#instead of jumping to stupid fucking conclusions like they had!

[samfrancis94]

They say that the world is ending because 'men are allowed in women sports' because 'gender ideology' because 'queer' because 'lgbtqia+' because 'woke'.

You know what? The world has shown us, time and time again, that there is more that it has to offer, that there is more than meets the eye, things that we have yet to understand just waiting to be explored, and ultimately, understood.

If the world should truly end, it will be because of the many who sought to deny its infinity for the comforts of a cold finite room!

[starhvney]

Hey, this is my first time ever requesting smth, but could you please do an X Gene fic? Where the reader and Gene get into an argument, and he walks out, leaving Y/N in shock only to come back and smash his lips onto hers. This can end in fluff or smut, I don't rlly mind, thxx

P.S I absolutely LOVE ur stories <33

𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆

𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆: gene x fem!reader

𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘: a surprise turned into misunderstanding–it’s hard for your ex delinquent lover to get a hold on his self sabotaging habits.

𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐒: angst to soft/gentle smut, happy end, established relationship, gene being gentle

𝐂𝐖: smut, arguing, cussing, reader cries because of gene, insecurity

𝐀/𝐍: ugh gene (p.s. thank you so much! i hope you like it, anon<3 thank you for the req)

𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓

𝑻𝑯𝑰𝑺 𝑷𝑶𝑺𝑻 𝑪𝑶𝑵𝑻𝑨𝑰𝑵𝑺 𝑵𝑺𝑭��. 𝑰 𝑾𝑰𝑳𝑳 𝑴𝑨𝑹𝑲 𝑾𝑯𝑬𝑹𝑬 𝑺𝑭𝑾 𝑬𝑵𝑫𝑺 𝑨𝑵𝑫 𝑵𝑺𝑭𝑾 𝑩𝑬𝑮𝑰𝑵𝑺.

your mouth hangs open, arms lifelessly resting by your sides as you stare down the empty doorway where gene once stood. ears ring from the sudden quiet as the front door slams, leaving you in complete silence. it was a far cry from what this room sounded like just a moment prior.

“what?” you gawk in disbelief, looking into cold blue eyes that somehow seem to burn hot in anger. “what are you saying right now?”

a scoff leaves his lips, tongue rolling irritatedly along his teeth. “if there’s someone else, just say it. don’t play stupid with me.”

you’re taken so off guard that you can’t even defend yourself, only staring up at his grimaced face like a fish out of water. it definitely doesn’t help the case he’s just pinned against you, but you’re so unbelievably overwhelmed by his sudden accusation that it can’t be helped.

“…you think i’m cheating on you?”

with your anniversary coming up again, you decided you wanted to treat both gene and yourself on a small vacation. just a small getaway where you could really enjoy both each other’s company and time away from your monotonous jobs—something he’d made a few complaints about recently.

wanting it to be a surprise, you’d taken on extra shifts and saved up a good amount of money for the expenses without telling him. you’d even gone as far as taking on shifts at the same hours he did, which helped in avoiding having to explain why you were gone more often.

today he’d come back from work earlier than you, when you had told him you were going to be home all day. you’d cursed to yourself when you realized you might have to admit to your little plan, but instead, you were completely swept from under your feet when you were met with an offensive attitude and crossed arms.

“you’ve stopped texting me as much when i’m at work and you’re apparently “at home”, you’ve been on your phone checking things all the time and hiding it from me. did you think i wouldn’t notice?”

“what—gene, hold on. this isn’t…you completely overthought this, just let me—”

“no, no.” he shakes his head. he seems so overwhelmed by his own conclusions as he backs up, starting to mutter under his breath. “i can’t fucking believe this.”

you take a step forward, chest swelling with irritation. you would understand his concern, but for him to accuse you and not even hear you out?

“why would you ever jump to that conclusion, gene? when have i ever been anything but loyal to you?” you shake your head, eyebrows pinched. “don’t project your insecurity onto me—”

“insecurity.” he scoffs.

“—and accuse me of cheating and not even hear me out! i mean, are you cheating on me and projecting it onto me or something?”

he whips his head back around, eyes widening. “the hell? why would you even say that?”

there’s a deep urge for you to cry, eyes pricking as you hold back tears. 

“oh, so it’s okay to accuse me but if i accuse you it’s different? do you even hear yourself right now?” your voice shakes. “you’re not even hearing me out or letting me defend myself in the first place!”

a sharp inhale comes through his lips as he takes a step closer to you, mouth opening before snapping shut as unfocused dark blue sets back on you. his jaw clenches and eyebrows furrow, his own eyes glossing over themselves as he looks you up and down.

“fuck.” he sharply mutters to himself, turning around and roughly bringing his fingers up to his hair as he walks out the door.

you think he says something else but you’re too far in shock, only able to stare at his back as he disappears from your blurry vision. sobs immediately leave your lips as you crumple down against the wall, bringing your knees up to your chest and resting your head against them.

how did it go wrong so quickly?

why wasn’t he trying to at least reason it out with you?

how could he just leave like that?

when would he be back?

was he coming back?

you’re there for what feels like forever, unable to control your crying as your chest heaves, a heavy weight keeping you there on your entryway floor as your lungs spasmed for air. though, it’s likely only ten minutes you’re there alone before the front door opens again—much gentler than it had shut earlier. 

you hear his breath hitch from the door, but you can’t bring yourself to look up at him. not yet. your lack of response doesn’t hold back his hurried footsteps as he rushes over, kneeling right in front of you.

“sweetheart?” he breathes, his fingers brushing along your arms. it takes just a moment of you glancing up at him with your wet eyes for him to get over whatever hesitance he felt, as he quickly scoops you up against him.

“no, baby, no no. please don’t—fuck i’m so sorry. please don’t cry.” he whispers, tucking your head into his neck as he lifts you up, carrying you away from the doorway. “oh god, i’m so fucking awful. please don’t cry over me, please.”

you’re dipped back down again as he continues to ramble, back meeting the soft duvet of your bed. feeling weak you melt right into it, hands covering your face from view. the mattress dips down near your side, and gene's hand gently grabs your wrist. he tugs on it, enough to be a request but not enough to force you or even move you from your spot.  

“please look at me.” he whispers, and his normally raspy and tough tone is so uncharacteristically soft that you give in, letting him tug your hands from hiding you away.

tears still fall from your face, but you've managed to calm yourself enough to be able to see through the watery haze cast over your eyes. when you glance up into his eyes you find that your distress is reflected in his own expression, too, his mouth twisted in worry and eyes misty with his own tears. 

“i'm so sorry.” he mutters, rough hand brushing along your cheeks to dry your face. “please don’t cry. that was all me, i shouldn’t have ever gotten that heated… i just got in my head and…”

“i thought you left me.” your voice cracks, and you see his eyes gloss over with guilt.

“no. no.” he shakes his head, leaning forward. “no, i wouldn’t—i was just so upset and realized i was losing it so i went to cool off. didn’t you hear me say “i’ll be right back”?”

you shake your head, sniffling as another round of tears streams down your cheeks.

“oh, my sweet girl. no, i wouldn’t leave you like that. i’m so sorry i even made you think i would.” one of his arms wraps around your waist and pulls you against him, his other hand cradling the back of your head as he pulls you into a tight embrace. “i know you wouldn’t cheat, you’re right. i got so insecure and in my head and i took it out on you without even waiting for you to explain. i’m so sorry, baby.”

your breath hitches as you grasp onto his shirt, seeking out his comfort as he gathers up your scattered pieces. and comfort he gives, his hands massaging into your hair while he gently rocks you against him.

“i won’t leave you.” he mutters. “you can explain everything to me and then slap me for making you feel this way. just please don’t cry.”

there’s a short moment of quiet—other than your hiccuped breathing—before you speak up again. “…i’ve been working extra shifts to save up to vacation for our anniversary.”

gene freezes, his whole body going rigid before a shaky sigh leaves his lips. “i’m so fucking awful. i’m so sorry. i don’t deserve you. not at all.”

his hands knead into your skin, and he presses a kiss against the junction between your neck and shoulder. “please forgive me. what do you want me to do to make you feel better? do you want me to leave you alo—”

you tense up, fingers digging into his arms. “no, don’t leave me—”

“shh, i won’t ever leave you. i’m right here.” he presses another kiss against your neck. “i promise. i won’t leave again unless you scream for me to go away.”

𝐬𝐟𝐰 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞. 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐰 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭.

his words comfort you, but it’s not enough. you need him closer to you.

“what?” he whispers as your hands wring against his shirt, lifting his head to get a better look at your face. “what do you need?”

you swallow the lump in your throat, your tears finally now at a stop as you pleadingly lift your face towards him, hands lowering to tug up against his tee. “you, please.”

his eyebrows furrow as he lets you place a kiss against his lips, though he draws back after a second, eyes darting across your face in search of any hesitation.

“are you sure this is what you need?”

you nod, eyebrows turning up as you pull yourself further up into him. “please…”

he releases a sigh as he gives in to your pleading, moving himself to fully hover over you. tilting his head he presses a soft kiss against your cheek, trailing a few more down your neck before he lifts himself up again.

“just tell me when you want me to stop,” he says as he shrugs his jacket off, dropping it over your torso as he moves further down to right between your legs.

the warmth of his body heat envelops you, and for a moment you’re too busy bringing the material up to your nose to breathe in the familiar and comforting scent of his cologne to realize he’d already tugged your pants off.

“let me make it up to you, yeah? i’ll make you feel good, i promise.” his arms wrap around your legs to hold you apart, the warm air from his lips sending a shock against your bare skin.

he hovers there for a moment until you nod from behind his hoodie, and once he sees your signal his tongue licks a flat stripe against your folds, holding your hips in place when they immediately jerk up.

“shh, just relax. lay back and let me take care of you.” he whispers, before driving his face back down between your legs.

running his tongue up your cunt again sends another pleasured jolt up your spine, making you arch your back and push yourself harder against his mouth. he stops by your clit, circling around it before fully sucking harshly against the bundle of nerves. your hips jolt again as the action pulls a sudden broken moan from your lips, making him pull back with hooded eyes and a set expression. 

“there you go, see? i got you.” one of his hands leaves your legs, while the other one kneads into your thigh. “good girl. my pretty girl.”

he returns his mouth to your pussy, pressing a few sloppy kisses to it as his finger slides into your hole, slowly pumping inside. he’s relishing in your little sighs and moans of pleasure, his own eyes rolling back while listening to how he was pleasuring you. it encourages him to suckle against your clit once more, the shake of his face against you distracting you from the second finger he’s slid in next to his first one.

he curls his fingers up—right in the spot he knows will have you weakly succumbing to the pleasure he gives you—and another cry leaves your lips, making him sigh in satisfaction.

“there you go.” he rasps, pulling his mouth away to take in the sight of you through his lust-filled gaze while his fingers speed up their pace. his chin and lips are wet with his saliva and your juices mixed together, though he barely seems to pay it mind as he drives back down again, lips pulling and sucking on your clit once again.

your head grows hazy from his ministrations, the shocks of pleasure turning mind-numbing as your skin burns hot. he knows exactly which spots to hit, which places to touch for you to quickly unravel beneath him. the tension that’s slowly built between your legs is coming to an unbearable peak, your lips silently crying out his name while your legs shiver against his shoulders.

“it’s okay, baby. let go.” he encourages you, suddenly crossing his fingers in a scissors motion.

his urging snaps you over the edge, your cunt spasming around his fingers as you fully let go. he continues to work his fingers through your release, slowly letting you down as he plays with the mess between your thighs.

“gene.” you whimper, the sensitivity of your previous emotions coming back full force as your climax leaves you feeling vulnerable and exposed.

“i’m right here, sweetheart.” he says, sitting up and pulling you up with him, setting you on his lap as he pulls you in a tight embrace, rubbing his hands against your back. “you did so good.”

“i love you.” you sniffle, resting your head against his shoulder as you let yourself melt against him.

“i love you too.” he sighs, turning his head to place a kiss against your temple. “i’m so sorry, sweet thing. why don’t we take a hot shower and rest and we can talk more about this later, hm?”

©starhvney, 2024. please do not steal or repost my works as your own.

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[tinynightmarewoman]

So I just read an article by screen rant about whether or not 8020 belong in the dark pictures anthology... because it is a scifi set in space...

Now I don't know about you lot, but last I checked.... Its the Dark Pictures ANTHOLOGY

And for those that didn't get the clue, an anthology is a group of stories that are not connected! Each game is based around a different story set in a different genre of horror! Saying 8020 is jumping the shark because its set in a different setting than the rest of the ANTHOLOGY is so stupid!

Also, what the fuck counts as "jumping the shark" in an, ahem, ANTHOLOGY SERIES?!

Is Little Hope jumping the shark because it involves an all American cast while the others have one character that isn't? Is Man of Medan jumping the shark because its set in the ocean instead of on land? Is HOA jumping the shark because its set during war time? No! Because it is, and get this folks...

A FUCKING ANTHOLOGY!!!

Also, saying 8020 is jumping the gun because of being in space and having scifi themes... why are we not calling out HOA too? Because, last I checked, the vampires are aliens.... from space! HOA has multiple scifi themes yet they don't complain about that, in fact they glaze it like Moses held it alongside the ten commandments! Go on, ask any HOA fan their opinions on the scifi theme in the game... if you can pull HOAs dick out their mouth...

If you want to set aside the very valid excuse of it being an anthology of stories with their own narratives, genres and themes. You can take a moment to go, oh yeah scifi isn't new to TDPA.

Also, just to add on, its a brand new season full of new stories! Emphasis on NEW! Are they gonna complain when Winterfold forest is set in, you guessed it, Winterfold forest? A forest in the UK? Are the going to complain about Craven man being about possibly cultish rituals, because we've never had a cult before? What about O'death because its centred around the Curator (possibly)?

All in all, 8020 being considered out of place is fucking stupid and nonsensical because it doesn't matter and has no impact because, guess what? IT IS AN ANTHOLGY! What should matter is if you enjoy the game, no if its fits in to a set theme that never existed in the first place!

Conclusion? The article was stupid and creates a problem that never existed... and that its writer, that's you Derek, has yet to discover that the wikipedia or dictionary page on the word anthology is free obtain.

[acexsmhking]

𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬

(𝗮𝗱𝗷.) 𝗔𝗹𝗹𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲, 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ Toby x OC!Reader V-Day Special

Summary: A Valentine’s gift for my friend, Zomb! Toby x their OC Frankie<3

Warning(s): 18+ content, sexual content, porn w/ plot, AMAB! anatomy, base pronouns (she/he/they), usage of a butt plug, anal sex, degradation, brat taming, excessive drooling, choking, brief mentions of OC fainting, light spanking usage,

The mission had been.. shit to put it ever so lightly. The victim has been well prepared.. too prepared really. In conclusion they almost got caught, Toby might’ve killed more people than needed in a fit of rage, and the victim almost escaped. Really, it was shit. Plan and simple. To make it worse, it was Valentine’s Day. Frankie should be getting praised, pampered and fucked while they cuddled and watched the falling snow. Instead, they were sure one toe has frozen off, they were hungry, boyfriend hungry, and covered in sticky dried blood PLUS ashes.

Frankie was pissed. Which only made Tobias even more pissed. She had been giving Toby the silent treatment since the damn night began, a hostile glare in his eyes. He knew this was messed up, but his stock was low. “Bei den Göttern, Liebling. I n-eed food!” He complained, trying to get Frankie to talk to him. Frankie just stomped off to the car, shaking off his hand before getting into the passenger seat. “We have more than enough actual fucking food in the house, Tobias!” Frankie shouted, turning away from him in the car. Toby could only groan, his patience wearing thin.

Sure.. he was technically in the wrong. But he had a good reason, he needed more meat. However he did not appreciate the pangs of guilt in his chest, especially seeing how dejected he looked. He didn’t appreciate being yelled at more though. The drive home was in tense silence, Toby nervous shifted occasionally glancing at Frankie. As soon as the car stopped she jumped out, speed walking to the door before flinging it open. Toby flinched at the noise of the door hitting the wall before squeaking close. Silently he walked in, Frankie angrily taking off their shoes and jacket.

Everything hurt, or maybe it was just that throbbing in their heart. They knew they were ‘overreacting’. It was a stupid minor holiday, but it was something normal, something human they could’ve spent together. Toby cautiously kneeled down as she unlaced another shoe, his finger gently grabbing her calf and helping with it. “Puh-lease baby, I’ll make it up to you. Promise!” He pleaded, anything to get him to talk. To acknowledge him. But Frankie just shoved him away, a clumsy attempt given how pumped on adrenaline and how quick Toby’s reflexes were.

Frankie felt his glare before even having to see it, how he froze in shock for a quick minute. A cold and callous hand wrapped around his throat, forcing him to look up as Toby loomed over him. “You wanna keep acting like a b-brat, baby?” Toby threatened, voice low and warning. Frankie gulped, but made no move to look away from Toby. Her glare still harsh and upset. He just grunted, Frankie stumbled as Toby dragged him away by his throat. Shoes being haphazardly shaken off.

Entering the bedroom Toby was quick in peeling off Frankie’s clothes. Pulling down his pants revealed lacy, cute panties Frankie worn. A supposed-to-be Valentine’s gift. Toby froze just for a minute before tearing off his shirt too. “Aww, Hat si-ch meine kleine Hure für mich-mich verkleidet?” Toby cooed, his tone taunting. Her cheeks flushed as he tried pushing Toby away. “Stop it! You don’t even deserve to see me in it!” Frankie argued, wiggling out of Toby’s grasp and trying to make a quick escape to the bathroom. However, he was faster. Hands on her hips as he pulled them flush against him.

“Come on, lemme show you how sorry I am, bae-baby.” Toby purred, fingers bruising grip on him as he grinded himself against them. She hadn’t time to process anything before being roughly shoved onto the bed. Legs opening instinctively letting him settle between them. “Look at you, s-so eine gut train-ierte Schlampe.” He snickered, fingers hooking around the decorative underwear. Slowly pulling them down as his pepper soft kisses along their leg in exchange.

As Toby kissed the inside of their thigh he froze, a gleam catching his eye. Frankie tried closing her legs, hands moving to cover her bum. He had briefly forgotten about that little surprise. Toby yanked their hands away, the pretty pink rhinestone gleaming in the bedroom light. Absolutely perfectly, if not just a little tilted. Toby barked out a harsh laugh, a crimson blush on Frankie face. “If you don’t like it you don’t have to laugh!” He whined, scooting away from Toby.

He let out a few more chuckles as he reached for them. Coaxing them back down. “No no, I love it darling.” He stifled a laugh, leaning down to rub his nose with Frankie’s. “Es ist so süß, mein Junge.” His fingers gave the plug an experimental pull. Watching her face, her lip bitten as he tried holding in a moan. Toby played with it, gently thrusting it in and out of Frankie slowly. It was new, for both of them. But she seemed to be enjoying themself with how hard they were.

Toby hummed, gently pumping Frankie off to the pace of the thrusts. He whimpered, fingers gripping the sheets and their head rolled back. Toby quickly reached inside the bedside drawer, pulling out that familiar bottle. He spread some over himself and just around Frankie’s hole. The slightly cold, wet sensation made him jolt before relaxing back. Toby pressed a few kisses to her cock and stomach, a teasing lick on their balls. “Come on baby, don’t-t stay mad at me yeah?” He pleaded, faux puppy dog eyes full of mischief as he stood up. Taking off his own clothes teasingly slow.

No! She had to stay strong! She couldn’t fold just because of a few kisses, or those mysterious foggy eyes, or that lean.. sexy body. Frankie covered their eyes, locking their legs together. “Nuh-uh! You ruined our day!” She croaked, voice wobbling as he removed his pants and boxers. “I know sweetie.” He cooed, moving their legs around his hips. Cocks pressed against each other as Toby leaned down. A soft kiss on their crown. “I’ll make it up to you, tom-tomorrow too.” He mumbled, reaching down to slowly pull the little toy out. He moaned hoarsely, hands moving to hold onto Toby’s biceps.

“That’s it, who’s my-my good boy, hm?” Toby mocked, aligning himself to press his tip against their winking hole. Frankie smiled nervously, tilting their head to the side. But Toby didn’t let up, he pressed fluttery kisses to his chest as he pushed in. Soft moans and whimpers traitorously escaping their lips. Toby’s thrusts were shallow and slow, letting Frankie adjust. “Come on, Hure. Le-mme hear you.” But Frankie refused, vigorously shaking their head. Hands gripping onto him tighter.

Toby grunted, sighing he firmly placed a hand on her neck. Carelessly pulling them up to his eye sight. “Soll ich auf-hören? I’ll pul-ll out right now, you stupid bitch.” He grounded, eyes narrowed and lips snarled. Frankie sobbed, hole fluttering around him and scent making her head dizzy. She shook his head again, clinging onto Toby as they cried. Toby’s pace resumed, faster this time as he angled his head to kiss away their tears. “There there, it’s all-alright.” Toby’s voice strangled as he reassured him. His hot tongue licking up her tears made them smile.

Reaching up, they pressed a sweet kiss to Toby’s lips. He hummed, returning the gesture with his hand still firmly gripping his neck. “You know I hate it-t when you yell, sweet boy.” He mumbled, his tone had a slight edge that made Frankie’s stomach twist. “I’m sorry!” They moaned, toes curling when Toby hit that perfect spot. Suddenly his hand tightened, to the point beyond just play. Toby’s gaze looked cold as he stared at them. “Are y-you? I don’t t-th-think so.” He growled, nails digging into her skin.

Frankie gasped, lack of air embarrassingly making her hole clench. Toby had rarely been this rough before, completely cutting off his oxygen. He tried pleading again, but words literally catch in their throat as Toby continued squeezing before roughly pressing them against the bed. His pace was brutal, grueling and cruel as he held them down. A soft ringing sounding in her ears along with Toby’s groans and moans. The pressure of their cock being pumped, tip briefly teased with caused another attempted gasp. But Toby didn’t let up, and Frankie was quickly losing air.

She didn’t even register Toby kissing their cheek, menacing smirk on his lips watching them struggle. “You look awf-awfully damn cute like this, Schatz.” Snickering as he attempted to pull his arm away. But Toby was relentless. Snapping his hips into them as he pumped their cock. His thumb rubbing the slit on their tip when his grip came up. Frankie’s own hips started matching his thrusts, hole warm and soft as Toby bullied himself in. She could feel her orgasm arriving, just as the dark spot in her vision became more apparent. Vision blurred as all he could was look at Toby.

Following their orgasm, they lost consciousness. Toby laughed, a deep groan following after words as he kept fucking into her. His own release soon coming as he still inside them. Rolling his head and shoulders as he steady himself. Hand releasing their neck, Toby checked on them.

Frankie woke up warm, a slight dampness making them briefly uncomfortable. As he stirred, they felt a pair of strong arms tighten around their midriff. Groggily opening their eyes they looked over at Toby, who was staring down at them. “Hi baby.” He smiled, pressing a kiss to their lips. Frankie huffed, mumbling incoherent words as they snuggled back into him. Toby just laughed, rubbing their back to help lull them to sleep.

: ̗̀➛ Happy V-day my loves, and here you go @z0mb1luvr !! Your gift<3 I hope you like it so sorry it took me so long to write this request. I hope you all are having a happy valentines! — Ace

[em-harlsnow]

okay, I'm gonna go through my opinions on Trevor.

overall, I don't like him. I think the fandom as a whole has some pretty mixed feelings about him so that might annoy some people. Lots of people say they like him but they just prefer Mickey - I also prefer Mickey, but I want to talk about Trevor as a separate person.

firstly - the one most people talk about - the 'she apologised, move on' scene. I can't stand by him on that at all. he works with kids whose parents have hurt them, abandoned them and yet jumps to the conclusion that Ian should apologise? Honestly, I think that's stupid.

secondly - the one where he encourages Ian to 'fuck a chub' to get over his dead mother????? and then later he says 'grief changes you' as if he's got some insight on the world that Ian doesn't. it makes him seem like a sanctimonious asshole as well as somewhat hypocritical.

thirdly - the fact that he wouldn't allow Ian and him to be friends. like okay, fine, you think you're gonna fuck eventually but you still don't push someone like that. let them come to you at their own pace. he just comes across as pushy and a real dickhead.

overall, I'm not saying Trevor is a bad person, I don't think he's right for Ian and he comes across as very self-righteous. He's actually very much a good person which is seen by him trying to help all those kids and putting them first. Just because I think he's a good person doesn't mean I have to like him as a character though. I prefer more complex and morally grey characters, which don't come across as so high and mighty and don't give off 'I'm better than you' vibes. (he's not the only character that comes off like that - ahem Lip)

Clearly, he's used to be somewhat of a foil character for Mickey. he's everything Mickey wasn't. He's not Southside trash for one (not hating I love Mickey to death), he's comfortable in his sexuality and gender identity from the start of his on-screen character - I'm not saying anything about who he might have been before we meet him. He's not devoted to Ian like Mickey is - he's more focussed on work (not a bad thing) - and he's overwhelmingly legal in his work considering how every job Mickey had involved something illegal. he was meant to show everything that Mickey lacked, instead it left a gaping hole where Mickey should have been.

As a character, I think he lacks depth and seems to be pissed off at Ian in every scene I see him in.

Also, trevor didn't 'deserve better' with Ian. They both deserved different.

And - I didn't like their on-screen chemistry, especially when put next to gallavich I mean there's no competition.

I don't hate trevor, he just annoys me.

[randomthefox]

Why do so many Sonic fans hate the developers? Why do they think they are stupid? "Uuuh why is Chaos island here? It takes place in the future! Are they stupid!. Why are they trying to piss me off!?" Dude. These are Japanese people. The second country with the highest IQ in the world. Whatever the reason may be, it was was not done out of stupidity. At first, Sonic x Gen 'saved the franchise' but one week later it sucks because it didn't feature levels or elements that you SPECIFICALLY wanted to see? Wtf is wrong with you???

Oh but when Ian Flynn does something similar to this, it's not his fault. He's peak, and everyone that disagrees is stupid. Because SEGA ARE THE BAD GUYS

Wtf

"They're japanese people, they have a high IQ" is a bit much, but I understand where you're coming from and what you're trying to articulate. People have a bad habit of seeing something they don't like or agree with in a piece of art, and then jumping to the worst possible explanation they can think of for why it was included. Just being as bad faith as they possibly can, imposing malice or ignorance onto someone because of a personal subjective feeling they have to what was included in the artwork.

It's not unique to Sonic but since it's trendy to hate on the Sonic video games and Sonic Team and SEGA, it is amplified through that filter of culty mass hysteria.

I don't normally resort to doyalist explanations but in this case it really is the only one you can use - there weren't levels from Sonic Forces and Sonic Frontiers in the original Sonic Generations because those games hadn't been made yet. It's not like it makes any sense whatsoever to lump Sonic 2006, Sonic Unleashed, and Sonic Colors together as if they're a coherent era of Sonic. But that's a retroactive conclusion. Sonic Generations was made in 2011 (probably under a VERY short development time) and they worked with what they had. Shadow Generations was made in 2024 (also probably a short development time) and there were three whole new games worth to pull from in the time inbetween.

The idea of people being upset about its inclusion is so dumb and silly to me x3 For reference, this was my initial reaction to that level

When people ask why was Chaos Island included from Frontiers, they're asking the question wrong. They're asking "Why was a level from Frontiers included?" When the more interesting question is "why was THIS level from Frontiers included?" Why Chaos Island instead of any of the other Islands? There's probably multiple answers to that. I find it very conspicuous that they included the volcano erupting in the background during the level.

Meaning that during Shadow's level, Sonic was playing pinball. So the question of "why didn't Sonic see Shadow on Chaos Island?" is answered because we know where Sonic was during this part of Shadow's game. There's no lingering wonder about it. They didn't just throw Chaos Island into the game willy nilly, they spared the time to think about how they would make it make sense to say that Shadow was running around in that location during the events of Frontiers without causing a time paradox or contradicting what happened during that game. They didn't just throw an erupting volcano in as a set piece for no reason. They were not thoughtless in how they implemented this level.

The idea that Chaos Island being included took away a spot that could have gone to another level from Shadow 2005 or something like that is just silly. It reminds me of when people would get angry at Piranha Plant being added to Smash Bros. "THEY'RE TAKING AWAY A SLOT THAT COULD HAVE GONE TO DANTE!" That's not how it fucking works bro. This isn't the divine lottery. They're MAKING the game. Chaos Island being cut from Shadow Generations wouldn't mean that it would be replaced with a level from Shadow 2005 that you would want to be in the game. It would just mean the game woulda had one less level, lol.

But yeah I predicted people turning on Shadow Generations. I gave them too much time if anything, I predicted it would take at least a couple months. They didn't even make it one. Like I said and have said and will keep saying: these people HATE Sonic. The people who were saying "I've never been this excited for New Sonic stuff before! We are so back!" during the preview hype around Shadow Generations? They HATE Sonic. They are tourists. Scavengers who will pick daintily at the game and then leave it bleeding and gaping, unsatisfied.

And yeah naturally they are blatant hypocrites. More than half the reason they were initially so slavish about the game was because of Ian Flynn's name being in the credits. These people are absolute fucking cultists.

lunatics.

I have no doubt that the reason they're starting to sour on Shadow Generations is because Katie made a tweet which basically said "dude, this game isn't bloom fully formed from the singular mind of Ian Flynn alone" and then ABT had to latch on like a male anglerfish being absorbed into a disembodied pair of gonads saying that Ian Flynn didn't do nuffin and everything bad about the games writing is everyone elses fault and comparing Flynn to Jesus.

As soon as the memo started getting passed around that Shadow Generations isn't Ian Flynn's Sonic game after all, that's when the wave started to turn. It's very transparent.

They are a cult of haters pretending to be fans. Wolves in sheeps clothing. Naturally everything they say and do it insincere and psychotic.

[stillness-in-green]

Minor advisor note: Katana Advisor was in episode S7EP15, for a brief still among the Villains captured...except they got his colors wrongs XD You still know its him from his head shape and neckbrace armor/but they still messed up his color scheme.

So I finally had the free time to go dig this episode up!  I had to watch most of the episode to find the shot you were referring to, and then ducked back to the previous episode as well, as I’d always intended to at least watch Scarecrow’s big speech moment.  Unsurprisingly, I have some thoughts.

Firstly, regarding Katana Advisor, I can only laugh and shake my head.  Great job, Bones—add in a brand new shot of people getting captured, but the only established character whose capture might possibly be relevant has the wrong colors, so you can’t even conclusively say that it’s him.  Impeccable work: Net Zero changes to the material.

(I agree that it’s obviously supposed to be him—that neck brace is very distinct—but I elect to ignore the implication because I will take any crumbs I can find that any given distinct MLA character is still in the wind at the end of the series.  Not that I consider myself beholden to the anime’s garbage take on the MLA anyway, but still.)

That aside, hit the jump for the rest!  There’s one particularly big one—a translation error in one of Scarecrow’s lines that in turn drew my attention to an issue with Viz’s translation of the same line in the manga—that I’ve saved for last.

O I enjoy that the anime makes it even more clear that Spinner did not run over any-damn-body.  Like, that assumption was so omnipresent when people were talking about that chapter in the manga, but it never stood up to a close read of the actual details of the art.  Does it make Pig Nose Guy’s crisis of conscience even more obviously dumb and contrived?  Oh hell yes.  But the hospital plot was that anyway, so I appreciate anything that makes it easier to explain why.

O Speaking of the human chain, chatting about the moment with Nal made me realize a particularly egregious thing about the set-up with the hospital.  So like, the medical staff are willing to risk their lives for their patients, right?  To the point that they’ll do a real damn stupid human chain instead of, say, trying to use all the chairs and benches and desks you’d find in a hospital to put together a fucking barricade, all for the sake of making a point?[1]  But you know who very pointedly is not behind that human chain?  You know who we never see a single person inside the hospital trying to defend?  Kurogiri, that’s who.        I guess the doctors just didn’t count him as a patient who needs to be protected, huh?  Honestly, where is the brave whistle-blower hospital admin who’s going to give a bombshell interview about how Central Hospital begged the Heroes and the police to move Kurogiri somewhere else only to be refused, because one of the Heroes is personally attached to Kurogiri, and also because Hawks and Tsukauchi knew that Villains attacking a hospital would do irreparable damage to their cred, and that would be important for legal proceedings in the aftermath of all this?       1: Not at all how this would go in real life, especially given the conceit that the only patients left in the hospital are those whose condition is so delicate that they can’t be moved.  But I guess  Horikoshi was too busy asking his EMT contact about open-heart surgery on the battlefield to think to ask about hospital procedures in the event of an active terror threat.  Also putting together a barricade inside the hospital would imply that the staff believe there’s any chance the defense force, who are outnumbered 75 to 1, could fail, and we all know from BNHA’s endgame that being proactive in the face of danger voids the Hero Protection Warrantee.  Only those who are patient and wait for help to come actually deserve help; trying to help themselves makes them Villains.

O Scarecrow’s first appearance in the scene is so, so funny.  He just floats downward into the frame.  He’s not rappelling downwards using webbing, he’s not climbing down with his spider legs, he doesn’t have insect wings; he just drifts down like he has some kind of flight quirk.  You know, the dude who will be defeated by knocking him off the roof of a tall building.

Why did you think it would help to knock this guy off a roof, Koda?  He can clearly just hover right back up there.  Perhaps his flight operates under similar principles as hot air balloons?  Did attacking him with birds deprive him of most of his gas?

O WHERE IS HIS GODDAMN SALUTE.

THIS IS NOT THE LIBERATION SALUTE.

O I notice the anime kept the scene with the handgun—including actual bullet sounds!—despite the fact that that plot element goes absolutely nowhere, and in fact they also see fit to add police-issue lightning rifles.  (Which, wow, that sure is a choice.  Love to just make police look worse by electrocuting unarmed civilians.  What, they couldn’t get a good supply of teargas ready in time?)

O It is so, so funny to me that the anime has finally, seven seasons in, started to care about dramatic lighting, but they’re stuck with the fact that the hospital attack happens in broad fucking daylight, before the other battles really start mucking with the weather.  They do their best with a bunch of lit fires, using the orange light and smoke to suggest sunset lighting and distant stars, but that doesn’t change the fact that The BNHA Anime Cloudscape is lurking just beyond the haze.

This becomes extremely clear when the smoke instantly evaporates the red hot second the mob finally stops for good.  Check the before and after here:

Hysterical.  I guess all these people had to do for the light to shine on them was to stop rioting!  Being good civilians who meekly endure their mistreatment and wait for salvation to be handed to them from outside can literally make the sun come out!  Who needs One For All punches to change the weather?  Apparently enough civilians can replicate the effect just by feeling bad enough about themselves.

O I was being fairly annoyed about the BGM scoring Spinner’s internal monologue right before he makes the last push through to Kurogiri.  Like, it was so plainly ominous and scary, emotionally keying the viewer to view Spinner’s reflections as foreboding a horrible change of the tides.  As someone who was mostly grieving for Spinner in that moment, it rubbed me the wrong way pretty badly. 

...And then that music just kept on playing as the POV of the scene switched to Present Mic and I remembered that Spinner’s last push doesn’t actually come until after the incredible bit where Yamada Hizashi confirms that Spinner has been incapacitated and then apparently decides he needs to kill Shirakumo Oboro anyway, just so his existence can no longer trouble their mutual friend.  And that, dear readers, made me way more forgiving of the ominous BGM!

O I would like to give Shimono Hiro, Dabi’s voice actor, a fucking medal for his line deliveries immediately before and after he goes through Kurogiri’s warp.  The laugh when he realizes he’s going to get teleported to his dad is breathy, pervy, a perfect encapsulation into a single two-syllable sound of his deranged anticipation for tormenting Endeavor some more.  Then his, “Otou-san!” as he appears before Endeavor is even better: high-pitched, off-balance, questioning and eager like he can’t believe his good luck.  Truly, Shimono-san understood the fazacon assignment and he delivered.

O The closing sequence is…really strange.  It’s like it’s pretending that it has a visual theme of reaching out to others, hands extended to those in need, and then the viewpoint cuts to a wider angle and you realize all the characters who were reaching out are actually just sinking down through clear water, their arms floating a little above their torsos.  The last shot, of Deku settling to the sea floor and smiling serenely with his eyes closed, is especially bonkers.  Like, what’s the message here?  That no one involved has any agency in what they’re doing, but are just going with the flow established by other people?  Deku reaches rock bottom, at peace with the knowledge that he doesn’t have to try to do hard stuff like “save Shigaraki” anymore because the grown-ups have sorted it all out for him?

I mentioned this in my chat group and Nal pointed me to the lyrics of the song, which use the word rokutousei, “sixth-magnitude star.”  While a bit of research suggests this is actually a not uncommon bit of metaphor in Japanese songs—I found at least five different ones that used it in lyrics, title or both!—personally, I was immediately reminded of Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans’ third intro, Rage of Dust, which uses the same term but with a wholly different emotional tenor, and one that I dearly wish the Heroes could have emulated the energy of. 

The difference is that BNHA’s closer, itself titled Rokutousei, is about the sixth-magnitude star (or rather, the singer who is comparing themselves to it) searching for someone else, with an overarching tone of wistfulness, while IBO’s Rage of Dust is about said star screaming defiance and vowing not to flicker out and die quietly, shouting its existence and will in the face of a system that would as soon grind it into dust without even noticing.  Rather than dust, become stardust, proclaims the song, carrying on the dreams of others.  And that defiance, that refusal to let themselves be exploited by the more powerful figures around them, fits perfectly with the struggles of IBO’s main characters.

And like, okay, sure, Rokutousei having a tone of, “I’ll do it, I guess, I hope, I mean, at least I’ll try, even though there’s such a lot against me, so much so that I’m already feeling wistful about how likely I am to succeed, but at least trying is beautiful and meaningful, right?” is certainly on-brand for BNHA’s endgame and Deku’s failures in particular, but good lord is it ever an odd tone to intentionally strike.

The essential difference between these two sequences: Deku letting himself drift aimlessly, eyes closed, arms lax at his sides vs. Mikazuki stubbornly dragging himself through the dirt with his one good arm, gaze fixed and hand grasping for the giant robot that allows him to fight for his future.

O While I think he performs it perfectly well—indeed, my biased heart found his Yamero, yamero! pretty wrenching!—I still don’t like that Scarecrow is clearly being interpreted by the anime as an older man.  There’s nothing about him that looks especially old, insomuch as we can tell from his physical appearance, and neither is there anything I recognize in his word choice that suggests he’s a crotchety old man, either.  It's a taste call, mainly, but man, I just like it better when he and Spinner and Shouji are all young men with diverging views on their oppression.

O Finally, the sub I watched had a whopper of a different translation of one of Scarecrow’s lines.  @codenamesazanka turned up the raws for me, and we found that while the anime very obviously got it wrong, the Viz translation, too, was pretty eyebrow-raising.  It’s one of those localization moments that leaves with the, “Oh, Caleb Cook, I want to shake your fucking hand….with a joybuzzer,” feeling I periodically had to wrestle with back when I was still doing chapter posts.

The line in question is this one:

Note how blatantly horrible this is, so nakedly manipulative that it stops even being very effective manipulation because no one could possibly say, “Don’t stop to think!” in good faith?  Well, that’s probably because the line wasn’t originally that bald-faced.  Even Translator Sis, who normally more or less agrees with C.Cook’s choices (certainly compared to the fan scanlations!), had a real :grimace_emoji: moment and said it was the kind of translation that could only come from a place of bias against the character.

The Japanese line here is, “Yamero yamero reisei ni naru na!” which would more literally translate to, “Stop, stop!  Don’t calm down!”  The first bit is straightforward: a simple repetition of one word that (particularly as delivered quite well by Scarecrow’s voice actor!) really gets across his desperation and panic that the highly important mission he was spearheading is falling apart in front of him.  It’s much more openly emotional and unchecked than Viz’s, “Enough nonsense!”

The bigger issues is the second part.  Reisei ni naru is basically a verb construction about cooling off, calming down, collecting or recovering oneself when emotions are threatening to cloud one’s judgement—Scarecrow’s line is telling the mob to not do that.  I can certainly see where Caleb was coming from—it’s still a very Bad Guy thing to say!—but there is a clear difference between telling people to not let their passion evaporate and telling them outright not to think.

It feels a bit like a response to a tone policing argument, Shouji begging the crowd to be calm and think rationally because this sort of display of anger isn’t helping.  And Scarecrow frantically tells them not to collect themselves and be rational because what has that rationality ever offered them?  What is it offering them now?  It’s just a prelude to telling them to go back home and endure their pain some more.

In much the same way as the idea of light/shadow/illumination is being argued between Scarecrow and Shouji, similar ideas of emotional temperature are implicit in the kanji used in the characters’ word choices. Netsu, 熱, literally meaning “heat,” is the word Scarecrow uses for the emotions of the crowd, their fevered zeal and passion—Spinner uses the same word later in the chapter when reflecting about how he was swept up by passion and followed Shigaraki. Reisei, conversely, contains the kanji for “cold,” 冷.[2] It's not about thinking or not thinking; it's about ferver vs. composure, passion vs. presence of mind.

2: The same 冷 is the kanji used for Rei's name, incidentally.

Notably, the idea of thinking does come up in the chapter also, and it's very much not Scarecrow telling the crowd not to think. Rather, he exorts them/Pig Nose Guy to think of the mistreatment they've suffered, to think only of that; Pig Nose Guy uses the same verb (考える, kangaeru, meaning to think about, to contemplate, to reflect on) when he replies that he is thinking about it.

Caleb correctly communicates the idea of thinking in that exchange, so it actually reads a bit weird to have Scarecrow, over the course of two pages, go from telling PNG to think to telling him not to. It comes off as Scarecrow's rhetoric failing him so him just desperately flailing for whatever words he can find, even if they blatantly contradict what he literally just said. That instant, hypocritical contradiction is not there in Japanese because he's talking about two different things!

I'm happy to know this—“Don’t stop to think!” is one of the very worst lines in that whole stretch of chapters to me!—but I do wish I'd known it much sooner. I was so cynical about Horikoshi's writing of the erstwhile MLA by that point that it never even occured to me to check the Japanese! So thanks for that, I guess, wild mistranslation by the anime subbers! XD

And thanks as always @shockersalvage for the ask! Who knows when I would have realized, if ever, if you hadn't given me the anime update to go check!

[jitterbugjive]

Something that really bothers me is when I used to say stupid shit years ago, instead of anyone just fucking talking to me and saying "Hey, this opinion is kind of shit and this is why..." they just archived what I said to use it against me later to prove I was a bad person

and seriously all it would have took to change my mind was pretty much anyone just explaining to me why what I was saying was problematic, because how the fuck was I supposed to know any better when I spent half of my life being groomed by someone who gave me those shitty opinions in the first place?

I had friends who disagreed with me and said NOTHING, opting to hold grudges against me for it instead and assuming I was just going to be like that always and that fucking hurts, man

I thought I have always shown myself to be the kind of person who is willing to change if I'm just shown why my thinking was off.

So word of advice, if someone has a bad take, maybe consider calmly explaining to them why it's a bad take, instead of just jumping to the conclusion that they're a bad person. If they show a refusal to change after the fact, then you could consider that they actually won't change. And for godsake don't outright attack them because generally no one is going to react well to being attacked.

[cookieblobber]

Fast Friends Forever and it’s Fulfilling Step-Forward

So, the official Sonic accounts online posted a video dubbed what you see already in the image

At first glance, it’s just a little celebratory ad video collage of how Sonic has helped people make friends due to interests of the franchise and all. But when you fully realize the impact and implications this ad has just by this logo, it’s one of the most satisfying and vindicating moments in this franchise.

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One of the biggest issues this franchise has suffered was this total hatred of Sonic’s “stupid friends”. Ever since the jump to 3D, there was a bigger focus on Sonic’s friends; instead of just being run and jump characters who play like Sonic with a new ability to make traversal and platforming unique with them like in the classic games, they were given more unique playstyles way different from Sonic, at least in the Adventure games. Knuckles with his treasure hunting, Amy with her more slower paced platforming and hammer bashing, Tails who initially tagged along with Sonic’s gameplay started using a mech in SA2. In Heroes, they would be in groups of three like SA2, but they were taken a step back and playing more like the classic games where they act like Sonic running and jumping, but have more abilities to them that’s beneficial to whatever path requires their ability. You were able to swap members in a group around to choose whichever path you wanted. 06 kinda does a mix of both Adventure and Heroes - Tag Team gameplay like Sonic Heroes, but giving them back their more unique playstyles like Knuckles and Rouge doing treasure hunting, but still trying to not entirely change the gameplay to feel like it’s completely different from Sonic himself.

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I don’t think I perfectly explained each game well but you get the gist, they used their friends a lot more often in 3D and made them a core part of the full experience; you couldn’t play as just Sonic anymore, you had to play as the other characters too. Understandably to some, this could get a bit annoying; having to constantly adjust to a brand new character every second, what a fucking skill issue but it could get disorienting, especially in games like SA2.

So, one would think the logical conclusion would be for Sonic Team to try and dial them back and make them more akin to the classic games where they had the same movements like Sonic, but had one or two abilities to make them unique enough that it feels like a new playthrough, maybe add in some paths only they could access that Sonic couldn’t, and not make it required where you have to play as those other characters mid-game to progress.

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…unfortunately Sonic 06 crashed and burned and SEGA/Sonic Team scrambled to get things fixed by overcorrecting the problem.

When Sonic 06 failed, this was (as you can guess) a very critical breaking point in the franchise. All the issues people had with the franchise were being aired out left and right, some understandable critiques like how the game could ever be released in such a state, most being really awful ones, the whole “Sonic and his stupid friends” shtick was one of them as 06 made people think they were just useless trash who offered nothing to the games and only got in Sonic’s way. So they decided to just make Sonic and only Sonic playable going forward

It got to a point where they treated the lack of friends like it was a great thing to advertise for a 2D game that was supposed to be this return to form (Sonic 4).

I’m sorry to rant like a nerd for a second but, this was so stupid when you consider the fact the old days did the complete opposite of this.

Ever since Sonic 2, you met a new character who you’d be able to play as. Other Sonic media like shows or comics around that time involved Sonic having friends and allies along his side. Hell, ever since before Sonic fucking 1 was ever fully conceptualized, the idea of Sonic having friends and even a girlfriend was on the devs’ minds.

While spin-offs like Riders, Chronicles, and All-Stars would let you play as other characters, still undeniably it was disappointing that the next BIG title of the franchise wasn’t really featuring the other characters as playable and just sorta random background characters. Even in Generations, celebrating the franchise’s history, still lacked even just at least a model swap or something but that might’ve been boring.

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It would take until 8 years later, we would finally get to see Tails, Knuckles, and even Amy to be finally playable again…in Sonic Boom 🥲.

If 06 being the last time other characters were playable wasn’t painful enough, the next time it happened and it would be an even worse disaster than 06, especially with how hyped up this new spin-off was as this like new direction for the franchise, it just seemed like there was no hope we’d get to see these characters finally playable properly in some way again. But then, a beacon of light shined through.

Sonic Mania brings back Tails and Knuckles once again as playable characters. Dude, the fucking crowd shouted when Knuckles was shown in the trailer, it was that big of a deal. Sure, this was a 2D game, but it was close enough that it helped the general public remind everyone what truly made the 2D games on Genesis so great, and what made Sonic’s friends memorable and unique. With Mania receiving its high praise and new DLC reintroducing Mighty and Ray, it was safe to assume these characters were definitely going to be coming back at some point.

Forces also tried to bring in some hype with Shadow as DLC but, he was just an simple skin swap of Sonic and was only playable for 3 levels. So not too much to note sadly.

As we head over to the next 3D game, Sonic Frontiers, it reintroduced the world these characters’ struggles and attributes. Amy’s want to help the little ones in need, Knuckles’s loneliness and ancestral burden, Tails’ lack of self-confidence and over-dependence of Sonic. Sonic was still the only one playable, but it was nice seeing them play some sort of major noticeable role in progressing the story.

And then lives were changed

Just a few weeks after release, free DLC was announced, showing the final one will be Tails, Knuckles, and even Amy Rose will be playable soon. Now, at the time of me writing this, they are still yet to be playable, so I can’t say if they’re that good or not, but just seeing these characters be announced to be playable in a 3D Sonic game that has finally found success among the gaming community, it’s so exciting to finally see happen, and only one can imagine what kind of abilities they will bring themselves.

Speaking of DLC, Sonic Origins announced Amy as a brand new character to play within the old games, further starting to make Amy a true part of the main cast of characters than just the three boys.

And Sonic Superstars coming up soon, another 2D momentum based platformer akin to the Genesis games where not only will you get to play as the 4 again, but local co-op will be available for the first time. And what’s so crazy is: this feels exactly like this right balance I talked about earlier. Dialing back the characters to where they’re not mandatory to play as all of them to progress the game, giving them one unique moveset of some kind (as apparently the 7th emerald will grant characters a character specific ability), and giving them more character specific paths that others may not access, as shown recently with how there’s apparently Acts made specifically for Knuckles, Amy, etc.

Slight off topic but, Superstars truly does feel like a true evolution from the classic momentum formula. That’s not to discredit something like Sonic Advance, just…think of it more like branching paths, you know? Advance series evolves the 2D formula by slowly molding into something more unique with experimental playstyles ala boost and tag team, and Superstars more so plays it safer and retains what makes the fundamentals of 2D formula work and tries to work with what it already has. Both succeed in evolving the 2D gameplay in their own right.

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So, I just gave you a whole history lesson of Sonic’s friends in the games, but how the hell does it relate back to this Fast Friends Forever logo?

To me, this logo and ad campaign solidifies this new era of Sonic the Hedgehog. For the first time ever, Sonic’s friends are mascots of something in the franchise. It’s not just Sonic’s face in that logo, his other 3 allies are involved too. SEGA is proudly and unapologetically showing off the other 3 as an important part of Sonic’s identity and what makes him so well loved and intriguing.

After years of Tails, Knuckles, Amy, being shafted in the sidelines, just being supporting background characters and at times flanderized, it’s a beautiful sight to see them finally be given respect, treated to be just as big of a deal as the main face of the franchise, and showcases there is more to come in future out of these characters going forward.

Fast Friends Forever, indeed.

[xplrvibes]

Thoughts on todays video? I liked it more than the first one, felt like more happened and more investigating was going on, plus the end legit felt scary. Hyped for the next one, though I'm not fond of the guests in the finale so we'll see if I can like the video despite Kris and Celina being in it.

I actually really liked it.

Especially the last 30 minutes or so. When those two are firing on all cylinders with the editing, pacing, and storytelling, they really fire on all cylinders.

I like the Sturniolos too, so this is not a knock at them, so put the blade sharpener down lol. Their part was a normal, fun snc video.

But once they left and snc really started to get into it, it felt much more....big and Hell Week-esque.

Spoilers and opinions behind the cut, so beware:

A few random observations:

1. They've really built up the suspense of this boiler room. I know some of it is them purposefully building up suspense - but fuck it. I like that sometimes. The place seems like it's going to be the focal point of the final video and I LIKE that. Again, great storytelling there.

2. In line with #1, anybody who thinks that Colby Brock is acting should put his reaction in that boiler room up to his ridiculous voice over at the end of their Halloween movie before they try to tell me he's *that* good of an actor lmao. Colby Brock is many things; a good actor is not one of them. He was legit scared in the boiler room.

3. I know a thing or two about grave digging. I'm telling you right now, Samuel Golbach did not dig that grave with a shovel and a pick-axe. Especially not with the type of digging he was showing on screen. Nice try, but no lol.

4. In line with #3, I actually didn't think that whole challenge was as bad as it first sounded. It was more manual labor than anything actually scary or dangerous for Sam (unless he pulled a muscle "digging" lol). When I first heard that challenge in the previous episode, I audibly cringed because it sounded so...stupid. It sounded like one of their challenges, and you know I hate those damn challenges. But it actually wasn't that dumb, or that traumatizing. It was weird but it oddly fit the whole vibe of the video. I surprisingly didn't hate it the way I thought I would.

5. Colby demolishing that door when he kicked it in was...something lol.

6. Sam immediately naming himself the Fred of the Scooby Gang and Colby just casually mentioning that he was Thelma cause Thelma "got a fat ass," was very in tune with their personality types and their psychological makeup and someone with more skills in that arena than me could've probably made a whole post on that alone. As it was, I just nodded sagely and went, "Yep, yep."

7. I like that their security guy told them that they had the principals office wrong the entire time, and they just left that in the video instead of trying to correct that in editing. Other people may disagree, but I like the transparency.

8. I actually legit felt bad when Colby said he felt betrayed by the ghosts. Poor guy 😂.

9. The last 5 seconds of the video, showing them sleeping and the (probably bug but maybe orb lol, I don't even care what it was cause it fit the theme) thing flying towards Colby right before the video cut was just cool. I just really liked the way they edited this one, guys.

10. That promo for the last video...wow. They don't do trailers often anymore, but when they do, they really sell it.

I only have two critiques:

1. As much as I did like them setting up the boiler room as this portal to hell and general bad news, I do think they were maybe losing track of logic at the end there and were making some very obvious and Zak Bagans-esque conclusion jumping assumptions. Hearing a drip in a boiler room when you literally walked in and saw a bucket over a leaky ceiling earlier, does NOT a ghost make. I get they were freaked out but I would've just left stuff like that out of the edits at the end.

2. When the Sturniolos were doing the Estes and were very clearly getting whole sentences from radio stations ("Iowa's best rock" or whatever) there was a moment before they decided to try and fix it where it almost seemed like they were trying to fit that into their ghost narrative and with the way the debunkers dig their teeth into shit like that, I audibly cringed lol. Again, just cut that type of stuff out entirely, next time.

Overall thoughts: this one was way spookier than the last one and really set the tone for what is going to be the grand finale. I actually genuinely liked it and will probably watch it again this weekend. I love their storytelling, their suspenseful editing, and the way they just naturally bounce off each other. All in all, this was a solid 8/10.

[alkimara]

literally all of this nonsense with CSAU is the fault of some random fucking asshole who saw my sisters post and decided to use her opinions about the comic to start shit both on reddit and in the discord. its not her fault, its not responsible for the bad faith actions of shit stirrers, and even if she HAD wasted her time saying “please dont use this to harass anyone” it wouldnt do shit to stop the shit stirrers.

moreover shes a small enough account it shouldnt HAVE to put “warnings” asking ppl not to start shit in what was ultimately a casual conversation with a friend of hers that someone else blew up a month later into this whole stupid debacle. please stop accusing her and our circle of friends of trying to start shit when you dont know whats actually going on and please also stop calling her “that person”, her pronouns are it/she and theyre right in its bio, it only takes three seconds to check.

I called her "that person" to refer to her in conversation not to be transphobic. its cuz shes a person and not literally homestuck vriska troll.

regardless of how rude your/her entire "circle of friends" i 100% appreciate everyone who came out the woodwork to say "hey no, she isn't sending people to attack CSAU". like that genuinely does make me feel better. a lot of posts yesterday came from a place of initial rage and frustration and knowing this is just one nutjob and not an angry mob did a lot to ease my anxiety. i shouldn't have jumped to conclusions on the matter.

i still think her entire original post was pretty rude, and i do think she should've stated somewhere up front she just didn't like csau, blocked the related artists/writers, and was stating her two cents instead of attacking it. but she is 21 (omg look i DID read her bio!) and she should really know that people be crazy.

[gloryundimmed]

@astarablaze Continued from here.

Since the first day he met Loux, his insecurity had grown like a brain-eating bacteria, starting as minimal irritation when the blond was too busy for him. Slowly, over months spent with Loux that ascertained him in a prominent position in his life, it ballooned into crippling anxiety. Paranoia. The one person who had ever meant anything to the hitman wasn't spending time with him, wasn't talking to him, wasn't even coming over and getting high or fucking him like he usually would. It didn't take much for Kai's poisoned mind to jump to conclusions.

He's found someone else. He has no interest in me anymore. I knew this would happen. No one in this universe would find someone like me worth it.

It was incredible, though. Even as he confronted Loux and fought with him, found himself pinned to the floor, nearly getting choked, the violence felt so good. Every second of adrenaline and physical contact with the blond was perceived by his brain as pure pleasure, hot pins and needles of a powerful hormone injecting themselves into his bloodstream— oxytocin. Fuck. Every touch, every conversation, every drug-ridden afterglow, every dangerous situation undertaken together, every violent moment, he was glad to exist in his boyfriend's gaze, if even for just for mere fleeting seconds.

So, the way his hands firmly gripped Loux's wrists was not to deter him from the action of choking him, but instead to assure him it was okay.

If you want me dead, it's okay. But only if it's you.

A death by Loux's hands would be one of the happiest this world could offer. To die in his arms would be such a wonderful way to die. It would be a death at the hands of his partner, the ying to his yang and the only one who truly understood him. The only one who had accepted him— every murderous, fucked up piece— and loved him for them, not despite them. After sharing a life with Loux, he could not imagine one without him. So if the blond was going to leave him, Kai would wholeheartedly accept his desire to kill him.

But— those stormy eyes, those grey vortexes of violent lightning and rain, gazed down at him with something different than a desire to kill. 'Don't be stupid,' he said. Then... 'I love you'. Twice.

Fiery golden eyes widened, and his grip on Loux's wrists weakened. Hearing the blonde say that if he died, he might as well be dead, too, caused tears to gather in his eyes that he barely noticed. Like this, underneath his boyfriend's warmth and body weight, he couldn't say he ever loved him more. The way he expressed his guilt and his apology ran deeper than just words. It was written in every action and emotion on his face as he spoke.

"Loux, babe..." His voice was low and tender, emotion choking him up. He hadn't found someone else. Somehow, his boyfriend still wanted him, wanted to live with him and sleep with him and trip with him and fuck shit up with him. The way his words silenced the insecurity in his mind was like a fucking miracle. All he wanted now was to be closer to Loux. Impossibly close, so close they would never be apart.

His hands rose to find a home in the messy blond hair he adored for the way it mirrored Loux's wild nature, much like his own, and brushed it away from his stunning grey eyes. "I love you so, so fucking much." The hitman wrapped his legs around his boyfriend's waist and began grinding against him.

"Fuck me, baby, fuck me so hard that you become part of me." he breathed, bringing the blond down for a passionate kiss. "Show me you won't leave."

[sapphire-weapon]

May I ask why exactly you dislike Infinite Darkness? I thought it had a pretty solid story and I found Leon pretty good. I'd love to hear your elaborated opinion. :)

I haven't watched ID since it first came out, so I can't give you a super detailed breakdown of it, but here's what I do remember:

I felt like the writers didn't know what they wanted Leon to actually be in terms of like... which side of his character they wanted to show off. He seems to go through sudden mood swings, and I remember at several points just being like "Dude he's all over the place. Is he off his meds or what's going on here?"

There were a lot of moments that were just logistical nonsense. Again, I can't remember exactly, but I do remember going "so are they ever going to explain that?" And "how the fuck did she even get there?" At several points.

Like, I do remember Leon fucking shooting Jason in the heart for treason, but when Shen May engages in the exact same shit that Leon called treason, he just went "WELL I'LL JUST SEE WHERE THIS GOES IG. DON'T WANNA JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS..." like homie you just fucking murdered a man over this what do you mean???? I know you want to fuck her but Jesus christ.

Infinite Darkness did Claire so dirty that I straight up cannot remember what the fuck she was even doing in it. The only thing I remember about Claire in ID is her getting kidnapped and having to rescue herself. And then she and Leon get into a big dumb fight at the end, AND THE FIGHT ITSELF MAKES NO SENSE

omg it's coming back to me now. If Leon's intention was to withhold evidence from Claire, why the fuck bother to tell her that he'd salvaged the evidence at all?? There was no fucking reason for him to do that. Like, was he trying to just hold it over her head and be a dick about it? What the fuck was the intention there? "hey Claire I got the thing that you've spent the entire plot duration looking for. And I'm not going to give it to you. See? See it in my hand? I have it. Not for you, though. Get fucked."

And then for Claire to get that pissed at him and rag on him for his bad judgement and decision-making and then NOT throw Sherry in his face or mention her at all is like... why. What's the point. Why did you manufacture this stupid drama between them when there was already something there that you could have used that was more organic and would make more sense???

ESPECIALLY SINCE THE WHOLE THING WAS ABOUT HOW UNTRUSTWORTHY THE GOVERNMENT IS AND HOW THEY DON'T ACTUALLY GIVE A SHIT ABOUT SURVIVORS OR RACCOON CITY AT ALL AND

I'm getting mad all over again LMAO

And also like!! The whole thing with Leon having a crisis about how he doesn't feel like a hero YET STILL LOOKS ASHLEY'S DAD IN THE FACE EVERY SINGLE DAY AND THE SHOW GOES OUT OF ITS WAY TO SHOW PHOTOS OF HER?? There was no acknowledgement of the fact that Leon actually saved her and did do a good thing, and I don't know why or how they just missed it and instead had to resort to that Patrick jobber to try to tell Leon "no it's OK man you're still a hero to me" like what the fuck

And the fucking

Villainous plot

It was the fucking Jenova Project. IT WAS JUST THE JENOVA PROJECT. Someone in the US government played FF7 and then turned around and went "HEY I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA" and started putting dudes in tubes and fucking with their genetic makeup.

I actually said the words out loud while watching "so is Jason Sephiroth??????"

Shen May's entire character was completely worthless, she accomplished nothing and died for nothing. And Jason trying to give a sad, dramatic monologue while he's a big gross bulging Birkin monster was one of the funniest things in RE ever, and that was super not the intention by the writers for that scene.

It was just a mess. It was a mess of missed opportunities and bad plot decisions made by stupid characters who accomplish nothing.

[tohokuu]

rant -

@nkogneatho

some guy used me to cheat on his girlfriend, except he told me they weren’t together and that he was single.

we sent each other nudes (which was an obvious mistake)

i still felt a little bit guilty abt it so i told my friend. my friend is friends with the girlfriend. i’ve never met the girlfriend tho- like we’ve never talked or anything

my friend told me that i should go and be honest and tell her what happened bc him and his girl never broke up… they were together the whole time …

see i haven’t talked to this guy either in like a few months and we don’t have social media or see each other so idk what’s going on w his life yk

i told his girlfriend everything and she didn’t believe me … she told me she knows him and that she doesn’t know me at all and that she would never believe me over his word. i barely had proof bc we never saved the conversation and he unadded me just a day later … i didn’t care tm and i unadded him as well and the chat got deleted so i can’t even pull anything up

she refused to believe me. called me a liar and a weirdo and she said that she’s heard rumors about me and how “i enjoy ruining people’s relationships for fun” and i was so shocked. this isn’t highschool LMFAO. why are we doing this…

she was so so fucking rude to me, guys. she said “you’re giving up because no one believes your lies and how you tried to ruin a relationship” and also said “enjoy being friendly with guys and trying to fill up the empty ass hole in you” “fix yourself” … i just took a lot of disrespect and i gave up trying to explain. i told her “here’s what happened. take it or leave it”

i provided her everything that she asked for except i had no texts between the guy and me

like i’m genuinely so blown.

if a girl told me this, i’d leave my man so quick.

he literally has a chokehold on her and refuses to believe what anyone else says. thing is- he has his friend helping him and i have a friend tryna help me too but she’s not believe us no matter what

the friend also told me who it was that was spreading the rumor about me being a homewrecker and it’s someone i’ve known for 14 years … that’s so :/

this is my bestfriend. i see her in class every day.

idk if it’s her and i’m not gonna jump to conclusions too fast but i genuinely hope this isn’t her bc if it is, idek what to do anymore

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then another one of my friends got mad at me bc i said i didn’t want to pick up 6 ppl from their houses and waste gas… she got so mad and disrespected me so badly and i still said sorry so many fucking times.

then after, i texted her today and told her i didn’t like the VERY passive aggressive way she spoke to me and instead she wrote paragraphs basically just gaslighting me and i’m like… ☠️

like it isn’t working, you’re not gaslighting me. you look stupid rn trying

that sucked as well and then i blocked her ass bc no

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the third thing is that i had a fallout with a friend and i ended up talking a lot of shit about the things they did that bothered me and stuff but we ended up becoming friends again and yk… she’s honestly so sweet and so caring and i felt horrible for what i did. i texted her today and told her everything and held up responsibility for it but she hasn’t answered. i think she looks her phone

[llycaons]

ep34 (1/2): jeez this is so painful

yeah gonna be real here guys this first half is probably one of my least favorite parts of the show. boring, drawn-out, confusing, unnecessarily complicated, making lwj act all weird and cold, jarring tonal shifts and disrespectful handling of very serious and character-relevant trauma. it's kind of shit

I skipped the scene where wwx was funning because they made him look so absurd and they turned it into a joke and it always pisses me off, but lwj flipping over the crowd like this was kind of funny at least

this running joke is also pretty funny

as a contrast to nhs, I imagine

THERE HE IS!!!

I don't like this scene at all, nor do I like the multiple shots back to lwj to make extremely small expressions responding to the info we just learned. like, so what? also his hairpiece is genuinely too big for his head imo

so this is something. wwx is clearly afradi of dogs, but never comes out and says it. instead, he says they chased after him on the streets and then jc had to give up his dogs, and then he transitions right into remarking bitterly how jl is just like jc (also hates him). not so much a discussion of wwx himself as it is a reflection on how he feels about his relationships right now

wwx physically grabbing and yanking lwj around is kind of fun but he was so mean to wwx this episode I got so mad! like, he seemed frustrated and annoyed with wwx for being scared and he ignored him earlier in the marketplace and lost track of him and now he's just being very cold and not offering any comfort or understanding. I've never liked or understood why he acts like this here. it's not like this behavior is what he normally does later or what he did right when wwx came back

HA. yeah this section is super long and boring and confusing but this was funny

see THIS is more like lwj, wwx tells him to go chase the spy and that he'll meet him later, but lwj is unwilling to leave him until wwx emphasizes I WILL meet you later I promise

however this is also very stupid because how can nhs outrun lwj??? one of the strongest cultivators in the world??? I guess they do know who it is immediately but if so, why not tell US? this is irritating, the way they come to conclusions silently then don't tell the audience

I love it when he complains. people characterize wwx as uncomplaining too much but by postres he is DONE

oh my god is that the same charm? OOF

this scene is so pretty I love the ground and the lights

jc saying that he can control jl no matter how old he is 😬😬😬

goddammit wwx stop agreeing with jc for misogynistic reasons

oh and this scene is SO stupid. ruins a dramatic and powerful reveal by making his fear of dogs into a stupid joke AGAIN

something I noticed back in ep33 was how disappointed jc looked after wwx fell. he looks the same here.

fuck, here we go. the infamous inn scene

their conversation here is really interesting and reveals a lot, but it's just so hard to watch bc wwx is currently being tormented and clearly isn't thinking as clearly as he would be otherwise. you know if the situations were reversed jc would be cursing wwx to take the dog away and would refuse to even have a conversation

he tries here, for a few seconds, to be cold and detatched. to not even look up as wwx whimpers. but he fails, in the end, he's too angry. throwing that tea cup across the room made me flinch

he literally killed himself man idk what more you expect him to do

oh I think this was translated differently elsewhere as 'you're the one who hasn't grown up,' I liked that

oh this is evil, one of the most evil things he ever does - tell fairy to come closer, terrify wwx into silence and then, what? prove that he, jc, is stronger after all? that he's more adult? maybe just use it as an excuse to lash out and hurt wwx more, feel good about having that control over him, being able to harm him? on the contrary, it's the technique and argument of a child. and a bully, at that

aw man this flashback where he jumped directly in jyl's arms 🥺

this is also so cruel! he's clearly having some kind of panic attack, how is he supposed to be held responsible for jc's feelings right now? actually really emblematic of their entire dynamic - jc expecting to be catered to never mind that wwx is literally losing his mind out of fear right now

in the novel he actually called for lwj, but I like the change because I thought it didn't make a lot of sense given that he had only just been freed from gusu and he and lwj were barely on decent terms

whew. continued on part two. FUCK YOU JIANG CHENG

[plusvanity]

1,2,14 and 50? for the existential/late night train questions

1. What do you crave in a psychological sense? Intimacy, passion, purpose, belonging, social interaction, etc.?

I love casual intimacy, the small ‘apparently’ insignificant gestures that hold so much meaning if a special person does it to you.

Passion definitely. I love seeing and experimenting things that result from passion. Art and music especially but in the large sense, it can be anything man-made that has a story, a concept and an idea that just manifests into something.

I crave exclusivity. I’m not a ‘people person’ as I can’t stand people around me most of the time. If I have one single person who I can interact with (online/ in real life) I consider them my friend and I don’t need more social interaction lol.

2. What kind of emotions do the stars evoke for you, if any? The ocean, the sky, the moon?

None of these themes evoke much as I don’t get to be that ‘abstract’ in daydreaming but I love the ocean in paintings and photography, especially the gray, gloomy, stormy and abyssal visuals of the ocean. It could be a ‘cosmic horror’ kind of thingy?? maybe, but it makes me feel abandoned and lost, which in my brain loves for edgy reasons, haha.

14. What are you worried about right now, if anything?

My worries right now are the worries I have all the time. Intrusive thoughts and s*****e ideations. I don’t really have the ‘day by day’ worries as the things around me are good, it’s me that isn’t.

50. What qualities do you find charming? 

Intelligence. Lol, this is so fucking pompous but it’s true. I’m a very ‘going down the rabbit hole’ kind of person about various subjects and matters. That’s why I love debating and exploring from different perspectives and points of view lots of shits. The thing is that you need someone who’s got the package of information and analytical brains to have a conversation back and forth instead of you presenting stuff as in a TED TALK show.

I also like when someone doesn’t throw a freakin’ tantrum for not sharing the same beliefs and point of view. I had met too many people so child-like but in the worst possible ways. So, a bit of objectivity and the ability not to just jump into abrupt conclusions?? maybe

Humor, definitely. I’m not funny, at least I don’t consider myself funny soo… yeah, feel free to make me crack with a stupid joke or remark, I fancy that in a person.

…And some common interests, ofc, who doesn’t like to happily waffle for hours about your manic hyper-fixations?? Flicks, series, anime, music, artists, philosophy, psychology, rock history/culture, drugs, fashion history, art, fuckin’ guitar (I’d bore anyone out of their minds if they give me free go to ramble about guitars. man)

Yeah, I fancy that, that's charming I guess.

Sorry for my bad English btw.