#mostly infodumping thoughts

[chillykitty]

so i think together trees are trees that got a growth spurt from friendship activating the roots of the tree of harmony that i assume stretch across equestria. g5 mane 6 are the elements real. the tree of harmony was vaguely mentioned to be in a book a kid was reading in an earlier chapter, which might've been foreshadowing (or was just a reference for the sake of it)

Im guessing that this flower's.. gem? is some variant of the element of magic, it may not be a literal element, possibly some sort of weaker powered version since it didnt come straight from the tree of harmony, more like second hand element

its the right color and the lines in the center look to be Twilight's cm shaped-ish. I'll be honest I cant really tell if that's a gem, but considering it cut to that for the last shot of the ep while Elder Flower re-explained together trees makes me think it's special

Okay so current predictions/theories on who gets what element (and my runner up theories)

Sunny is probably magic (or generosity or laughter) - her cutie mark was literally unity, like helping ponies get along, and unity is arguably the same thing as magic, as magic is the 6th element that only appears when the others are united. also she's an alicorn. That being said, in mane smelody, she gets red crystal heart locket with a gold rim, the breezie who gives it to her says "it has long been waiting for a special pony, a hopeful pony, I believe you are the one" & "remember nopony is alone who has friends" - the locket looks almost exactly the same as the nonlocket gem turned necklace Spike gives Rarity in Secret of My Excess, which is lowkey treated like a symbol of generosity. But the line specifically mentions a 'hopeful pony' which makes me think it could somehow be related to the element of hope/laughter. but the second line may have just been reaffirming that her element will only work if she has friends - which again, would mean magic.

Hitch is without a doubt kindness - this gets brought up repeatedly, he's been described as kind multiple occasions to the point where it almost seems forced lol and he also has Fluttershy's cutie mark magic so that checks

Izzy is generosity (or laughter) - she gives out gifts very frequently and despite her personality matching with Pinkie, her actual talent of creating matches with Rarity far more - creativity was Rarity's element before they decided to make it generosity after all. She might just be laughter purely because of the Pinkie similarities though, which is not something I like, as I'd want there to be logical connections, not just that shes similar to Pinkie.

Misty is? loyalty? (or honesty, or magic) - loyalty because she had to switch sides, honesty because she had to learn her lesson to stop lying to her friends about Opaline, or magic because her cutie mark is because she has the potential for change. the change thing doesn't really fit with any of the others, but I could see her being magic because she needed the help of all the others to shine through and get her cutie mark - literally all the other elements had to appear before Magic did, also the tree with the potentially element of magic like gem is *technically* her tree. I'm mostly leaning towards loyalty for her, but honesty wouldn't surprise me. Magic would actually be the most interesting outcome, but I'm not sure they'd actually have anyone other than Sunny be magic.

Pipp is laughter (or loyalty, or generosity) - I had always though she was loyalty because she was the one who wanted to keep the royal's secret and she had a pivotal moment of being betrayed by Zipp at the party, and despite being very upset that Zipp just abandoned her, still left to help her. so loyalty absolutely makes sense, however, laughter doesn't really fit with anypony? Sure Izzy has the silly personalty but at no point is she going out of her way to entertain others like we see from Pinkie. But Pipp's entire thing is entertaining others - I feel like it is functionally the same as Pinkie's element, as laughter is also hope from the pillars, the ability to keep moral up. but laughter would be a frankly nonsensical element to give her without explaining that it also means hope? I doubt they're changing the names of the elements again, like what happened between the pillars and the elements, but if they did they could fix this. I really doubt she's generosity but she does have similar vibes to Rarity, ig you could argue that her doing other's manes and hooficures and singing for others is generosity? sharing her talents? idk

Zipp is honesty (or loyalty) - she was the one who wanted to tell the pegasi about the royal's secret, and frankly her main personality trait is being a detective, very honesty vibes. I could see her being loyalty but really only because she's similar to Rainbow. And frankly by this point, the only things she has in common with RD is they they're both tomboys who likes flying

I don't think they're going to change element names - but they could, feasibly. And it would make matching them to a new pony easier

Magic could be Unity, which is the focus of the current generation so it'd make sense. Like I said earlier, magic is basically already unity, as it only appears when the others have united.

Generosity could be creativity, it'd be perfect for Izzy and it was the original intended element for Rarity.

I have no idea what the others could be, short of changing laughter back to hope? talent maybe? expression?

[blueskittlesart]

i am not autistic but i do believe in their beliefs

[fadedrainbowbookshelves]

Are you really best friends if you can't heckle them about their crush?

[canisbeanz]

Tamao, the boy of many clothing items!

This guy has by far the most accessories out of all the ponies I've made so far but I didn't wanna get rid of any bc I feel like they're very iconic to his design. also he's a very similar shade of yellow to Ochan and I wanted to make sure they didn't look too much alike.

His cutie mark is the flag of the ship (the Captain Go I think? I've seen it called like 3 or 4 different things lol) he earns it in episode 4 "Lightning" when he takes everyone flying. He's also the only one of Atom's friends (besides Uran) who gets his mark on screen!

His talent is creating fun flying machines and extravagant and pretty other kinds of transport.

If Tobio lived they would've ended up being co-workers :)

[luminlunii]

This isn't a request, but what inspired your Ocs into existence? Mine was that I wanted more people in Rocky's corner! So, I gave him a mom friend named Sadie Churchill or also known as Lucille Grace. She's known as the sweet motherly and unsuspected cleaning lady at the little Daisy Cafe/Lackadaisy, the unknown Siren Killer to the law and the crazy witch from a coven, killing all the people that were involved in the murder of her husband and baby to her victims. Along side an angry spirit known as a Wraith with a common enemy as her. Then, there's also the significant other to Rocky! Clarity Sable, Sedgewick's niece. Who is also a part of the same coven as Sadie. No, Sedgewick doesn't know about this. All he knows is that his niece was sent to live with him at 13 for reasons and she's 20 now.

That's so cool! I'll be explaining below. It's very long, whoops.

For me, it was mostly for fun? And then I got really into it. The girlfriends I mentioned before, Lavinia and Yvaine, are just my oc's as Lackadaisy characters. And then I kind of just had this thought of 'Rocky doesn't have any parental figures...Might as well make Lavinia and Yvaine his parents lmao'. I thought it was funny.

The twin's were really just an excuse to have more doctor characters. I have names for them now! They are of Japanese origin, Rin and Minoru, and because they moved to the U.S. at a young age they had to change them. Wren, was close enough to Rin, and Moreno, close enough to Minoru. They also had this little sister on her way, their mother was 3 months pregnant with her at the time. Originally before they moved her name was going to be Emiko, it then changed to Emily shortly after.

Wren was in training to become a nurse back in WW2 and when she came back home she was rather...prickly. She died due to being involved with a deal gone wrong with a gang and Moreno was left to take her place, quite literally. Since then Moreno had to study extensively about medical practices to really impersonate her. Grief was what motivated him. Atlas May found him and later employed him.

Then comes around my fifth character. He's Russian and officially named Anastasiy Baladin. He was originally going to be a buff lady. Not much going on with him except he was basically disowned by his family shortly after an incident. He has this really large scar that runs up and down his spine widening at the center of his back. Like the shape of a diamond. I was going to push him to be Rocky's love interest because I thought it would funny if Rocky fell for someone tall and intimidating lmaooo

I think I'm going for it anyway because I still think it would be funny.

[corneille-moisie]

i was tagged by @im-sometimes-sparkles to spell my url with song titles and did not want to reblog the long reblog chain (you can reblog this one or make your own, either's fine by me :) )

candis - sukekiyo

obscure - dir en grey (cw for gore and other gross stuff, just in case)

rink - blam honey

nas ne dagoniat - tatu (not gonna get us works too :D)

energize me - after forever

inner universe - hora

l'horloge - chanton l'amour

last hallucination - schwarz stein

even in death - evanescence

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maze - velvet eden

ophelia - kaya

if i could turn back time - cher

senzafine - lacuna coil

iidk - vidoll

edema ruh - nightwish

im tagging @moonjaehwa, @ans-main, @technicontrastron, @kurumeki, @jade-curtiss because im curious but you're under no obligation to actually do it lol :3

eta : no need to link everything, im just extra like that ^^

and if you were not tagged and wanna do it, go ahead, do it !! (tag me though, i wanna see 👀 !!)

[a1exkra1ie]

did not have "the game by ken dryden reminds me of american psycho by bret easton ellis" on my bingo card yet here we are

[retrograde-raven]

Must I contribute to society is it not enough to have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge?

[myrabbitistryingtokillme]

You ever have that one friend who it is just like girl how the FUCK does anyone not fall in love with you

[arolesbianism]

Dude actually getting to read other ppl talk abt oni lore stuff did so much to make up for my brain sucking at reading I didn't even consider that Michael E.E. Perlmutter could be Meep I thought it would be unfitting if he was just a rando but I did not put two and two together at all and look at the obviously spelt out capitalized letters dhdkhdkd

[dyke-quixote]

You now get my honest answer since I'm the one who specifically commissioned this art:

I think Sancho after Canto 7 boss fight can sometimes be afraid of herself. Her boss fight involves a lot of moves hinting that she does still have that bloodlust and it can be reawakened. She is scared of that. She doesn't want to hurt her new Family like she hurt her old one.

I think during times when she is having schizophrenic and paranoia symptoms she would perhaps ask to be muzzled. A thing with real dogs who are trained correctly is that they are actually more comfortable when muzzled in stressful situations.

I think especially after Sancho learns about her new Identity, this fear gets even worse to the point where if she does need to take off Rocinante, she may request someone she trusts to muzzle her.

art by eclown4hire

[pilalaphillip]

First Moments... (1/2)

First moments of Jayce and Viktor with their biological kids.

NEXT

Brayden (1st born):

Chloe (2nd born):

Nikolai (3rd born):

After nearly 3 years since I created them, I finally show them. At least some of them! (Yes, there's more) (I dare you to take a guess of how many kids they have in total)

This are my interpretations of the meme template of "They look like their stupid other parent!".

I'm also trying to write about this, I have a deeply thought story of how each kid entered into their lifes. I'm just not a writter so I take my sweet time and almost never finish, I'M TRYING I SWEAR!

Small fankid infodump bellow:

I'm coping so this takes in an universe where everything goes better than in the show (and my best friend forbidden me from making them suffer again). It's mostly like League's lore where the use of Hextech doesn't cause the end of the world.

Not going too deep into it because I'm planning on writting this so, here are the basics:

How are they biological? Jayce is trans and carried them.

Brayden was born in between Act 1 and Act 2 of Season 1, about 2 years after their first breakthru.

Chloe was born right around Act 2, Season 1.

With Nikolai I had to break the direction of the universe, because he is 5 years younger than Chloe (give me a break. This ages were thought before Season 2 was out lmao)

They got more kids, working on a similar post with them.

Let's see if I manage to finish them before I go to Brazil next week.

[jellitchi]

hello friends heres some more artist au ,,, i have A huge infodump under the cut ... u were warned

uhm mumbo is a tattoo artist in this au, hes the towns electrician primarily but he does tattoo work too. hes terrified of needles on his own skin but really enjoys the process of tattooing. i think he mostly does geometric stuff. probably hrm.

gem runs and owns the fishing dock/bait shop. shes born and raised in this town so shes been here her whole life. shes okay at painting but her real passion is with clay- specifically sculpting. shes taking a pottery workshop w grian but she like the freedom sculpting has that the wheel cant really give her...? if that makes sense.. she still likes it. when she paints she gravitates towards gouache and watercolors, she likes the fluidity she can achieve w em. also is very fond of how gouache lets u set it down then return and reactivate it w water again lol

pearl is a relatively successful artist, shes constantly traveling for art shows and also to host workshops/look for inspiration. she used to paint a lot, thats how she kinda got her fame... she used to paint this one girl a lot idk she has curly orange hair and freckles and shes always painted really beautifully. then stuff happened and now pearl mostly sculpts now. she still paints and her paintings are her most popular works but shes more into working w clay.

hm more abt this au, pearl and grian are siblings and both grew up learning oil painting. jimmy is also in this au im still figuring out a role but hes their cousin— basically brother— i was thinking pearls manager js coz i think itd b funny lol.

the setting is a small coastal town hrmm havent thought too much else abt it, was mostly pulling from coastal norcal ish...

in this au scar and grian are really really tight and have been living w each other for like 5/6 ish years. i dont think they officially get tgt... they think theyre woke asf n say they dont like labels (kinda kidding) the real reason is just timing. whenever grian is sick of running circles and works up the courage, scar usually has some complications hes working through and grian feels like hed just be another stressor added to his plate so he just wills it away... then when scar is like Im gonna do it. Im gonna tell him. Grian is experiencing sum kinda dilemma and is rly stressed so then scar is like well it can wait... (this goes on forEver.) whenever they do sync up, usually theyre far too scared about ruining their friendship and having to find a new roommate or something. they both r very important to each other and if bottling up their feelings means they can hold onto each other and keep each other around then thats what theyll do...! yeah theyre doomed🤦‍♂️.... they still basically do romantic activities tgt- they just think its normal coz its them.... also everyone around them thinks theyre secretly dating or smth anyways Yeah this is the au in a nutshell im such a sucker for long term pinning friends to lovers or whatever😭😭😭😭😭...

[neomechanical]

i want to look like a normcore office-pilled disheveled dark mysterious man thing and for people to be suprised when they see my cutecore cartoon colourful silly things i own. yeah, i want to be a failboy who likes pink things

[evilkitten3]

bonus: they get shizune and also a pig! two medics for the price of one (jk you have to pay them both. a lot. tsunade is in a fuckton of debt)

also while we’re on the subject of the akatsuki. I really wonder how long the internal debate was to hire tsunade.

Pros:

shes fucking tsunade

do the akatsuki have a medic: no

do they need a medic: it would be helpful. pein is basically constantly dying.

people she cares about keep dying horribly so there’s a connection there? maybe they could get her on their side??

the goal of the organization is to capture all of the jinchuuriki and tsunade is a woman who is capable of punching an actual bijuu in the face and making it hurt.

Cons:

technically not a missing-nin, she just. kinda went awol. How disillusioned is she with the system. Unknown.

not only is she from konoha, but she’s jiraiya’s teammate. this isn’t a dealbreaker because they did hire orochimaru at one point, but still. complicated feelings.

kind of notorious which is not helpful as a clandestine organization of missing-nin. even if she learned to be more subtle, that would just raise the question of “hey, where the fuck did tsunade go”

if kakuzu has already been hired, this is a shitshow waiting to happen. She’s hashirama’s granddaughter. She’s terrible with money. She cannot be killed. He is already 3 seconds away from an aneurism at all times, this might just make him flip out completely.

Tobi’s Pros and Cons List (secret):

Madara would think it was funny if the last Senju became a missing-nin

If she joins, this might cause jiraiya to come after her. If tobi kills jiraiya, no more icha-icha is published. suffer in your trash can, kakashi.

kakuzu keeps killing all his partners and he would have a lot of difficulty killing her. also he makes very funny faces when he’s angry?? Tobi must weigh his own personal amusement against his organization’s combat effectiveness. Highly difficult.

tobi has never been punched through a wall before!

[cripplecharacters]

Is there any list of stuff you wanted to see more in autistic representation? I'm autistic and I'm quite "stereotype material": white savant male good at STEM and who's not aroace but don't want a partner, and it bugs me that it's always like that, so I wanted to know what other people would like to see when I try writing autistic people.

Hi!

Honestly, I just want more autistic characters in general. There are hardly any!

Here are some things that I have never seen represented:

characters with mid-high support needs, both related and unrelated to autism

characters who use AAC [link to post about high/low/no tech aac] and who struggle to communicate

characters with cerebral palsy, tourette's, intellectual disability, or any other common comorbid condition that's not ADHD

characters who don't live with their parents

characters who don't infodump or know a lot of facts about their special interests, just that their interests are the things they engage with

characters whose special interests aren't "useful" to their life

characters with "unusual" sensory needs (for example i always see characters who hate loud noises and bright lights, but i know many autistic people in real life who are not bothered by those or actively seek them out)

characters misdiagnosed in childhood with ODD or another common misdiagnosis, or neglected as a "difficult kid" even if they have higher support needs

characters who use gait trainers, adaptive strollers, or manual tilt in space chairs

characters who have a supportive community or know multiple other autistic people

adult characters in day programs

queer characters, especially ones whose sexuality or gender is difficult to separate from their autism

characters who have harmful stims and not only when they're upset

characters who are not big. (this might seem weird but there are a surprising number of tall/large/imposing autistic characters, especially those with higher support needs; that's not what every autistic person looks like!)

So Many More!! If every autistic writer made a character who was just like them, each one would have at least one autistic trait that has not been represented before.

Mod Rock

Hello!

To be honest, just characters that don't generalize autism. On one hand you have "representation" that's all "all autistics are boys, 12 or under, who like trains and barely speak" and on the other you have "hi, I'm a very low/no support needs autistic who is very socially acceptable and lol like imagine liking trains instead of having Real and Cool special interests like me" (sometimes it's overdone to the point the character quite literally doesn't have any autistic traits). Too much autistic representation made to combat a specific stereotype just ends up shitting on the people who do in fact exist. Some people say that "ahh all autistic rep is those damn boys with they trains!!" but I don't think anyone would say that this kind of representation is actually good or thoughtful - not because of the train or the boy, but because these characters are barely treated as humans most of the time.

We need more complex representation of all parts of the spectrum, from successful savants in STEM to "obviously disabled" autistics who are intellectually disabled, have huge mobility delays, and stim at all times, to "everyday" people who just have their special interest, don't get social cues, and are kinda awkward.

I'll take a "stereotypical" character that's actually explored and developed properly over a cardboard that's there to be a "subversion of autistic stereotypes" any day.

mod Sasza

Hi,

I largely agree with the mods above. Mostly I want autistic characters treated like people and not plot devices.

But I wanted to say specifically: I want autistic characters of color. I am basically begging to see more autistic characters who are not just white people. We exist too, and really I barely see characters who have autism and aren't white.

Also, I want to see autistic characters with romantic and/or sexual partners. I feel like autistic characters are often desexualized or infantilized in a way that has them only rarely having a partner.

And I also want to see autistic characters whose special interest[s] isn't "useful" to their life, it's just there. Just part of their life. Like, it isn't their job. I feel like that's often a default.

Like Sasza said, we really need more complex and thoughtful representation of the spectrum. I don't need 'subversion' of autistic stereotypes, not particularly.

The subversion itself would be an autistic character being more than a plot device and portrayed with thought and care to the things that make their life difficult, the ways their autism affects the way they interact with others and the world, the things that make the person unique and themselves, and not just focusing on one of those aspects and ignoring everything else.

Hope this helps,

mod sparrow