#might post a lil poll later

[tetzoro]

good morning and happy thursday friendz!! i hope today is kind to you and that you treat yourself to something extra sweet ! (ㅅ´ ˘ `)

[sanchoyo]

I’ve been wanting to reopen commissions soon but I rly need to make new examples, maybe try to figure out what ppl are most interested in (I think my most commissioned items are always icons, so? Those will be included) and what I can do…I also want to refigure my prices. Like I do want them to be affordable, and I do love drawing for ppl, but I also want to make sure I have the bandwidth + time for them and also feel like I’m being compensated properly since I do have a job now so they would be the Side Thing aaa TwT

but I’m finally at a place where I feel like. Not burnt out after every week and I’m in a nice routine now and pretty used to my job, so I feel like I can handle more on the side. Very excited abt that. Not excited abt making new examples or figuring out what I wanna offer etc tho I hate the logistics of commissions. Part of me wants to do a pay what u want thing with a set minimum and maybe start exclusively offering them thru kofi since it’s so easy, but we’ll see!!

I look to maybe open them around June so like. If anyone is interested, I’d love to hear what kind of stuff u guys would want? 🤨

[sunnysideray]

(TW: SUGGESTIVE)

I am the Perfect Human Specimen,

I’m everything

I’M EVERYTHING

Hehehe Jack is such a funny lil clown man~ I might post a poll later for what art to do next! I’ve got a ton of comics in mind, and don’t know where to start lol. I’m working on getting out Part 2 of the VHS Meeting comic, and a character sheet for Ray and ruSsEl!

A lil more spicy version below cut, as well as a transparent ver~!

Maaaan what a pretty boy!

nsfw version here~ enjoy lovelies >:)

[novacorpsrecruit]

Hi a quick lil read: I did a poll the other day because I was thinking of creating Steddie fic recs and so I decided I’m gonna do 5-10 fic recs a post based on some sort of theme and here’s the first installment! Please feel free to ask for themes, I can’t promise I’ll fulfill them but I’ll do my best.

Theme: my favorite fucking idiots

single / taken / pining by 96tears (Ao3) @pizzaqueen (tumblr)

T | wc 4,435 | no cw

Summary: When a girl Steve’s trying to flirt with starts flirting with Eddie, Steve says the only thing that comes to mind: he tells her Eddie’s married. It’s not his smoothest moment, but it works, and Eddie goes along with it. It's not like Eddie was interested, anyway, and he figures Steve wanted the ladies to himself. So, Steve figures that must be it, too.

But a little later it hits him: he doesn’t want to keep the ladies to himself. He wants to keep Eddie to himself.

Ugh!!! I love it when the dumbasses don’t understand why they’re jealous, or that they’re jealous in the first place. Post season 4, Steve and Eddie work at Family Video and the Arcade respectfully, and come and bug each other during slow times. Steve gets a little jealous when a girl starts hitting on Eddie.

‘cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run by stellapoint (pettifogger) (ao3) @heybluechild (tumblr)

T | wc 9,308 | no cw

Summary: Realization #1: Steve is wearing a costume. He’s dressed as Springsteen on the cover of Born In The U.S.A. The album cover is staring at Eddie from the stack of records by the speakers, and he flicks his eyes between the cover and Steve, almost laughing at how obvious the resemblance is.

Immediately after that, revelations two and three slam into him like an eighteen-wheeler.

#2: Bruce Springsteen is kind of hot.

#3: Steve Harrington is really hot.

A fourth and much louder thought echoes through Eddie’s brain: oh, shit.

(Many months ago, I wrote a tumblr post about Steve Harrington being a Bruce Springsteen enjoyer. This fic is about that.)

Takes place after season 4, Eddie and Steve are friend. Eddie’s love language is music. He’s a bit of a music snob, and doesn’t understand why Steve wants him to like his music. It takes a moment for it to click to Eddie what’s really going on. I love Eddie but sometimes you want to shake him like a snowglobe and oh my god, I’m shaking him so hard.

wasted crying by MixAddams (Ao3) @mixsethaddams (tumblr)

T | wc 6,471 | cw ow (light angst)

Summary: Steve just wants a buddy.

So why does it hurt so much when Eddie introduces everyone to his new girlfriend?

There’s a happy ending I swear! You’ll just want to bundle Steve up in a few blankets first. Post season 4, Eddie gets a girlfriend, and Steve is not jealous. Not at all. He just … misses being in the honeymoon phase of dating? No that can’t be right… is it? There’s a lot of good heartaches in this fic. I do want to share one of my favorite lines:

“I think so. Stuff like this is supposed to scare you, I think,” said Eddie. “It’s supposed to feel….”

Eddie took a breath and Steve watched his eyes move around as he searched for the words. Steve thought he might wait forever for him to find them.

“It’s supposed to feel like a leap, right?”

I can be pretty (why don’t you think I’m pretty?) by starsdontsleep (ao3)

T | wc 8,942 | no cw

Summary: When Eddie comes out as gay, he assures Steve that he doesn’t find him hot. Steve tells him it’s fine, he even teasingly asks what he should do to change that. It becomes a thing. A way to always make Eddie laugh, blush and relax around him—but as the days and weeks pass, Steve begins to realise that maybe there’s another reason why he cares so much that Eddie Munson finds him pretty.

Remember when I said I’m shaking Eddie like a snowglobe? I’m shaking Steve now. Steve, please tell me why you think you want Eddie to think you’re pretty? Why do you need to know what Eddie’s type? Steve’s only worried that Eddie doesn’t fully trust him with his sexuality. So Steve works to be the best ally… and definitely does not fall in love with his friend along the way.

clown music at the disco by fragilecapricorn (ao3) @fragilecapric0rnn (tumblr)

M | wc 3,717 | no cw

Summary: “What the fuck are you doing here?” He nearly squawked, meaning for it to come out anyway other than that. The man turned around, and here he was. In a stare down with ghostly pale Steve Harrington, who was not only supposed to be straight, but was also in a MESH TANK TOP at Frankie’s on a Wednesday night.

“What the fuck are you doing here?” He pauses, glancing around the room, small voice. “It’s disco night.”

Post Season 4, Eddie, Robin and Steve move to the Chicago. Eddie has a new habit of going to the bar on gay disco night, finding another brunette ex-jock to fill the Steve shaped hole in his heart. Until he runs into said brunette ex-jock at the same gay bar on disco night. 10/10 no notes I’ve read this like 5 times.

of all the gin joints by genesisofrhythm (Ao3)

e | wc 4,016 | cw: they fuck | spice level: I read this at my work desk in between meetings

Summary: “So, do you come here often?”

Steve choked at the familiar voice, turning abruptly. “Munson?”

“What’re you doing here?” Eddie asked, his mouth gaping open as he looked over at Steve.

Steve was surprised to see Eddie here as well. What were the odds of them both driving out of Hawkins to come to the same gay bar?

Or: Steve goes to a gay bar to support Robin, when he sees Eddie Munson. He can't tell Eddie the real reason he's there without outing Robin so he tells him he's bisexual. But Steve's totally straight... right?

Steve [Evan Buckley voice]: “I’m an ally ✊”

This is a fun fic, definitely Steve Harrington speed running a sexuality crisis. Good for him. (also I have a soft spot for fics that use fob lyrics as a title, forehead kisses for that)

Exactly What It Looks Like - BilbosMom (Ao3) @bilbosmom-belladonna (tumblr)

E | wc 31,517 | cw | spice level: I should not have read this at my desk 😳🥵

Summary: Steve makes a face at Eddie. “You've imagined doing stuff with a guy?”

“Yeah, man,” Eddie replies, spreading his hands wide. “Doesn't everyone?”

Steve tilts his head to the side as he thinks. Maybe not very often, but his freshman year when Davey Riggs had been swim team captain? Yeah, he had definitely imagined some stuff that had made trips to the locker room kinda awkward.

“Yeah, that's true,” Steve answers, nodding. “I wonder why everybody acts like it's so gross, though.”

In the summer of 1986, Steve and Eddie have some perfectly normal fun between a couple of perfectly normal dudes.

I’m honestly insane over this. Like, I’m going to be thinking about this for a long time. Post-Season 4, Eddie and Steve find themselves watching porn together. And it’s not weird at all if you jerk off next to your new best friend. And maybe it becomes a habit. And helping them out every once in a while isn’t weird. And maybe sucking his cock isn’t weird. Or fucking his thighs —

Please remember to leave kudos and comments on the fics you read/enjoyed! Support your writers 🖤

[beefscrap]

You beautiful bastards have got me to over 300 followers now!! What the freak Tysm! I’ll probably have a bigger thank you later when I do the challenge

So far I’m thinking I’ll start it once the book ends, maybe the day the last chapter is out, or the epilogue? (Epilogue would LIKELY be a week later as always) And ofc it’ll be the Design a Character challenge. I have vague ideas and yall can lemme know what you think abt em!

IDEAS SO FAR

- there will be 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, all with prizes. And I’m thinking for other entries I’ll do an honor post for them (linking and/or showcasing all the designs)

- 1st place will have an art prize, as WELL as having your design in the story. Take note that this means I will be the owner of the design and character!!! I will be making sure the character has an important role ❤️ ofc everyone aside from 1st will be allowed to keep the oc. Just make sure you keep this in mind if you win

- 2nd and 3rd will be art prices, as well as being showcased ofc

- There will be very little artistic bias: even if you ‘can’t draw well’ I do not care !! I choose based on how cool I think they are overall. Just have a cool imagination yo

- I will have some sort of vague prompt for you. Not too much for spoilers, but just enough to get what you need to know

Lmk if you have ideas or opinions! Ik the ownership thing might be annoying, but it’s just the easiest way I’d be able to go forward after with my story. I’ll start with a lil poll-

[corruptedjamspace]

OKAY LIL TEASER FOR DESIGNS HEH.

I'm not finished with them at all but yeah heh. Also note !! Soul traits have been changed, as well as their typing (aka Pure Vanilla isn't a Healer anymore HEH) and their roles if this was actually canon (bc I can never make aus normally I always include how it would fit into the Original gameplay), but I'll talk about that later !! :D Going back to working on designs now, almost finished with Golden Cheese so might post her tomorrow who knows? :>

[Oh yeah, thinking of making the AU an "Ask the AU" kind of blog but I genuinely don't know if I should or not. If not I might just make it a comic like series but honestly not sure about that either. Might make a poll for that tomorrow but again, who knows? HEHEH] I'll stop talking now I've said enough me thinks.

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

Heey, back again with Chapter 6 :) Nothing too major goin on here, really. Nothing actually important happens until later. @itsberrydreemurstuff, @bibooby, and @laegume, I saved you all seats. (Also, @andyssilly, thought I might tag you in case you don't see this.)

Uh, before I start our little performance, I have a few lil things I'd like to say reaaal quick. The first is thaaaat... *brp bada brp brp brp boooo (that was a trumpet noise if you couldn't tell)* I have a tag for the fic now! I tagged all the chapters under the title "Where the Stars Don't Shine", so if you type it into my lil thing, it should come up! I'll probably pin a post with a the chapters linked eventually, I just keep forgetting to do it. And the second thing is slightly less important, but thought I might put it here anyways. Guys, I post polls sometimes that help me make decisions on things regarding the chapters. Nothing major, of course, just small tidbits and whatnot, but I'd really appreciate it if more people could vote on those. It's cool though, I don't mind.

Anyways, that's all for now, I guess! Soooo...

On with the show!

Word Count: 1,514

The day thankfully passes by without much issue, though truthfully you were in a daze for most of it. All you remember is the lights being unusually bright (you thought nothing of it) and a puppet show. Sun hadn’t spoken to you since your wake-up, which was a bit of a relief.

Cleaning had been a bit slower on your end. You think Sun had mentioned it at some point, though you could be mistaken. You know for a fact that he told you not to bring your pills to work on account of the kids getting access to them after you took one to ease the sharp throbbing in your head that had not let up after your nap. Strangely, you felt worse afterwards. You were sorely tempted to put in your earbuds, if only to block out that awful buzzing. You refrained, however; you really didn’t need Sun chastising you for the third time today.

You said good night, getting no response, and left. You don’t remember getting home, but you do remember trying to find something to eat in your nearly bare pantry. You found some eggs and semi-decent bread, made french toast, and passed out.

The pounding is not evaded today, either. Your head feels like it’s stuffed with cotton, and it takes effort to keep your eyes open. You splash some water  on your face as a temporary fix, drink a bit of cough medicine to fight back your sore throat, and head to work.

You head straight for the desk, not bothering to say good morning to the animatronic in charge this time. Your bag hits the floor with a hard thunk, and you open it. You hope you thought to pack a lunch earlier, though you seriously doubt it with your frazzled state. 

Evidently, the source of the noise is actually a brick. You’re not even sure how you managed it, but it does explain why it felt so heavy to lug around. You assume it’s Moon’s work and think little else of it, placing it off to the side before Sun spots it and accuses you of vandalism or burglary or something. 

From the things you actually packed, most are your typical. Laptop, two books instead of one, earbuds, keys, your phone, and a second set of clothes. No lunch, though you weren’t expecting that one. You do find a granola bar instead, and tuck it in your pocket for safekeeping. Maybe you could eat it on the break you never used.

 You interest yourself in the books you brought. You’d already read (book) from cover to cover a dozen times over, but one more couldn’t hurt. The other was one of your additions for the children, and something you were hoping Moon would approve of as well. You hadn’t seen a copy of Brambly Hedge anywhere, but you’d love’d it when you were growing up. They’d liked the Peter Rabbit copy you’d put in, so with any luck, this one would garner a similar reaction.

You remind yourself to bring something for your coworker some other time. Moon may be a prick, but he seemed to get pretty bored when the children fell asleep. Perhaps something to keep him occupied would help, and maybe even get him off your back when the lights cut. What kind of books would he like, though? He’d stolen one of your Sherlock Holmes novels in your first month of work, and you’d caught him peeking over your shoulder on several different occasions when you’d brought your gothic horrors and dystopians, which also tended to mysteriously disappear. You couldn’t just walk up to him and ask, though. Asking either of them for something hardly ever went well.

You brush off the thought and remind yourself to actually request some funding for an idea you’d gotten some time back. The Daycare, action packed and entertaining as it was, didn’t really have much reading material outside of little kiddie books featuring corporate’s mascots, and while you weren’t opposed to donating your old children’s books, some newer ones would probably be more appealing. You’d noticed that Moon also seemed to enjoy the greater variety. He tended to gravitate towards classics and fables for naptime, though you made sure to only plant a few at a time do as not to arouse suspicion. You were pretty sure they thought it was the higher-ups’ doing, and you weren’t going to be the one to correct them. 

You whip around, scanning the Daycare for any sign of the animatronic before taking off with the book in hand, shelving it among the other books you’d brought. You walk back to the desk, feeling almost proud of yourself, until a voice pipes up behind you. “Friieeend, what are you dooing?” 

For the record, despite what the security cameras captured, you did not screech and trip over nothing. 

You flip over and jump back up onto your feet, hastily responding to fend off any conclusion he’d make about this. “Who’s doing something? Me? No, I’m not doing anything, nothing at all.”

Yeah, that didn’t sound suspicious at aaaall, nice going.

Sun’s faceplate turns, static grin growing wider with each click. “Reeeally now? Because it seems to me like you were trying to sneak something from the shelf.”

Great. Now he thinks you’re a thief.

You shake your head frantically, crossing your arms to further prove a point. “No, no I’m not, promise.” Yeah, that’ll help, Y/N, way to seem like a criminal.

His face reverts to its normal position, and you think you’re in the clear (until) he speaks up again. “Glad to be wrong then! Still, I think I’d rather be safe than sorry. You wouldn’t mind if I checked, would you?”

This smug little- You shoot him a strained smile and a thumbs-up that does not display your panic in any way. “Nnnnnnope, go right ahead!”

His own smile stretches. He stoops down to your height and surveys the shelf, default smile forming an unreadable expression that you’re not sure you want to uncover the meaning of. He speaks after a few moments. “This wasn’t here earlier.” He taps the spine of the newly added Brambly Hedge on the shelf for emphasis.

You swallow, arms locked at your sides. You question whether you’d prefer him accusing you of thievery or stupidity. 

He pulls it out and flips through the pages, gaze snapping back to you quizzically.

“How did it get here?” He muses out loud, putting you on the spot with a look that makes you freeze.

Your brain races to find an acceptable response other than the actual truth, and lying will only get you in more trouble. 

You pause. Moon can’t know. 

“Is Moon listening?” you probe.

He pauses, rays doing a half-spin before he responds, “Not at the moment.”

You seriously doubt that, but it’ll have to do. 

You’re so screwed. 

You fiddle with the hem of your shirt, rushing what you want to say at speeds that leave your lungs gasping as you stumble over your words. “I noticed the older kidsandsometimesMoon get bored so I thought I could bring some booksforthemfromhome but I haven’t asked management forper-permissionyetIwasgonnadothatintoday’sreportsorryandthekidsreallylikedperterrabbitsoithoughtmaybethey’dlikethisonetoopleasedon’ttellmoonormanagementIcan’tlosethisjob.” 

Your eyes are tightly screwed shut by the end of your tirade, hands clenched into fists. You peek an eye open to find Sun not in front of you, but on the other side of the room.

Yep, you are so dead when naptime rolls around.

—---------------------------------

Sun was at a sort of standstill with this new information. You were the one responsible for those books mysteriously piling up on their shelves, out of your own pocket, and you hadn’t thought to ask management? 

He hadn’t been lying when he told you Moon was absent: his brother was never active when Sun was out, preferring to stay offline unless called upon. 

He should tell Moon. This was probably something he’d want to know, something that could possibly get you fired. 

He paused. Would it get you fired? On one hand, you were required to report everything, including any changes you requested. On the other, you were the one paying for said changes, which meant the company didn’t have to do it themselves. If anything, they’d probably just issue you off with a warning and make you pay for everything.

Besides, while the Daycare was practically perfect in his humble opinion, he did have to admit he appreciated the new additions, and he wasn’t going to refuse the benefits, even if they were from you. 

Sun had a feeling his brother wouldn’t agree.

Another lightbulb flickered on in his head. You’d bought the books. He wondered what else you’d brought under the guise of management. 

He sighed, conflicted. You were right, the kids did like Peter Rabbit, along with every other book you’d brought in.

He supposed he could keep this little revelation to himself. Not for you, he reasoned, but for the kids. And speaking of the kids, a handful of them were already entering through the doors now, signaling the start of the day.

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Aaaaand that's a wrap! Hope that was up to standard :) Y/N seems to be getting a little worse, hehehe...and I suuure hope Moon doesn't find out about all this, that would make for an interesting confrontation...But yeah, the Assistant's basically been funding most of the stuff for the Daycare at this point. They buy groceries when Management forgets to, restocks for emergency supplies and cleaning stuff, and buys new things for the kids sometimes.

[asktheisle]

Happy Munday! Thought it would be fun to do a lil something, might flow into next week or so depending on factors

Y'all know me, gotta capitalize on Year of the Dragon SO! We're making a dragon together c:

1st Reply: a dragon type (includes those who gain the type with mega evolution or via changing type with draco plate or dragon memory)

2nd Reply: a second dragon type or a pokemon of the shared egg group of the first

3rd Reply: shiny or not (could also be a chimera, splotches of shiny patterns etc)

4th Reply: an accessory

5th Reply: 3 personality traits

6th Reply: a name

I'll post a poll later for stat layouts too!

Might not get to draw them out today but if not, expect their debut next munday hehe

[w1lliamxx]

Keeping up with The Malfoys S2 E9

30 mins later

Harry: So we shouldn't be in love?

Hermione: Yes.

Draco: And I shouldn't obsess over Potter?

Ron: Yes.

Lucius: And I shouldn't try to kill my son?

Narcissa: YES.

Lucius, Harry and Draco: Cool.

(Note: all three men are tied up)

Ron: Hermione, Harry's got that look in his eye.

Hermione: What look?

Narcissa: The same look that's one Lucius' face right now..

Lucius, slipping his wand out of his pocket and pointing it at his ropes (whispering): Diffindo. (Ropes fall apart subtly)

Ron: Oh, fuck.

Lucius: Incarcerous! Let's see how you three like being tied up heheheheh

Narcissa: Guess I'm gonna have to order more wine after this.

Lucius: (walks to Draco) Avada-

Harry: Stupefy!

Lucius: Aww shit! (Falls back)

Harry: (breaks ropes and breaks Draco out)

Draco: (about to leave with Harry)

Narcissa: Stop.

Hermione: Right.

Ron: There..s a chicken!

(Lil teaser: We might get some Hedric in season 3 🤭)

SHIT I DIDNT MEAN TO SET THE POLL TO ONE DAY

IGNORE THE POLL ON THIS POST

[delicateartisantrash]

Poll: Which would you prefer?

This may or may not be because I am sitting on my hands debating whether or not to pull the trigger on releasing any or some or all of my four current Transformers fanfics.

I wanna post so baaaad

but I keep finding things to tweak and edit and I suppose I might just be editing these documents until the day I die, I'm okay with that

but frag when do I post them

like sometimes I go back ten chapters and insert a tiny lil' detail that now plugs in a much later story thing or ties up a loose end or enforces some concept that was always there but I forgot or just didn't manage to portray correctly the first time.

[eliasdrid]

Three thoughts: since everyone and their mother calls build the best rider and I had a relatively mid experience with it and I see you had an awful experience with it…

number three but I put it first bc it’s the most important: why didn’t you like it? Sorry if you’ve made posts abt that—

number one, what do you consider the best rider show?

number two, have you seen kamen rider geats?

3 - Oh that wretched show (Kamen Rider Build)........................ I'll leave my full answer for last so I can just do a "read more" and spare people of spoilers for the show. The TL;DR is that I have a love/hate relationship with it, it starts really well but then it uh, it's like the show just forgets itself? does that make sense? I don't know, it disappointed me... My message to the world is: if you want to watch it (in my opinion) up to episode 33 it's pretty good, it gets worse later.

[note: edited this to be less harsh bc I liked a lot of the show in the end despite my issues with some choices and some people might think I didn't like anything at all]

1 - This kinda spoils the options for the poll a little but whatever. I got into toku this year with sentai so I've only watched Shin Kamen Rider (the 2023 movie) and then Kamen Rider Den-O (2007), Kamen Rider W (2009) and Kamen Rider Build (2017).

I don't think any of the shows are perfect but I think the most satisfying experience overall from start to finish was Den-O because it's a bit silly but consistent with it? So it's pretty enjoyable.

2 - Funny story... I started Geats but I couldn't click with it. I do think a lot of the suit designs are SUPER pretty though. Kamen Rider Geats, Cross Geats and Na-Go are my faves for sure (from the images and material I've seen).

3 - OK So let's do this. I have actually not done a list of all my issues with this show here in my blog but I have complained a lil to people I know and who have watched it (and shared my opinions). This is my personal opinion and I want to preface this by saying I'm a sci-fi nerd and I might have set the bar too high because it looked really promising to me.

SPOILERS FOR BASICALLY EVERYTHING IN THE SHOW

I'll get to issues related to characters first, I think that's easier:

Vernage could have been really interesting but she is equally under and overutilized when convenient to the point she's always doing everything with her last breath (until she does actually die... ) and shows up so sporadically you almost forgot she was still alive when she shows up again. It's wild because when she's introduced you're like? Oh? Will she give us lore and then die? Perhaps a clue to a secret weapon? Some secret power up? no!

Misora is never developed to her full potential despite going through a lot of stuff during the entire show. She could have had a more active relationship with Vernage and tap into some martian knowledge or be able to channel Vernage's power willingly but :/ Her dad literally ends in a coma and she is like... mostly unaffected? Doesn't talk about him? Idk, I'm not saying she should henshin because that's unrealistic with this show but she could have worked with Vernage to take revenge on Evolt for that (via helping the team). I WILL say, she does have her sad moments and her actress does a really good job, it broke my heart when she had her final conversation with Evolt!Soichi. But off that? She's an internet idol ^w^ and the glue that has to hold the team together even though she's like LITERALLY 18-19 and everyone else in their mid 20s and up???

Insanely enough Sawa's friend to spy to friend to spy to friend thing is decently executed so I can't complain much here.

Y'know what I can complain about though? Kazumi! Kazumi is such a character that I wanted to root for because he is so much about community once you get to know him and he has this good caring leadership vibe to him. This guy commits and this guy finds middle points and he can't forgive Gentoku but he asks anyway that he joins them and he even encourages him later to try and follow his father's footsteps. HOWEVER. HE IS A FUCKING CREEP OVER AN IDOL AND THAT UNFORTUNATELY IS MISORA. Bro is 29 years old demanding respect from Banjo and fangirling over a girl that is like... a real human being... who he actually gets to know. I thought their relationship would be... realizing she's a Real Human Being With Thoughts And Feelings but he never stops being a weirdo and it was uncomfortable... ☠

Isurugi Soichi... (not Evolt) underutilized as hell... we get this reveal that he can talk to Evolt near 33 and I thought "OH! Maybe he can influence him? Maybe this is what has been stopping Evolt from wrecking absolute havoc?" but as you might know/guess, this was not the case. There was a LOT of potential for a parallel with Him being posessed by Evolt and Misora being possessed by Vernage and Misora coming to terms with the fact that her dad got the worst alien buddy out of the situation but... they don't do this.

Evolt (Evolt)... my major problem with him is that the show literally tries to sell this "monster that didn't have feelings before" story on the last arc and it just... doesn't work? Because yeah, he's an asshole but like he clearly gets frustrated and excited and he clearly had a lot of feelings driving him around otherwise he'd not have gotten attached to the same human body for 10 YEARS and only hopped out of it when his "vessel" was complete.

Banjo, I got here finally, I deserve a medal. Not my kind of character but overall he's fine? The whole alien thing is done in the most boring way possible imo, idk how they did that but hey! The show is in such a hurry to go through as many small plots as possible near the end that it went super fast?

Sento! I can't talk about one and not the other! Overall Sento is a well done amnesiac protagonist until they make him go back to his old self to undo character development near the end for what feels like ages (I think it was just two episodes though?) and then he remembers and io and behold! he's Sento again but can remember some things from before. I have no words, it felt like he was going to stay like that for a second and all his character development would be undone. I think he could have remembered without having to go through that, I think he could have had conversations with himself without them just making him forget his friends so Katsuragi could have ONE chat with Gentoku. I think he was prone enough to monologue that he could have started remembering after Evolt by just. Literally talking to himself and finding his old self within him... like we could have had the same thing without the weird moment. I also think the whole arc with his dad suddenly coming back was poorly written... because? Suddenly he's not THE Genius and also Build wasn't "originally" meant for him even though it's hinted MANY times that it was Katsuragi who developed the Kamen Rider System entirely/mostly on his own. I think I could be ages here so I'm gonna move on by saying: it was bad.

Gentoku... my meow meow... I'm biased, overall I liked his character development and the Rogue drama was interesting? (it has a couple problems and more torture/blood than necessary maybe tho). His whole deal felt more straightforward than the rest and before he becomes a bit of a "joke" (with the identity fashion crisis and then the awkward moments) he has some really good moments of redemption. I really liked his speech in 39 when he feels bad about fucking up with Utsumi and is too injured to fight. ("Im not writing at 2 am edit": He has good character moments after 39 too! I understand they needed to kill the tension a little by making some fun of him and I liked some of it; the nepotism bit was really good! and his sacrifice was meaningful)

Honorable Utsumi mention because: what do you mean he was a cyborg??? That was so out of the blue and meant absolutely nothing because it's not... anything. For a show that did decent hints about things Utsumi suddenly being a cyborg because "haha his nickname was cyborg" and they maybe did one joke on an episode intro... it's really lame. Off this (which I needed out of my chest) he has a lot of missed potential and could (and should) have replaced Sento's dad as Evolt's "main" scientist because uhh he literally did the Sclash Driver and was very talented? Did the writer just... forget that? I guess so! It'd have been more interesting for sure if he had been working all along against Evolt fearing he'd betray Nanba but no.

I'm gonna go over plot things as quick as possible because I got too wordy with the character stuff:

The Pandora Box. I get it, it's a very convenient excuse but for a thing that Evolt seems to have created himself... they sure throw a last minute "but he doesn't know about this secret panel" I think... I think Evolt knows his funny little box for destroying planets and consuming their energy better than anyone on Earth...

The Sky Wall and the Pandora Tower. It'd have been SO much fun if, as I had hoped, the Pandora Tower was a massive labyrinth they had to figure out to get to the top and stop Evolt or some sort of ritual over a period of time...

The Show is called Kamen Rider Build! They do not build shit during the final episodes. I guess the Grease power up but he dies as soon as he uses it so that doesn't count. They literally got most of everything "solved" around the time Katsuragi made the Genius bottle so! They decide to reuse the Hazard Trigger to do something that is never hinted at (or makes sense if you ask me)... they don't even modify it 😭😭😭😭 They could have done something like before the proxy battle when Sawa and Sento do the modifications for Tank/Tank and Rabbit/Rabbit and have the team help Sento assemble a new device before fighting Evolt but no...

"Let's make a new world instead of properly defeating the bad guy" coward move! It also conveniently erases everyone's character development even if Sento and Banjo are "the same" in the new world it's just, a weird choice (I've been told they get their memories back in the specials or something but still ????)

Evolt destroying the world at random suddenly for his own amusement was really just an excuse to do the New World thing sellable and was really weird specially after the Be The One Movie in which he CLEARLY doesn't want Earth destroyed. He Loved Earth. He spent 10 slutty slutty years posing as a DILF and 3+ of them causing problems on purpose. BE REAL.

Also having Gentoku and Kazumi die was another way to make the "new world" thing more easy to digest because "see :( our friends died we need to bring them back :(" (idk man they were pretty decent at fighting, they could have not died!)

FINALLY. On the New World thing: A Post War scenario with the Kamen Riders helping rebuild the country and Kazumi and Gentoku in leadership positions, Misora reconnecting with her Dad and Sento trying to figure out how to use the bottles for good and more practical uses than fighting would have been much better...

anyway this got super long, I'm so sorry. Thank you for coming to my KRB talk. Kudos to you if you made it to the end, I probably have even more thoughts on this but we'd both be here forever. I'm locking this because people are weird about shows sometimes and I have seen people insist that Build is Really Really good when it's like. mid at best if you have to judge it from start to end.

additionally: I refuse to watch the specials <3 the movie (Be the One) was fine though, tbh it felt more on sync with the show than the finale. Even if they introduce the Blood Tribe guys only to kill them off. The Buid/Cross Z fusion bit was fun too!

[ghostofnibelheim]

//lil PSA...

As you may know this blog went on a hiatus following RL things but most especially due to several games coming out and altering the timeline of FFVII so critically that it became impossible for me (as an author who is particularly anal about being canon compliant) to keep writing without first putting my established timeline under severe restoration first, something I was unable to due to lack of spoons because of the aforementioned RL issues.

Well I am here now and you may consider this restoration process to be underway. This affects mainly my Four Seasons Megaverse, and thusly:

WARNING: THIS CONCERNS ONLY CONTENT UNDER THE "FOUR SEASONS" TAG. If our threads are no part of it, these do not concern you.

1. Several dates on the main index post will be altered.

2. Several threads will be rewritten as drabbles or one-shots.

3. Most collaborators will be removed.

4. The timelines for Saruhiko, Munakata and GLaDOS will be rewritten.

The reason for n.3 is that the threads with these partners have been on pause for a year now and I cannot in good conscience expect them to pick up from where we left off because of my sorry ass.

I might add new partners or previous collaborators of this verse later if the project takes off again.

That is all.

Dr. Saru

[jackiebrackettt]

hi guys consider voting me no.1 kian understander ^_^

some of my works.. i think there's a lil more that i have just lost to time bc i stopped maintagging this kinda stuff o(-( but here we go!

post about why (imo) kian gets along better with rand and rolan than they do with each other after reuniting

transfem kian tuesday.. not analysis i just want you to see her<3

kian ran from galloway too

kian impulsively calling in sick to work

mini research project where i figured out what RV Kian would've lived in in galloway :]

kian and the people he loves and dying

kian and clothing/makeup/presentation

apart from that here are some of my fics - linking them bc often instead of writing character analysis i'll just write a fic instead with the concept i'm trying to convey:

the girl in the diner

the mind explosion

missed opportunities and clean breaks / becky's girl

a drunken night in chicago

a twisted serenade for you, my love

also this is less understander but just as a final note - i have campaigned so hard for kian to win polls before o(-(

anyway thank you! i'm going to sleep but might schedule this for a lil later ^_^ reblogs appreciated but also it's just a silly poll so idm

[northern-loner]

also because the poll you posted made me think of this, have a random headcanon of mine about the Federation and the Workers:

so like. idk why but the Cucuruchos (as i call them) give off the vibes of they aren't machines, but they also aren't anything..."normal," either. they're like eldritch entities but Not. (see: they can't seem to be harmed for some reason, they can fucking teleport, The Vibes, Man, they can like. summon items, right? that's a thing right or am i remembering that wrong. either way you get the point) they aren't actually anthropomorphic bears; that's just the form they've taken. like, my designs for them are that they look like big teddy bears with speakers on their chests and lil bowties. it's more like a weird...costume? skin? idk but like It Conceals The Horrors.

along with this, i envision the Workers are Actual anthropomorphic white bears, and the reason they appear to not have faces is because they're forced to wear blank masks on the top halves of their faces (nose-up).

so here's the actual headcanon:

when The Federation came the Island to basically take it over, the Cucuruchos were either A) not disguised at all, and it understandably freaked the Workers the hell out (keep in mind The Horrors), or B) they were disguised, but whatever the disguise was originally, it didn't put the Workers at ease even remotely. so they were asked to choose another form, one that might make the locals a little more...comfortable.

and what better way, in the Cucuruchos' eyes, than attempting to look like them?

so yeah. quite literally the only reason they don't appear as like Actual Eldritch Horrors is because they (poorly) disguised themselves as White Teddy Bears in order to "fit in" with the Workers. for the record, it doesn't freak them out anymore, but it still makes them uneasy (think of like. a human encountering a Fae creature that's trying to appear human, and that's the Workers with Cucurucho and Osito).

and another Workers headcanon: they basically speak the Animal Crossing language, and that's why they need to write in books to communicate with the Players; they can understand them just fine, but their vocal chords aren't really made to be able to make Human Voice Sounds.

anyway, that is all. thanks for coming to my Ted Talk-

Have you ever seen Poppy Playtime? I always thought of the workers & Cucurucho's as being like the creatures in that game. Their deal is that they're live sentient creatures built from the bodies of Playtime Co. employees and orphans from the company's fake adoption program(which is a whole other thing. believe it or not, Poppy Playtime actually has some of the best mascot horror lore that I've seen).

The plan was that the company was on a decline so they decided to make their own employees based off of their toy line to fill out the workforce and reduce costs. But in doing so, the company created literal animals with their own thoughts & instincts that they couldn't actually control. A part of that was them being vulnerable to hunger, and when you have a whole building full of ppl both who's work has turned you into a monster and who is quite literally fresh meat, you can probably guess how that goes.

That's what I think the Federation did for their employees, if only better than Playtime Co.. They either turned already living people into these creatures that exist purely to serve them, or genetically grew them from scratch. This also works bc we see traditional employee things like water coolers or coffee machines in their spaces, right? We also see them very clearly having their own thoughts and emotions towards nearly everything they experience later on in the story, they're obviously not mindless.

Yeah, that's my random babble.

I do think them speaking Animal Crossing is hilarious in context. Imagine being q!Cellbit or some shit trying to spy on them with a recorder & all you get is *waababaaakkakakawabababaabaa*.

[homoerotic-shonen-rival-showdown]

Y'ALL BETTER VOTE TEAM TRAUMATIZED CHILDREN OR I SUE

jkjk but ooh look infodump time I'm gonna TELL YOU WHY (through the art of overexplaining a single scene)

I briefly mentioned this in my 3k word x laws post but I'm once again going to talk about my Favourite Lyserg Scene (jeanne and hao might get posts too if I get bored/they're losing)

brief lyserg 101: he's a british kid who's parents were killed by hao when he was 6. his spirit ally is the fairy morphine (drugs!) who's been a friend to him for years. he dedicated his entire life to defeating hao and avenging his parents. he joins up with the protagonist crew for a few weeks during the america road trip arc, but left them for the x laws, a cult group dedicated to killing hao (and led by brainwashed 11 year old iron maiden jeanne, who is in an iron maiden 90% of the time) END SCENE

The Scene Ever occurs during a match in the 1st round of the shaman fight tournament (functions like a tumblr poll bracket without democracy only COMBAT) between X-I (lyserg, jeanne, and this dude marco who fucking sucks) and team niles, a group of three dudes from egypt

and it's a BANGER man

^^^^ I'm gonna explain why these panels make the scene such a banger ok ^^^^

throughout. the entire damn story. we have been watching from the perspective of yoh, who works on the philosophies of "it'll all work out" and "no one who can see spirits is an entirely bad person" and "don't fucking kill people that's bad". BOOM youtube link get HOMEWORKED (actually do watch it it's really good)

ok I'm gonna assume you either watched that or don't care so MOVING SWIFTLY ONWARDS

shonen tropes right. shonen battle tropes. you fight the guy if it's not the big bad guy you befriend the guy. cut off ryu's hair ryu joins the party. fundamentally alter ren's mindset ren joins the party. beat horohoro at ghost tournament horohoro joins the party. lyserg was a dick get him to stop being a dick lyserg joins the part- oh wait he just LEFT??? oh shit is that a CULT??? he's an ANTAGONIST FORCE now??? did he just GET WORSE???

yes yes he did do all those things. lyserg diethel's arc is a tale of 1 step forward 10 steps back. he starts off a lil fucked up gets waaaaaaaaaaaay more fucked up ends up slightly less fucked up than at the start. he is FASCINATING he is ONE OF MY FAVOURITES I LOVE HIM he SUCKS for most of the story

so the niles fight. marco's like ok kiddo time to prove yourself 😘 commit murder 😐. ok it's a bit more complicated than that I just don't like marco. lyserg's fighting these guys 1v3 standard ish shonen battle stuff when he corners anatel the main guy. *tapping ruler* if you REFER to the PROVIDED MANGACAPS ABOVE this is the panel of the guy getting x-ed. this is also right after the iconic line "you can't save anyone by being nice" aka the COUNTERPOINT TO THE CORE PHILOSOPHY OF THE ENTIRE SERIES and man is it BRUTAL. team niles haven't been established at ALL before this fight they are meant to be filler characters to expand the bracket we know nothing about them. so when you see them getting absolutely WRECKED by lyserg and later jeanne that's not protagonist behaviour that is VILLAIN BEHAVIOUR. curbstomping the filler guys we don't know is something WE SEE HAO DO. MULTIPLE TIMES. so you're just sitting there watching this kid reject the chill pacifist messages of the series and start going for blood you're like oh no. oh no no no. but anatel of team niles doesn't go down that easily. he busts out a new move, the wings of death. it's rad as hell. ten thousand feathers have been over souled with the spirits of workers on the giza pyramids, and inhaling them will fuck you up.

you're lyserg diethel you're about to FUCKING DIE if you don't do anything you've had at this point 2+ months of cult rhetoric put into your already angry, traumatized brain what do you do? yeah of course you go for the kill. he does. it's heartbreaking. only minutes before you hear yoh caution his friends not to get angry, as long as lyserg doesn't kill anybody ("if he does, that would be unforgivable"). right now, he's yelling for his friend to cut it out. but we see no reaction from lyserg

the wire stops. for a second, you don't know why. did lyserg stop at his own accord or did some other factor intercept?

oh shit. this kid really intended to kill a man. like OW man. lyserg, while his lungs are slowly getting wrecked, is begging his fairy to just let him kill that guy. marco doesn't like this, so lyserg gets booted out of the way and jeanne comes out. we get to see her over soul for the first time, and the most obnoxious (intentionally) exchange of the series, where she calls team niles sinners and brutally murders them

this next part is 2001-exclusive and SO HARD TO DO JUSTICE but I'm gonna try (shaman king 2001 ep 43 20:51-21:05 if you're curious)

this short segment says SO MUCH. he wasn't all in on killing anatel. the voice of his friend, who he abandoned without warning and just openly rejected, was able to make him hesitate. it wasn't all morphine. and yet, he's still conflicted. he's still willing to kill. ksdjfhejbsdksvsegbja many thoughts

he doesn't defect from the x laws or anything though. ever. while the other four main guys are always in close proximity, hanging out and interacting. he's off doing his own thing. he kind of replaces ren, who's personal arc slows down a lot right before lyserg shows up as he integrates into the group.

lyserg diethel is the WORST mostly isn't he GREAT. you should vote for him and the like 8 other people on that team. lyserg diethel.

minor bracket semifinal