#it's canon and CBS can fight me

[lemonstars8583]

hello 😈😈 uhh ppl are gonna see this and be like “huh” but i don’t ❤️ care very much at all ❤️

so remember that CTW AU is posted abt well here’s where bonbon is 😭 !! hooraaay!!

there’s that weird minigame in into the pit (the game) that has bonbon so i was like okay in this AU millie isn’t even dead so like. that minigame wouldn’t exist but what if… bonbon… in real life instead..

so Oswald finds bonbon deactivated in the weird ballpit world (and yes i have an explanation for this i’ll leave it under the cut as well as some extra info), accidentally wakes him up, and bonbon does not fucking like him but he’s like “okay you’ve been here before and left?? let’s make a deal i’ll help you survive and you get me the fuck out of here”. so it’s like a reluctant alliance turned eventual friendship.

TLDR: Freddy gets in a fight with baby, badly injured, thrown out, taken in by Jeff’s Pizza when it was a bit more popular, kids climb on him daily and eventually break his arm off, bonbon falls into ballpit and freddy can’t find him. he gets thrown out again because kids have trashed him. a few years pass while he’s stuck in the junkyard and bonbon is unconscious in the ballpit world in the past. Oswald finds him and they

If that sounded interesting here’s the full ramble ⬇️⬇️

Considering one of bonbon’s functional purposes on funtime freddy being a lookout (bonbon is described as “parental tracking/360 pivot” on freddy’s blueprints.) I think he’d use that to help Oswald and act as a lookout, keeping track of where threats are and informing him when one’s coming closer and from what direction. he would try to trick him sometimes out of pure mischief though.

also i think bonbon himself probably wouldn’t have that “kill kids when they’re alone” programming just because he’s so small so he wouldn’t get the job done quickly, he would probably only tell freddy “hey nobody’s around, get that kid” so with freddy not even there he isn’t much of a threat to Oswald unless he chooses to be.

AAANYWAY how bonbon got in the ballpit ❤️ keep in mind a lot of this is entirely from my brain. at this point we’re getting into “entirely canon divergent” levels of AU so be warned

i thought it would be funny if freddy and cb got into a fight and cb just beat the shit out of him. based on 2 things: 1. the fight when they kicked baby out of the ennard hivemind and 2. a roblox rp i was in 😭😭 LOLL it wasn’t a serious rp (at least not on my end, i think the person playing CB was being for real) but it was so funny i loved it

SO anyway i figured the only reason they were able to beat baby was because it was all the funtimes working together and because they were kind of all equally distributed in ennard. i think if it was just funtime freddy trying to fight circus baby he would 100% lose she’s like a foot taller than him

so freddy gets his shit rocked, and management is like “we’re done with this guy he sucks” and throws him out. Jeff’s Pizza picks him up like “hell yeah weird mascot thing” and puts him in the ballpit room to stand there and let kids climb on him. eventually because he’s still pretty broken his arm breaks off from the weight of a bunch of kids hanging on it and it falls into the ballpit. later on he goes looking for his arm and bonbon and can’t find either of them.

the pizza place ends up throwing him out because the kids are just trashing him and he ends up in the junkyard where millie’s grandpa finds him years later. I’d imagine in that time he would become an urban legend of sorts, wandering around looking for things nobody can find, and taking the life of the occasional kid who’s out past their bedtime. He’d become more jaded and cynical instead of his former silly self during this time too.

HI GUYS FUTURE LEMON HERE i had this in drafts and now im looking at it again. there’s a detail i forgot! while time passes in the ballpit world, no time passes in the real world 😃 fuck! SOO that kinda fucks this story up but ALSO. this is an AU. i can do what i want. and i don’t think the story will be too horribly affected if i just disregard that? so that’s what im doing 👍

[miraculouslbcnreactions]

Okay so a thing that has bothered me ever since I first watched Chat Blanc was Bunnyx and the general time travel stuff because tghis makes no sense. In the Chat Blanc time line, after Chat Blanc destroyes the universe, everyone is dead. Including adult!Alix aka Bunnyx. So the Bunnyx fron the Chat Blanc timeline doesn'rt exist anymore, meaning that the Bunnyx fron the episode is from a parallel timeline where Chat Blanc didn't destroy the universe. That however raises the question why she would even care about that other timeline. Is her quest to assure victory over Monarch in every single timeline because that sounds exhausting as hell. I also don't understand the deal with her leg disappearing while she witnesses the fight between LB and CB, it has no reason to, because LB defeating CB doesn't have any effect on Bunnyx because, as stated earlier, the Bunnyx from that timeline is already dead! And honestly, the fact that Lb even had to fight CB makes no sense. They could've just went back in time 2 minutes so LB can erase her name from the letter (or just be quicker so Adrien doesn't see her) and CB doesn't happen in the first place!

Like, genuine question, what was the point of the whole thing? I mean other than the concept is cool and the writers wanted to give LB trauma (which never really plays a significant part in the overall story anyway??)

Sorry for rambling so much, I don't know if this makes any sense, the episode was really confusing to me and idk if it's just because the episode actually doesn't make sense or because I just don't understand it bc time travel is really confusing. Would really love to hear your opinion!

You're fine and you're not missing a thing. The episode simply doesn't make sense nor am I sure why it even exists. I know a lot of people love it, but I really don't get the hype. It runs off of nonsense logic and makes most of the characters look really bad.

Let's start with the lore.

The canon lore is that Bunnyx only travels through time, not universes, so it makes no freaking sense that an adult Bunnyx would be able to stop Chat Blanc since the existence of Chat Blanc should stop her from existing. It's a total paradox that goes against everything we'd been told about her powers. Of course, she's also supposed to be the hero of last resort, yet we hear about her hanging out with famous historical figures and the season five final sees her acting as a substitute for the horse miraculous even though the people she portals in don't do a thing to help with the final battle, so it's not like Chat Blanc is the only time her powers and role get ignored. Any time I use the rabbit, I have to completely rework its lore because canon is just so bad at time travel. I like Alix and her adult design is awesome, but any time Bunnyx shows up, I expect to be annoyed.

Also, I will never forgive her for just dumping Ladybug back in our time without so much as a word of encouragement or any reassurance that the Chat Blanc stuff was only a maybe. And Ladybug was the one to figure out how to fix time!!! Alix, you suck at your job! Or this is just another case of the writers refusing to let someone other than Marinette save the day even though the poor girl really needs a day off.

As for why this episode exists? I don't even know, dude. It makes no sense. Back when we thought it was going to be a driving force in the season four conflict - an assumption that was backed up by Marinette's nightmare in sentibubbler - the episode kinda made sense in spite of its flaws. But we're two seasons past Chat Blanc and the only person who is apparently traumatized by it is Adrien.

Yes, the writers actually said this. No, you didn't miss an episode where Adrien learned about Chat Blanc. They were talking about the nightmares from the final:

Mélanie says that he "could become Chat Blanc" and the others add that even though he does not remember and has never lived it, Chat Blanc still has an influence on his actions.

Yes, this is embarrassingly bad writing. The character who never saw or even heard of Chat Blanc is somehow the one who is traumatized and effected by it while Marinette's trauma has nothing do to with Chat Blanc or the events of the season four final. Instead, it's random BS that was never even hinted at until season five. I just... what?

In case it wasn't obvious - which I guess it isn't given that professional writers missed this - the logical way to write this to have the season four conflict be about Chat Blanc from Ladybug's side. After the conflict ends, she reveals everything to Chat Noir who becomes terrified of hurting people with his powers. This is only exacerbated by the events of Destruction. But then the show would have had to let Chat Noir have a character arc that didn't revolve around Ladynette and the series seems allergic to that as a concept, so instead Adrien gets magical trauma that keeps him from the final fight. And I thought the Derision retcon was bad!

Other issues with Chat Blanc in no particular order:

It cements Nathalie as just as bad a Gabriel since she's the one who tells him Adrien's secret identity and we then see her do nothing to try to protect Adrien.

It makes Gabriel irredeemable by showing him gleefully hurting his child. Dude punts his son across the city with a smile on his face!

It makes Adrien look slimy since he asks Marinette out without telling her that he knows her secret identity. This one is in a bit of a grey area for me because the secret identity stuff is complicated, but Adrien has never been the one who cared about secret identities AND he's the one who has been directly turned down in hero form. The episode takes none of that into consideration with its writing and it really needed to for Adrien to feel like he had a valid point of view here. As is, he's taking advantage of a situation and putting his Lady love at risk for his own wants.

The pillow sniff scene makes Marinette look unhinged.

It spits in the face of The Power of Love by having Adrien's love fail to be enough to stop him from killing Marinette.

Marinette's parents should have gotten involved after Gabriel threatened her. There is no way in hell that I'd let my kid go over to the Agreste mansion after that. If the writers were once again determined to not let Tom and Sabine parent, then the threat should have come when Marinette was alone.

Why did Ladybug even need to go to the future if Bunnyx could have just gone back in time and stopped Ladybug from leaving the present for Adrien? Why did Chat Blanc even need to be defeated? What did Ladybug's ladybug actually fix when she cast her charm?

This is minor, but it bothers me: Chat Noir should not have been smiling and happy when he was freed from his akuma. That boy should have been in the middle of a breakdown.

I know people forgive some of the above because Chat Blanc is sort of an AU and I'm not going to say that's wrong, I just can't look at it that way because there's nothing that sets Chat Blanc apart from the normal timeline. The Paris special gives us an AU. Chat Blanc (and Ephemeral) are what the writers told us would happen in the canon timeline if Gabriel ever discovered his son's secrets. Canon Gabriel was the one doing those things and would have done them again if given the chance. This is who the writers said he is. Same goes for all the other characters who come across less than stellar here.

There's a reason why I love a good Chat Blanc rewrite. It's an idea with a lot of potential, but canon capitalizes on almost none of it.

[jaggedwolf]

Kate x Lucy

when I started shipping it if I did: pilot episode kiss, ngl, where it establishes that they must already be on-and-off hooking up in between sniping at each other about classified information. Lucy just shows up at her apartment!

my thoughts: when I watched this show I was genuinely bewildered by how this CBS procedural NCIS spin-off....just has a whole-ass lesbian romcom happening in its first season? The S1 finale literally ends on them getting together via a grand gesture with the rest of the team cheering.

anyway, they're so fun! they hit a lot of dynamics I like - Lucy loves loudly and openly while Whistler is brittle and contained, they have tension with a history, the height difference is cute, and man, maybe for a different ship all the drama in 1B would've been too much, but for these two I loved it, and not just because Whistler made the best kicked puppy faces while pining hopelessly

my random headcanons on when they each realize they're gay is that Lucy realizes in middle school and Whistler realizes in college, not too long before Noah's death. Don't think anything in canon contradicts that

What makes me happy about them: they're so ridiculously fond of each other. The consistent hearteyes they aim at each other while engaging in tropey shenanigans and still being individually competent agents makes me very happy. When it comes to the relationship angst, I like that for them it's never closeted/sexuality angst but their very different personalities, the usual fwb-to-lovers difficulties, Whistler's big mistake, and working together. They've been no less delightful as an established relationship in S2 and S3 - I love how much the show loves them, they literally got a ficcy-as-hell undercover-as-couple subplot last episode with all the usual gimmicks

Oh, I also did not anticipate how much physical fighting this procedural would have, and as someone who always wants my faves to get wrecked, I have been very well-served. Lucy almost dying while undercover right after Kate crushes her heart! Whistler getting injured while they're broken up and Lucy yelling at her for it! Such good food. (Show, you can keep beating up Whistler every season, I will never complain.)

What makes me sad about them: Their families, and the resulting loneliness. Lucy talks about her sister and brothers like a youngest kid who used to be close to them but isn't any more, last ep she commented that she knew from a very young age that her parents would never throw her a big wedding like her brothers', the way she gets set off by "financially responsible" as a rationale + her family's money has implications there. Kate's confession of how she shut herself off from the world after Noah's death.

But I like that they know about these things for each other (the way Whistler goes "Right. Right." at Lucy's comment tells us they've talked about this before), and the way they're navigating around and disarming each other's landmines here

things done in fanfic that annoys me: I understand that this is the danger of stepping back into another blonde/brunette live-action f/f ship but I cannot deal with those epithets. Or "taller woman"/"shorter woman" either, all of it always makes the PoV character sound like she has a complex about hair or height. It is okay to use the characters' names, I promise.

things I look for in fanfic: .....I've become such a hipster about characterizations for these two. Lucy is the one who broods and contemplates her feelings, Kate is the one who acts without thinking and gets surprised by her own reactions. Whistler is the one with better work-life balance and hobbies, who moved from DC to Hawai'i and stayed there despite the former being way better for a fed career, who goes surfing every Saturday morning without bothering to be contactable by work, and Lucy is the one who describes her life as consisting solely of "work, gym, and [Whistler]" and sometimes does paperwork on the weekends.

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: Gosh, I really have no other Lucy ships. For Whistler, I could 100% ship Whistler/Tennant if it was like, after the kids are grown. Why do they stand so close to each other in that 1x14 coffee conversation and say each other's full titles, or have Whistler demonstrate career-threatening levels of loyalty to Tennant, if not to make me contemplate this ship? I hope Sam Hanna's presence doesn't mean we don't get any Tennant-Whistler stuff this season.

My happily ever after for them: Just keep on being badass agents together and stay in Hawaii long-term. Don't really see them having kids, but I can totally see Lucy convincing Whistler of having a cat. ...Maybe get a shorter bed, does Lucy really have to climb that high every night XD.

who is the big spoon/little spoon: lmao I was going to make a comment about Lucy jetpacking because of course she does, but the bed comment reminded me that that they have 10 billion pillows on their bed. One weekend morning Lucy is going to sleepily think she's spooning Kate and find out she's actually hugging those pillows, having been abandoned for the Dreaded Ocean.

what is their favorite non-sexual activity: does sparring really count as non-sexual for them it might really be meals at home? They both cook, they enjoy a quiet night in after their truly hectic cases, and they can put on GBBO or one of Whistler's preferred history documentaries afterwards.

[there-must-be-a-lock]

@stunudo sent me an ask a week or two ago challenging me to share my five favorite lines that I’ve ever written, so here goes!

To be fair, a lot of these are missing something without context; most of my favorite lines are the ones that call back to other moments in the fic and tie together imagery. BUT. Here.

From A Muscle the Size of Your Fist — this is a theme that runs through the whole story, and there are places where I think I captured parts of it more elegantly, but this is where it’s said most concisely:

“Punk has always been about the outcasts, the queer kids and the misfits and the marginalized, the black sheep… everybody who feels like they’re alone. Everybody who feels powerless.” Steve’s voice rings out, fills the space like a living presence, and Bucky gets chills when he continues: “But you’re not alone, and you never were. Look around you. Next time you feel like you’re alone, next time you feel like giving up, I want you to listen to this song and remember that there are people out there who are willing to fight for you. We’ll fight for you until you’re strong enough to stand up and join in. We’ll love you until you learn how to love yourself.”

From If It’s A Highway:

Jesus always seems so damn tired, up there on his cross, with his arms spread wide as if to welcome death, and maybe Bucky can relate. If he could just sleep for three days — doesn’t sound so bad, when he thinks about it like that. Three days isn’t that long.

He wonders whether Jesus knew what was coming. Whether he was surprised to find himself alive again. Whether he woke alone in the dark and screamed until his lungs gave out, or broke his knuckles beating his fists against the stone.

Also from Highway:

Bucky used to have an empty, sterile cage in his chest and an endless stygian labyrinth of caves in his skull, and as long as he didn’t look too close, he could ignore the buried remains of past lives under his skin. The darkness didn’t bother him until the walls started to crumble and let in the light.

Every tiny human act has been a hairline crack in his icy shell. Every moment of empathy and desire, gentle touch and sharp lust, coffee and cigarettes and food and sex; pebbles dropped in wells and flashlights shone down mineshafts, tremors that shook the foundations, coffin lids splintering. Miniscule fissures, microscopic landslides.

Just for the sake of switching up the vibe, here’s The One With The Pottery Barn Couch — probably the funniest fic I’ve ever written, and there were other lines I could’ve picked out, too, but I’m a big fan of this one:

When Dick wakes up, he’s being carried. He’s being cradled to a really absurdly muscled chest that’s covered in leather and smells like explosions, and carried in one goddamn arm, like Paris Hilton would carry her fucking chihuahua.

…

Maybe it’d be nice to be a rich lady’s spoiled chihuahua, Dick thinks, and then, holy painkillers, Batman, and then he is out for the count.

It was ridiculously difficult to choose this last one, not gonna lie. I re read this fic the other day and I really love this — it does tie into the rest (and, like, into canon) so YMMV, but. From Lost My Fear of Falling:

It took them both years to get here, to learn to let themselves be loved without doubting it, without looking down waiting for the self-fulfilling prophecy of an inevitable stumble. It was worth the work. There’s no doubt in his mind. But he misses the days when he never thought twice about all the open space under that tightrope.

Dick lets the tears come. Lets himself mourn the kid who thought love was as easy as gravity, and who’d never had any reason to be afraid of falling.

Tagging — @kangofu-cb @drgrlfriend @bittercape @sammialex @oliocelottafanfics you WILL compliment yourselves dammit! 🖤

[justjasper]

Hellooo! I come with the most basic ask haha

What's your favorite thing about Morgan's character? And about Reid's character? What season made you ship them?

My favourite part about Morgan is his deep, profound empathy, even when it costs him.

Prentiss pegs him early on, when she says "you make the people around you feel good", and that is, I maintain, absolutely central to his character.

An example that stands out to me is his interactions with the unsub Stephen in In Heat (closested gay man who is killing bc of sexuality struggles). And whether you read with with queer!Morgan lenses or not, Morgan being the one to stand there, victimised the way he was, and tell this unsub there is nothing wrong with him for being gay is just... it breaks me.

The way he bears his own trauma, something he buried for 20 years, relives that and hurts himself when he knows it will help someone else, is absolutely heart wrenching.

And I know the other characters share their trauma, but to me personally (your mileage may vary etc), the disclosure of being a survivor of sexual violence (especially in childhood) is such a significant and raw trauma to relive over and over. It's a hard one to speak openly about. And Morgan does it, even when it costs him, because he knows it will help someone.

My favourite part about Reid's character is just how strong he is. I could go on about empathy for him too, but the strength of Reid to keep coming back, fight on, to push himself, that's what gets me.

I believe there is strength in softness, but Reid's the character who I think suffers from the woobification the worst with Criminal Minds, and sometimes that means people's interpretations of him strip him of agency, which I think I identify with from a very autistic point of view.

I don't mean the tendency for Reid to be the focal of "whump" (reid's targetted/kidnapped/hurt) bc I love that shit as much as the next gay, but sometimes the woobification extends to making Reid meek, submissive, helplessness, when it's just not true.

He's smart, quick witted, snarky, can absolutely be a mean git, adaptable to situations, both socially awkward and socially intelligent at once. He knows his worth and knows when people understimate and undermine him. Sometimes it feels like this gets forgotten within fandom. Which isn't a big deal in the end, these are not real people but paper dolls we make kiss, but Reid's strength is so central to why I love him.

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The exact moment it went from "oh that's kinda cute" to "they are in love and i will die for them" was season 2x12, profiler, profiled, when Morgan's sisters and mother absolutely clock Reid.

"Derek talks about you."

I was a goner then, that was it. Forever OTP, canon and increasingly inconsistant writing and a fundamentaly homophobic network (fuck u CBS) be damned. They're it. They're endgame for me.

Related, the closest "canon" moment where I think they could have been made real honest to god canon would have been season 4's Amplification. Should have had them kiss in that hospital room and broken ground for queer rep on network TV.

But at least we have fanfiction!

[funky-demon2]

Since I see a lot of CBS headcanons, I decided '"Yk what? I'm gonna make myself some piss cakehole/cakehole piss headcanons because they need some love (I mean love I mean the 4 people that like these characters sitting in the back row) THIS IS SUPER LONG BTW BECAUSE THESE 2 BRAIN ROT ME EVERYDAY!!!!

Piss cakehole

•Despite being a absolutely menace to society murder, he’s very anti social. Like very anti going out with other freak friends (if he has any) or parties. Occasionally he’ll go to a friends place but that’s it. Kill. Sleep.Live.

•he actually Shockingly has a job, it’s Dairy Queen. He works night shifts because no one there wants be to around him but he doesn’t as long as someone doesn’t make him upset.

•He has curly hair you can’t fight me on it and he puts it in a curly man bun. (Bonus for salt and pepper hair)

•him and Cakehole are so identical, sometimes when their in good moods switch their outfits and pretend to be each other to pull pranks.

•Him and cakehole are actually the second oldest sniper freaks since being twins (around late 30’s. He’s mad at cakehole because he doesn’t age as much as him)

•He actually does care for cakehole and thinks as him as him as “his little brother” (their twins Ik but cakehole acts younger) but he finds annoying him around and often irritates him too the point he just wants to yank him. Cakehole is very aware and is on house arrest for that.

•he’s a stoner gay. Like hippie Artist gay. I’m talking 70’s belle bottoms and arched back. A feminine posing man. I’m talking cross dressing will wood. “I wanna be the f*cked up girl” From Ride the cyclone type gender. He/they type magic happening. He is gender.

•Hes also got LITTLE FRECKLES and a buck teeth? (Tooth?) like me because he’s my bgg

Source: I said so.

Cakehole piss

•Unlike his counter part, he’s very social and actually really funny around other freaks. He just needs to warm up or not being a murdering mood (he’s also kind of a loud person and has a higher pitched voice)

•He’s 89% percent high most of the time and smells like the strongest weed ever. Other percent is him being clueless.

•He’s on the spectrum. I say that as In like “he’s so me fr” kind of spectrum. He info dumps to demo samedi ALL The time but he doesn’t care. He likes blue things and things that sparkle. Or legos. Legos make him stim like me fr

Source on the spectrum: Me and all the other autistic freak fortress fans. He’s one of us now.

•He sees the undead stoner scouts as his older brothers and Demo Samedi as his father figure. (Idk because he’s a creation to him) and sometimes calls him “Master Samedi” instead of Demo Samedi in a sense of being being his creator.

•(this is actually canon) He doesn’t like water AT ALL. Refuses to go unless he needs to shower. Otherwise it would take him a whole team just to throw him in.

•He has dyed short curly hair and like multiple piercings like his ear and mouth. He also tends to wear baggy clothing and pajamas actually despite his normal uniform.

•Him and Piss are both Latinos/natives 🫶 (mixed parents fight me all you want). Piss‘s parents don’t call him by his “name” and call him instead “pequeña mariposa” (little butterfly in Spanish sorry If it’s not accurate, I can only speak little Lakota and more English ) they very much welcomed Cakehole into the family and treat him like a son

That’s all I have and also I’m making a short story on these 2 about most of these headcanons. If you don’t like these just remember that these are headcanons so don’t be rude about it. Ok stay groovy you guys 🫶💗

[captainmvf]

Been out of touch and busy in-between updates for my Stex fan fics and I’m sorry but it’s going to be even slower soon as I have a lot of busy events and irl stuff going on.

ANYWAY. If you are interested in reading or providing some compliments, feel free to read what I got. [Fair warning, I lean pretty heavy on the Rusted Breaks pairing so much of what I have is going to be there.]

⭐️The Real Me Might be the One that You Want: (One-Sided Rusted Brakes, One-Shot) "A year after the events of the race and everything is fine! Pearl and Rusty are the sweethearts of the train yard and CB can pretend that everything is fine on the outside... Even if he lost his chance to tell how he truly felt for someone who might never trust him fully ever again. Everything is fine!"

⭐️Moon-Lit Eyes: (Rusted Brakes, Non-Canon Sequel to The Real Me..., One-Shot) "Five years after the events of the race have passed and much of the yard has changed. To get away from it all for a night, Rusty and CB stargaze by the oceanside rail. A late night talk can certainly bring out more than the moon and stars..."

⭐️Once Lucky: (Possible Pairings, General) "The age of steam comes to a depressing end to steam trains and railways everywhere. Nothing good lasts forever but those lucky enough can still find peace at hereditary yards. One of the last of his age, Lucky must make do with being a young steam engine and survive against the changing world." [Note: This one is unfinished but a second chapter is largely written out and needs a lot of editing before upload. This might also lean into Rusted Brakes.]

⭐️Rolling into Starlight: (Rusted Brakes, General, Other Pairings, Human AU, Multi-Chapter) “Living in ‘West End’ was never quiet, especially when the hippest place to be was the Apollo Victoria Roller Rink. Rusty, a small sophomore with a crush on ‘New Girl’ Pearl, didn’t plan on life to keep throwing curveballs at him… Even when he then discovers that a piece of jewelry his late grandmother left him is actually magical and grants him the wish to be a more confident self. Now with Rusty being able to transform into his secret alter-ego Starlight Express when he needs to, he can perhaps find a way to fight those curveballs outright!” [Note: This one is also largely unfinished but is half-way done. I don’t plan to drop this and would rather see it to completion. This one just takes a lot out of me and update dates are going to be uneven.]

Thank you! Comments do help to move along updates! ✨

[bpro-fantasia]

Hello!! thank you for making this blog, it makes me so happy when I found it 💞 can i ask for headcanons to thrive as a father please><? thank you!! 💖

Hi hi! Thank you so much for requesting as well as the sweet words, anon! 💖 Fun fact, Parent AUs are one of my all time favs! They are just too wholesome TvT. So I had fun writing this, may have to even do a little doodle dump later based on these. Hopefully I didn't disappoint with these either, though ofc I will only get better with the more that I do. Thank you for the support! - Mod CB

(Note: This is set pretty far in the future especially in the case of Yuta as he's canonically, what? 17? So they're all in a stable enough place to have a child/children)

Thrive as Fathers

Kaneshiro Goshi:

Was scared to hold his child when they were first born. They’re so small after all, what if he accidentally hurts them? After you actually get him to hold them though, he won’t admit it, but doesn’t want to let them go.

Is surprisingly more responsible than one would think. A list of emergency contacts of the fridge, overnight bags packed just in case. Little things that I feel would be kind of unexpected for him, but this man is prepared.

To a stranger Goshi seems to be more of a cold parent. Still picks up his kid, holds their hand, and such, but usually keeps a straight face and doesn’t look very happy, like he’s only doing it out of necessity(we know he can smile, but Goshi does kind of have a resting b!tch face lol).

Behind closed doors though? Expect a lot of soft smiles and just quiet bonding time(He shows his love with actions rather than words and doesn’t usually say ‘I love you’, but it’s certainly felt):

>> Will sit next to the crib and read a book with one hand and just put his other in the crib and just let his child hold it and play with it. 

>> Totally one of those dad’s that lays on the couch with their kid laying on his chest, probably looking over music while absentmindedly playing with their hair. Usually ends up as a nap. 

>>When his child learns to walk, they often go over to him if he’s standing and tug on his pant leg. Goshi usually instantly picks them up and will answer whatever childlike questions they have (‘What’s this? What are you doing? Why?’). Surprisingly doesn’t get annoyed.

>> Lots of forehead kisses! Whenever he picks them up, puts them to bed, etc.

Worries A LOT. Totally fusses over his child a bit too much, but it’s just because he cares! (talk through it with him though and he’ll calm down and see that he’s worrying needlessly).

Keeps his temper in check pretty well, only ever really has issues when his child is going through their teen years. If they start talking back to him or become sarcastic, he has to remind himself to try not to yell (sometimes fails and will apologize and talk out the issue calmly with his kid afterwards).

Tries his best, but still frequently asks himself if he’s being a good father. 

Bonus: 

Child - *comes home with a few bandages on their face and arms.* ‘Dad I got into a fight at school.’ 

Goshi - *typing lyrics on his computer or something, not even looking up.* ‘Okay, but did you win?’

Aizome Kento:

Absolutely pours his soul into raising this child! He doesn’t want them to go through what he had to as a kid.

He is very casual with his love, he tries not to smother them, but wants them to know they are cherished. So saying ‘I love you’ isn’t uncommon. He’s an even split between showing and telling when it comes to love.

His child definitely grabbed and tugged on his bangs as a baby. Which was Kento’s least favorite time. Will look back on this memory and laugh, though it was frustrating at the time.

Best dressed kid, makes sure his child is stylin’ just like their dad. Even as a newborn, will buy high end baby clothes, someone please tell him they’re just outgrow it in a week or two T^T (he still probably won’t care and buy it anyway).

No matter how busy he may be will ALWAYS make time for his kid, they will never feel neglected or unwanted with him as their father.

He gets really depressed if he makes a mistake of any kind. He wants so badly to be the perfect dad and will struggle with the reality that there’s no such thing. 

If Kento is not already in an established relationship, he will cease his flirtatious/playboy ways. He wants a stable environment for his kid and doesn’t want them to feel overwhelmed if he brings home different partners all the time (may still go on the occasional date, but nothing like before).

Another one that likes to play with his child’s hair, if they lean against him or he’s holding them with one arm, he’ll use his other to twirl and a strand of their hair.

Trust his kid to make the right decisions, but tries to make himself seem approachable for his kid to come to him if they need his advice. Even though it’s hard to let his child make mistakes he wants them to be able to learn from them (will 100% step in if it’s a dangerous situation though).

Doesn’t deal well with a possible attitude when they get older, doesn’t get mad usually, just sad. Especially if they don’t say ‘I love you too’, he’ll be SUPER heartbroken.

Documents his kid’s childhood very well, lots of videos and pictures to capture memories for them to look back (in short he is definitely a ‘soccer mom’ type, recording on his phone and cheering for his child).

Bonus:

Nameless Character: *Pointing at Kento* ‘What do you have there?’

Kento: *standing there with his baby strapped to his chest in a carrier, both of them wearing matching designer sunglasses and hats. Drink in his hand* ‘A smoothie.’ 

*starts sipping on said smoothie*

Ashu Yuta:

Already babysits Goshi and Kento, so he’s the most prepared out of Thrive.

Totally believes he has the cutest baby ever in existence. Not because they’re his baby, but simply because they are them! <3

100% accidentally smothers his child with love. Like we know you love your child, but let them breathe! Very outspoken with his love, mainly shows it with his words. Impossible for them to feel unloved with how much their dad reminds them on a daily basis.

His child is HYPER, like they give Yuta a run for his money with how much energy they have. His family probably will be reminded of how Yuta was as a child lol.

Loves spending time with his child. He’ll follow whatever game they want to play, let them dress him up however they want, etc. Loves to see them be imaginative and creative!

The fridge is covered with any and every achievement his child has ever made, no matter how small (needs a second fridge.. NO, not actually Yuta, please don-) One Proud Papa!

Even though Yuta loves sugar he will cut back a lot. He wants his kid to grow up healthy and needs to lead by example (of course a treat every once in a while doesn’t hurt).

When his kid gets hurt or really sick for the first time he PANICS. He can’t stand when his baby is in pain and will rush them to the hospital as soon as humanly possible!

Is one of those dads that cry harder than their kid when they get a shot(vaccine), so much so you’d think he was the one getting one. 

Disappointed dad Yuta is the SCARIEST thing. His kid would much rather he get angry and yell at them. His expression only is enough to make them feel guilty enough to go to jail.

If his child tells him they’re embarrassed by him, he’ll try his best to hide his hurt. He wants to be a dad that his child will look up to afterall.

Bonus:

Yuta: *notices his child run by with something in their hand* ‘Hey! What do you have?’

Child: *Holds up a kitchen knife* ‘A knife!’

Yuta: *running after child* ‘NO!!!’

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I was just talking in my pack about how c!Crazy:B is so erratic in stage with Rinne harassing anything(unitmate or camera) nearby, Niki half asking everything, Kohaku slaying and HiMERU trying to not murder Rinne...which got me thinking into your AU

I swear I had to come double check if Niki was in the same unit as Shu, glad that's not the case but still imagining how the idols in the swap behave during lives when compared to their canon counterparts

oooh!!

Swap!CB is definitely a lot more. controlled. than their canon counterpart but Ibara would try to avoid everyone else as discretely as possible. Wataru's hair definitely gets in everyone's way so I can imagine Koga having to bat it out of the way constantly.

S!Alk is. A trainwreck. Niki is barely trying, Kuro is doing good, and both Tetora and Mitsuru are trying their best but never on beat.

S!Valk is the funniest to me. Tsumugi is always just SLIGHTLY late and lowkey trembling while Mayoi is perfectly on beat. I'd like to think that they would have the opposite ending for the Valk climax -- Tsumugi's arm doesn't shake at the end.

S!Ryusetai probably contains Leo and Hiyori fighting for the camera's attention lmao.. and Mao keeping them from killing each other

In s!Ra*bits, I think they would all be okayish except for Yuuta, who struggles a lot (esp. in their earlier shows) in comparison to Hinata. Sora glances at Yuuta a lot, especially when he's struggling

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The Winchesters is Unnecessarily Competent

I like to have TV on as background noise while I work and the other day, I put on The Winchesters because I thought it would be dumb and campy and I wouldn’t have to pay attention. I’d forgotten a Supernatural prequel series existed until scrolling past it on HBO Max. I had never seen a trailer or read any press about it, and I had no idea what I was walking into.

I’m halfway through episode 1 when I see John Winchester team up in a poorly choreographed fight against a demon with Mary Campbell and I start paying attention, waiting for something to swoop in and roofie John to next Thursday, and wipe his memory. But that doesn’t happen. This John knows exactly what demons are.

Having skipped seasons 8-15, save a few episodes here and there, of Supernatural, I missed most of the Men of Letters and Jack shenanigans. But I remember very clearly that a ton of drama in the earlier seasons came from the boys having no idea that their mother was a hunter, and came from a long line of hunters, until a reveal in season… 4, I believe. John never had any idea of his wife’s history, as shown through a couple time travel episodes.

This was a big deal to Sam and Dean. Earth-shattering revelations had all around.

So when The Winchesters decided to retcon that… morbid curiosity had me paying attention solely to find out if this would crash and burn spectacularly with how little the writers seemed to understand about the source material.

Only, The Winchesters didn’t crash and burn. It has solid acting, decent period-appropriate costuming and set design, fantastic characters with a lot of depth, a very Supernatural main antagonist, especially toward the later seasons, and a very clear love and respect for the source material.

And I’m… baffled?

The show was clearly designed for those who had seen Supernatural. The title credits are the same font and the title card has the same sound cues from Supernatural. There’s that old familiar classic rock soundtrack and tons of winks and nods to famous lines from the show, “Saving people, hunting things” being one of them, “Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole,” as well.

When actors came to reprise their roles, the music swells upon the face reveal, there’s a big dramatic pause so fangirls can squeal and point at the screen like DiCaprio in that meme. Jensen Ackles reprised his role to narrate and eventually makes an appearance on screen. It’s a good time. It’s a fun time. They rely on familiar faces just enough to have a laugh, and let the main cast of this show have the spotlight, all the way to the end.

There’s some heavy character moments, like Carlos confronting Loki and really, confronting himself, and Lata finally opening up about her past. They also brought in some unique and interesting monsters of the week that felt like the old show. I did think the convenience of using CB radios in lieu of cell phones was a bit, well, convenient, but it never broke the immersion.

But it screws the canon up so badly that I was still baffled until the very last closing info dump explaining that (spoiler alert) this entire show is one big AU, explaining away why Loki (wink wink, nudge nudge) goes down the way he goes, why the actors look different than those from Supernatural playing John, Mary, and Samuel, why these Akrida are never mentioned in Supernatural even though they were a massive threat in this prequel.

At first, I thought that was a massive cop-out. Making this an AU removes any complications the writers would have to face trying to maintain continuity– none of what happens here matters in the main show and none of it adds any nuance because we’re not looking at the 1960s past of anyone we cared about in Supernatural. I’m also sick of multi-verses at this point and studios thinking “multi-verse” adds any sort of stakes to a story.

Then the credits rolled and I had some thoughts.

Now I will say, there is some weirdness. Team Free Will this time around is rounded out by Carlos, who’s gay and hispanic, and Lata, an Indian woman, and their Bobby stand-in, Ada, a black woman. And, the thorn in their side all season is a young, unmarried hispanic cop…. In Kansas. In 1960-something. Surrounded by white men.

All these characters are well-acted, well written, and well-developed, but given the time period, and the setting of middle-America… there’s no racism or homophobia? And, apparently, there’s a solid support system for vets suffering PTSD that totally, absolutely existed back then, for sure.

Weirdest nitpick to have, I know. I’m happy not having an obligatory racist or homophobe bullying these characters, but the script almost seems to ignore that it existed entirely. Maybe on this Alternate Earth, everyone was living in Candy Land, but something definitely felt too polished about how un-hateful the side characters were. Not even surly Samuel is racist. Unless I missed something, of course correct me, it was on in the background for some moments and I don’t remember every single scene after binging it all at once.

Dean’s ending expository monologue feels like an info-dump slap in the face, that can’t be ignored. The final fight ends and none of these characters know who he is, he’s there for the audience, so he’s talking and I believe only John and Mary even get to ask him questions. The other characters are awkwardly silent, standing off-screen.

Cas doesn’t exist. It would be weird to have him there when Sam never showed up, but given what happened with the Supernatural finale also pretending he doesn’t exist, it was a little disappointing not seeing an appearance of his character in another vessel, or any of the angels, back when he was his old, awkward, stick-in-the-ass self. Sam gets a name drop, Bobby comes back, Crowley isn’t mentioned by name, but there’s a wink and a nod there, and... no Cas. At all. 

But with all that said.

The Winchesters is just a fun romp in the past… and it knows it. It’s not burdened by the chains of continuity. It can make these characters do and be whatever it wants. And, watching it post-pandemic, when so much of TV is stripped and streamlined into one long movie with no room for filler or side-quests, seeing filler and side-quests was refreshing. (I recently watched season 1 of Gotham for the first time and that same nostalgia for old storytelling hit. Sometimes filler is a good thing, damn it). The Winchesters, for a prequel series to a show that ran 15 seasons into the ground and blew up with a spectacularly infamous finale, is unnecessarily competent.

[canidkid]

Number 9 for the self ship agere ask game! ^^

HEHE THIS IS SO OBSCURE OKAY!! /vpos

Ok so- a long time fav of mine has been Trevor Lefkowitz from CBS Ghosts!

Context ->

The time we spend together is pre-canon! So he hasn't yet ended up as a ghost at woodstone. He's just,,, Trevor! And it's like the 90s!

<- pls ignore the way the flags r sitting Tumblr is so broken for me I literally cannot fix it

🪐 🌱 🌻

As a CG...🫧

He is such a classic dad I SWEAR TO YOU omg..I can't do anything without being called a silly little name !!

And he loves showing me how strong he is all the time (usually fails) by picking me up an trying to toss me on furniture or something. Like, pa, we are physically the same height. That is not happening.

Does not know things..in the kitchen. He's lucky I always always am able to make myself food otherwise I would be living off nothing but cereal and apple slices. (I'm being mean he actually does make some banger stuff but... I wouldn't consider most of it real food)

Big on PDA (save me) we cannot be together anywhere ever. Because he's either grabbing my hands or putting his hands on my shoulders or back or MY HEAD???? I can't style my hair because he'll mess it back up over the course of the day!!

I will say....I enjoy..........the kissies....

BED TIMES ARE SUPREEEEEMEEEEEEEE!!!!! He'll let me lay on him while he reads stories or tells me about his own life (it gets wild) and he makes sure to keep his tone nice and low and even and HFSNSFJ he's so warm?? Like a human space heater?? - and if I'm being a little menace about going to sleep we make my plushies fight in a boxing match...if mine wins I get an extra 5 minutes before he leaves >:]] stonks...

I call him "dad", "pa" or "daddy" ! He's one of the only people actually allowed to refer to me by feminine terms. He's such a girl dad how could I not let him princess me tbh?? "Princess" is one nickname he likes for me but it's so many all over the place,, some of them just turn into a complete jumble. "Kitty" "kittycat" "kittygirl" "prettykitty" (idk why he likes calling me kitty I am quite literally a dog therian?????) But also stuff "squirt" "goober" "tiger" !! I'm still waiting for him to come up with his own trademark obscure dad nickname...time will tell.....

As a regressor....🧃

-> This is usually set during his college years!

He...is....tired..he comes to my room wholly unannounced at ungodly hours of the night, usually after some big frat party. Things depend on what went down there - some nights I can barely get him undressed before he just crashes in my bed.

Small. Sometimes not,, but usually. He's pretty insecure of how much support he actually needs sometimes - wants to be independent and big but it's just not gonna happen. Especially when he's overtired I need to be a bit sneaky with helping, otherwise we risk some tears. I'd place him at maybe 3-5?? Just in that space where a kiddo wants to try being a little person for the first time.

He really likes super heroes! Spiderman is his favorite. Anything Spiderman themed he's gonna absolutely beg me for. Doesn't matter if it's clothes, toys, comics....etc. we're busting out the puppy eyes. And he is GOOD at the puppy eyes. The amount of money I've dropped on him is unholy!

Cuddly. It doesn't matter if he's my pa, my boyfriend or my little bug...he needs to be touching me at all times. He'll take any excuse too - like crossing the street - I don't even have to ask for his hand, it just magically appears in mine! We're in proximity of a couch? We're on it. Actually, no. I'm on the couch, he's on me!

Very cute nicknames. For such a big little dude - he's called such soft things. "Bunny" "puppy" "dove" "babydoll" "angel"...I gear toward those when he's younger (which is most of the time) but when he's in an older headspace I straight up just call him "dude" or variations of "little man" HEHEH

Puppy regressor!! Black lab specifically! His favorite things are head scratchies and fetch! I'm not kidding with fetch. He'll bring me any random objects and try to get me to throw them. I've had to take flip flops out of his mouth. - One thing he does when pup regressed is just chill at my feet and I love it. He's so content to just quietly stick to my side while I work on stuff or relax. I actually got a dog bed to put under my desk for that exact reason!

That's all I'm gonna put in this post for now!! Cause I don't wanna make it too too long PFF--

I'm so bummed about the images being BROKEN but I can always edit my posts when they're fixed >:[[[

[sshbpodcast]

Doublemint, Doublemint, Doublemint Trek: Doppelgängers in Star Trek (Part 1)

By Ames

This week, it’s just me, myself, and I as A Star to Steer Her By is having a 2-for-1 sale of all the doppelgängers, imitators, shapeshifters, and other character duplicates on Star Trek. Whether it be a mistaken identity, an existential crisis, or some kind of cloning accident gone wrong, leave it to science fiction to turn the art of the soliloquy into a dialogue. But giving actors the opportunity to act across from themself makes for such a fun sight gag, depending on how well the compositing holds up.

We’re not even including all the mirror universe doubles running around (that can wait for another day), and this is still going such a long list that I’m going to have to break it into two posts because we get progressively looser and looser with the definition of doppelgänger, so check out batch one below and listen to our replicants on this week’s podcast episode (discussion at 1:08:06). Check out Part Two here! What can we say: two heads are better than one.

[Images © CBS/Paramount]

“The Man Trap”

We start things off really early in the canon with the very first released episode of TOS, when the technology to show duplicates on screen wasn’t there yet. Some clever cuts, scene transitions, and never having the M-113 creature in the same shot with the person they were impersonating certainly helped. We love us some salt vampire, so it’s a good way to start the show off with a lot of shape changing!

“The Enemy Within”

Certainly one of the most infamous double-Kirk instances (and there are a lot!) is in the Jekyll-and-Hyde allegory “The Enemy Within,” in which the captain is literally duplicated and forced to reunify himself. Again, we’re mostly treated to a TON of watching Shatner and his stunt double, but there’s a brief moment when we have our first onscreen pair! We’re Captain Kirk!

“What Are Little Girls Made of?”

Yet another double Kirk just two episodes later, and still not the last time either. The composite work to get two Shatners in the same shot is the most extensive yet, when the android copy of Kirk is created, and you know what? It’s not bad! This episode gets two Kirks up!

“I, Mudd”

Next season, we get a ton of doubling up when we go to Mudd’s planet of androids. While most of them are just twin actors to make things slightly easier, we definitely get a whole ton of Stellas! Harcourt’s got another thing coming because we know there are at least 500 copies of his nagging wife, all ready to tear him a new one!

“Whom Gods Destroy”

We’re back to multiple Kirks when Garth of Izar proves he can shapeshift into anybody he wants. This episode is epic for its over-the-top Shatner acting, but also deserves some praise for a Kirk-on-Kirk fight scene that holds up pretty well!

“Yesteryear”

You’re going to see a handful of character doubles caused by meeting oneself during a time travel incident in this list, and the first (but not the last) involves meeting oneself as a child. Young Spock remains oblivious about the identity of his cousin from afar who’s trying earnestly to amend the timeline broken by those fools playing willy nilly with the Guardian of Forever.

“The Survivor”

You’d think that using the animated medium would allow for more scenes that would be unfeasible in live action filming, but alas. When it should be intrinsically possible to have a whole bunch of Kirks running around when our Vendorian friend takes on his shape, we never get them in the same shot! What a waste of the whole format (you know, like that whole series).

“The Infinite Vulcan”

Somehow, the very next episode in the animated show gives us exactly what we want. Two Spocks who interact and are in the same shot together. Sure, one of them is a giant for no particular reason, but that’s at least doing something new and different with the animation that we couldn’t do on the original show. And I’m counting that giant Apollo scene from “Who Mourns for Adonais?”

The Motion Picture

Sure, the original Ilia is killed by the time we see her replacement in probe form, but it’s still a duplicate. And this duplicate is just like the real thing, even down to her eye moisture, as is pointedly shared with us if only to make us cringe even harder.

The Undiscovered Country

One final double Kirk to get out of the way, as the final of the TOS movies introduces us to Martia, a chameloid who can take on other beings’ shapes, including for our final Kirk-on-Kirk fight which is always a bowl of fun.

“We’ll Always Have Paris”

If you thought that was a lot of Shatners, get ready to see a ton of our Enterprise-D heroes throughout The Next Generation. Let’s start things off with a season one banger, with a time hiccup that makes the crew keep running into themselves from a few seconds out of sync.

“Datalore,” “Brothers,” “Descent”

Data’s brother Lore may be his own character and is treated as such, but also being portrayed by Brent Spiner gives him the advantage of getting to pretend to be Data pretty much every time we see him, so I’m lumping all these together. And how can we fault the show for giving us as much onscreen Spiner as it possibly could, as we’ll see when we get to the more spoiler heavy batch next week?

“Where Silence Has Lease”

The Nagilum doubles in this generally meh episode sadly never get to interact with their counterparts, but just come in and talk to Picard while in disguise to try to trick him into stopping his plan to self destruct the ship. There was some level of trickery afoot, so I’m mentioning it in this exhaustive list.

“Time Squared”

Here’s what we’re all here for though: dumb Picard. This episode gets to contain lots of great camera trickery and compositing to get two Picards in one shot, but one of them is there just to make acting hard for the other one. Or vice versa? It’s a little confounding, but it just makes me wonder so long after we covered the episode on the podcast: What did they do with the body?

“Up the Long Ladder”

The clone half of this episode is outshined by the absolutely bananas little Irish village half. But when you get past the chickens and utter thirst for Riker from that plot, the violation of having a bunch of people clone you without your consent is downright disturbing! I don’t blame Riker and Pulaski for wanting them dead, but boy, could this have been explored more and felt less like an afterthought in a way too busy episode!

“Allegiance”

Another double Picard, since captains probably get the most duplicating throughout their series, even more than O’Brien somehow. In this one, Picard has been captured because his abductors are testing some of humanity’s traits, while they take his place (and shape!) on the Enterprise to test the crew’s limits and how far Bev will go with him.

“Second Chances”

While many episodes that duplicate people through various means (the transporter, pretty often) effectively undo their work by the end, “Second Chances” has some lasting effects in that our second Riker, who IS in fact another Riker, gets to stick around and muddy the waters in his later episode and in some books. It’s a great concept but doesn’t get explored as much as it could; what I mean to say is Farscape does it better.

“A Fistful of Datas”

You’d just expect an episode about Data and the holodeck merging a little would have just a ton of Datas running around, and you know what? Needs more Datas! Sure, we get a handful of them, even in the same scene, and Brent somehow rocks a drag look, but if you’re gonna tease us with a fistful of our favorite android, then give us a whole fistful!

“Parallels”

Now we definitely get a whole fistful of Worfs in “Parallels,” when multiple dimensions start interacting with each other, including a super scruffy Riker who just wants out of his Borg-infested universe. This one gets some extra credit for its clever premise and a plot that’s unusually followable despite all the physics.

“Firstborn”

As if one Alexander isn’t enough, we put him in the room with his older, time-traveling self in “Firstborn.” Sure, it’s not like it’s a second version of the same actor playing across from themself, but it’s definitely a double character. And despite all the time traveling we do on this show, there’s less acting with yourself from another time than you’d think!

Nemesis

Oh boy, this asshole is back. Shinzon is a clone of Picard. Ish! Sure, Tom Hardy isn’t a literal copy of Patrick Stewart (his loss), but a clone is a clone, as this movie seems to want to force that fact down our throats. There’s also another double-Spiner when we meet Data’s dopey little brother B4, but do we need another screengrab of multiple Brents?

Yes. Yes, we do.

“Visionary”

Come Deep Space Nine times, there’re even newer ways to get the same character on screen with themself, starting obviously with Miles! “Visionary” is one of those time travel episodes that’s on the cusp on being too smart for its own good. Think about it too much and it falls apart, but we’re so excited by how many Mileses get killed that it’s AOK.

“Whispers”

And we’re not even done killing off different versions of Miles, this one a replicant who has no idea he’s not the real deal! It’s a good time watching the perfect copy that was made of the chief, right down to the way his wife treats him like a stranger and the existential crisis he has that is just so typically Miles O’Brien.

“The Adversary” et alia

I’m gonna just lump all the times we see Changelings running around in other people’s forms all over Deep Space Nine into one item in this list, mostly for my own sanity, and just partly because there’s almost never a way to prove who is or isn’t a Changeling in the background of any given scene. And as this Changeling pretending to be Bashir in “The Adversary” says, “We’re everywhere!”

“Doctor Bashir, I Presume?”

There’s another good double Bashir in “Dr. Bashir, I Presume?” and not only does it make for a good sight gag (holoBashir walking into a wall over and over again never fails to crack me up!) but it also drives the plot forward when daddums, whom we discussed in our Trek parenting post recently, somehow mistakes a vacant-eyed husk of a being for his flesh-and-blood son. Maybe Richard Bashir does belong a few rungs lower on the list…

“Children of Time”

Sadly, we never see Gaian Odo, who got winked out of existence because his love for Kira outshone a whole population of the crew’s descendants, in the same room with the Odo we’re all familiar with. Normal timeline Odo spent the whole episode as a goo stuck in a breadmaker, so we really only got to know a version of him who got to make a Tuvix-level decision that not enough people give him shit for.

“Time’s Orphan”

If we counted the Spocks and Alexanders of different ages in “Yesteryear” and “Firstborn” respectively, then you’d better believe we’re gonna count feral Molly from “Time’s Orphan,” another time traveler who pops out of some kind of whatzit and meets themself as a child. All of them succeed in preventing their bad futures from happening, though Molly did fully expect to go live in the woods for the rest of her life.

“Treachery, Faith, and the Great River”

We’d be remiss not to mention some of the best clones in all of Star Trek: the Vorta! We see a number of Weyouns throughout Deep Space Nine, but we get the most of them in one place in “Treachery, Faith, and the Great River,” with two of them activated at the same time. The more Jeffrey Combs, the better, I always say!

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We’re at our image cap and only halfway through the list we came up with. Sorry, I did NOT expect there to be quite this many instances of character doubles in Trek, and that’s totally on me. Of COURSE good science fiction is going to make its characters confront themselves to learn whatever the lesson of the week is. Of course.

And our lesson of the week is we need another week, so check back to find out how many more changelings have infiltrated our ranks, keep following our Voyager watchthrough on SoundCloud or wherever you get podthings, double your fun on Facebook and Twitter, and remember: we’re everywhere!

[mashbrainrot]

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Sometimes Mike Farrell is so noble... even his wife can't stand it.

by John M Wilson, TV GUIDE MARCH 17, 1979

Call him the Jane Fonda of M*A*S*H.

Mike Farrell's got more causes than a nervous congressman running for re-election. Don't look for him, though, at a Republican convention. Arch conservatives would boo, and Anita Bryant would probably pray for his soul. He's 6-feet-3, a former Marine, happily married, and a staunch advocate of gay rights. So who ever said Hollywood actors were predictable? The only thing predictable about Mike Farrell is that he'll be back next season on M*A*S*H playing BJ. Hunnicutt, sidekick to Alan Alda's Hawkeye — two doctors coping humorously with the Korean War on the Monday-night CBS series.

That, and the probability that he'll have added a new political or social cause to his collection. The list began with the anti-war movement in the '60s and has included civil rights, the Fred Harris Presidential campaign, the Cesar Chavez farm-workers' drive, women's liberation and the ERA, prison reform, the Special Olympics for retarded children, and here and there an endangered species.

"Mike's just about caused-out," said his lovely wife Judy one evening in their three-story hillside home. She's also an actress, playing Nurse Able on M*A*S*H and turning up in commercials and TV-movies. "Because he's so outspoken politically, he gets every call in the world to come down and speak for this candidate and that cause. He used to say yes to everything. Now he tries to be more selective."

The latest call has come from New Age (New Alliance for Gay Equality), a Southern California group that last November helped defeat Proposition 6. a controversial initiative on the California ballot that would have required the firing of gay public-school teachers. Farrell wasn't one of the Johnny-come-latelys to the fray — he started speaking against Anita Bryant two years ago in Florida while there promoting M*A*S*H.

"Every chance I got, I tried to pick a fight with her. I slipped the subject into as many interviews as I could. What she was saying was so patently hurtful to certain human beings that I just didn't see any other side. It seemed very clear that it was a question of choice, freedom, privacy and human rights"

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Few prominent actors have risked the potential stigma of speaking out for gay rights, and Farrell joked, "Sometimes when I speak to groups, I feel like holding up a big photo of my wife and family.'

Said Judy: "That doesn't really bother me, if somebody's going to say he's gay, or whatever. Who cares?"

What really worried Farrell was the threat of physical danger: a family friend had been jumped and badly beaten for taking the same stand. Some wives might have decided to throw in the towel at that point; Judy didn't.

"She's amazing, the support she gives me.' said Farrell.

Farrell, friendly and easygoing, seemed faintly embarrassed about discussing his endless political activism.

"I'm always leery of sounding like a Pollyanna. But I really believe people are essentially good and valuable, and I feel that all of us have a responsibility to other people. And when you have the nonsense of this celebrity status well, it's just too good an opportunity to pass up."

Which isn't to say he's ready for canonization as Saint Michael. He and the family had just finished dinner — fish for Judy and the kids, strictly vegetables and brown rice for Farrell — and he was clucking like a mother hen on the subject of organic food and the dangers of chemical additives.

Judy rankles at what she calls her husband's "reverse snobbery." They have a spiffy Volvo, for example, but Farrell likes to show up at fancy CBS social functions in his well-traveled Volkswagen bus

"There's no doubt about it," he admitted with a grin, "I can sometimes rub people's noses in it."

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Farrell, who attended Los Angeles City College and reads dozens of books each year, hasn't come to his current consciousness easily. He's been through "a heavy period of therapy" and has participated in "sensitivity training.'' He also works conscientiously at "stroking" his two children, Erin, 5, and Josh, 8 who climbed all over him, whispering in his ear, getting hugged. In an aside Judy suggested that her husband's devotion as a father is partly a reaction against his own childhood and a painful relationship with an emotionally distant father who provided a role model of blustery machismo.

"Judy and I made a conscious decision with the kids,'' said Farrell, '"that they would always know they were loved."

Later, his close friend Alan Alda would add: "Mike's a wonderful father. It's hard work being a good parent. It takes a lot of thought and a lot of concentration, and when you're in his home, you can see that."

Farrell, born Feb. 6, 1939, in St. Paul, Minn., came to Los Angeles at 2, when his father found work as a carpenter in the movie studios. "They were magic," Farrell recalled of the old movie lots. "You passed into another world."

Captivated by the movies, he was in high school and set on being an actor when his father died. Acting was abandoned for the Marine Corps. "The influence of John Wayne did it. 'The Sands of Iwo Jima,' and all that." Out of the Marines at 19, he kept telling people he was determined to be an actor, but his fear of audiences kept him delivering groceries.

A friend finally persuaded him to enroll in Jeff Corey's acting workshop in Hollywood. That broke the ice. Then in 1961, while auditing a musical-comedy class at UCLA, he met a tiny slim blonde named Judy Hayden. She wanted to play a scene as Annie Oakley, but needed a Frank Butler. The instructor pointed to the tall Farrell. who was "cowering in the back of the room, terrified."

Judy Hayden became Judy Farrell in 1963, and later interrupted her acting career to teach school and support the family while Mike began acquiring TV and movie credits.

"She was really the anchor for our family. She made it possible for me to pursue my goals. It was a tough decision to make, but she did it. Now it's sort of her turn."

He was asked if his success has caused any strain.

"'Definitely,'' he said.

"Mike's always saying how jealous I am of him,'' Judy said. "I'm not really jealous. Frustrated is a better word."

His career gained its first real impetus in 1968, when he was cast as architect Scott Banning on Days of Our Lives. Two years later, he left the soap opera for a regular role on The Interns.

That lasted one season and he became "Anthony Quinn's spear-carrier" on the even briefer The Man and the City.

Farrell was under contract to Universal, miserable and turning down parts, when M*A*S*H called him in 1975 to replace the departing Wayne Rogers, who had played Trapper John. Mercifully, Universal's executives Iet Farrell go.

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Farrell wasn't altogether unprepared for the big step to M*A*S*H, despite its success and prestige (it is now in its seventh season and has won nine Emmys). He had been approached once before about stepping in and he liked the enduring touch of humanity that has become a trademark of M*A*S*H scripts.

"I've always identified strongly with the show, with the kind of humor it does, with the message. In the back of my mind, I always felt I belonged there. I think what we do is special... the show essentially has a message that says people are valuable."

Not surprisingly, Farrell is a harsh critic of TV. "What it does to people's minds — the sexism, the violence, the stereotyping — is frightening.' He tries to select projects that reflect his social consciousness, such as his role as a violent husband in NBC's 'Battered,' a TV-movie about wife-beating, that was telecast last September.

Farrell's entry to M*A*S*H, though, was not without butterflies. The departure of Rogers was only one of several key losses over the years: McLean Stevenson (Lt. Col. Henry Blake), Larry Linville (Maj. Frank Burns) and producers Larry Gelbart and Gene Reynolds have also gone.

"After the elation of getting the job, I was beset by all the insecurity of having to prove myself, to measure up."

But he credits a warm welcome from Gary Burghoff (Radar) the first day and "remarkable" support from the cast with easing him in. (Burghoff is the latest M*A*S*H defector; he has decided not to return next season.)

Farrell and Alda, who share similar political views, were instant friends, and quickly became a well-meshed acting pair. "I think we work so well together, said Farrell, "because we love each other. Alan is just an incredibly willing human being, and he lets me share with him.

"It's a tough spot to fill, I'll tell you that. I've tried to create a character that doesn't compete with Hawkeye, but complements. When I say the character doesn't compete, we compete constantly. We throw down the gauntlet daily on something. If he does push-ups, I have to do more push-ups."

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He didn't have time for push-ups a few mornings later on the M*A*S*H set. He was standing in the cold studio in his Army fatigues and size-14 combat boots, trying to get changes made in the script. "They try to make B.J a little too straight-arrow. I want him to be well-rounded, to be a little wacky like Hawkeye, and I have to constantly work at it."

Farrell, who directed his first show this season, also feels a certain frustration as an actor. "I know that my job is to be a supporting player to Alan. He's the star. But sometimes I want B.J. to have a chance to do more — and sometimes I'd like the same for myself."

That week, it happened that Farrell had plenty to do as B.J. The story being filmed concerned a war-torn Korean family that an exhausted B.J., stalwart humanitarian that he is, was trying to save single-handedly.

In the script, Hawkeye asks B.J. gently, "Beej. when are you going to learn you can't help everybody in the world?"

It sounded like a case of art imitating life.

"Farrell, who directed his first show this season, also feels a certain frustration as an actor. 'I know that my job is to be a supporting player to Alan. He's the star. But sometimes I want BJ to have a chance to do more - and sometimes I'd like the same for myself.'

That week, it happened that Farrell had plenty to do as BJ. The story being filmed concerned a war-torn Korean family that an exhausted BJ stalwart humanitarian that he is, was trying to save single-handedly.

In the script, Hawkeye asks BJ gently, 'Beej, when are you going to learn you can't help everybody in the world?'

It sounded like a case of art imitating life."

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𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 !

FULL NAME.       Lucas Layton Leland

NICKNAME (RANK).        Le, Lele (Rank: Captain)

GENDER.            male.

HEIGHT.              6′1 .

AGE.                   45

ZODIAC.               Scorpio

LANGUAGES.     Federation Standard, Earth English, Xindi (Arboreal), Trill, Vulcan

𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 !

HAIR COLOR.     black/gray

EYE COLOR.      black/brown

SKIN TONE.        white

BODY TYPE.       muscular

ACCENT.             North American English

VOICE.                baritone

DOMINANT HAND.       left

POSTURE.          soldier.

SCARS.               Many. Most noticeable are the two on his scalp from his implants

TATTOOS.           None

BIRTHMARKS.       none

MOST NOTICEABLE FEATURE(S).    Strong jaw.  Hands

𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 !

OCCUPATION.        Section 31 Captain

CURRENT RESIDENCE.       USS Wayfinder NCIA-29

CLOSE FRIENDS.                 Christopher Pike (former) Jolene (work friend)

RELATIONSHIP STATUS.      Not looking

FINANCIAL STATUS.             Not a problem

DRIVER’S LICENSE.             Under several different names

CRIMINAL RECORD.            Not that can be proven

𝐬𝐞𝐱 & 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 !

SEXUAL ORIENTATION.        allosexual.

ROMANTIC ORIENTATION.        panromantic

PREFERRED EMOTIONAL ROLE.        submissive  |  DOMINANT |  switch.

PREFERRED SEXUAL ROLE.               submissive  |  DOMINANT |  switch.

𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬 !

CHARACTER’S THEME SONG.      Skyfall by Adele

HOBBIES TO PASS TIME.        reading, learning new languages

MENTAL ILLNESSES.     Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD)

PHYSICAL ILLNESSES.      None

LEFT OR RIGHT BRAINED.     Right

PHOBIAS.   Doctors/Medical

SELF CONFIDENCE LEVEL.     High

VULNERABILITIES.      Chris

TAGGED BY.       @iridanus

TAGGING.        

[ortilimew]

Adding in some Monster Hunter fanart while I think of it! It's easily one of my favorite games but all the designs are SO detailed that I can't bring myself to do fanart of it often. (I say knowing full well I have a planned fanart involving the series right now.)

In any case, I bring you ALATREON! The best eeveelution and no one can tell me otherwise. No one also can determine if it's supposed to be ice, fire, dragon or some combination of those types.

Next is Nath in Zorah Magdaros armor. I know this set's really good for charge blade but I honestly can't put my finger on what weapon she'd prefer. The Sw/Sh and IG fit her mobility. CB and SA match how much she tends to overcomplicate fights. LBG matches her canon weapon choice best and Bow also leans more towards canon while also matching her mobility... For the record I mess around with all these weapons in game and then some myself.

And finally, Kliv. She's definitely using HH or Sw/Sh because helping others is more important to her than killing the monster but she is NOT a corner healer and they should all be ashamed. She's got the pukei-pukei set and a great girros Sw/Sh from MHW because she's not a very good hunter, paralysis is good support for her team, and the goggles are too fucking cute.

[roboticsuccubus83]

You see kids? This is what happens when you put an robots technician/child murderer, a cartoon studio owner who wants to bring his cartoons to life, and a toy maker who just wants his daughter back in the same room. It causes issues. I AM BACK EVERYONE. And with me the newest a̸b̸o̸m̸i̸n̸a̸t̸i̸o̸n̸ creation of Freddy Fazbear Studios Co.! A creation of the limited runtime of William Afton and Joey Drew’s partnership(with some help from Elliot Ludwig), the Circus Angel was supposed to function a lot like Moon/Sun, transitioning from Circus Baby 2.0 to the “perfect” version of Alice. However due to good ol’ William being insane, Joey trying to go for perfection, and Ludwig getting H̸e̸n̸r̸y̸ at the last second, it caused the controls to fuse together to create..well..her. Long story short, she appears in two sections: BATIM/BATDR along with FNAF(duh). She basically has emotional breakdowns when she can’t hold a normal form and as a result, her mind is broken into “personas”, who fight for control over her mind. To keep from freaking people out, she has pins(much like canon CB) to make an illusion of a normal human/form. The Ink Demon(being the lovable eldritch entity that he is), wants her for herself(all the ink creatures have a plan to use her to get them out of the studio). So it’s up to H̸e̸n̸r̸y̸٫S̸t̸i̸l̸e̸s̸٫ a̸n̸d̸ A̸u̸d̸r̸e̸y̸ to break in, save her, and survive long enough to get to the pizzaplex(but that’s a whole other can of worms). (Admin: sorry for disappearing y’all, this holiday season has been WACK. I’ve got a few sketches/drawings/whatever’s to post though so..KEEP AN EYE OUT). In the meantime, here’s a hint for something else: I̸ l̸o̸v̸e̸ d̸r̸e̸s̸s̸ u̸p̸! I̸t̸s̸ d̸i̸s̸a̸p̸p̸o̸i̸n̸t̸i̸n̸g̸ t̸h̸a̸t̸ t̸h̸e̸y̸ a̸l̸l̸ l̸e̸a̸v̸e̸ t̸h̸o̸u̸g̸h̸... Tags(ignore): #poppyfazbearcartoonfiles #animatronicoc #inkoc #randomships https://www.instagram.com/p/CmxjB0jJmIz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=