myself, I'll talk about those later. Have fun spotting the differences if you'd like lol

Still, a few general notes so far:

I believe the only Lukases mentionned in canon are Peter, Mordechai (in the 1800's), Nathaniel (owner of their cargo company so presumably some sort of patriarch), Conrad (the guy who talked to the astronauts before shooting them into space) and Evan Lukas. To that I added Virginia, an OC but like come on we need some women represent around here. I've always interpreted Nathaniel as being Peter's uncle, so i put him there. Nathaniel should be the one in charge in my mind too, so I made him the grandfather of the main line/evan's line (because evan is sort of the main character here). I also wanted to keep peter away from the main branch because... Well i don't know. I just didn't want him to be Evan's dad I guess. Or else, you've got that specific branch of the family that gets all the spotlight and important canon characters, and everybody else kinda sucks. It's not ideal!

I originally planned on leaving Peter's branch of the family pretty blank to be honest just because I wasn't super invested into him. I thought he had a sibling and a few nephews and that was it. But then I relistened to mag159, realised he had 5 (wait, 4? Oh shit, did i fuck up. Uhhhhhh) A FEW siblings and that two of them were named, Judith and Aaron. So that was interesting!

Mostly the beginning of it was just figuring out the ages to get an idea of how they should behave and how it all fit in and how far down the line they should be, and then building around it.

Oh, yeah, and based on the few canon names we got, I tried to find names that fit in. The style was... Well. The lukases' names sound to me like they're very basic. Kinda trendy, kinda... What I thought about was "cute" actually. So i tried to keep the same vibe for the rest of my made up guys. Wee-woo. Annnnd ive been rambling again.

Oh, oh right, wait no don't leave yet there were still thing I had to talk about. Few important details I knew about at the beginning stages:

-Evan's mother is a Lukas, and she's very opinionated but kind

-I wanted Nathaniel's eldest son, the one who became Graham (no, not notebook eating graham) to have a son who resents him very much. So i did that

-Adeline! She's old as balls. And very nice. Iwant her to be my grandmawmaw

-oh, right, Mordechai 2!!! For him I thought of the power first, basically he can show you things that happened in the past without having witnessed them. It's a pretty great ability imo.

-Oh, yeah, uh, every Lukas passes down their family name no matter their gender lol.

[charlieactuallydiesforreal]

Charlie Actually Dies For Real

A Smiling Friends AU by @Scribbly07 / @ScribblyShipping

This pinned post will serve as a “hub” that’ll contain links to everything important in the blog!

Plot: This AU serves as a fun “what if” scenario, where Charlie doesn’t come back after dying. (This means that no events after the episode don’t happen, too.) During his time in Hell, he progressively becomes more demonlike, with some unfortunate reminders of his death permanently stuck with him. He runs into some familiar faces along the way, too. Hes having a pretty hard time. And, despite what he hopes, things aren’t going so great in the realm of the living either.

I’m not too sure just how I want to tell this story yet. I have a basic plot rundown from beginning to end, but I’m unsure on how to tell everything and bridge the gaps. It might just be a mix of art and rambling posts, maybe even something more fanfic like if I can muster it.

I’ve decided that people can ask questions directed at the characters as well! You wanna know what Charlie’s up to in Hell right now? Go ask him!

ASK STATUS: OPEN!

Cast:

(Click on the links to see individual references and info!)

Charlie

Pim

Other Notable Living Characters

Smormu

Grim & Gnarly 

Other Notable Demons

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Lore (in order):

As I publish more of this story, I’ll be sure to organize it here, so anyone new to the blog can pop in and catch up! There will be major plot events happening! ;]

FAQ:

This will be updated as more questions come! But I wanted to get a few out of the way first.

Where’s Zoey?

Personally, I don’t really like Zoey, and will not be including her in this AU. She’s never really brought any sort of major impact in the show, so for all intensive purposes, she never existed within this timeline.

Where’s Mr. Boss?

Similarly to Zoey, I don’t really like him. He makes me uncomfortable on a much deeper level than Zoey, though. I don’t really want to touch him at all, so he’s just sort of in the background of this.

Where's Duncan?

Some as the two above this, I don't like him. His whole bit is being fat and throwing up. Why would I even give him the time of day?

Is there Charpim?

Well… they never got the chance to really make things official, but they were always very close, together on a deeper level than friends, but never found the words to confess.

Can I draw fanart?

OMG YES PLEASE! Feel free to tag this account and/or my main if you do!

Is selfshipping okay?

I would prefer it if people who selfshipped with Charlie or Pim not interact with this blog. But, besides those two, every other character is open range. I ask that you tag this account and/or my selfship blog if you create selfship art for the au! I'd like to see it :]

Can I make an OC/Include my OC?

Yeah! Anyone can make an OC for this or do something like make a demon version of your OC. However. Unless you're a friend of mine, your character will not be considered "canon" to this AU.

Can other SF Ask Blogs interact?

I've always dreamed of interacting with other ask blogs and roleplaying so YES! I will say, though, that characters like Charlie and Pim are ones I have very Strong connections to that I may be uncomfortable responding to depending on the interpretation. Don't be upset if I never respond, it's just a weird brain thing I have!

[the-au-collector]

Ok so I've decided to do some digging to try to figure out who the other Mystery Link is. I couldn't find a full version of the LU banner but I did find screenshots from this ask that Jojo answered all the way back in 2018. Idk if she cropped the picture after that, but the banner is still the same picture, just cropped.

I decided to start with the first unconfirmed(?) Link, First, since we already know that's who it is. Idk if anyone's done this before but here is my breakdown:

Mystery Link 1 (First) pretty closely matches with the depiction of him from the Manga. The hair matches, you can see the scarf, his pauldron, his belt, his double-crossing straps. It all matches pretty perfectly, so obviously this is First. We already know that this is First.

The question is who is this guy:

He's very confusing.

So we know he has short hair, wears a strap across his chest, has this weird item on his belt, and wears a split tunic. His boots also come up to about his knees. He looks pretty tall, too. His collar is what I would describe as Legend-esque. It's very similar to Legend's collar. He shirt almost reminds me of Wild? IDK why

I'm going to immediately cross out Spirit and Age as candidates since Jojo has already confirmed they're part of Wind and Wild respectively. I also want to cross off Shadow here too. Mr. Mystery is too tall to be Shadow. I'm also quasi-crossing out Cadence of Hyrule Link since I don't think that game was released when jojo was plotting Linked Universe, but I'm not 100% sure about that so it's open I'm just not considering it for this.

So my thoughts immediately go to four other characters. My immediate thought was CDI Link. I also remembered that cartoon Link exists. And upon closer inspection, I'm not unconvinced Mr. Mystery isn't Time.

So let's go through all 3:

CDI Link

Okay he doesn't really match... at all. At the same time, I want to take this moment to take another look at Legend's design since that deviates quite a lot from his canon designs in the series (so does Four's design) so I'm not going to completely dismiss CDI Link's potential. The item on the hip especially seems to match the compasses from Zelda's adventure. But CDI Link himself...

No. His hair is long. His boots kind of match, but he isn't wearing any outward straps and those compasses are also from a game where the protagonist is Zelda not him. Mostly his hair and simplistic design is the main thing throwing me off. Especially the hair.

Likelihood: ehhh we'll go 6/10.

Cartoon Link

I'm going to be honest I forgot he existed.

Anyways he does have the low-cut neck and the short hair and the thing on his belt. But, like every Link, he has the Default Link Outfit which doesn't really say much since (like we see with Legend and Four especially) jojo will change designs to make the Links more distinct. Someone could theoretically argue she wouldn't change Cartoon much since his hair is already brown instead of blonde...

Honestly for being a Link not included in LU, I'd say he matches pretty close to Mr. Mystery. Closer than CDI anyways.

Likelihood: 7/10. Depends on how different Jojo would be willing to make his design for the comic (he could also be combined with CDI Link too, which would up it to 8/10)

But I noticed something else. Mr. Mystery's outfit and face look a little familiar...

Young Time perhaps?

They have the strap, the belt, the low-cut shirt, the short hair. Mr. Mystery's face literally lines up to Time's chin. I feel like that's significant since jojo made all the Links' face and eye shapes distinct.

The only thing I can't think of is why we would have an alternate version of Time. Maybe we'll see Downfall Time? Maybe Time is Sir Raven after all?

Idk, the more I looked at Mr. Mystery the more I realized he looked a lot like Time.

Likelihood: 4/10. It would be cool, but idk why Jojo would make 2 Times join the party.

Also something very interesting from the banner image:

Ravio's included!

[squibsterr]

I tried to come up with my own designs for Sonic parents!

Info about them in order.

Amy's Parents.

I like to think that Amy gets baking and gardening as hobbies from her parents, her mom is a baker and her dad is a gardener.

Amy probably has the best relationship with her parents out of all of these characters, but she still buts heads with them often. She loves her parents and her parents love her but they still disagree on a lot of things. Mostly about how Amy has chosen to live her life and how she presents herself.

Most of all, Emi and Adam strongly disapprove of Amy's decision to become a hero and associate herself with Sonic. They believe that by doing those things she's putting her life in danger, which is technically true. They're just worried for her, but in doing so they disregard Amy's feelings and are running their relationship with her, but they don't seem to realize it.

Tail's parents.

These designs are inspired by the Archie designs because I'm lazy ig 😭 I'm sure that if I could've muster up the motivation to color these they would look a bit more original but... Y'know :(

I went along with the popular head canon/backstory I see people use with Tail's parents in fanfics often. That they see Tail's as curse, a bad omen because of they way he was born. I would like to add on that they also fear his unnatural intelligence.

Of course Tail's was casted out by his parents and his peers and had to fend for himself until he met Sonic.

Rouge's mom.

I've always pictured Rouge with mother issues. Bella is exactly the type of trashy mother to name her child after make-up. I read a fanfic that went into Rouge's backstory and her mom was pretty awful, she was the one that encouraged her daughter's thievery and I've adopted that head canon.

Bella probably either doesn't know who Rouge's father is, that or he dipped out on them.

Bella has always been very critical of every little thing Rouge does. Rouge has grown up to hate her mother and fears that she may have grown up to be just like her.

Knuckle's parents.

Again these are HEAVILY inspired by Knuckle's mom from the Archie comics and Knuckle's Dad from the Sonic 2 movie, but that's because I was unsure on how to design an echidna clan character, so I just tweaked those versions of his parent's. I hope these designs and names I chose are okay, I was afraid of them being stereotypical names.

Mandla was very strict and harsh on Knuckles as he was growing up, he wanted him to be the strongest he could possibly be so that he can grow up to help protect the echidnas and fight for them. He trained him constantly every day and tired him to the point of major exhaustion. (Think like Endeavor from mha maybe?)

Kiana cared about Knuckle's very much and disapproved of the way Mandla treated him, but there was nothing she could do about it. She could only comfort Knuckles anytime he was exhausted or upset.

That's it for the characters I've added. If you're confused as to what I made designs for Sonic characters parent's but didn't make designs for Sonic the hedgehog's parents, it's because I headcanon him to be an orphan. It just makes the most sense to me. I think he's a kid be grew up in an orphanage but ran away to go his own way when he was ten, nobody could catch him anyway lol.

That's it ty if you read all my rambling :),

[ikamigami]

It is a doubt standard where people excuse Moon, Eclipse, Nexus, and even Ruin and Bloodmoon of their terrible behavior by pinning mental illnesses and/or personality disorders or trauma to them, but then they completely ignore that with and tear apart Lunar, Earth, and Sun especially for not acting perfectly

They accuse Earth of making everyone disown Nexus because she has thin skin when in reality Nexus betrayed her trust and broke her heart and after going through the same song and dance with her dad of course she wouldn't let another walk all over her, and Nexus had hid things from her, used her deepest vulnerabilities to hurt her in a tactical move, threatened them, ran away, and then tried to disintegrate her, and people forget she was grieving just as badly as Nexus was, she just managed to process it in a healthier way, did nobody listen to how hard she was screaming and crying when Sun told them what happened?

They accuse Lunar of abandoning Eclipse even though Eclipse verbally abused Lunar and slapped him in the face, people tend to not do this as much granted, but it is pretty damning that Eclipse literally made the perfect brother for himself, one programmed to love and be loyal to him explicitly, and yet through his own cruel behavior he made Lunar run away from him, and then the first thing Eclipse did with the Star was explode Lunar out of petty spite

They get angry at Sun for when he acts a little angry, or selfish, or jealous, even if he never actually does anything truly terrible with those emotions if he even acts on them at all, and yet they do not bat an eye when Moon murders another innocent person and shows little to no remorse over it, he certainly never grieved one of his victims like Sun did for the children of July 16th, commits arson and other acts of terror, ruins people's lives for a laugh, build unethical experiments like using Sun as a lab rat or building the first Computer with two battling AIs just like how he and Sun were tormented by their Creator's design, beats Sun over the head with a metal pole and harasses him all the time also sometimes for fun or when he's feeling angry, felt vindicated when Sun was being tortured by Eclipse and woke up to dead bodies because "welcome to my nightmare", finds it funny when Monty also does terrible things and they often enable each other, and abandoned Eclipse in Sun's head, basically doing selfish stuff all the time

They justify Bloodmoon's behavior with the killcode even though Bloodmoon refused to change and stated he didn't want to, refused every chance Sun gave both versions of him to turn things around, has a body count in the hundreds if not thousands, and once on-screen recounted to Eclipse how he dismembered the children on July 16th with glee

And they justify Ruin's annihilation of over 5000 dimensions because he had to watch his friends slowly go insane from the Creator, supposedly he looked for other answers but didn't find them, which honestly sounds like a lie, and kept saying it was the only way to stop the Creator council...Because yeah sure, trying to get rid of a hornet's nest by blowing up the whole neighborhood is a totally reasonable response, though thankfully less try to justify Ruin

Moon, Eclipse, Nexus, Ruin, and Bloodmoon can all apparently be terrible because of a mental illness/personality disorder that isn't even canon, because Davis quite literally said in his fandom address they aren't covering things like bipolar disorder and things like that, or because of trauma, and yet Lunar, Earth, and Sun can't? Despite Lunar, Sun, and Earth often manifesting their own trauma in far less destructive and selfish ways, meanwhile the others over here are abusing and murdering people but that's apparently okay? Even if they have those HCed issues, while there is more leeway there is a line to where those things can no longer justify their actions anymore and characters like Moon, Eclipse, and especially Ruin and Bloodmoon shot way past that line more than once

This fandom isn't the first to have this problem, it goes beyond liking villains and flawed characters because of course you can like those characters, but you also cannot pretend like the bad things they do didn't happen, but people will make them their blorbo and/or woobify them because the villains have a fun gimmick and/or the VAs are killing the role or some other reason, and they completely blind themselves to what the villains have actually done in favor of scrubbing away all responsibility for their wrongdoings by adding mental illness HCs and treating them as fact or making up tragic backstories that aren't actually canon, and conversely get very angry at the heroes, writers, and/or fans who don't have that bias because it doesn't align with their faves, this fandom is just one of the most toxic, vicious, stubborn, and obnoxious about it that I've personally seen because even when the show explicitly states that Moon was abusive or that Eclipse was cruel they refuse to listen

People can like villains and flawed characters, those characters are perfectly okay to exist, but people should not try to ignore and excuse their terrible behavior and the effects it has on the other characters and say their victims deserved it as if it were nothing just because they like them

You're speaking facts, dear anon 👏

I have nothing to add to this cause it's all true..

Also I know what you're talking about that fandoms tend to do what you said with villain characters way too often..

And yeah even if people were babying Lunar at first.. it quickly turned to him being hated..

I have to admit that I didn't like Lunar that much at first.. but when he returned and Lunar and Earth show started I warmed up to him..

And yeah Earth and Sun are treated the worst by fans tbh..

Probably because they both are supposed to help with comforting others etc..

But tl;dr you're absolutely right, dear anon ^^

[masquayla-the-splendid]

Here's a fnaf headcanon I've had since forever that I think might actually be canon.

Ennard is his own character, separate from being an amalgam.

This claim brings me back to pre SL, post SL teaser era where people thought Ennard was actually this puppet master character who was only a head that moved like a spider with a few skrangly wires.

I've seen many fan interpretations on what animatronic his mask was supposed to be for, but do you ever wonder why it fits his face perfectly?

Yes, I do believe that the rest of his body was just a big metal knitting session between the Funtimes. There are some parts that are obvious from what came from who.

But his face? They couldn't have put that much detail into making his head look so unique that it doesn't line up with any of theirs.

To compare, I brought up Ballora and Funtime Foxy, as I thought they had the most resemblance.

I used a more polished version of the Help Wanted model in SFM for Ennard.

Not only that, but when making these renders, I just now realized that his right eye is shoved way further back, and has a pretty bad overbite.

(It's also really obvious how Scott models here. His head is completely made of clipping errors.)

Speaking of his eyes, he has 3 eyes of the same color. Usually it's assumed that his left eye is Funtime Freddy's, but the half closed eye, and the eye dangling below that are the same color as the left one. Ennard has one eye of each of the Funtimes, so that means Funtime Freddy's is the one that's off to the side.

Yes, there can be multiple animatronics with the same eye color.

The eye on his torso is commonly mistaken to be Ballora's, but as you can see, her eyes are tiny. Who else has pink eyes? BonBon. Who doesn't have eyes in the scooping room? BonBon.

Then where are Ballora's eyes? Somewhere in the mass of wire that you can't see. He's saving them for when he gets his skin, because they're same size as human eyes.

Okay so if that was his own head, what level of consciousness or awareness does he have?

This is where the headcanons come in.

It's unknown how he "thinks," but one can only assume he works as a hive mind.

My personal headcanon is that he has his own conscious, and was probably just chillin where Funtime Chica would've been if she wasn't rented out. Either that or the Private Room. He'd be the one that controls the body, and the rest of them are just spectating. Maybe having more of a say on what limbs move that belong to them.

The SL robots seem to have their own conscious, since Baby tells her story in her perspective, but at what stage of programming awareness comes in, I have no clue. I'd guess it would have to be at the head?? Depends on where the main computer is?

(On a side note, they must have a lot of know-how on robo physiology, because they were able to wire up their individual abilities, like the voice mimicking, to a separate body without flaw. I mean it ain't like the Funko toys that snap on, they had to like actually tie things together. How did they do that without soldering anything? Were the Funtimes programmed to be able to fix themselves, or did they have the bidybabs/minireenas snoop through all the drawers to find the blueprints for each of them?)

Then what does the "there's a little of me in every body" mean?

Could be teasing the real ending, but "every" implies multiple. Maybe there's was more done to him than just a head, and had to get dismantled for the Funtimes. I've seen that theory tossed around a few times.

HEY HEY THE BOOKS.

I can't remember which book it was, one of the Fazbear Frights I'm sure, but it described a Clown-like animatronic that has a green/yellow color scheme. He wasn't a whole robot though, he was attached to a separate attraction, and had spring for a body from the chest down. I think he had hair. I'm pretty sure it's name was like Coils or something. I thought it was Coily at first, but that's the snake from Qbert.

Edit: In Ultimate Custom Night, Scott only uses "he" when referring to Ennard. There is a completely valid reason for the use of "they" or all pronouns, considering he is literally multiple robots. Now if you're a new age Scott hater, you may chalk it up to generalizing him as whatever phobic, but this is the same guy who uses "he" AND "she" for Mangle. (Not to mention designs "boy" animatronics with blush/lisstick in 2015) Why would "He" be the only pronoun? Because it's his head. Wherever his main computer is, it's somewhere up there. This would mean that all unpossesed animatronics have their "conscious" wired to a motherboard somewhere in they noggin. They're just a piece of plastic with transistors and diodes melted to it at their core.

So you can't just attach Chica's arm to Bonnie, and have Chica control everything he does. You'd have to swap their heads. But when you got remnant infused metal, it's a bit different. Hence, Ballora would have a say in moving the arms, because they're hers.

Anyway that's my rare fnaf rambling.

[tozettastone]

5/the soulmate phenomenon (is ruining my life)? mostly just curious about the path the fic would have taken! ❤️

Number 5 is "#5 is a free space in which your gentle readers can ask you about whether or not you're going to update this fic and/or what was going to happen before you put it down to go lie down in perpetuity. (They have 24 hours. Let's not go crazy.)"

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This ask is talking about this fic.

I've worked on that one in the course of the past year at least and I do actually have hopes of updating it one day. Anyone who is a longtime reader of my fics knows I took seven years to finish one fic and ten years to finish another... so it would not be wise to assume it's abandoned. xD

But, okay, here's the summary version. This is a dot point explanation of where the fic goes from where it left off.

This contains literally all of the spoilers for the whole fic. :)

Read beneath the cut at your own risk, etc.

Having defeated Ino, Sakura draws Sasuke for her first fight in the final of the chuunin exams. Kakashi sets Naruto up with Ebisu to work on his basics, elects to train Sasuke himself and tells Sakura that she can make inroads on her conditioning over the course of a month if she's smart. He gets Gai-sensei to look in on her every few days, but it's faaairly obvious nobody thinks a genin who won her preliminary on the strength of her genjutsu is going to beat Sasuke. Sakura knows this is practical but it feels cruel.

Her mother doesn't really notice the exams. She doesn't bring it up.

While Naruto is off training with Jiraiya instead of Ebisu, Sakura is bonding with Orochimaru, her soulmate. He drifts by her second storey window ever day or so like a miasma and comes in to see her in the evenings. He does her hair and tells her how pretty she'll be when she grows into her face. He brings her little trinkets (he starts with an ornamental comb but quickly moves on to rare poisons and old scrolls). He tells her she's so clever, it's little wonder she's all his.

Orochimaru seems very glamorous and competent and beautiful and he is absurdly gentle with her. He is already a magnet for wayward kids and teenagers, and this effect is amplified with his soulmate. Sakura occasionally wonders what he's doing in Konoha but she struggles to think clearly because of the whole soulmate phenomenon.

This cuts both ways, though. Orochimaru risks kind of a lot to keep coming to the same location in a village full of ninja just to see his soulmate every day. He helps her come up with a genjutsu that has no visual component, which can therefore¹ affect Sasuke without being vulnerable to the sharingan.

In the final tournament, Sasuke tries to get Sakura to give up by being absurdly mean to her at the beginning of their fight. Sakura would previously have wilted and not even tried to fight him, but she has a secret weapon, and it's imagining that Orochimaru expended all his time and expertise on plain little her and realising she straight-up cannot handle the humiliation and shame of giving up. She would prefer that Sasuke stab her than that she disappoint her soulmate, actually.

She does not beat Sasuke in the chuunin exam. Nobody is surprised that she loses, but they're extremely surprised by the amount of trouble she gives him first.

Gaara's first fight isn't with Sasuke, it's with Naruto. Naruto is also his soulmate (hinted at in an earlier chapter!) which makes his complete meltdown more severe. He freaks out totally and Orochimaru (disguised as the Kazekage) gives the signal to invade early because of it.

The Hiruzen-Orochimaru fight goes very similarly to how it does in canon, but, after Hiruzen seals his arms and dies, Sakura uses her genjutsu skills to try to help cover Orochimaru's retreat. He takes advantage of this and fucks right off, although I'm sure he feels real bad about it. His bad feelings aren't much comfort to Sakura in prison.

She's taken into custody. She has one conversation with a baffled Inoichi, but she's very low risk, so she's left in remand to cool her heels while sixty other invasion-related problems take precedence. She tries to write to Orochimaru, and she tries doing it with blood, but he can't answer. Hiruzen sealed up his arms. It occurs to Sakura that she's mega fucked it up, but she's kind of insulated from the scope of how much trouble she's in because her bond makes her feel like it was very righteous and everyone here is against her, rather than like she's done something awful herself.

Orochimaru has no arms but he and Kabuto can raise a boatload of cash at need. He goes on his canonical search for Tsunade, but he also sends a message to someone he knows who'll do pretty much anything if there's enough money involved. You may see where this is going!

Sakura knows nothing of this. She's alone, disregarded, and waiting in prison while people ignore her to try to fix the massive infrastructural damage of an attempted invasion. She's the POV character so we get a few conversations with Inoichi, Kakashi, and Naruto, and we don't hear anything about Orochimaru from her until Kakuzu, Itachi and Hidan show up to break her out. (Kakuzu and Hidan are there for her. Itachi travels with them to be a menace on behalf of his brother, as in canon; they are his companions and not Kisame just because all three are travelling to Leaf.)

This is when Sakura learns that her soulmate hasn't forgotten about her: he's hired these absolutely bonkers missing-nin. Itachi and Hidan are a massive distraction while Kakuzu kicks down the doors and tosses her over his shoulder. They hoof it out of the village. As you do. Itachi splits from them at one point, but it's unclear if he's off on his canonical confrontation with Naruto, Sasuke and Jiraiya.

IDK if I was ever going to manage to make this actual text, but: Hidan says he has no need for an earthly thing like a soulmate, but when he uses his One Weird Trick, Jashin writes on his body in huge, hostile characters, and who pretty much only writes in synonyms of suffering. Does he have a soulmate? You decide.

Sakura is cut loose, a freshly made missing-nin, out in River somewhere. She asks Kakuzu what she's meant to do and he says he wasn't paid to tell her anything. Thanks, Kakuzu. He and Hidan continue on their dysfunctional way.

Sakura has a steep learning curve where she does odd jobs as a missing-nin for months and months in a kind of existential limbo. Eventually she receives a job that is to kill a guy she feels is a very, very bad person and she realises that assassinations pay really well, can feel really good, and are really easy for a genjutsu type. Other things that are really easy for her: spying, stealing information. Unlike in canon, she never learns her taijutsu, medical or crazy strength skills, so she sucks at 1:1 fair combat and ends up doing way more traditional "kunoichi" work.

This is her life now.

Orochimaru does not write for ages. He has no arms. The Tsunade thing backfires (as you know).

She's a couple years older and injured badly in Moon Country, where she was off assassinating a useless prince who doesn't regard his own people at all, the first time he finally writes again.

It's to tell her he's been keeping tabs and she's doing wonderfully. He's recovered. He has a new body. He's looking forward to seeing her.

Sakura comes back to the mainland to recover, and takes up temporary work doing information exchange and bounty drops (she doesn't have the sprawling highly resourced network of a village behind her anymore—she can't just get a room somewhere and lie down for two months) in a dingy bar/teahouse, where she gets to practice her customer service skills with a twitching murderous smile every night. How fun.

While she's been gone, Akatsuki has run amok. Changes to canon events for the curious: Sasori and Deidara killed Gaara, and Sasori killed Chiyo and Shikamaru, whose shadows weren't capable of stopping everything Sasori threw at him all at once. He also killed Kankuro with his poison. This all has flow-on effects, like how Hidan and Kakuzu are still alive. A lot more Leaf-nin are dead.

She sees Kakuzu in the bar/teahouse. He comes to drop off a body. It's Asuma's. He does not buy a drink, and he rudely counts his cash at the bar. This man has no manners.

The story ends when she's finally reunited with Orochimaru. He comes to visit her at the bar (he does buy a drink).

He's using Sasuke's body, which is all his now.

I find the sharingan kind of broken and I like to headcanon that you could get around the "makes an entire branch of skills irrelevant" issue by having good enough chakra control and being really creative with non-visual genjutsu. It's not a perfect solution because humans are extremely visual creatures, but it's better than just going "oh well, guess I'll die then." (I also want to slide this idea into my OC: Red 'verse eventually.)

[go-to-the-mirror]

Hello, @a-mag-a-day. Apologies for the deception but I rather wanted to make sure you started reading, so I thought it best not to announce myself. I'm assuming you're alone; you always did prefer to read your statements in private. I wouldn't try too hard to stop reading; there's every likelihood you'll just hurt yourself. So just listen. Now, shall we turn the page and try again?

Statement of landscaping-your-mind regarding episode 160 of The Magnus Archives.

Statement begins.

So, from all the stuff I scheduled for today you can probably tell I really like episode 160 of The Magnus Archives, right? Like, good lord, it is... it is a time. (Also, the words were really good (and also there's poetry) so :D incentive!)

Firstly, though, I have to say something. It's not the Watcher's Crown. The Watcher's Crown is the ritual Jonah Magnus attempted years ago. This is unnamed in canon, but Jonny said it could've been called The Magnus Archives.

Secondly... I would like to draw your attention towards the description of the youtube version of this episode. (to paraphrase)

The Magnus Archive discovers that some escapes are a lot easier than others.

Ahahahahaha AHAHAHAAHAHAH WHAT-

I hate this so much. Like, with a burning passion. "The Magnus Archives discovers that some escapes are a lot easier than others" COME TO MY HOME AND KILL ME YOU COWARD! It just hurts, it just... hurts.

He can escape London, but he can't escape his ✨ purpose ✨

You ever think about how The Magnus Archives follows the story of Magnus' Archive? I do. A lot. I haven't even started listening yet, god, this episode am I right?

MARTIN (Joking) Or, (huffed laugh) or it is, and she just cleaned it up really well. (They both make uncomfortable chuckles) ARCHIVIST …Yes. (The Archivist makes an uneasy noise)

THEYRE BOTH SO AWKWARD THEY HAVEN'T TALKED TO A NORMAL HUMAN IN OVER A YEAR

Just their really awkward laughter, oh my godd they're so endearing your honour, I'm so glad this episode and TMA ends at the 5 minute mark (< in denial)

ARCHIVIST Hopefully a long way out there. (soft) But I think we’re okay

THEY ARE IN LOVE YOUR HONOUR

I just love how soft Jon's voice gets around Martin, like, like, eeeee i just love them i love them they're the reason im aro bc i know i will never love someone romantically as much as jmart loves each other /j

MARTIN Oh, n-no, not yet. I was actually gonna head down into the village to go pick something up?

Ooooh yay I get to share my "where are they in scotland" headcanons! I think they're near Dunnet, because it's pretty far north and in the Highland area, and it's also got allegedly the only full time gunshop north of Inverness, and... yknow, it is Daisy's safehouse.

ARCHIVIST Anyway, don’t tell me the phonebox down there doesn’t appeal to your retro aesthetic.

your honour they're lightheartedly teasing each other <3

ARCHIVIST I’ll be fine.

SOFT!

(update im wrtinging with a cat on my lap now hes big. im balancing my computer on my leg.)

MARTIN I assume it’s her attempt at a- a, a varied diet? Eating your greens, you know? ARCHIVIST (Amused) Probably. (reassured) I’m sure it’ll work fine

hhh them <3 it's just like they're so... they're happy. they're so happy, and it's like nothing gold will stay or whatever

they had such a short amount of time

i wish they were ok

MARTIN …I will give you some privacy. Go for a walk. ARCHIVIST (Warmly) Let me know if you see any good cows. MARTIN Obviously I’m going to tell you if I see any good cows.

I'm...

them being happy is almost worse, right. because what once was a surprise we now know will happen, we have to deal with the dread, and it's all bitter now, the happiness is rotten because of what lurks after.

some people can listen to the first five minutes and feel okay, but me?

for me it just hurts.

ARCHIVIST (CONT’D) (Pleasantly) Statement of Hazel Rutter regarding a fire in her childhood home. Original statement given August 9th, 1992. Audio recording by Jonathan Sims, The Archivist. Statement begins.

He sounded so happy... he sounded so happy.

This is the first time he's happy before he reads a statement. He was happy, he was hiding from the police and the hunters and Daisy and Not!Sasha with his boyfriend in Scotland. And then, and then Jonah Magnus comes in and decides to end the world like a bastard.

I don't want to hit play. I don't want to know what comes next. I want to stop listening. I want Jon and Martin to be okay. I want it to be the real statement of Hazel Rutter.

I just want it to be the real statement of Hazel Rutter.

I get it, right, horror tragedy! This was the desired effect. I am supposed to be feeling these emotions. These emotions being very sad. Well done to Jonny, lovely writing. Fantastic! I love TMA with my whole heart. I think that it's fantastic. I don't want to hit play though. I'm here for the characters suffering, I got in through The Hermit Archives, I wanted more of the horror! I am here for suffering! I'm here for the suffering. I'm hitting play.

Statement of Jonah Magnus regarding Jonathan Sims, The Archivist. Statement begins.

He could have just ended the world. Like, the whole... forcing Jon to monologue about all the times he was manipulated into furthering Jonah's plan? That's fucked. That is fucked. Just put the ritual there you slimy piece of shit!

It’s rare that you get the chance to monologue through the voice of another, and you can’t tell me you’re not curious.

*me to my dog, in the "talking to a dog" voice* You wanna kill him too! Hey! You wanna kill him too!

Like, okay, so you're Jon and you're reading this statement and you can't stop, and this bastard says "you can't tell me you're not curious." Tell me that's not going to make him think that if he tried a little harder then he would've been able to stop reading. Tell me that's not going to make him think that a part of him wanted to end the world, and that's why he's still reading. Tell me that's not going to make him blame himself even more.

The only way to ensure I did not suffer the tribulations of what I believed to be an inevitable transformation was to bring it about myself.

He's so bloody arrogant. He puts himself above the entire world. It makes sense, he's from Regency era England, but like, it's still... really awful. Awful person.

Beyond that, I was getting older, and mortality began to weigh more heavily on my mind. How much in this world is done because we fear death, the last and greatest terror?

When I fear death I distract myself, not try to end the world. Like, this guy is just so evil. His only redeeming quality is being funny sometimes.

Everyone dies, Jack Magnet, you just chose to be a bastard about it.

Of course, I had to make sure the location was kept under my control while I worked on revising my plans, and so I moved the organization I had founded to assist in my research down to London, and the Institute as you know it, was born.

Right, so The Magnus Protocol's Magnus Institute was located in Manchester, and I'm not an expert on the geography of the United Kingdom, and basically know nothing about Manchester, bar that it has the... football, I want to say, team Manchester United? I don't know how I know that. But it seems as though Jonah Magnus didn't attempt his ritual, or attempted it some other way in that universe.

You see, the role of Archivist has been part of the Beholding for as far back as my research can go. This isn’t uncommon for the Powers; most of the beliefs around them are guesswork and fallible human interpretation, but there are certain through lines and consistencies that can be spotted, regardless of the trappings.

I wonder what the others are. The Dancer could be one - The Dancer in The Unknowing. I think Jonny said in a QnA, but you know, the author is dead, he's speaking to us posthumously, that The Architect could have been one. Not sure what others. If y'all have any ideas... 👀

More than once I thought she must secretly be of the Hunt; but there was never that sick joy in her, that thrill of predator and prey. She had simply decided that this was her position in life, and went about it with a practicality that even I found disconcerting at times.

Ok, Mr. Jonah "orchestrates twelve traumatising events for this one guy and gets him to end the world" Magnus. He cannot talk, he cannot talk at all. Sure, she sacrificed people, but she wasn't malicious. She did it for a cause. Did she believe she was good? I'm not sure she cared.

Jonah Magnus is just awful for his own self gain.

You see, the thing about the Fears is that they can never be truly separated from each other. When does the fear of sudden violence transition into the panic of hunted prey? When does the mask of the Stranger become the deception of the Spiral? Even those that seem to exist in direct opposition rely on each other for their definition as much as up relies on down. To try and create a world with only the Buried makes as much sense as trying to conceive a world with only down.

Gerry's colour explanation makes a lot of sense if you don't conceive of it as a traditional colour wheel. They're growing out in every direction, they all overlap with each other.

Sure, the fear of The Eye may seem in direct opposition to the fear of The Stranger, but let's take Jon, for instance. Is it not sort of Stranger to have some guy in a coffee shop staring at you with his autistic eyes, a person you don't know, but who definitely knows you?

What about the fear of The Buried and the fear of The Vast. Episode 195 covers that pretty handily. They're all interconnected with all of the others. Separating them makes them easier to understand (and invertedly makes them actually separated), but it isn't them, not truly. They are connected intrinsically.

Even the coffin! The fear of being alone in the dark is a part of the coffin.

Because the thing about the Archivist is that, well, it’s a bit of a misnomer. It might, perhaps, be better named: The Archive. Because you do not administer and preserve the records of fear, Jon. You are a record of fear, both in mind as you walk the shuddering dread of each statement, and in body as the Powers each leave their mark upon you. You are a living chronicle of terror.

I've been doing a lot of thinking about this. The Archivist is something... defined by how they feed their patron, but The Archive is defined by how they've been hurt to bring it into the world. He's not defined by even a person-like role, he's something molded by Jonah Magnus' desires to end the world.

I wrote a little poem about it, which I shall share here, because I am cringe but I am free, unlike Jon. RIP

He's not a person with a name, He's a vessel of destruction, He's not a person who feels pain, It's necessary for production, That he's scarred and marked, By things that lurk in the dark, Believe himself useless, Or it'll be fruitless, And at the end of the day, He's no person, no name, He's a plan that has come to fruition.

Also, he calls himself The Archivist, perhaps viewing himself as... something that hurts others, rather than something that is hurt for a purpose.

I’ll admit, my options were somewhat limited, but my god, when you came to me already marked by the Web, I knew it had to be you. I even held out some small hope you had been sent by the Spider as a sort of implicit blessing on my whole project and, do you know what, I think it was.

"I chose you" "I'll admit, my options were somewhat limited" Mr. Magnet, he was chosen by the web. Jonah's just not afraid to be puppeted.

So, when Jane Prentiss attacked, I watched eagerly, one hand on the gas release from the start.

This line fucked me up. "One hand on the gas release from the start." Just... like it just sticks in my mind. How he held all their lives in the palm of his hand, how he let Sasha die, and Tim get eaten by worms, because he wanted his bloody perfect Archive.

One hand on the gas release from the start, while all of them almost - or did - die(d).

Like, what gets me is how fucked up Jon was afterwards, how he was asking everyone for their statements, shutting them up before they got to the part where they'd mention Jon and Tim getting eaten with worms. What gets me is how Elias was there and Jon was what, looked like a bloody mummy! He didn't have second thoughts when he saw...

He knew everything. He saw everything. He saw how fucked up Jon was over e v e r y t h i n g. (everything)

That's what gets me.

Between the stabbing and at least two desperate flights into its door, you’re marked very deep by the Spiral.

And, you know, the manipulation, the gaslighting, the betrayal. I saw an interesting post on this, but I can't seem to find it. I'll look in the posts I've rbed tagged TMA meta, I'll link it in a reblog if I find it.

Honestly, I had nothing to do with Melanie and her Slaughter adventure, but when I saw the situation, I made sure to trap her here, so whenever her rage bubbled over you were right there, a ready target.

You know after Jon's second kidnapping that could have totally been resolved how Jonah made Jon stand in front of Melanie while she wanted to kill Jonah with a knife, and how it's like oh, right, yeah, use Jon as a bloody meat shield to get her angry at him, make him the scapegoat, that was intentional. It was intentional to destroy everyone in the Archives' interpersonal relationships, and then have Jon. A ready target for hatred and vitriol.

How is Martin, by the way? He looks well. You will keep an eye on him when all this is over, won’t you? He’s earned that.

I think that Jonah Magnus should eat shit and die.

The power of the Ceaseless Watcher flows through you, and the time of our victory is here.

If you replace the Ceaseless Watcher with Determination then it reads like an Undertale save.

* The power of Determination flows through you, and the time of our victory is here.

Don’t worry, Jon. You’ll get used to it here, in the world that we have made.

This also ties in with the above, I hate that he says "our victory" "the world that we have made." Jon didn't consent to this, Jon didn't want this, Jon was made to be an unwilling conduit of the apocolypse and Jonah Magnus is insinuating that he chose it, the victim blaming little prick!

You who watch and know and understand none. You who listen and hear and will not comprehend. You who wait and wait and drink in all that is not yours by right. Come to us in your wholeness. Come to us in your perfection. Bring all that is fear and all that is terror and all that is the awful dread that crawls and chokes and blinds and falls and twists and leaves and hides and weaves and burns and hunts and rips and bleeds and dies! Come to us. I OPEN THE DOOR!

GREAT INCANTATION! 10/10! And it's actually recitable, unlike the TBI one.

ARCHIVIST Look at the sky, Martin. Look at the sky. It’s looking back.

That is a fucking fantastic final line of the episode. All of it, four seasons leading up to this moment. Look at the sky. It's looking back.

Fuck dude!

(The Archivist begins a fractured, delirious, humourless, laugh that does not end)

That laugh.

That laugh is just... haunting. I love it so much. It makes me want to cry. I used to have it saved on my phone and I'd just listen to it over and over and over again and get more and more disturbed and heartbroken.

That laugh. That broken, horrific laugh.

I can't get over it.

And thus ends season 4 of The Magnus Archives. With a broken laugh in front of a window, leading out to the doomed world.

Episode 160 is quite possibly my favourite metaplot episode of The Magnus Archives, the way the whole plan was revealed, the awful manipulations that were exposed... that laugh.

I leave you all to think on this. To think on the Archive née the Archivist née Jonathan Sims, laughing at the world he has unwillingly and unwittingly doomed.

Goodnight, a-mag-a-day, goodnight. /ref

[spinningerster]

I found the script for Newsies Jr online and need to share the changes bc there's a lot, this won't be absolutely everything, just the big/main changes that I noticed, this will be all over the place but anyways, enjoy

DISCLAIMER: I am in no way making fun of Newsies Jr, it's great that community theatres/schools etc. who might not have the means to put on the full show are still able to put on a production of Newsies, this is purely for entertainment/intrigue purposes

the show starts with the newsies shouting different headlines and selling papes to the audience (which is also how uksies starts so that's fun)

there are a lot of line changes (so I won't cover every single one), which is understandable but very jarring to someone like me who knows the script off by heart. this is obvious straight away as they pretty much changed crutchie's first line (sidenote non binary crutchie we love to see it so I will be using they/them pronouns below for the character)

newsies jr makes it canon that crutchie's bad leg is due to polio

for some reason crutchie is named casey (correct me if I'm wrong but pretty sure we've made it canon that their name is charlie so weird change but oh well)

manhattan girlsies!! (nancy, pigtails, hazel + muriel)

they cut the back and forth between race and weasel, but kept his interaction with albert which is a bit strange

race doesn't have a cigar

there is like no romance between jack and katherine, honestly they might as well have just replaced her with denton from 92sies

no idea why but for some reason crutchie is in the street scene before they go to meddas for the first time, and the scene in the theatre, whilst I do like them being given some more stage time, don't really understand why they're in these two scenes bc it doesn't really add anything

the bowery beauties are the bowery brigade (their names are ethel, ada & olive)

that's rich has been replaced by a new song called just a pretty face, never planned on you/don't come a-knockin' has been cut

they cut something to believe in and watch what happens reprise

yes, no poor guys head is spinning

they also cut woild is yer erster

letter from the refuge is moved to just after santa fe, which ngl I kinda prefer

some lines have been moved into different scenes, like the 'you've got real talent' bit that katherine says to jack has been moved to what is supposed to be the wwhr scene

also for some reason, the bit where jack is like 'you got a name?' is in the scene that's supposed to be at jacobi's where katherine is trying to convince them to let her cover the strike, BUT the scene between her and jack in medda's theatre was pretty much completely rewritten and she introduced herself there (aka jack kelly is not a good listener confirmed)

okay this bit really confused me, so they added a new character named dorothy who is the daughter of the guy who owns the trib, but they kept bill, and darcy (who in this version is katherine's photographer, but could still be kept as the son of the guy who owns the trib like he is in the broadway/tour/uk versions)

so thats all I could think of for now, will add if/when I remember more :)

[eerna]

I love Danielle Gilligan as much as the next person, but after reading that article you linked I’m once again pretty pissed off they didn’t hire a plus sized actress for the role. I was pissed when the casting was announced but I wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt. But after everything is laid out on the table, with Jesper being given lighter skin as well as his portrayal as a bisexual man, and Kaz not being played by an disabled actor, and the erasure of Inej’s trauma it really shows they don’t actually give a shit about representing the canon characters. Everything that article points out really hits home and like the cast seems so cool and nice but there’s so many things fundamentally wrong with the adaptation that it’s really not enough anymore. The show needs the “out of character tag” because Jesus Christ they’re such watered down versions of the book it’s pretty insulting as a reader. Anyways thank you for answering asks about this stuff because it’s nice to see people looking at it with a critical eye instead of “Freddy Carter hot”

Okay a disclaimer: I think the article is wrong on quite a few accounts, and casting Danielle is one of them. Leigh Bardugo said she never specified Nina's size beyond "fat" because she wanted all large girls to relate to her, which means saying "Nina is canonically stated as plus-sized and can only be played by a plus-sized actress" is wrong. Also, calling s1 Danielle "skinny" simply because she isn't plus-sized is shitty and reductive of body diversity. At the moment of her casting, Danielle WAS accurate for Nina, because she was fat (on the smaller end of fat, but absolutely NOT skinny or medium). Danielle has gone on record to explain how badly it hurt to be rejected for her size in the industry, and then finally land a role only to have fans claim her body is wrong once again, and I am totally convinced that's a part of why she lost so much weight in the past 3 years. Kaz' casting is the same: Kaz gets up to so much inappropriate things that he says his disability got way worse after the events of the books, and putting a disabled actor through long filming days of an action show just doesn't sound viable to me. CGI and body doubles for every other scene aren't cheap, and also mean the character will NOT be played by the disabled actor most of the time, so we're back to square 1. Yes, disabled characters can be played by disabled actors, but maybe Kaz Brekker is not the best example of that. Jesper's casting, however, is absolutely unacceptable (especially when you take into account that Netflix does this all the time) and I still can't believe people just forgot about it. Same for Inej. I liked the paragraph in the article that pointed out how the show is only interested in scoring as many diversity points as possible, as quickly as possible, without making sure their tokens are treated as well written characters. It explained so well why Wesper was written the way it was. Ugh. Tokenism.

And no problem ahah, I totally get that people need to vent and finding fellow SaB haters is difficult. Maybe my freedom of thought is caused by the fact that Freddy Carter isn't hot to me. Guess we'll never know

[shadowstarkanada]

My thoughts on Verner Vogel

...and why he is M! Heh. I know I didn't do it justice because I couldn't come up with a way to do it. And that means it is rattling around in my brain still. Sherlock couldn't figure it out, and I don't think Mycroft had the pieces. All my evidence is circumstantial, but... I'll just have to lay it out as I see it! This is a nice, long, rambling post. Also includes spoilers for CO if you haven't finished it, so go play it! Love it! It's an awesome game, and maybe I am meta'ing to fix the bits I don't like!

Every conclusion Sherlock makes in CO is "right" but it's the old "if everyone's super, no one is." No conclusion Sherlock Holmes makes in this game should be taken as correct. Which means we shouldn't take his solutions or lack thereof as evidence. Verner's just a creep, thinks Sherlock, but we needn't.

Sherlock's.... pretty shit at deductions in CO? Like, he's really trying and all, but there are suspects he doesn't bother investigating. Verner's identity as Richter's brother is pretty clear as soon as you learn Otto has one, but Sherlock doesn't suspect it. At all. Not one little bit, not until the end of the game. Was that supposed to be a surprise, CO? Am I too genre savvy for my own good? Well... maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, but they added no red herrings and it was obvious. Sometimes, though, when something is really obvious, it's because it's hiding something that's less obvious.

Also, there are a few cases where Sherlock simply ignores evidence that doesn't suit him. We have no chance to investigate the woman in the first section, though we can at least put that to the narrative structure required it, but we also have no chance to investigate Imogen in the Gilded Cage. The name of the case suggests Imogen. The structure of the case suggests Imogen. Jon's weird sidequest suggests Imogen. And yet, we cannot investigate anything related to her. Sherlock has discarded her as a suspect before we get a chance. She's innocent. We don't rule her in or out. Just like that strangely attractive painter that Jon keeps saying we should be nice to. Verner even lampshades it, with saying Sherlock's choices on who and what to investigate impact the outcomes. Damn, Verner.

Frogwares has pulled from many incarnations of Sherlock Holmes. In various games, he has different affinities to different versions: sometimes he's been Granada, sometimes he's been Sherlock, and I think he was once reminiscent of RDJ Holmes. As far as I can tell, they have a deep understanding of Sherlock... hmm... extended canon? Now then, modern Moriarty's diverge from the mathematician and typically lean on genius manipulator, which they seem to have done here. In light of that... Elementary's Moriarty is a painter. In particular, the first thing she says to Sherlock is "Oh! You're beautiful." And the last thing that Verner says, in his weird, creepy way, that references absolutely nothing in the actual game, is "You're so beautiful." What. Is. Up. With. That? I mean, the line. Referenced. Nothing. In the game. And the mental illness picture he gave Sherry? Stunning, yes, thought provoking, perhaps, but beautiful...? Not so much. Verner's also as creepy as Sherlock's Moriarty, if I do say so myself. And he looks like Moriarty the Patriot now that I think about it. I mean, okay, fair, also not evidence, but...

Moriarty is staying at the Palazzo when Sherry and Jon get there. He's even left a note on a table. He's upstairs somewhere while Sherlock is eating caviar and looking for the owners of canes or whatever. There is exactly one person who comes down the stairs: Verner Vogel. Sure, that's not a smoking gun, but it is an interesting coincidence.

M is established in the game as someone who does not contact people directly. He works through intermediaries. Now, Verner, he does talk to Sherlock, but then, when he doesn't get Sherlock's attention... Verner sends some dude to Sherlock's place and gives him a puzzle to get him to come visit. *side. eye.*

M tells Sherlock that he is watching him, and that he wonders what would happen if he pushes Sherlock's. What is it that Verner's doing through this whole game?

Verner happens to have blackmail material in his creepy dungeon that "oh, the original artist wouldn't sell." And only, y'know, select people get to go to the basement, because that's definitely what an art gallery is like.

Supposedly the blackmail was painted by Mercurio, except Sherry never gets to talk to him. He's delayed because Verner doesn't know where the artist is, and by the time Sherry gets there... he's dead.

By the way, that picture of the rapist was painted by someone at a creepy sex party where Cordona's elite were hanging out. The rapist claims he was drugged. Right, right, Mercurio.

Wait. Verner's a painter at a creepy sex party offering Sherry drugs, talking like he owns the entire island. Who owned that blackmail again...? Oh, Mercurio, the dead guy we never talked to! Right!

Creepy sex party is creepy, but who tries to get their new friend (frenemy? what even is Sherlock to Verner, I'm not sure, plaything seems most appropriate tbh) to do some sex and drugs if they've really brought them here to investigate a murder on the DL?

Sherlock: You must be disappointed the orgy didn't happen. Verner: No, no, I enjoy a spot of murder, Sherlock. Me: Dude. Dude. Verner: Oh, by the way, the evening was supposed to end with me simulating murder in much the same way this dead guy was murdered. Me: Okay then.

None of this is proof, of course. It's a game, and I can only investigate within the context of the game. Just as I must go around Imogen's guilt or innocence and try to infer whether she was involved or not, I cannot investigate Verner and must run it all around in circles. But...

Here is a man who is always in the right place at the right time, is manipulating Sherlock, is somehow on the sidelines of a blackmail plot, finds murder to be entertaining... in a place where M is, where M is watching, taking the same actions that M is threatening. In a game where Sherlock does not investigate what he's not interested in, where every truth is a lie... how can I not see the patterns in the static?

I admit that I am Sherlock Holmes with a cactus needle and no access to Barnes.

[marquisedegramont]

Hiiiiii! Okay, so you asked me about hoplesslydevoted but I want to hear your version. How'd they meet? Who caught feelings first? What makes them such a good match? That kind of thing. Thank you for writing! 💖

(Also if people send me enough asks and prompts about these two, I'll make a masterlist like I did for John and Santino. I could see myself writing a lot more about them. No pressure tho!)

YAYYYY HOPELESSLYDEVOTED :3 all of these are headcanons ^_^ ackkk sorry for the late response i had to make sure all my thoughts were coherent </3

How did they meet?

Before Vincent was Autem Imperator he was an associate of the Table, particularly under Gianna/The Camorra. He was close to Gianna specifically and being an associate of the Table meant also being a target due to you know, association. So you know, Gianna got him a bodyguard which was Chidi who previously worked under her! Yayy Gianna out favorite wingwoman ^_^. Admittedly, Vincent didn’t like the idea of a bodyguard because he was still pretty immature in his college years and well, he felt like Gianna was a little too concerned over him which Vincent didn’t like. But still, Vincent was a social butterfly and confided a lot in Chidi and always talked to him since Chidi was practically almost always there for him. I’ve always thought of them as the yapper + listener duo and it’s honestly canon. Chidi did talk, but most of the time he lets Vincent talk and he just listens.

Who caught feelings first?

I always thought it’d be funny to headcanon Chidi as a dense guy, like he’s just doing his job while Vincent is banging on the walls and kicking the air every night in his bedroom cringing at the fact his flirting seemed to go over Chidi’s head. But you know, the universe still makes it’s way!! It took a lot of time for Vincent to actually get over his own ego from not being asked out and he made his feelings be known to Chidi. Although it did take time for Chidi to fully grasp the fact Vincent liked him in another way that wasn’t just being appreciative. And then Chidi started catching feelings and it was like Vincent started to see clarity. And then they started to FU-

What makes them such a good match?

Introvert + extrovert, listener + talker, undying loyalty and devotion that borderlines worship, and they’re both evil. They’re both cocky, and arrogant, and they’re fucking great at it!!

Other stuff ( Headcanons / sfw + nsfw for fun )

- Vincent has a cat named Lacey that likes to torment Chidi

- ^ It’s okay, she’s their daughter

- Most of the time, Chidi has to talk Vincent out of doing impulsive stuff</3

- And other times Vincent talks for Chidi!

- When Vincent goes to his other estates, he will specifically tell the housekeepers not to give Chidi a room because he wants him close. By that I mean, he wants Chidi in his bed only

- Chidi knows how to cook, Vincent knows how to bake. Unfortunately all Vincent does in the kitchen is sit there and look pretty

- Vincent gets easily jealous whenever Chidi talks to someone else in a positive tone

- Vincent insists on doing Chidi’s tie for him, and they end up having the same knots

Sexy time ^_^

- They’re constantly switching roles but Vincent is a power bottom most of the time because he likes to be of service to his exhausted bodyguard

- Vincent likes being manhandled, who wouldn’t

- Both are possessive of each other!!

- ^ They like to leave marks on each other, mostly Vincent who likes to put scratches on Chidi

- They’re both freaks. They both get hard at the thought of each other with blood on, or stabbing someone

- Chidi goes feral when Vincent refers to him as his

- Vincent has a fascination with pain and likes either administering it or taking it

- ^ He chokes Chidi sometimes (his weak ass can’t really do much)

- Vincent is loud, and the housekeepers in his estate have to just walk past that room (crack fic idea perchance)

- Chidi can manhandle Vincent easily

- ^ Vincent likes it ofc ofc

[davekat-sucks]

As much as the postcanon kids are cool in design, I doubt people whenever anyone says “my favorite postcanon character is this kid” because in the epilogues Vrissy was basically a traumadump for Vriska to star her new character arc of escaping the fake and gay candy timeline while Tavros main feature was being timid and nervous, a flanderized version of Tavros Nitram. Harry had like 3 lines of dialigue through the whole story.

Now the sequel, Homestuck^2

The kids have actual dialogue and focus in different updates, Harry is the naïve but well mannered theatre kid with a crush on Vrissy, Tavros and Vrissy are hate dating, and Vrissy is generally a scene kid, and Tavros is the rich child who’s entire status is being a ransom bargain against Jane Crocker to get Yiffy back.

Sure they had some funny dialogue, but they are set pieces for Vriska to be the real main character.

Yiffy doesn’t even talk, she disrupts Gamzee’s funeral.

So it’s revealing why some Homestuck fans like HS2, they like the characters with pretty designs and dialogue that references new memes or has the character say something progressive and do anarchist praxis against Janeald Trumpcker like their hero Bernie Sanders.

Most of all they just want more Homestuck, quality is a second priority to the nostalgia and excitement of new Homestuck content, to regress in age just for a moment and feel what it was like to theorize, create, and read new content with an infinite potential of possible directions the story could go in! That’s why many fans saw the newest Beyond Canon update as “the best one yet!” Because it had their favorite characters doing new things

But what we have now does not have as much potential as people think it does, James Roach brags this story will be long, it will take longer than Homestuck 1 did to finish and may be as long as Homestuck, and the whole story is outlined, so we’re just waiting to see the inevitable disappointment that is Hussie’s plan for a final conclusion to Homestuck written when he was running out of ideas for handling Homestuck as a media franchise.

But it won’t matter, some people just want more Homestuck, regardless of quality.

If people want more Homestuck, they can just do stuff like make their own endings, fanart, fanfic, doujinshi, etc. Or commission someone to make said fanart or plushie. They don't need Andrew Hussie or WhatPumpkin after the webcomic was finished. Homestuck has made pop culture references and current Internet memes every now and then, but I don't think it became this excessive or wink at audience kind of deal. It gets annoying pretty fast. Worst is going Member Berries to old fans that are under Stockholm Syndrome, reading this comic.

Homestuck Beyond Canon being planned to be taking longer than the original base webcomic is very ambitious. Hussie and Whatpumpkin haven't even finished HIVESWAP after 10+ years since its original Kickstarter. If people who were in WhatPumpkin team that move onto the Homestuck Beyond Canon team under James Roach (who is even still working on the music for Hiveswap), couldn't even finish making a game that was paid in $2 million dollars full, how the fuck are they expecting to go OVER 9000 pages to beat the original? Also, aren't Vrissy and Harry cousins, technically? Sure Vrissy is not blood-blood related as she was adopted by Rose and Kanaya, but still being Rose's kid and Roxy being her Aunt, that would make her related to Harry. So troll incest of brother-sister is gross despite being a natural thing on Alternia, but human-troll cousin incest is okay? Talk about priorities on Earth C.