#maybe this makes sense

[rox-and-prose]

The only step we can take is the next one

[anzynai]

thinking abt aroace floyd,,,,,

ppl always headcanon characters who are "emotionless" or quiet, and could LOOK like they aren't interested in love to be aroace. but that's not always the case and i think it could fit Floyd SO well

floyd, who is clingy, only needs his friends. he would be completely fine being without a partner for the rest of his life, and in fact, he plans it being like that. he's happy for his friends when they get partners but it's not for him and so he'll call them "cringy". honestly, he probably wouldn't even know what aroace was. he just knew he wasn't interested in people like that and that's fine.

[monochromatictoad]

You know what, I think I know why I like The Torn Knight/Torn Basilisk.

They remind me of the concept of Lords of Shadow.

Hear me out, the Knight was supposed to help the suffering people, but gave into bloodlust, until they no longer had anyone to kill, before cutting themselves in half.

One half creates a new world, bringing forth healing water and life. The people it creates worship it, and praise it for their life, and the life of the world around them. It is everything Holy from the knight, in one being.

The other half, creates a plague. A plague with the only cure being the Healing Water. It's a monster. A shell of its former self. It is everything evil within the knight, in one being.

With the main character from 2000, destroying the Torn Basilisk, and bringing forth their own recreation of life... And their own Basilisk, as stated in the ending cutscene, "The world trembled and shook, shedding its dead skin and embracing the light"

What happened with the shed skin? The husk of what once was? I personally theorize that the land is in a never ending cycle of Self-destruction and Rebirth, thus the character bringing forth rebirth of the land, healing its woes and sorrows, but a basilisk of their own making is just below their skin, waiting for its own birth.

Now, in LoS, the Lords of Shadow are husks, filled with every unholy aspect of the knights they were separated from. These parts could not go into Heaven, so they stayed on Earth, creating their own centuries of destruction and chaos. Until a knight, most holy, was sent to destroy them. However, as his journey continued, he became corrupted by their darkness, since it had nowhere else to go, but him. When he destroys the final demon plaguing the land, known only as The Forgotten One, he recreates the world in a way.

The world is technically more peaceful, given there is only one source of Darkness on its planes, but that source of Darkness far exceeded any other that had walked before it.

[eddicent]

Maybe I'm grasping at straws here, but I'm currently rewatching The One That Got Away. Red says "I've been finding my way home since thirty" and it immediately reminded me of Buck, who is currently thirty himself, currently still on the mission to find his couch, his home, who always ends up at Eddie's.

[chacharealsmooth07]

They might not experience sentient love, but they can experience positive association, and isn't that what love is at a base level?

[fadingthought]

Anyone feel like they don’t have much to say anymore? Maybe I’m just over saturated by my own tangled thoughts, so it’s easier to listen to them play out than form some coherent thing aloud. Maybe what I care about is just changing. It’s not like I don’t have opinions, but the things I do speak on seem so far away from the things people actually want to hear me talk about.

[bloominglegumes]

How did Jazz and Blaster react to seeing Soundwave's face for the first time? I mean other than Jazz being a little bit of a freak about fangs

!!!!i suddenly felt deeply inspired about this,,, the two of them see soundwaves face for the first time in very different situations

[chloesimaginationthings]

Cassie shares her FNAF family history,,

[renewashere]

this reminded me of them

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[mochasucculent]

Was looking at refs and since Viktor has two different leg braces I was wondering, do we think he wears them simultaneously?? The refs don't perfectly line up perspective-wise so it's hard to tell but parts of the one he wears during the Hexcore scenes look like they could maybe line up with the brace that he wears over his clothes, but also some parts really don't and look like they'd be super uncomfy. Also HOW does he take these on and off. Experts weigh in

[polararts]

The guy is also done

[anzynai]

i find myself comparing kiibo and ortho so much to the point where i keep thinking to myself is this robophobic whenever i say something about ortho’s functions and whatnot??

also sometimes im like, is ortho ticklish then i remember kiibo is so im like oh yea he definitely is then

[egophiliac]

still ruminating over Lost In the Book With Spooky Skeletons Part 1, so here's a selection of some of my favorite little bits! (...some more loosely paraphrased than others) (I just feel like Idia has no room to criticize in general, okay)

anyway, I'm sure we're just going to have a fun time celebrating Halloween and nothing bad is going to happen whatsoever! :)

[stars-obsession-pit]

The “insane” twin

The Fentons found about Danny being Phantom and… it could have gone worse?

They don’t hate him. He’s not in any danger of being vivisected or having his adoption annulled. However, they’ve convinced themselves that he’s not actually a ghost; clearly he must be just a Meta with ghost-like powers and delusions of being dead!

So now he’s spending time in a psychiatric institute. Oh joy.

Well, at least they aren’t shooting at him?

…And of course this is when his twin brother Damian finds out he’s alive and comes to see him. While he’s in the looney bin.

Great.

[bamsara]

I think that one thing people fail to understand is that unsolicited literary criticism coming from an online stranger who is reading with no knowledge of what the authors intended goal is, is not going to be received the same as say: the authors beta reader or friends who know what the authors intended goal and has the sufficient knowledge and input to help the author reach that desired outcome.

"But I'm only trying to be helpful" How do I know you have the knowledge and literary skill for you to be able to actaully do that when we don't know each other and you are essentially a stranger to me? Are you applying this criticism based out of personal biased experience and desire to see the story or characterization be driven in another direction or tweaked, or do you know the author's intentions for the character? If the story is incomplete, are you basing your criticism of a character on the incomplete narration with only partial information available of them or are you building up a report until the story's completion? Did the author provide you with the information needed to make a fully informed criticism?

Have you discussed with the author what their plans are or are you assuming them based off the narration, especially if the narration is proven or implied to be unreliable or missing key points of the plot? Are you unbiased enough to help them reach their desired outcome for the characters and story regardless of your personal feelings towards the characters/antagonists and setting? Can you handle being told your specific input isn't wanted because you're a reader and/or have no written anything relating to their genre or topic? Do you understand and respect that the author's personal experiences might influence their writing and make it different than how you would have done it personally? Do you understand if an author only wants input from a specific demographic relating to their story?

If it's for fanfiction or other hobby media, are you holding a free hobby to a professional standard? Are you trying to give criticism because you feel like the author has produced 'subpar job performance' of their fic? Are you viewing their work as a personal intimate outlet or something that must conform with mass media? Are you applying rules and guidelines when the fic is shared for simple sharing sake? Is your criticism worded appropriately and focused on the parts where the author has requested input on rather than a general dismissal and or disapproval?

Have you put yourself in a place where you assumed you have the input needed for the story to evolve better, or have you asked what the author needs and what they're having trouble with? Can you handle having your criticism rejected if the author decides their story doesn't need the change and not take it as a personal offense against your character? Are you crossing that boundary because you think you are doing the author a favor? Are you trying to be helpful, or do you just want to be?

I think sometimes when people hear authors go 'please don't give me unsolicited writing advice or criticism' they automatically chalk it up to 'this author doesn't want ANY constructive feedback on their stuff at all' and not "i already have trusted individuals who will help me with my writing goals and- hey i don't know you like that, please stop acting so overly familiar with me'

[mafuyuakgae]

even if I came to love humanity in the end, there’s no proof I was ever here, right?