#nah y’all get meta and that’s it

[tothestarswithye]

Ring ring… Ring ring…

SpearicalDee has joined your call.

[🍰] “HI BANDEEEEEE!!!”

[🔷] “AAK! OW- um, g-gimme a sec-”

[🍰] “Huh?”

[🔷] “Just… there, okay. Sorry, had my volume up too high.”

[🍰] “Oh, sorry! But anyway haiiiiiii!!”

[🔷] “Heheh, hi Kirby! Whatcha calling for?

[🍰] “Oh I just wanted to-”

SirMetaKnight has joined your call.

[🦇] “Kirby, what is the issue? Are you under attack?”

[🍰] “Huh? Wha- no! There’s no attack!”

[🦇] “Ah. Never mind then.”

SirMetaKnight has left your call.

[🍰] “HEY!! You get back here Mr. knight man!”

[🔷] *Sigh* “And there he goes…”

[🍰] “Uuuugh, whyyy does he always do this?”

[🔷] “Probably because of that one time you actually were in danger and called him. Now he’s gonna freak out every time.”

[🍰] “Hey, that was only cause I got stuck! He knows I can handle myself- Or do I gotta beat him up in the coliseum again? >:)”

[🔷] “...Maybe.” *Giggle*

NumbahOne1King has joined your call.

[🔷] “Oh! Great King!”

[🍰] “Haaiiiii!”

[👑] “Heheheh! Well if it isn’t my two favorite pipsqueaks! What’s goin’ on in here?”

[🍰] “Oh, I just wanted to chat with you all! But Meeeta left when it wasn’t important!”

[👑] “HAH! Always the party pooper.”

[🍰] “I’m gonna drag him back in, though!”

[👑] “Go get ‘im, tiger. Anyway! What’ve y’all been up to?”

[🔷] “Just training more with my spear on my end, sire!”

[🍰] “I went on a picnic with Adeline and Ribbon! They brought the beeeeest cookies ever, and we drew a bunch of pictures together! Oh, and Magalor took me and Elfilin on a trip ‘round the galaxy! We got to see a bunch of stars and planets!”

[👑] “Sounds exciting!”

[🍰] “Yeah! ‘Lin was a bit nervous about getting on the Lor, but Mags managed to talk ‘em into it. They actually ended up talking about their shared experiences of getting uh, absorbed and stuff.”

[🔷] “Oh jeez, hope that didn’t end up too dark…”

[🍰] “Ehh, I tried to not listen in too much. They were both happy by the end of it, though! 

[👑] “That’s good at least.”

[🍰] “Hmmm, so how about you Dedede?”

[👑] “Right! Well, I’ve been working on sorting out my Dee’s. Y’know, figuring out which ones are staying in the other world, helping the rest that are coming back- And! Some of the beast pack wants to move to Popstar, so I gotta supervise that too.”

[🔷] “Woah. Do you need more assistance with that, sire?”

[👑] “Nah, most of it’s done by now. Little Elfilin’s been a big help with all of the movin’ people around.

[🍰] “Woooo! Go ‘Lin-lin!”

[👑] “They've been doing so much it makes me feel bad, especially after what I did to ‘em before.”

[🍰] “That’s-”

[👑] “I know it’s not my fault, kid. But it was still my hands, so it feels kinda wrong that they’re the one helping me now.

[🍰] “Hey, you still-”

[👑] “You of all people have no right to argue with me here, ya puffball”

[🍰] “...”

[🔷] *Giggle*

[🍰] *Gasp* “Traitor!”

[🔷&👑] *Laughter*

[🍰] *Grumble*

[👑] “Ah, chin up kiddo.”

[🍰] *Pbbbtht*

[👑] *Scoff* “Oh you are so getting noogied next time I see ya!” 

SirMetaKnight has joined your call.

[🦇] “You can stop spam-messaging me now, Kirby”

[🍰] *Gasp* “METAAAAAAAAAA!!”

[🔷] “Hello again Sir Meta Knight!”

[👑] “‘Sup.”

[🦇] “Ah, hello to you two as well.”

[👑] “Heard you ditched when ya found out you weren’t needed, hahah!”

[🦇] “I was in the middle of something, but now I am free.”

[🔷] “It’s good to see- er, hear you regardless, sir!”

[🦇] “You as well, Bandana. How has your training been coming along?”

[🔷] “Really good! I’ve been working on going higher and faster with my spear-copter, it’s really fun!”

[🦇] “Good. And how about that blocking method I showed you?”

[🔷] “Oh yeah, Kirby’s helped me with practicing that!”

[🍰] “Mhm!”

[🦇] “Very good you two.”

[👑] “Heh, seems we’ve all been a bunch of busy bees!”

[🦇] “Truly. I trust that you have been training as well, sire?”

[👑] “Wh- Why would I need to train more? I’m already at the top of my game!”

[🔷] “You can never train too much!”

[🍰] “Yeah, that’s what Meta always says!”

[👑] “I am doing juuust fine as is!”

[🦇] “And yet you were still taken over by Fecto Forgo.”

[👑] “HEY! I did my best to resist that!”

[🔷] “L-lets not argue too much about this, guys…”

[🦇] “Hmph. I suppose his majesty did have an unfair disadvantage, as the creature seemed to be able to control beasts the easiest.

[👑] “What did you just call me?!”

[🦇] “You are a penguin, sire.”

[👑] “Oh shut it with that sass of yours!”

[🍰] *Giggle* “Alright alright, before you two get carried away… What have you been doing, Meta?”

[🦇] “Me? Well, I’ve been busy keeping an eye on Waddle Dee Town, though the migrating seems to be almost over. I just finished stationing some of my men there to keep watch for the foreseeable future.”

[🔷] “Is that really needed? I thought were were friends with the beast pack now.”

[🦇] “With most of them, yes. However, not all of them decided to switch sides after Fecto’s mind control was broken. Some are still hostile, so the town still needs protection.”

[👑] “That’s right! Gotta make sure all my little Dee’s are safe.”

[🍰] “Is that aaaaaall you’ve been doing? Ya gotta have fun sometimes, y’know!”

[🦇] “I am merely being efficient, Kirby. Though, I was actually invited to tea by Taranza a few days ago.

[🍰] “OOOOOOO! How is he, how is he?!”

[👑] *Sigh*

[🦇] “He is doing well enough. We spoke on the status of Floralia, as well as other matters. Apparently, there was an incident recently where Marx crash-landed into the Dreamstalk.”

[🍰] “Haha, really?”

[🦇] “Yes, and it only got worse when he found and ate a Miracle Fruit.”

[🍰] “Oh.”

[🔷] “Oh no.”

[👑] “Yeah, that sounds like a bad combo.”

[🦇] “He quote, ‘went on a mini rampage,’ flying around at breakneck speeds. Taranza did his best to reign him in, but it still caused quite a commotion.”

[🔷] “D-did things turn out alright at least?”

[🦇] “Yes, Taranza subdued him once the fruit’s effects wore off. He somehow managed to force Marx to apologize to the People of the Sky and clean up part of his mess.”

[🍰] “Wow, getting Marx to apologize? That’s impressive!”

[🦇] “Based on what he said, I think that jester may have a fear of spiders.”

[👑] “PFFFT- HEHEHEHAHAHahahahaaah… yeah I get that.”

[🔷] “Sheesh, seems like things have been eventful for everyone recently.”

[🍰] “But soooooo spread out though! Calling is nice, but I wanna see everyone in person!”

[🔷] “Oooo, we should have a get-together soon!”

[🦇] *Sigh* “I suppose my schedule did just become more free…”

[👑] “Same here! -Er, well not quite, still gotta finish up some stupid paperwork- but then I’ll be good!”

[🍰] “I’ll recruit Mags to pick people up! And then we can all go to uh… maybe… er… hrm.”

[👑] “Ehh… I got nothin’.”

[🦇] “...”

[🔷] “...How about Wondaria?”

[🍰] *GAAAASP* “THAT’S PERFECT!!”

[👑] “Oh yeah, I remember Carol talkin’ ‘bout that place!”

[🍰] “There’s sooooo much to do there, everyone’ll have a great time! I think you’ll like the House of Horrors, Meta.”

[🦇] “Hmph, we’ll see if it lives up to its name.”

[🔷] “I thought it was pretty spooky!”

[👑] “Heheh, well it’s settled then! How about uh, maybe three days from now?”

[🍰] “Sounds good! Can’t wait to see you all then!”

[🔷] “Mhm! I’m gonna get back to practicing, so see you guys later!”

[🍰] “BYEEE!!”

[👑] “See ya!”

[🦇] “Take care, Bandana.”

SpearicalDee has left your call.

[👑] “I’m also gonna hop out, gotta get my shi- stuff sorted out. Later!”

[🍰] “Oh, bye!”

[🦇] “Farewell, your majesty.”

NumbahOne1King has left your call.

[🦇] “Seems we’re all leaving now.”

[🍰] “Yeah…”

[🦇] “Hmmm… Actually, one thing before I depart as well. I have had a certain itching for a spar, so perhaps we could meet up at the coliseum once again?”

[🍰] *Gasp* “Heck yeah! I’d love to!”

[🦇] *Chuckle* “How about the day before this amusement park trip?”

[🍰] “Got it!”

[🦇] “Alright. I’ll see you then, Kirby.”

[🍰] “Mm-hmph! Bye bye!”

SirMetaKnight has left your call.

[🍰] *Giggle* “Oh, this is gonna be so much fun!”

All users have left your call.

[something-pithy]

(Quick) Notes and an Update: Come and Knock on My Door...

pictured above: Ascended Astarion before this Tav is like "Nah, bruh, i think this might be toxic OK gotta go bye" 5 Years Later...

Happy Tuesday, my sweet summer children!

And y'all salty ones, too :D

So Chapter 12 is up, and it's deadass over 5000 words of Astarion at different levels of unhinged and Tav at different levels of drunk af.

looool I mean, I had a lot of fun with it.

Quick Notes:

ON THE MF EPILOGUE:

OMG y’all, so Patch 5, amirite?!

Given the nature and content of an echo, a stain, OBVIOUSLY I AM EXCITE. 

A couple of things for the record:

Everything through Chapter 12 of this story was written as published before I saw any type of Ascendant epilogue. 

I don’t have an Ascendant Epilogue of my own to review because though I was in EA from jump and have 1700+ hours in this game (lol michaeljordangetsomehelp.gif), I've only completed one playthrough so far and I definitely failed the constitution check to complete the game with Astarion Ascended (listen, I love writing Ascendant Astarion but at the core of my being I'm here for ProcessingTrauma!Astarion and in the game, that's my SpawnStarion, baby)

My beta watched a video of the Ascendant epilogue and took notes, then gave me a bulleted list an echo, a stain was right about both in the parts that have been published, the parts that are still in progress, and the notes/outline for the rest of the story... loool it's a long list. tl;dr an echo, a stain remains pretty canon-compliant even post-epilogue.

I'm going to stop promising things about what I'm going to write in my notes. I really always do this with the best intentions, but once I drop a chapter, very frequently the day gets away from me because dropping the chapter took longer than I thought and/or I have other things to do.

If you have a specific meta question, don't hesitate to ask! I'm a teacher and a librarian and there's nothing I believe harder than "There are no dumb questions."

Normally I try to put out two new chapters each week, but after I dropped Ch 12 I started working on what was supposed to be Ch 13 and this motherfucker turned out to be 24 pages / 10K words.

I'm going to do my damnedest to get it posted today, but the revision process on this thing is already more involved than usual for a number of reasons. My incredible beta whomst I don't even deserve and I are working hard on figuring out how the MANY different things that happen in those 10K words best go together, best fit into the story, and also fix my Britishisms because during that torrent of word vomit I definitely started slipping into my native New Yorker / New Jerseyan f-bomb city patterns here and there. looool

Aight beautiful people, that's what I've got for now. I actually honestly do have about 2K words on alignment, good vs. evil, how they work (in my opinion) in BG3 and this story that are going to be pretty relevant to the HECKIN CHONKER of stuff that's coming up soon, but... we'll get there when we get there. Have a delicious day!

[apollos-boyfriend]

c!tubbo shouldn’t kill anyone.

tubbo has never been an offensive person. he’s never taken anyone’s canon life, and has always preferred talking things out instead of going in guns blazing. take the pit confrontation in pogtopia, for example. despite it being his life that was the source of the argument, he was the one pleading it to stop the most. he didn’t want anyone to fight, he didn’t want any blood to spill, he just wanted everyone to get along again. tubbo is a strategist before all else, and will do everything in his power to avoid conflict, if possible. (the butcher army was different, as he was actively pressured into it, and felt as if his power would be undermined otherwise. he has since moved on past that and realized the mistakes that were made.)

people keep saying that he should be the one to kill sam, dream, techno, etc, and while i’m not arguing that he doesn’t deserve “the right”, but that it’d be extremely against his characterization to kill someone over bad blood. tubbo doesn’t necessarily hold grudges, per se. he’s not like techno, who will “hurt those that hurt him a hundred times over” or whatever. he doesn’t forget, and depending on the person, he doesn’t fully forgive, but he doesn’t actively go out of his way to pursue and continue the cycle of revenge. he acts to protect himself and his loved one first, with physical combat being the last thing on his list as a last-resort. just because people have wronged tubbo in the past, or others that tubbo cares for, doesn’t mean he’ll attack. his first course of action is to check if they’re okay, and how they can avoid ever having something like that happen again. most of the time, the only reason the perpetrator in the equation is ever even brought up is how to avoid and protect if a future attack is to happen. it’s never revenge. it’s defense.

the only time tubbo would ever kill was if there was no other choice. if it was the only choice he had to protect his loved ones, and even then, he wouldn’t do so without trying to talk it out first. it would have to be something he has no choice over—kill or be killed. he wouldn’t kill to enact revenge on what they’ve done to him or the people he cares about. tubbo doesn’t get blinded by rage, in fact, when faced with fight or flight, he tends to freeze. unless he’s placed under exceedingly dire circumstances, tubbo would not and could not bring himself to take a life.

even the nukes were a defensive strategy. he didn’t invent them to take out dream. he invented them so, if dream were to threaten him or any of his friends again, he could bring them up—not to use, but to create a stalemate. dream wouldn’t attack due to fear of tubbo retaliating, creating a cold war. the nukes were never meant to be used, nor did tubbo want to use them (as a weapon, at the least). when he brought back the program after retiring it, he stuck to the same ideology—they were returning so he could protect michael and ranboo, not so he could enact vengeance or war. even the dreamon hunters, who have hunter in their name, weren’t about killing. they were about protecting the server by exorcising dreamons from the citizens. since day one, tubbo has been all about protection and safety. yes, he’s fought before, and yes, he’s been in wars, but in desperate times, even a shield must be used as a weapon. for tubbo’s current characterization, it would make no sense for him to take another’s canon life, as “rewarding” and “cathartic” as it may be at first glance

[acidmatze]

Collection of thoughts on Gojo and social interactions

Because I have way too much time on my hands i started thinking about how Gojo actually interacts with other people which led me on an interesting hike through various thoughts on that matter that may or may not make sense and i thought “Hey why not make it everyone else’s problem?” This is not a meta or anything like that, just word vomit

So here goes:

In fanfics hes often written as someone who has an easy time flirting with people and is pretty easy to approach and befriend and date. Its a fanfic, so sure thing. Not everyone is in the mood for 400k slow burn, sometimes you wanna get to the Good Stuff. (wether thats smut or fluff or both is up to y’all)

But what if he’s actually hard to befriend and even harder to date? He basically never interacts with anyone whos his equal and when he does people dont seem to react very well. The person that responds well to him is Yuuji, his student. The last time he had an equal that didnt treat him like hes a spider in the bathroom and they are pondering wether to squash it or get the vacuum cleaner was in high school.

Because he never interacts with people who are his equals/the ones that are dont particularly like him there’s now the question what Gojo would actually do if someone would just... join his antics.

That would be so interesting to see tbh. Like, he’s like “Lets throw riceballs at each other while we discuss the seperation of church and state” and Nanami is like “Yeah nah.” But what if there was someone who would be like Yuuji (who would think thats an amazing idea) but can see eye to eye with Gojo. Would Gojo suddenly Have Something Else To Do? Would he be happy about it? Would he let this person into his personal bubble? Which also begs the question wether or not Gojo intentionally comes up with the most outrageous stuff cuz he knows nobody would take up his offer or if he actually wants to do stuff like this. (I hope it’s the latter but tbh wouldn’t surprised if it’s the former)

Gojo seems like someone who has “given up” on the possibility of ever finding friends again. As far as he is concerned he’s alone and will forever stay alone but how would he react if someone bangs on the wall he build around himself and wants to be let in? Would he let them in? Would he push back? Would he push back even though he wants to let people in but is afraid? So that would mean the person just has to keep insisting on being let in and eventually it might work.

Maybe he is a bit like an onion, has layers. The court jester parts are interwoven with trauma, mental illness and other heavy things and you have to peel and peel and peel. The first layer is obviously his happy go lucky self. And beyond that are the first traces of depression, that something is definitely not as it seems. Then you get the fact that he’s clearly still an optimist, when it comes to others. But a pessimist when it comes to himself. He has trust in other people. Despite having been betrayed and being alone since. But he cares about people, genuinely. An onion, kinda, maybe. The deeper you get the higher and thicker the walls will become

Or maybe I’m reading too much into nothing and he’s just a funny guy.

[midearladydisdain]

OK... all my ADHD/Autistic fam y’all know that thing where u hyperfixate but u don’t know it’s happening because u didn’t actually LIKE the thing ur now hyperfixating on?

Like u saw/heard/read the thing and was like “nah I’m good” but ur still looking up all the info about it? The behind the scenes? The YouTube reactions? The music and meta and art that fans come out with??? And ur like “I didn’t really like it but I still gotta know the stuff ya know”

And before u really understand it ur straight up obsessed but like HOW DID I EVEN GET HERE I DONT EVEN LIKE IT TO START WITH WTF???

[theteapotofdoom]

Do you truly think Dabi cares about the league? Has he done anything to prove he cares about them as their own personas insteads for his own goal? I'm afraid we are clowning ourselves and Dabi really doesn't care.

(Again, I have many other asks before this one and I’m going through them one by one but I always want to get the asks about Dabi being against the LOV out the way because they usually give me massive anxiety and so I want to get it done right away. Thank you, everyone, for being patient! :D)

The fact that Dabi still with the LOV at all could be enough proof honestly. Before the MVA arc, Shig and the LOV were MASSIVE underdogs with no money or no real power or influence. Anyone who didn’t care at least a little should have yeeted. If Dabi is just using the LOV he should have left them long ago because before the Re Destro fight they had next to nothing going for them and I’m sure there are many other powerful villain organisations out there. Dabi literally just had to say "y’all suck I’m out" but he never did that.

Dabi is also constantly risking his life for LOV. He is often put in charge when Shigaraki isn’t around, he is often sent on solo missions for the sake of the LOV ... there is a very clear implicit trust between Shigaraki and him, Horikoshi really isn’t subtle about it. He is ALWAYS drawing Dabi on Shigaraki’s right in group shots and manga is a mostly visual form of storytelling so the way Hori draws them MEANS THINGS.

Dabi has never once disobeyed or questioned Shigaraki and always ALWAYS asks him permission before doing anything. Do you know who is the opposite of that? Spinner. He has changed now, but for a very long time, Spinner actually was the perfect example of "I don’t care about the LOV" he was always questioning and challenging Shigaraki and always protesting orders and never bonding with anyone. Dabi is just ... kind of rude sometimes I guess? And that’s it?

Like I said, Dabi is constantly risking his life for the LOV. When they went to save Giran from Re Destro, Dabi clearly said that he thought that this was a suicidal mission and that they had small chances of winning AND YET HE STILL CAME. Again, homeboy could have very easily just said "nah I don’t care about Giran enough to die with y’all, peace out" but he didn’t. He came along. He fought. He even overused his fire power and risked his life.

Last but not least: HE SAVED TWICE’S LIFE! Yes, Twice still died anyway but Dabi went out of his way to save Twice WITHOUT ANYONE ASKING HIM TO DO SO just because he knew that Twice was in danger. I don’t have the panel here, but there is a very clear image of dozens of villains running while Dabi is purposely running against the flow in the other direction to go save Twice. He risked his life for Twice. It wasn’t an order, it wasn’t part of the mission, it was Dabi’s choice.

Also another small detail but an important one: the high five. I know it feels like a small insignificant detail in the great scheme of this but like I said before MANGA IS A VISUAL MEDIUM WITH VISUAL STORYTELLING pictures mean things, drawings mean things, what Hori chooses to show us or not is important. And here, even with an often rushed schedule that he has, he took the time to draw Dabi and Twice having a high five because he decided that this was important visual storytelling for the story.

I’m gonna get a little meta here but this is important. From a pure storytelling perspective: Dabi screaming that he doesn’t care about the LOV while literally in the middle of a mental breakdown right after Twice’s death and in the same chapter where he reveals that he is physically incapable of crying or feeling anything becomes of his scars and his trauma ... well damn, I call me crazy but I feel we’re maybe not supposed to take his word for granted??? Almost as if Horikoshi is setting up Dabi as a traumatized emotionally stunt character going through denial because the last time he cared about his family he got hurt and he doesn’t want to suffer again?

I’ll give you this: if Dabi doesn’t actually care about the LOV right now, then this is what his character arc is going to be about. About how he closed off emotionally after his trauma with the Todo and refuses to ever get attach to anyone ever again. Because people are either cruel or weak and always hurt you. Dabi’s arc will be about how he desperately tried to not get attached to the LOV and failed miserably. This will be about him desperately pretending that he doesn’t care while having a break down because he couldn’t save Twice. This will be about Dabi being lost and confused because "I physically can’t cry or feel anything anymore so why does it still hurt so much?" This is the shit I want to see. Why even introduce the fact that Dabi can’t cry if you’re not going to be all meta about it and use it as a metaphor for how he actually cares?

I don’t know. Maybe this is just mental gymnastic. Maybe you’re right anon and I’m just a clown. Maybe I’m just reading a completely different manga. I guess we’ll see soon enough. But for now, I’ll stick to my guns.

Shigadabi and the LOV as a found family are my emotional support ship and emotional support trope and I really just want to vibe tbh

This is a mess and I apologise. It’s very late and I had an emotional day, I hope that this is still a clear and interesting answer.

[aelaer]

☕ The extended Avengers. Aka Rhodey, Wanda, Vision, Bucky, NOT PETER (already done), Captain Marvel and Ant Man. I think that's it? The others are outsiders that occasionally come into the fight and will be asked about later. 👀

Bucky you can find here.

So there’s a fun history to this post. The first draft I wrote when I was in a ranty mood, and in a rare moment of wisdom, I held off posting until I was calm and ready to revisit it. So that happened this summer, and the original draft was heavily edited. … and then Tumblr saved *none* of my edits. None of them. Ohhh, I was fuming. So I left it be, and then I had another break in the fall. Now as I play catch-up, I revisit this post once more withhh draft #3.

Rhodey: Not given nearly enough credit by most. First point: Tony wouldn’t be alive for y’all to ship (with literally everyone) without Rhodey being a motherfucking boss and saving him from everything. What I really like about Rhodey is his independence and agency. They make it a huge point in the films to show how independent Rhodey is from Tony Stark while still being his best friend. The best fan fiction with Rhodey is when the writer remembers Rhodey’s agency and keep him his own independent person rather than a Tony yes-man. The wonderful thing about Rhodey is that he supports his best friend when he agrees with him, and he lets his own opinion be known when he doesn’t, and on occasion, he sets Tony back in his place when it’s needed. He has a strong, strong character and strong personality which is why I love him so much.

With Tony’s strong personality, it would have been easy to have Tony walk all over him, but that doesn’t happen. He stands his ground when it matters, and he has his own strong opinions for his own reasons, and best of all, none of his opinions have anything to do with his friendship with Tony Stark. He’s his own man. He’s such an amazing character on his own, so why wouldn’t a writer explore the interesting dynamics between these two and make Rhodey stand on his own? I Don’t Get It.

Wanda: Not fleshed out nearly enough compared to other side Avengers in the MCU, and done outright dirty by a large segment of the MCU fandom (which was the start of my enormous distaste of anti-culture). I do think that she has a lot of potential for an expansion of character in canon, and I really hope we see more of her personality and what makes her her in her TV show. I hope we get some sort of flashbacks from her difficult childhood after she was made an orphan in a civil war, some sort of acknowledgement of her grief and healing from her brother’s death, and Vision’s as well. That is what I am looking for most in her show - more growth as a character and further acknowledgements of the grief and tragedy that shaped the woman she became. She’s never been near my favorite Avenger, but a large reason she hasn’t is because she hasn’t had the chance on the screen to really become a fully fleshed character. And that’s a crime.

Vision: Ah yeah, this was a large part as to why I didn’t post the first draft of this. A small segment of the fanbase upset me with their hypocrisy in mocking Vision’s and Wanda’s love as not real because of his android-ness, while understanding Tony’s care for his robots and his true grief for JARVIS’s loss. The inability to understand Wanda’s grief for Vision’s loss, while claiming to understand Tony’s loss for JARVIS, is simply willful ignorance. I remember I got especially angry about this at the time because some person somewhere was mocking Wanda for loving “a toaster”. The type of folks who make such comments just seem really… ignorant. Unless they’re mocking Tony in the same way for loving JARVIS. If they are, then it’s like– you’re just being more ignorant. I have stronger words, but– not worth the effort.

I don’t remember being so angry at fandom as often when I was active in the Tolkien fandom. Annoyed, but actively angry? Nah, but no one ever treated the characters so poorly and actively made fun of people for liking other characters. It might be part of why I pulled away so fully for the exhausting year 2020 was. (The ‘reset’ time did help.)

Anyway, Vision himself is absolutely fascinating. He definitely had a very interesting birth process, and I adore how the presence of the Mind Stone helps “evolve” him into something alive, which really makes sense: the mind and the evolved ability to reason and “think” is what has really separated humanity from the rest of all living creatures. While we’ve seen evidence of other animals using tools and higher emotion, and some recognizing their own form in a mirror, there’s no species that does it with a complexity and consistency that humanity does (and in the MCU, other creatures that are distinguished between “animals” and “people”). With the mind evolving, he becomes as complex as a human or another alien form. And that’s really amazing. I’ve really, really enjoyed writing him as well and people don’t understand what they’re missing by dismissing him.

Carol: I was wondering when this would come up, but no one’s asked before now. This is my least favorite Avenger. I found her movie really underwhelming and out of all the characters in it, the side characters were 10 times more compelling than her. And I really liked Brie Larson in Community, so it’s not the actress herself. I think it may be just that I don’t think she really connected with me as a person, at least with what we saw with her in her intro movie. She just felt flat, humor, emotions, everything. I also really dislike overpowered characters with no obvious weaknesses. Stephen can run out of magic, for instance, or certain tech can take him out. Carol feels too much like Superman, and I really don’t like Superman either. That’s one reason I have to write her in any fighting role or in any “heroes are in trouble” role because she just seems to be able to get out of every hero-in-trouble situation fairly easily. I’m open for future films to change my mind, but at the moment she has nothing substantial for me as a character, especially with the other Avengers competing for “most interesting” and her powers make her too OP. But I’m rooting for her (and Goose). I could try writing her with Stephen in something involving demons, so that might prove more of a challenge and help me explore her character further. I’m certainly open to metas that dig further into what makes her tick, too.

Scott: Not given nearly enough credit for his own heroics in Endgame, for one thing. Tony wouldn’t have been able to do his Famous Uno Reverse Card without Scott’s optimism and hope. I love his sense of humor, I love that he’s both smart and funny, I LOVE how good of a dad he is, I adore adore adore that he’s on good standing with his ex and her fiance by the end of the first Ant Man, and I love how he so clearly has a clear, individual personality. Kudos to Paul Rudd and the writers/directors of the first two films for helping convey that so clearly. I’d love him to meet Doctor Strange so much, properly. Yeah, he’s not appreciated as much as he should be by fandom.

And this post is finally done.

[kakitysax]

*reaches out* Tell me more about Rai and Mal please!

REALLY?

Nah I’m just kidding y’all know I’m gonna tell you anyway.

I’m probably going to get into their entire character arcs or something so here’s a cut

RAI

I initially thought that Rai’s magic was Anger. He is an Elemental Wizard of Earth and Fire, with a decided volcano aesthetic, and he does have a temper problem. But the problem was his magic didn’t have the *dark* overtone that Orpheus and Mal did. It’s just raw and natural - destructive, but not malevolent. In addition, I had another character whose V I B E was just much more characteristic of an anger problem.

Also, Rai’s problem isn’t ANGER. He DOES have a temper, but he’s...more than that. He’s intense, and impulsive, and unfiltered, and FUCK it’s ADHD again.

Rai is ADHD.

Meta mental health symbolism aside, Rai is just a really cool character. One of my favorites. First of all he is SOLID muscle and y’all know how I feel about that. But he also lives in a volcano and I love that energy. He lives in Mount Pele, on an island of the same name in the Ai-Lauu archipelago, this world’s Hawaii fusion. Due to the fact that he is immortal and a territorial bitch, Ai-Lauu has never undergone colonization. The natives consider him their patron god (but also not really, I’m using western terminology but he’s more like their garbage kupua mascot.) They know he’s a hoe but they love him anyway.

Rai’s main character arc is homesickness. He strikes out on this journey with Orpheus out of pure boredom and dicks around with him and Mal for a while, but as time goes on he gets steadily more lethargic. Then he gets really hurt and has to go back to Pele to recover. Once there he decides never to leave again. The others come get him and see this whole other side of him - the side that is passionate and happy and has learned only to erupt on one side of the island because destroying the forest on the other side makes him sad, and runs on the beach because he can and eats tropical fruit and gets the juice all over his face and is comfortable with all the animals that live in his woods and occasionally pops on over to the neighboring islands to wear leis and party with the mortals. So yeah uh I love him.

MAL

Mallory Cessair is a Doom player. The end.

Nah just kidding half of you probably don’t know what that means. It’s just...her backstory is kinda working through the stuff that I witnessed as a kid that I was too young to know about and really impacted me a lot. So um. Triggers ahead. It’s kind of intense.

Mallory is the only Mortal in the group. She is half Wizard, which makes her a Witch. Her father, Cessair, has magic that basically represents being a dick - Poison and Pestilence and Death and Bitterness and he loves to spread that shit around.

Mallory was born to Cessair and an unwilling mortal girl. Said Mortal Girl was really not equipped to deal with both the trauma of Mal’s conception and the complications of parenting. Mallory looks like Cessair and has his magic, and as such her mother sees her subconsciously less as a child than as a curse, a symbol of everything Cessair has put into the world, and Mal has internalized that image of herself as a result.

Eventually Mal’s mother got her happy ending with a marriage to a mortal man. Whether or not it’s actually a healthy relationship is something I’m still working out. All I know is that Mal got an older stepbrother as a result of the union, who abused her.

At some point Mal runs away. I don’t know yet how long the timeframe is between her leaving her family and meeting Orpheus and Rai, or if anything important happens between there. She has a pretty abrasive personality but manages to bond with them anyway.

But like, remember how Rai got injured? It was protecting Mal.

Which only serves to further her image of herself as a curse. After Rai recovers she goes to visit him and they end up having a pretty big fight. Basically he says what she thinks (she’s a curse) she cusses him out because even though she thinks that about herself she doesn’t take shit lying down, and the group basically falls apart.

Everyone kind of blasts off to do their own thing. Mal’s own thing is tracking down her dad and FUCKING KILLING HIM.

I wrote that scene, it needs work but there’s some pretty raw-ass dialogue.

Anyway after that she kind of has a breakdown. Mal has poison magic, but the aesthetic is that she IS poisonous. She oozes poison. She sweats poison, spits poison, cries poison. And the more stressed she gets the more she secretes.

So basically she kills her dad and then curls up on the floor of his office to die. It’s like that scene in Howl’s moving castle, only without a Sophie to come get her. By the time Orpheus FINALLY shows up (his love and commitment to his friends overpowering his apathy and putting another notch in his “overcoming depression” belt) the entire floor is ankle-deep in toxic sludge.

Up until now it’s been assumed that Mal is immune to her own poison. But she’s not. Not really. Not completely. She’s kind of experiencing multiple organ failure in slow motion.

So anyway Orpheus tries to fix it but he can’t so he goes and gets Rai because Rai is the only one who can get through to her at this point and then the hurt/comfort kicks in and she flushes out all that nasty stuff with a good cathartic cry and gets a bath and a bomb-ass new haircut

But she’s still mad at Rai who is finally starting to learn that his actions have consequences

And Rai noticed that Orpheus got happier when he got a dog

So Rai pops on over to his island via teleportation magic and brings back a parrot for Mal because they’re smart and reminded him of her while he was sulking in his volcano (and it’s also green because Mal’s color is green)

And Mal teaches it to call Rai a dickwad :)

Sorry that’s WAY more than anyone fucking asked for or wanted but I like it. It’s plot stuff which never lasts long so the whole thing is probably going to undergo some MAJOR changes but this is what it is right now.

So uh

Yeah.

Please react I want validation.

[the-black-birb]

𝐀𝐤𝐚𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐢'𝐬 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐲 (𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟐!)

This fic features Bokuto, Akaashi, Kuroo, Kenma, Futakuchi, and a reader character. There are no explicit romanitc pairings.

Warnings: swearing and poorly attempted humor

Summary: a bunch of idiots go go an ice skating rink. Chaos ensues

A/N: this is part of a collaborative fic with ellie (@babiekeiji ) for qee's bday!! Happy birthday cutie ilysm

QeeDay Masterlist

Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3

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[DIRECT MESSAGE]

Friday, 7:16 PM

waiyenn and futacoochieslayer are online!

waiyenn: KENJIIII ヽ(^o^)丿

futacoochieslayer: wot do you want from me

waiyenn: c’mon it’s the eve of my birthday be nicer to me

futacoochieslayer: but it’s not your bday yet 凸-_-凸

waiyenn: .

futacoocieslayer: wazzup

waiyenn: soooo about ice skating …

futaocoochieslayer: man don’t cancel on me now

futaocoochieslayer: i already bought passes

futaocoochieslayer: no one else is free

futaocoochieslayer: i’ll have to invite koganegawa

futaocoochieslayer: you want to see him on ice? i’ll be miserable

waiyenn: shut up im not cancelling

waiyenn: yet

futaocoochieslayer: go ahead and cancel its ur bday not mine, luv

waiyenn: make up your mind drama queen

waiyenn: anyway i invited a few of my friends along

futaocoochieslayer: ….. who

waiyenn: yk, akaashi and kenma…

futaocoochieslayer:  they’re quiet

futaocoochieslayer: they’ll stay out of my way

futaocoochieslayer:  that’s fine

waiyenn:... and kuroo and bokuto

futaocoochieslayer: is that 

futaocoochieslayer: the chest receive guy

futaocoochieslayer: with the really nice ass

waiyenn:  that’s the one

futaocoochieslayer: who won’t shut up.

waiyenn: :)

futaocoochieslayer:  it was supposed to be a nice evening yn

futaocoochieslayer:  we were supposed to bond

waiyenn: it’s my birthday kenji

futaocoochieslayer: ofc my bad

futaocoochieslayer: your birthday, your right to ruin it

 [DIRECT MESSAGE]

Friday, 9:08 PM

akaashi and futacoochieslayer are online!

futaocoochieslayer: you’re the voice of reason, right?

akaashi: Pardon me?

futaocoochieslayer: listen idc if you guys come along 

futaocoochieslayer: hell, please come along! maybe it’ll make me look better

futaocoochieslayer: but i’ve been trying to get a date with yn for months

futaocoochieslayer: don’t mess this up for me

futaocoochieslayer: and don’t let your friends either

futaocoochieslayer: sweet dreams (✿◠‿◠)

akaashi: Oh my

akaashi: Alright, I’ll do my best.

 [SILENCE, BOKUTO]

Saturday, 7:56 AM

akaashi, applepi, and tetsubro are online!

akaashi: bokuto.

applepi: akaashi not capitalizing??

tetsubro: oh bokuto’s got him MAD mad

tetsubro: y’all pray for my boy bokuto nothings wrong w him he’s just a dumbass 

akaashi: bokuto get online this instant

tetsubro: bold of you to assume he’s even awake at this hour

captain_daddy is online!

captain_daddy: guys you wont believe what happened

captain_daddy: i woke up to chills

captain_daddy: do you think a ghost was in my room???

captain_daddy: maybe i could get on buzzfeed unsolved

applepi: i think u have to worry about more than a ghost

akaashi: bokuto.

captain_daddy: agaaashi ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

akaashi: would you like to share with the class what you and yn discussed?

captain_daddy: oh yeah!!!! i asked her if we were on for saturday

tetsubro: and she said…?

captain_daddy: we’re going ice skating instead!!!!

applepi: we’re going what?

tetsubro: bro u can italicize text????

tetsubro: that’s meta

akaashi: We’re what???

akaashi: when did we ever agree to that...

captain_daddy: ice skating!! it’ll be super fun!!!!

akaashi: Who are we ice skating with?

captain_daddy: yn ofc!! and someone else she said…

captain_daddy: futaba?

applepi: from persona?

akaashi: -_-

tetsubro: poor akaashi…...

tetsubro: what has the world come to

akaashi: do you mean futakuchi?

captain_daddy: yeah!! that one!!!

captain_daddy: ur so cool akaashi

captain_daddy: how do you know him?

akaashi: Long story.

tetsubro: wait if it was just supposed to be futakuchi and yn

tetsubro: ...are we crashing a date?

captain_daddy: nah yn didn’t say anything about it

appepi: she didnt say or u left too early for her to explain?

captain_daddy: nah bro she invited us

tetsubro: you’re sure?

captain_daddy: yes

tetsubro: positive?

captain_daddy: yes, bro

tetsubro: bro (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)ﻭ

captain_daddy: BROOO!!!!! ٩(♡ε♡ )۶

akaashi: yn might not think it’s a date, but Futakuchi does.

tetsubro: huh?

tetsubro: HUH????? 

applepi: fucking hell

applepi: lets get this over with

 Saturday, 10:36 AM

waiyenn created group [PARTAYYYYY]

waiyenn added futacoochieslayer, akaashi, applepi, tetsubro, and captain_daddy to [PARTAYYYYY]

everyone is online!

waiyenn: is everyone ready to embarrass ourselves on ice •̀.̫•́✧

futacoochieslayer: first person to fall buys lunch

applepi: no one’s going to fall for that

captain_daddy: UR ON FUTABA

futacoochieslayer: falling includes getting pushed over :)

tetsubro: it’ll be a miracle if no one ends up in the hospital by the end of this

akaashi: No one is going to the hospital today.

akaashi: We’re going to follow the rules that they have.

akaashi: If anyone can’t skate, they’ll have a partner and stay close to the wall.

tetsubro: @captain_daddy will u be my partner?

captain_daddy: ofc bro

tetsubro: bro…. (｡>﹏<｡)

futacoochieslayer: yn

waiyenn: no lol

futacoochieslayer: i didnt even ask

waiyenn: you’ll drop me

futacoochieslayer: i’ll fall for u ;)

waiyenn: man wtf 

applepi: im gonna hurl

applepi: wheres the skating rink anyways

futacoochieslayer: u dont know?

futacoochieslayer: lmao scrubs

futacoochieslayer: dont u live all the way in tokyo?

tetsubro: shit

captain_daddy: wait are we gonna miss it TT TT

appepi: bokuto ur literally sitting on the train next to me

applepi: We’re on the way to Miyagi

waiyenn: kenji can u send akaashi the address

futacoochieslayer: why do i have to

waiyenn: (｡ŏ﹏ŏ)

futacoochieslayer: fine.

akaashi: I’m sorry, yn, I think we’re going to be a little late.

futacoochieslayer: more time for me and yn :)

waiyenn: it’s ok guys we can wait for you

tetsubro: wow yn

tetsubro: so cold

waiyenn: ???

applepi: ur just as bad as bokuto

 [DIRECT MESSAGE]

Saturday, 12:43 PM

akaashi and futacoochieslayer are online!

futacoochieslayer: [address]

futacoochieslayer: don’t. ruin. this. for me.

akaashi: I don’t have to 

akaashi: I’m fairly certain you already ruined this for yourself

akaashi: Did you ever consider tell yn this was supposed to be a date?

futacoochieslayer: ah fuck

 [PARTAYYYYY]

Saturday, 1:27 PM

waiyenn, akaashi, applepi, tetsubro, and captain_daddy are online!

captain_daddy: WE’RE IN MIYAGI BABYYYY

akaashi: We’re headed your way now.

akaashi: Are you at the rink?

waiyenn: nah we went to grabbed some lunch while we were waiting

waiyenn: there’s a panera bread that you’ll pass on the way

tetsubro: futakuchi paid for lunch right?

waiyenn: yes lol he’s not that bad

applepi: i see the panera 

applepi: is that futakuchi with you?

captain_daddy: HE’S SO TALL

tetsubro: word

tetsubro: from the way he was texting i was expecting an incel

tetsubro: he looks more like a chad

waiyenn: lmfaooo

futacoochieslayer is online!

futacoochieslayer: srsly yn this is why u were staring at your phone

futacoochieslayer: whatever happened to having a conversation

waiyenn: okay grandpa

futacoochieslayer: that’s grandaddy to you

waiyenn:  (▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿▀̿ ̿) i cannot see

futacoochieslayer: oh

futacoochieslayer: kuroo, right?

futacoochieslayer: i am a chad ;)

tetsubro: *///*

tetsubro: oya?

captain_daddy: oyaoya?

tetsubro: oyaoyaoya?

applepi: sigh

akaashi: Since we’re here can we please all stop texting.

akaashi: If you put your skates on wrong because you’re distracted, it’ll be dangerous.

waiyenn: yes mom

[subjectsix]

Hitman 2 and 3 theories

OKAY so I’ve been reading about Hitman 2/3 theories and thinking on the ending of the Haven level a lot and decided to make a post about it because analyzing stuff is fun dkfjghdjkfhg

Spoilers for the end of Hitman 2/the Haven level below the cut! (y’all its so much I’m sorry KJLDFHGKJFHG its Hitman Lore And Meta Time)

FIRST lemme just say. Y’all I’m very aware I’m a big Lucas Grey fan dkjgfhkdjhg BUT I did my best to make sure that wasn’t getting into my analyzation too much, I like being as objective/unbiased as possible bc the Hitman storyline is wonderful (and if Lucas is the villain oooo Drama™)

anyway this is gonna be a long ramble so here’s the TL;DR

Big point: I don’t think we can accurately piece together any sort of an answer currently, and IO wants us to doubt everyone and everything for the “hook” into the next game, and they did a lovely job at it! Thank you IO <3

My three running theories with the info we have:

None of the main four are working with the constant, and he is manipulating them all to try and turn them on each other, making them doubt each other to cause dissension among them (see: him telling Diana about the hit on her parents, the concept that he’s making Lucas out to be a traitor) which could result in Lucas’ death (or not)

Lucas is being “held hostage” in a way by the constant-- Edwards has him by some threat or pressure point credible enough to make Lucas work for him

The least likely in my opinion due to evidence and Lucas’ character, but still possible maybe: Lucas made a deal with the constant somehow (when he would’ve found the time, I don’t know) because he’s got it in his head that he and 47 should be the providence leaders-- somewhere along the way he got so obsessed/focused on this all he got his view skewed and genuinely thinks he’s doing a good and helpful thing

So what prompted me was this specific comment on a hitman subreddit theory thread:

So to me, the idea that Lucas has been a traitor from the start doesn’t seem to add up. If you look at everything we've seen from IO about him, it shows that Lucas is on a path of vengeance-- suddenly allowing The Constant off the hook seems like a massive shift in character, especially considering the comic and what we've seen of Lucas and 47 as kids (more on this in a bit)

So the only leap you can make after that to blame Lucas is the second comment on that reddit response, but that seems like such a big cheesy sci-fi stretch to me. If you look at Lucas and 47 knowing they’re clones, you can clearly see the resemblance. They aren’t just brothers, they’re like. They’re near exactly the same in appearance (save for the fact that 47’s in much better shape and like. Bald DFHFDJHG). You could argue that Lucas had his face changed to appear to be a clone, but you have to consider that they both have the hand scars from the pact they made as children, the comic confirms Lucas/6’s existence, Lucas has a lot of Ort-Meyer knowledge others don’t have, and 47 is remembering Lucas

Any leap past that gets wackier, like...

- Maybe 47 has DOUBLE fake memories from his time in the institute and this has been planned from the beginning? Doesn’t seem satisfying nor IO’s style, plus it seems rather out of character for 47.

- Ether antidote somehow gave him fake memories? Also nah, seems just too out there/odd/improbable 

So from here, the only thing that I can personally add up and understand in the vein of Lucas being a traitor is the concept of Lucas maybe having a bent concept of like... morality? I can see him maybe getting a bit too over the edge, too bent and obsessed on Providence and taking them down, and somehow talking himself into thinking he and 47 need to be in control of Providence because they’re the only ones that can make things “right”. From what I’ve seen, he hasn’t exhibited behavior that tells me that in full, but that makes much more sense than him being A Complete Snake™ because if he was a traitor it would defo be in the “he fully thinks he’s doing the right and good thing for 47”

ANYWAY consider this evidence in game:

- Lucas being shown repeatedly to go to great lengths to avoid collateral damage/citizens getting hurt or killed (you can overhear this being talked about on Hawke’s Bay, Columbia (and from Lucas himself in Rico’s office), and I think Colorado, but I’m not sure. I’m sure there’s other locations as well).

- Lucas' genuine concern for Olivia to the point that he gives her her whole own security detail (seen on Colorado, thank u @olliemander for showing me that!!!), as well as the fact that he met her when she was 7 (can somebody say father figure), and she's the only person in the whole militia to have both seen him and know his real name, not even Sean Rose knows his name and those that have seen him have all been killed (Viktor, the Providence member in the cutscene after Sapienza) 

- His seemingly genuine reaction to realizing he killed Diana's parents (seen in the cutscene before Sgáil)

- His seemingly genuine concern over 47's wellbeing after the ether antidote (seen in the cutscene after Whittleton)

- His seemingly genuine reaction to/at the institute (the man is genuinely emotional over it all)

- The Constant's complete bafflement at Lucas' actions-- you can overhear this on Sgáil-- and I suppose you could argue that this is just fake so Edwards and Lucas can play the long con, but that seems unlikely to me

- also this is less of a piece of evidence but still interesting, Lucas’ man on the island that gets him the info on the poison chip and the Washington Sisters comes from a genuine NPC you can listen to, who calls Lucas to give him more info and tell him their debt from their old CICADA days is repaid and to just leave him alone now AKJDLFHGKJDFHG

I mean, yeah, it could all be things to mislead us, but I don’t think so-- his behavior lines up throughout the years of his life that we’ve been shown, and 47 isn’t one to blindly trust people.

This leaves the idea that Lucas has been working with Edwards from the start, but that too seems like a long stretch to me-- Lucas seems to hate what he and 47 had to go through (as seen in the comics and just his behavior we’ve seen), and he carries that weight (like he mentions in the cutscene before Sgáil, and in the Homecoming cutscene). He seems to really struggle with survivor’s guilt over his escape from the institute. Plus Lucas doing a double side switch seems a bit Much™ (but I totally could be wrong akdljfhgkjdgh)

Ultimately tho, here's the thing: I don’t think we can solve this puzzle yet, because IO wants us to wait for Hitman 3. What good is it if we bust it before the game comes out?

They did this with the end of the Sgáil mission-- it was a big ominous cliffhanger but then we just sorta scooted along (so they could keep building the story, it was well done IMO)

My most likely theory at the moment is the idea that Edwards is trying to turn 47, Lucas, Diana, and Olivia on each other because he realizes they’re a threat. Bc If I’m real, I currently don't think any of the core group are working with The Constant, which is terrifying, because it means the constant is way more powerful than we thought and way less helpless than we thought he was in his current position. (So that means the text/phone call/whatever Lucas got in the end cutscene was from Edwards posing as someone else like Olivia). Plus, if Diana gets into contact with 47, she’s going to tell him Edwards is gone. If for some reason 47 can’t contact her, he’s going to be suspicious and on high alert.

Edwards is a scheming, smart dude and I don’t doubt him being able to do that at all. He knows Diana and 47 are close and trust each other (“in his own special way, he cares about you”) and felt the need to mention to her that 47 and Lucas were behind her parents’ deaths-- that’s not just bonus information, he did it for a reason. This also puts his line of “Do you really want to do this to me?” to the Partners in reference to being under scrutiny and needing the poison chip under a SUPER terrifying and ominous light. What sort of power does this man wield?

I would personally love to see Lucas survive these games AKJHSFJGH but I can see the story leading to 47 have to make a call to shoot Lucas (thinking he’s a traitor), playing hard against the emotions of it all, especially with the reveal that this was all a set up by The Constant, making 47 go after him with a vengeance. (also not to be angsty™ but can you imagine Lucas and 47 talking after 47’s shot him? Oof ouchy my heart) 

Another possibility I can see is like my friend Synth suggested-- Lucas wanting to go in violently and take it all out on The Constant, while 47 holds him back for tactics sake 

In terms of Lucas and Edwards working together, sans them planning it from the start, there really would’ve been no time for Lucas to talk to The Constant between his capture and the departure for the bank. I also can’t currently make sense of many reasons why Lucas would side with him and not tell 47 or Olivia

My final idea that plays into the idea of Lucas as a traitor is the idea that, somehow, The Constant is holding Lucas hostage in a way? That if by chance they got to speak to each other, The Constant lorded some threat over Lucas that was serious enough to him to agree to help him (like a threat against 47 or Olivia, etc). I’m not sure though, but the idea is interesting to me :Oc

aNYWAY big ol’ rant over! Here’s some pics of Lucas’ voice actor in Alice and Wonderland enjoy fdjgkhdfkjghkjfh

[lcnguor]

THE POSITIVE & NEGATIVE; Mun & Muse - Meme.

fill out & repost ♥ This meme definitely favors canons more, but I hope OC’s still can make it somehow work with their own lore, and lil’ fandom of friends & mutuals. Multi-Muses pick the muse you are the most invested in atm.

My muse is:   canon / oc / au / canon-divergent / fandomless /

Is your character popular in the fandom?  YES / NO.

Is your character considered hot™ in the fandom?  YES / NO / IDK.

Is your character considered strong in the fandom?  YES / NO / IDK.

Are they underrated?  YES / NO.

Were they relevant for the main story?  YES / NO.

Were they relevant for the main character?  YES / NO / THEY’RE THE PROTAG.

Are they widely known in their world?  YES / NO.

How’s their reputation?  GOOD / BAD / NEUTRAL.

How strictly do you follow canon?  — Since she is an OC with her own lore I would say pretty much . Of course there are some heres and theres and she changed a lot from the first time I dragged her out of the void of my head . I originally wanted to make more of a gag character but ended up taking too much of the screen if I’m honest . but of course , since there is many other lores and crossovers are a must , some things change once or twice .

SELL YOUR MUSE! Aka try to list everything, which makes your muse interesting in your opinion to make them spicy for your mutuals.  —  Nora is a mentor character , supportive and most likely to be the ace under the sleeve like a Kisuke Urahara from Bleach or Sinbad from Magi --- you know there’s something fishy but there is a charm that even thought they are slidding in the background for the main character , their relevance is vast . As a mentor characters , she would often help with insight , understanding of complex things , giving moral lessons and giving others a sense of security whilst also making sure to throw hints about a doubious nature . Keeping a character around her to keep their feet on ground while never shooting down their hopes and dreams .

Now the OPPOSITE, list everything why your muse could not be so interesting (even if you may not agree, what does the fandom perhaps think?).  —  She is not approachable unless you have enough guts to -- perhaps even looks intimidating or hard to come up with something plausible to make the meeting more natural . And honestly , she looks like a mainstream angst character at first glance --- even I myself believe this and start having second thoughts ... :laughs:  

What inspired you to rp your muse?  —  An old project I had archived in my closet of memories (?). She was the main , nameless character of a journal about , well , her and the emotions she had to deal with in the everyday . I will be seriously honest ... it was a self insert :blushes: after all it was like a personal journal I was doing on my darkest days . But after that , she became Sable -- the first character on her own -- who also served as a mentor ( but the story was much more dark , seriously ) and then just came to this . I even used the pre-prototype name lol . The idea was to put the whole story into a RPG pixel game or a short comic series where she ( Sable ) and the protagonist would wander around a city called “Nobody’s Home” , a place were people with “thats” ( what now are called Stalkers ) got dragged into and either confront their emotions and solve / comes in terms with them or get eaten by them ( a metaphor for suicide or dead by mental illness ) . The story was more or less about Sable teaching Nona ( the genderless protagonist ) about different mental states , issues and others and helping people solve them so they can return to the real world . Needless to say , the story ends with Nona returning after coming in terms with their condition ( funnily enough , the protagonist had a bunny shaped emotion ) while on the other hand Sable stayed behind along with her closest friend , who she question why he keeps being around if he could return himself , to what he replies he doesn’t want to leave her alone esp since she can no longer return --- hinting Sable committed suicide but by sheer will power remained there to help others to deal with what she couldn’t . Voez , the friend I mention , is even Victor from her current lore . Haha , I like recycling I guess . When I came with Nora , it was mostly to kill time and altered her base story a bit since the original plot was way to close up to make an interaction .

What keeps your inspiration going?  —  How well received she became , I know it sounds a bit ... uh , bad . But I honestly never expected people to like her . heck I even have my doubts about myself liking her haha . plus I know it’s not easy to deal with a character with a somewhat meta power ... I still struggle from time to time but I’m managing and having the support I have atm is something that keeps me going . I love plot a shit lot . I love to come up with ideas with others . To expand what I already have . besides , there is so much I haven’t write down yet that is about her lore but I’m a bit insecure yet . I guess I’m too used to forums where everyon follows a general plot haha ... old habits die hard .

Some more personal questions for the mun.

Give your mutuals some insight about the way you are in some matters, which could lead them to get more comfortable with you or perhaps not.

Do you think you give your character justice?  YES / NO / EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Do you frequently write headcanons?  YES / NO / 50-50

Do you sometimes write drabbles?  YES / NO, I HATE DRABBLES.

Do you think a lot about your Muse during the day?  YES/ NO.

Are you confident in your portrayal?   YES / NO / .... UHHHH

Are you confident in your writing?  YES / HAHA NO.

Are you a sensitive person?  YES VERY MUCH A LOT / NO.

Do you accept criticism well about your portrayal?  —  I haven’t got any so far --- which honestly surprises me because well ... there is so much that can bother people . as I said , I received a lot of support and praise , which also surprises me haha ... I won’t deny I would love to hear what people think , even if I later end up riding the anxiety train to the moon but it’s also a way to grow up , I believe . god ... I sound like nora Uu

Do you like questions, which help you explore your character?  —  I absolute love this and need this . It comes easier for me to make a 20 word pages of information about stuff if I’m asking specifically about it . even add explanatory drawings with it lolol since I’m kinda bad with words . besides , showing me interest on a character would just fire the heck out of me to keep going . I mean , everyone likes to get some curiosity and a chance to develop more their characters , canon or not .

If someone disagrees to a headcanon of yours, do you want to know why?  —  I would for sure . I’m not smart and I actually do a shit ton of research --- but even so I can miss a lot of shit people would say <nah that’s not how it works> and that would be helpful as heckie . but of course , needing the why also would tell me if the person disagreeing is doing it with a solid ground or just because they are being a piece of crap . I’m really tired of tumblr mentality and shitty people who aren’t mature enough to act decently .

If someone disagrees with your portrayal, how would you take it?  —  you cannot like everyone or have everyone like you either . I don’t really care much ... esp since nora is an original character . if it constructive critisism , okay -- I will take it , but gimme a solid reason other than “ your character is / is not ... “ and then give a crappy critique because she doesn’t fit your agenda or standards .

If someone really hates your character, how do you take it?  —  you are fucking free to unfollow me and ignore me for the rest of your life . I really don’t get the point of hating on the internet just because and keep promoting your hate just to be a pain in the ass .

Are you okay with people pointing out your grammatical errors?  —  I fucking wrote in my rules that people are even fricking free to fix my grammar and english because holy heck , even to this day I still do some ugly shit . I’m dumb , help ...

Do you think you are easy going as a mun?   —  ehhhhhhhhhhhhh, kinda . I take everything with water . whenever it’s of ideology , people as it is , characters ... I am quite tolerant and try to keep the “okay this person thinks this way , fine .” but as long as nobody crosses the line where they try to spoil it for me or others , I get super bitter . I love OOC , getting to know the one behind the character makes me feel more secure about coming to them and just rambling about plots and hcs and whatever idea got in my mind . but if I see someone and , forgive me god for misjudging , see them as a person that will put me on my nerves -- I won’t even try . as for the friends I have and those who don’t know me as much ... I am obnoxiously sporadic and have a lot of ups and downs very often . one day I could be talking 100 words per second others I will just take a fucking week to respond . honestly , I had mined my social skills for two years plus several other irl stuff previous to that , so I’m always a bit too anxious around people , esp people I REALLY like . I’m insecure as heck , if someone is vague ( just because , idk , it was a lazy day for them ) I think at least 10 different reason why probably that person hates me now . I’m a bit dumb 26 year old baby .......... but I’m very aware that is completely on me . I’m a mess.......  so , what was the question again ??? ... I , yeah ... it’s a kinda . but I try , at least haha.

That’s about it, congrats for filling out!

Tagged by:  @skyvar​ herself Tagging: y’all , cowgirls and cowbois . i hate tagging bc i forget urls :finger guns:

[sometimesrosy]

I hate seeing things like this “Someone on reddit (a huge bellarke fan) has had infos on s6 regarding bellarke. She said it was someone she trusts and that unfortunately the person made it clear that bellarke wasn't happening this season, if not ever. She said she completely lost hope... so yeah, low your expectations” I know better than to believe fleakers on reddit or twitter from GOT but it still gets you down knowing you can’t completely disregard it until the season airs

Anonymous said:A reliable moderator on Reddit said she has an insider and so far Bellarke isn’t in Jason’s plans and she was told Bellarke isn’t happening in s6 if not ‘ever’. I really know i shouldn’t believe in things like this, that don’t have open source or sumn but I feel so down. I still have hope I can’t accept that they put all those scenes or dialogues for nothing

Okay. So that’s two on the same topic. So this is going around again…. Three different asks now. And one nagging ask declaring i won’t answer their first. And it’s all bugging me.

*sigh* fine.

honestly i wish y’all just wouldn’t read it. but i should get it out. and you should know why I don’t buy those rumors and understand that I have reasons, I did research when they first came out. I went back to the text. And I have been watching the source of that rumor for literal YEARS now, so I’ve made some analysis on the way she works. I think we all forget that this is the internet, and we know what you said last year, how many times your theories were wrong, and who you blamed when they turned out to be wrong. None of this I say here is being said lightly and I wish I didn’t have to say it, but I think more harm has come from letting these rumors stand without challenging them. So. I guess I should do it, even though I don’t want to. The other option is to just wash my hands of fandom all together. I guess I’m too stubborn. fine. This is going to be a mess because I wrote it all day long, trying to get it out, planning on deleting it, getting new asks, having conversations with people, taking things out, adding others. And I’m just gonna post it and let it go without editing anymore.

I am not delusional. I am not naive. I am not a blind bellarke shipper. I am JUST trying to stick to the text and watch the show. I AM critical, but that does not mean I am negative. I am looking to UNDERSTAND the show on screen. And when rumors or writer commentary doesn’t fit with what I see in the show, I put them aside and do not take them as confirmation of anything.

I have been sitting on this answer all day trying to figure out how to answer it, because it gets pretty negative about… well… about one particular person and I am trying to keep out of drama and mind my own business and stick to the text and my corner of fandom. But I’m so tired of this all the time. 

I just went to reddit to find out why it’s coming back and who this redditor is and what they said. So I couldn’t find it in the 100 reddit, but it was in bellarke reddit. I don’t know know WHO that moderator is, although it might be someone I know, who I know listens to the person who started the original rumor, and even if it isn’t him, it’s still pretty clear to me that’s where this new wave of negativity is coming from.

 I have been avoiding speaking out on this particular rumor because I did my research when it first showed up and tracked it back to a person I had a meta argument with YEARS ago. And because of that, I’ve been careful to not say too much about it because it ends up sounding like I have a grudge. But it’s too much now. It isn’t fair that this stuff goes around because someone decides they are all knowing and understand everything better than everyone else and they think it’s a good idea to spread bad feelings as “confirmation.”

First of all, I don’t do gossip. I do canon. I analyze canon and stories and film and visuals and symbolism. Whatever someone says outside of canon, I consider it and see how it reflects upon canon. The more official it is, the more I take it seriously. Someone having an unnamed source with no written confirmation of what they said? And then DECLARING their interpretation of undocumented source material to be ACTUAL CANON CONFIRMATION? No. That’s called gossip and rumor and innuendo and interpretation and speculation. NONE OF THAT IS CANON CONFIRMATION.

I am at about third hand here, one person told me what she said about what the inside source said, so I cannot confirm anything I say as truth. But I want to explain the stuff I heard, and why I have decided that, far from confirmation against Bellarke, it actually sounds to me like confirmation FOR bellarke. It’s about interpretation, confirmation bias, point of view, rumors, fears, and ego.

As far as I can tell, someone who is an insider, who is in the know about the writers room said something along the lines of, 

“The writer’s room used to argue all the time about whether or not to write romantic bellarke, and now they don’t argue about it anymore.”

The person to whom this was told interpreted that to mean that it was CONFIRMED that Bellarke was dead and JR was NOT GOING TO DO BELLARKE AT ALL. RIP. 

Even if the source who said this is a good, honest source, that’s not what was said. At all. That was an INTERPRETATION of the statement, which seems to be strongly influenced by prior assumptions. The statement is saying they decided. That means it could go EITHER one way or the other. EITHER they’re giving up on Bellarke OR they’re committing to it so no arguments needed.

And I don’t understand that interpretation. Because it means that this source of gossip believes that season 5 had absolutely no romance in it. That there was nothing romantic about bellarke to argue about NOT doing.

But in season 5 we had 2199 calls to Bellamy, She must be important to you/She is. Sexy hug. The hostage taker and his girlfriend. Clarke jealous of B/E kissing. TWICE. Another traitor who you love. I always cared about bellamy. Love is not a weakness. Don’t make the same mistake I made when I betrayed you.  Go save him. Do you know how much she cares about you? She called you every day. Bellamy inviting her to the bridge and then giving her the romantic “look back” before he leaves. Waking up ONLY Bellarke. Marper charging them with care of their child (that’s not romance that’s MARRIAGE) and facing the new world in each other’s arms, TOGETHER. 

I mean, maybe one of those things could be taken out of context and read as romantic when it’s not intended to be, but all of them, one after another? on and on? No. That’s evidence that supports a romantic storyline.

If they CHOSE to not do romantic Bellarke, then there would be NO explicitly romantic moments, Clarke would NOT be compared to Echo in Bellamy’s feelings. They would NOT have used the daily letter trope. The camera would not have closed in on his hand by so much skin and his lips brushing her shoulder. Clarke would NOT have been jealous– a shot that CLOSELY echoed when she saw finn and raven kissing, an explicitly romantic/jealous parallel to a canon love triangle.

 And if they had changed their minds about romantic bellarke, they would have wrapped up the 2199 calls as NOT romantic at that fireside. They would have had Bellamy tell Clarke he poisoned Octavia to save Clarke’s life, and it was no big deal. They would have had Clarke tell Echo that Bellamy was her best friend, like a brother to her. But instead, they leave all these things unsaid, unspoken, still to be discovered. There are ACTIVELY open romantic Bellarke plots, especially because Bellamy HAS to either choose Echo and NOT Clarke, or he has to break up with Echo and see what can happen with Clarke, because he loves them both, as stated by Octavia. Or he could keep them both like Finn did. WHICH takes us back to romantic storyline anyway. Not endgame, but romance definitely. Which, EVEN if they have decided to go with endgame B/E STILL makes Bellarke part of a romance. Bellarke was a canon romance in season 5. Love triangle. C/B/E.

The writers CHOSE to put that stuff in there. They CHOSE to announce Bellamy’s love for Clarke as a tipping point for a major MAJOR plot and character moment. If they were clear about NOT putting romance in, they wouldn’t have done that. They would certainly not leave the storylines OPEN and in need of resolution. LIke with Supergirl, where Kara and James kissed and then did a 180 and were like, “nah let’s just be friends, HEy do you think that bland white creep is cute?” They tanked karolsen for a new ship. THIS is not happening on The 100. They did not tank Bellarke. They brought it in tighter and made it more immediate and brought other people into the the story and are forcing the need to CONFRONT the feelings they have for each other, because Bellamy is not going to be able to pretend he doesn’t feel that, when his girlfriend is there, and he SHOULDN’T be feeling it at all.

 If they were in the middle and TEASING bellarke and not intending to make it GO romantic, or delaying it and intending to make it go there, they would still be arguing about it being too much or not enough or whatever. 

However, if they put all that in there WITHOUT arguing, that means the plan, for everyone, is to do romantic Bellarke. It means they’ve already started. 

They know how to do platonic. Raven and Bellamy are platonic. When THEY stood at that window looking into the future of a planet, they DID NOT TOUCH. Platonic. When Bellamy refused to leave Raven behind, it was the memory of CLARKE that made it painful, and Raven jollied him out of it by calling him names and lying to him. NOT romantic. If they had decided to NOT do Bellarke and NOT tease romance or foreshadow it, they know how not to make it romance. Which includes NOT comparing your love for her to your canon girlfriend. 

NOW TWO people have declared the source to be a good source. And this has been the problem with this rumor, because this person has a lot of authority within fandom, has been involved with production, has a broad audience and does indeed talk to people. SO she is seen as an authority that cannot be questioned.

There is no authority that cannot be questioned about their opinion. 

And I have had significant interaction with this person that calls into question her interpretations, her judgment, and her authority. I once called her a hypocrite because she said I could not possibly know authorial intent, because SHE knew authorial intent and I was wrong. Which, as a teacher, just pisses me the hell off, because she’s basically saying that only certain people are able to understand story, people with authority like hers. She was gatekeeping my interpretation. And, like, my JOB was to teach kids how to think for themselves and come up with interpretations. And that’s what I try to do here. Come up with my interpretations, show you how i got there, encourage you to come up with your own and back them up. I mean if you agree with me, great, but it’s fiction. We all get to interpret things. The better our analysis, the better we can defend it. To just flat out say that she was the authority and SHE knows and can tell everyone what to think? No.

So I guess that’s why I’m going all in on this. I wrote this this morning when I was ranting, but not sure I’d post the vague blog because I try not to be negative. But then I got the second ask so it’s all coming around again, and I already avoided speaking out about it the first time. And that didn’t make it go away. She’s still acting as an authority who knows everything and all she has to do is say it is confirmed, and other people take it as truth because she said it. It’s not like it will cause a rift in fandom. The fandom is in pieces anyway, and anyone who believes her thinks I’m delusional and an embarrassment, according to the anons I get, But I’m going to put this under the cut in the hopes that most people are too lazy to click more. But whatev, she’s not my friend, she doesn’t respect me I don’t respect her. And this whole gossip horror was the nail in my fandom coffin when it first came up a few months ago. I’m not naming names but if you know what’s happening or what happened the first time, you know the story. 

I hope this is too long and y’all won’t read it. This is why I have been sitting on this post all day, but I keep getting asks and I’m getting so angry.

I know who said that, and i never trust her interpretations, because she spent season 3 telling us all, definitively, that Lxa was the hero now, CLarke was the Love Interest, and CL was endgame because it was *pretty,* and we had no right to think CL was dark. First of all, pretty does not equal good, and hasn’t been assumed so for like idk a hundred years? But worse, that I had NO RIGHT, to look at it any other way but a beautiful love story. (incidentally silencing abuse victims.) That we COULD NOT understand authorial intent, did not have the ability to do so, but she did, and we were wrong. And not allowed to say anything else.

 When she doesn’t understand something in the show, she doesn’t bother trying to understand the story that JR is telling, she just says that he’s a bad writer. When she DOES understand something in the story, she says the writers are so bad that they didn’t do it on purpose, and it’s only because she’s so smart and clever that she figured out their underlying psychological misogyny that they didn’t know they were writing into the story. That’s the Finn as “Nice Guy” storyline. 

When the writers actually TELL her that they LITERALLY meant what she saw and they are surprised the fandom missed it, she again goes back to blaming the writers for not being clear enough. When she was TOLD that the CL story in polis was a dark story of Clarke’s psychology and she MISSED it, she AGAIN blamed the writers for not being clear and then. And THEN. Get this. Blamed the fandom for never looking critically at the CL story in POLIS, For only seeing it as pretty, unless they were screaming ABUSE.  Remember when I told you she told me I didn’t have a right to my interpretation and she was silencing abuse victims? So. Yeah. She’s referring to me, and those of us who were talking about that seriously, as abuse survivors or psychology students.

Anonymous said:She’s not the only one that claimed Bellarke is never happening. [XX] had some insider too as i remember and tweeted something along those lines of the moderator from Reddit publicly. {XX] is reliable enough and she said something like they aren’t planning canon but I don’t wanna put pressure on her I only saw her tweet she is not a part of fandom drama she’s a part of presskru.

Yeah. I’m not saying her name. That’s her. I’ve spent all morning trying to write my thoughts on this, and on what I’ve seen her do in this fandom for three years. And I found that reddit thread and I’m pretty sure that the mod’s “reliable source” is that woman who is NOT a reliable source. She’s a biased source who does not check her theories against the canon because she’s more interested in hearing herself talk and being right than in actually understanding the story. 

Being part of presskru does not mean she is right. The press writing about this show has OFTEN been wrong. DO you remember season 3 at ALL? Some of those people were still writing reviews in season 5 where Clarke and Bellamy did not exist almost. They were trying to rewrite the show as Octavia-Raven-Diyoza centered. She was part of the completely inaccurate interpretations of season 3. Just because someone tells you they are an authority that does not mean you should take what they say without questioning them. QUESTION EVERYTHING. 

She is not reliable. She has had consistently bad speculation and has interpreted this show ABSOLUTELY incorrectly MANY times. And when she’s wrong, she says the problem is with the story and the writers, not her meta. She refuses to question her own interpretations or even, really, to check it to the canon show. She believes Bellarke is dead so when someone said something, she IMMEDIATELY decided she had to tell EVERYONE that Bellarke was confirmed dead. This whole rumor comes from her.  From her unreliable interpretations and confirmation bias.

Please, don’t take my word for it. Go back over her meta and her speculation. See what she says when the writers tell her to her face that she was wrong, and how she is friends with them until she is facing fandom and then she calls them all bad writers and the show a bad show and the story making no sense. When really, she the show just WENT OVER HER HEAD AND SHE MISSED IT. Every time she calls a writer a bad writer, you can just assume that she did some lazy analysis, jumped to conclusions, and when the story didn’t do what she thought it should, decided the fault was with the writers, the story, the characters, or, well hell, why not just blame me. I did after all say CL was abusive. And that’s why she didn’t bother looking into the symbolism of Clarke’s character development in polis. 

Someone told her something, when she knows the whole cast and crew are on lockdown, and she ran to twitter and started telling everyone that she had insider information and she knew the truth. That is not reliable. That is HIGHLY suspect and arrogant and lacks any sort of honor. She needed to be the one who had insider knowledge, so she decided to hurt a whole fandom. She HURT people, because she HAD be the one to know the truth. She was NOT concerned with anyone else and did NOT allow them to be happy shipping their ship. 

As far as I can tell, her interpretation of what someone told her is par for the course for her, had nothing to do with the canon, and everything to do with fandom drama, ego, confirmation bias, and the desire to be the authority and have everyone think she’s the shit.

I do not think she’s the shit. Sorry. I think she is an irresponsible writer claiming authority and using it to control those around her. Worse, she’s a teacher. And as a writer and a teacher, that makes me ANGRY. She can’t bully me into following her, or convince me that she’s smarter than me and make me hang on her every word, and so she blocked me a long time ago. But I’ve tried to help people understand the story and come up with their own interpretations and she’s actively gone out of her way to claim her authority to kill a whole ship and fandom. Am I biased? YOU BET. But that bias means I pay very close attention to what she says. And what she says, is suspect.

Please don’t send me any more asks about gossip, rumors or drama. And definitely don’t send me any asks about her. 

I would prefer to talk about CANON, literature, film, science fiction, character development, symbolism, storytelling, and Bellarke.

[cryoflyte]

WE WERE WARNED

I was going to tweet this but it turns out Twitter only lets you thread up to 25 tweets in a draft. That’s insufficient. So fuck it, I’ll do it here. I’ve been ranting about this since season 1 (back when it looked like just a tiny blip on an otherwise great show, rather than our first warning sign that these people might have no fucking clue what they’re doing), it’s actually managed to get worse since then, I’m not over it, I’m not getting over it. 

Gather round, dear Voltron Twitterati (or tumblrati or whatever y’all are called around here). Let Cryo the Salt Phoenix regale you with ALL the reasons why Pidge's gender flip being a plot twist was, and remains, completely fucking stupid.

First, a couple of external biases to acknowledge:

1) I feel Pidge was the worst possible character to gender flip, precisely because it was so obvious. He's spent 30+ years getting "lol DotU Pidge wore a headband and had a squeaky voice, maybe he was a girl!" jokes. Buying into them is a disservice to both the character, and the stated idea that VLD Pidge is supposed to represent people who don't fit a norm. Okay sure, you took the character who got mocked for not sufficiently conforming to his gender, flipped him, then went "look how our Pidge represents not fitting in with the norms!" Nah, guys. Not how it works.

2) ...of course that's if you believe them suddenly saying Pidge is supposed to represent people who don't conform to begin with. All we heard in the beginning was "We wanted to make him a girl! Look, he's a girl! Girl, girl, girl! No, not trans, not nonbinary, GIRL! Look how smart we are for making him a girl!" That and how Lauren didn't like DotU Pidge, so she decided she needed to make him more appealing. To her. Which...

3) Pidge has, in all prior canons (possibly excluding DDP? Was it ever fully explained there?), been an alien. In VF (which supposedly Lauren did watch but didn't like him any better in) he was explicitly an alien ninja. So, you know, forgive me for being a little bitter that we got "the only way to make Pidge appealing is make him a girl. Now here, have five seasons of Keith the alien ninja!"

4) My complaint is not really against the concept of gender flipping Pidge. Had they done it upfront as they did the changes to Sven and Allura, I'd have been somewhat irked for the aforementioned reasons, but hey, new reboot, new rules. My complaint is about them lying to our faces for three months (up to and including Bex bluntly saying "Pidge is a boy" in an interview) in service of perhaps the most pointless plot twist in franchise history.

And that brings me to our feature presentation. Get the popcorn, y'all, I've got the salt.

Someone name for me a single solitary moment, watching the first three episodes, where there was even a hint that Pidge was wrestling with his (gonna use male pronouns until the reveal) identity. No, not "oh hey if you go back with knowledge of the twist this was foreshadowing it!" A point where prior to knowing about the twist you went "huh, what is Pidge not telling the rest of the team?" and it was NOT answered by him revealing that Commander Holt was his father. Seriously—please point one out to me. Pidge's premise is very consistent in the first three (and a bit beyond, but I'll get to that) episodes: he has his own reasons and priorities for being there, he'll do the bare minimum of teamwork necessary to achieve his own mission, and he's not there to make friends. Everything he does is consistent with this read. Nothing is pointing to further complexity, him hiding something totally unrelated. There's the picture, but it's at best confusing: I just figured it was his brother with HIS girlfriend, to be honest. Were we really intended to interpret a sad look at an ambiguous photograph as "Pidge is hiding another completely different big secret related to that picture!" rather than "Pidge is sad about his family, like he keeps saying"?

It would have been simplicity itself to add actual hints. Instead of Hunk just presenting "look, it's his girlfriend!" as fact when he finds the picture, "who's the girl? She's cute!" and have Pidge get defensive over that. When they're putting on their armor, maybe skip Hunk making the first of 500 throwaway fat jokes in favor of Pidge looking uncomfortable at the thought of, you know... changing in front of the others? Have him duck behind the armor case? Do something. Do ANYTHING. 

Even after the internal reveal in episode 3, we get nothing. Allura specifically drills her about "hey, do you have a big personal secret?" and she doesn't look the slightest bit worried or defensive, she just looks confused. Pidge is not that good an actress, we know that from Lance having to save her butt back at the Garrison. Also from seven seasons of watching her complete inability to keep her emotions in check, ever.

Pidge's internal struggle is never once presented as being about her gender, or about how the team thinks of her. It's about whether she's going to put aside her own personal priorities for the sake of the team. This is the struggle that's been built up. This is the struggle that she's invoked and settled in the climactic moment with Haxus: "I'm not a child. I'm a paladin of Voltron!" Haxus could just as easily have called her a "little girl" if we were supposed to be reading any sort of gender conflict into this.

(Of course as it is Haxus didn't know she was a girl—more on that later—but that's purely arbitrary. A show that wanted to sell Pidge having a gender conflict would have made Haxus realize she was a girl, especially given Coran's "we were supposed to think you were a boy?" in the next episode. You can’t just pretend it’s so obvious then have nobody else notice it ever.)

Now, I of course acknowledge not every worthy plot twist has to be able to be guessed by the audience prior to the reveal. But it doesn't work here. Because here's the reveal: Pidge is all "I was afraid you'd think differently of me" and the whole team is all "of course not!" and that's that.

Wait, she was WHAT now?

We have not seen Pidge struggling with this. At ALL. There is zero emotional weight to this scene because there were absolutely no stakes shown. You cannot have her say "I've been worried you'd think of me differently" when you haven't fucking shown her worrying that they'd think of her differently. This is writing 101, guys. And then Shiro is all "owning who you are is going to make you a better Paladin"—WHEN HASN'T SHE? Literally the thing she's been shown struggling to accept is THAT SHE'S A PALADIN! Not that she's a girl!

This reveal is bad. It's so, so bad. The only way I could make sense of it after first watching it was assuming they'd wanted to make her trans and chickened out at the last second. Nothing said in this scene seems to be part of the same show we've been watching for the past five episodes. It's not clever or interesting, it's just bizarre.

But now let's take a step back. Because in order to set up this terrible, pointless, non-event of a plot twist, we have also done great violence to certain characters. We have turned Pidge and basically all of Galaxy Garrison into morons.

Is Pidge not supposed to be a genius? What exactly was her thought process here? The whole wide world of possible disguises was open to her, and she went "I know! I'll pretend to be a boy, and I'll make myself look identical to my brother, the famously MIA space explorer. Nobody will catch on." Really, Katie? You couldn't buy some hair dye, maybe a spray tan?

And then nobody fucking does catch on. The Kerberos mission is so well-known it's being used as an object lesson for cadets, Pidge flips out every time the mission is brought up, and not one person thinks "hey, this kid who looks exactly like Matt Holt totally freaks out whenever the mission Matt Holt disappeared on is mentioned." This does not hold up if you think about it for more than two seconds.

Why does she even need to look like Matt for meta purposes? Oh right, because of the picture that was attempting to carry the entire load of this twist. Great. That's totally worth the blatant insult to everyone’s intelligence, not to mention the affront to common sense.

On that note, one specific point of the disguise: why does Pidge wear glasses? We know she doesn't need them. She takes them off to wear her helmet, Katie never wore them. And sure, they make her look less like Katie Holt... but they make her look more like Matt Holt. This was fairly weird even in season 1. It only gets weirder when we finally meet up with Matt.

Oh hey, guys. She's not just wearing a pair of fake glasses that make her look more like her famously MIA brother. She's wearing his literal glasses. Which, incidentally, we know are functional prescription glasses because he says he doesn't need them anymore because the Garrison fixed his eyes.

How many people did this go through without anyone pointing out that wearing glasses you don't need actively fucks with your vision? 

Yes, I know this is a show about alien space cats that I'm holding to standards of opthalmological realism. But most television manages to understand how glasses work. And again, it's just pointless. Why not just have Katie wear glasses to begin with? Oh right, because we need the guy in the picture to wear glasses and the girl not to because SMART PEOPLE DOING A PLOT TWIST, DERP!

It didn't work, guys. It didn't work at all. You know how people figured it out early? Because you gave her a female VA and we've had thirty years of "lol Pidge looks like a girl" so hey look, the picture confirms the meta theory that people were pitching even before we saw the character designs. Doesn't add even a shred of impact to the reveal. The only way to add impact to the reveal was if she’d actually been worrying that the others wouldn’t accept her being a girl. But no.

And after all this dumb, what exactly is there to show for it? Well... nothing. Nobody else in the show knows she's a girl. Aliens consistently refer to her as male. The team has used female pronouns for her what, once in seven seasons? Miss the right four episodes and even a viewer wouldn't have a clue.

Don't get me wrong, I respect the stated rationale that gender shouldn't matter. Know how else they could've shown that? JUST MAKING HER A GIRL IN THE FIRST PLACE. I mean, if they're going to crow about how brilliant they are for "plot twist, she's a girl!" maybe people should at least be able to tell she's a girl after said twist. Or hey, even better, they could make her trans, or genderfluid, or non-binary, put in some rep that would actually be brave and interesting. But no, instead we get "she's totally a cis girl, but it doesn't matter and nobody can tell because she's there to represent people who don't fit neatly into a box!" That's pretty much the worst of all options, guys. Good job.

And then everyone went “OMG yes! You made Pidge a girl! Yay rep, you’re so smart!” without the slightest shred of critical thought on how it was handled, while a tiny handful of us hoped it was just a fluke, the product of a showrunner pet project that didn’t signify anything for the rest of the series.

Then we got Keith’s Galra reveal, which somehow managed to be even worse.

Then we got season 4 making the bulk of season 3 immediately irrelevant.

Then we got two years on a space whale.

Then we got season 7, where everything is garbage. 

Every season has just been more and more ridiculous plot twists in place of character or consistency. It turns out nope, if we wanted to see where this show was going, the horrible Pidge twist was the ONLY part of season 1 we should’ve looked at. Let the salt flow freely.

Okay, I think that's it. Thank you for coming to my TED talk?

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#5

While we can all agree that Gojou has a high confidence in his abilities and role as The Strongest he has little to no confidence in himself as merely the human person Gojou Satoru due to him always being used as a tool almost and the only person that saw him as a regular human left him which affected Gojou so much that now he doubts he can ever have a regular interpersonal relationship again In this essay i wont

24 notes • Posted 2021-01-07 14:13:15 GMT

#4

Collection of thoughts on Gojo and social interactions

Because I have way too much time on my hands i started thinking about how Gojo actually interacts with other people which led me on an interesting hike through various thoughts on that matter that may or may not make sense and i thought “Hey why not make it everyone else’s problem?” This is not a meta or anything like that, just word vomit

So here goes:

In fanfics hes often written as someone who has an easy time flirting with people and is pretty easy to approach and befriend and date. Its a fanfic, so sure thing. Not everyone is in the mood for 400k slow burn, sometimes you wanna get to the Good Stuff. (wether thats smut or fluff or both is up to y’all)

But what if he’s actually hard to befriend and even harder to date? He basically never interacts with anyone whos his equal and when he does people dont seem to react very well. The person that responds well to him is Yuuji, his student. The last time he had an equal that didnt treat him like hes a spider in the bathroom and they are pondering wether to squash it or get the vacuum cleaner was in high school.

Because he never interacts with people who are his equals/the ones that are dont particularly like him there’s now the question what Gojo would actually do if someone would just... join his antics.

That would be so interesting to see tbh. Like, he’s like “Lets throw riceballs at each other while we discuss the seperation of church and state” and Nanami is like “Yeah nah.” But what if there was someone who would be like Yuuji (who would think thats an amazing idea) but can see eye to eye with Gojo. Would Gojo suddenly Have Something Else To Do? Would he be happy about it? Would he let this person into his personal bubble? Which also begs the question wether or not Gojo intentionally comes up with the most outrageous stuff cuz he knows nobody would take up his offer or if he actually wants to do stuff like this. (I hope it’s the latter but tbh wouldn’t surprised if it’s the former)

Gojo seems like someone who has “given up” on the possibility of ever finding friends again. As far as he is concerned he’s alone and will forever stay alone but how would he react if someone bangs on the wall he build around himself and wants to be let in? Would he let them in? Would he push back? Would he push back even though he wants to let people in but is afraid? So that would mean the person just has to keep insisting on being let in and eventually it might work.

Maybe he is a bit like an onion, has layers. The court jester parts are interwoven with trauma, mental illness and other heavy things and you have to peel and peel and peel. The first layer is obviously his happy go lucky self. And beyond that are the first traces of depression, that something is definitely not as it seems. Then you get the fact that he’s clearly still an optimist, when it comes to others. But a pessimist when it comes to himself. He has trust in other people. Despite having been betrayed and being alone since. But he cares about people, genuinely. An onion, kinda, maybe. The deeper you get the higher and thicker the walls will become

Or maybe I’m reading too much into nothing and he’s just a funny guy.

26 notes • Posted 2021-02-02 15:10:25 GMT

#3

* chokes on tears * It's just... Gojou was and still is hated by almost everyone around him. At best they simply don't get along with him well and at worst they openly despise him. His only "friends" are teenagers. He lost his only friend in highschool due to things that weren't in his control. He would have every reason to become a cynical misanthropic asshole who doesn't care about others at all and doesn't give a shit about he saves people or not. But instead he chose not to be like this, to be optimistic and caring and silly even if others don't get along with him. He easily could've bend over backwards to be more like his peers would want him to be but instead he chose his own way. It is So Easy to become an asshole when life is an asshole to you but So Hard to be kind and optimistic when everything around you is grimdark and you have nobody to talk to. He's consistently kind to the people who dislike him (except the higher ups but who would be nice to them anyway). And now hes in the punishment rubix cube for naughty kids and he's probably practising a stupid one-liner he's gonna say once someone unseals him. Just trusting that everything will be alright in the end.

And i think all of this is much much much more important than any other trait he has. He has as much confidence in everyone else as he has in himself even though the people he has confidence in dont even like him.

27 notes • Posted 2021-03-15 10:32:47 GMT

#2

Fanon VS Canon Gojo

As if this would be an even remotely close fight lol

Fanon Gojo: - utter bastard - pranks are never funny and always harmful - insults other people constantly and on purpose - i cant stress enough of how much of an uncaring, arrogant bastard he is - thinks hes the greatest - god complex - sets others up for failure so he can look better - absolute useless at everything domestic - controlling - abusive - doesnt seem to have any interests outside of fucking for some reason? - never mentions geto - straight for some reason???? - "teasing" is just straight up degrading and insulting everyone left and right - this weird authority figure that everyone rspects for some reason? - absolute not funny or silly or anything, only insulting and thats supposed to be funny somehow

Canon Gojo: - nerd - discusses politics for fun - pranks are pretty harmless and actually hilarious - digimon fan - likes trains - likes video games (and played at least one obsessively) - will infodump about his favourite sweets unprompted - has no issues asking others for help At All - knows what he sucks at and thats why asks others for help - still loves Geto (like, are you guys even reading the fucking manga????) - wants his students to succeed - good at household chores - movie nerd - never talks to anyone in a way they cant handle - Teasing is really just... teasing, its harmless and the other one is annoyed at worst - seems to not be very good at art - likes karaoke - makes video game analogies to explain things - compares stuff to digimon - explains things in exactly the way they need to be explained in order for people to understand - empathetic but sucks at expressing it - the worst fashion sense - what even is personal space - is referred to as "that idiot" by everyone, including his students - the silliest - is genuinely kind even to people who cant stand him (as long as they arent the High Ups)

41 notes • Posted 2021-11-13 13:13:07 GMT

#1

Gojou x male reader hcs (very self-indulgend)

Randomly thought.. hey why not? There aren't many on here or anywhere really and maybe someone likes these.

Reader is the newly transfered to Tokyo and someone who enjoys goofing off and pranking others just as much as Gojou. Sfw Warnings: It's self-indulgend. Didn't proofread. That's it.

How you got together:

So you're the new sorcerer on the block. Freshly transferred from a more rural prefecture to Tokyo. You've been to big cities before but wow, Tokyo really is in a league of it's own. It's just endless.

You're really glad when Ijichi drives you out of the city again after what seems likes hours. The area almost reminds you of home, with the unobscured view of the mountains and forests.

You don't even get to see Gojou for the first week you're there since he's out on a "business trip". You meet his students instead and warm up to them almost immediately.

When he returns you are out in the courtyard playing "hide and seek" with the first years.

It's Very Important Training though, you see? Definitely not just goofing around during school hours cuz it's too warm inside. It was Yuuji's idea.

Suddenly this Very Tall Man is standing next to you, almost scaring you to death. All you wanted to do is hiding behind a bush but now you feel like you're fighting for your life.

"Oh whoopsie daisy, did i scare you? What are you doing here? Are you the new guy? Hey new guy, I'm Gojou!"

You shush him but it's too late and Yuuji found you.

Later Gojou gives you a tour of the campus even though you already know everything. Let him be, he wants to feel useful in other ways than just exorcising curses.

He wastes little time testing the prank waters with you. Only hours after the tour he slips a "dick pic" in your sweater jacket. You know it was him immediately, Nanami warned you. Poor Nanami would never have guessed you would get a laughing fit over it.

In turn the next day Gojou opens his door there are thousands of plastic cups filled with water in the hallway. He has to gingerly step over them to avoid flooding.

The next time you return from a mission the screen of your computer in the office is covered in post its.

So ofc you follow around Gojou a whole day with a squeaky toy making squeaky noises with each step he takes. It's great workout. He walks very fast.

A whole week passes by, the two of you constantly pranking each other. After a waterballoon fight Gojou asks you if you wanna have a movie night with him. You instantly agree.

He puts on the worst movies you have ever seen. It's great fun. You throw popcorn at the screen and poke fun at all the horrible acting and terrible "special effects" a high school student could do better. You catch the microphone dangling around the frame several times. One character has the most bored death scream ever.

It somehow becomes a ritual, every time Gojou or you return from a mission you have a movie night. The pranks continue too. Gojou is genuinely delighted to have met someone who can keep up with his pranks and jokes. You two have quite some good banter.

"Not bad for a country bumpkin!" "Hey, what's that supposed to mean?"

Once after an especially long and tiring mission Gojou is awfully quiet during the movie. Halfway through he just rests his head on your shoulder. No one questions it or says anything. You don't wake him up when he falls asleep even though there is a helicopter exploding on screen. And also your arm falls asleep too.

In the actual relationship:

Things somehow smoothly progress like this. Pranking, movie nights, sometimes Gojou takes you out to town to get something to eat or see a movie in an actual cinema or you go to the arcade. He won a giant purple teddy bear for you once that you had trouble fitting into the taxi on your ride back. It now takes up half of your bed.

There is no dramatic realisation of feelings or anything like that. You noticed quickly that you were crushing on Gojou and decided to let things happen naturally however they wanted to. Also you sensed that if you would ask Gojou about this he would leave immediately and probably not come back. "So what are we" Conversations are not his thing.

So of course you also never said anything when Gojou would start being all cuddly during movie nights or would hold your hand when just walking around or hanging out. Yes you were delighted and relieved that the feelings were mutual but you knew better than cornering him with questions about it. You would hate being cornered with it too.

Sometimes even though he's on campus you somehow don't see him for days. On other times he follows you around constantly. He's super giddy when you decide to randomly follow him around too one day. Even when it's with the squeaky toy again. Yes, the pranks ofc still happen from time to time.

You stargaze one night and he's surprisingly quiet as he listens to you ramble about astronomy. After you are done he is the one rambling and you're surprised he didn't become a college professor instead. "What? I have a lot of books about this!" "I didn't even know you can read."

Every time you do something together you learn something new about him, it's endless and you couldn't be happier.

When Gojou became more openly handsy (with your permission) you were briefly worried about how the others would react but no one said anything. Except for Nanami saying that Gojou is somehow even more annoying now.

Sometimes clings to you like a koala. A very very tall and surprisingly heavy koala. Also master of puppy eyes and super warm tight hugs.

You never know when a cuddle session will turn into a tickle fight. Once you got a slight bruise from falling off the bed and Gojou spend ten minutes "kissing it better" and telling you he's sorry. As if you could be mad at him.

Jokes about how you two will be the most annoying people in the retirement home 60 years from now.

Always brings you presents from his missions which range from actually sweet and thoughtful to Just Food And Snacks to hilarious junk you wonder where he even found it.

He likes being the big or little spoon equally. When he's the big spoon you can be sure to not be able to get up for the next hour or so. He will wrap his legs around yours and trap you there. Also puts his head and your shoulder and will suddenly blow raspberries against your neck until your crying with laughter. Mostly is the little spoon when he's tired or remembering Things. Then he's weirdly quiet and just pulls you along to the couch or bed and plop his head on your chest. Don't mind that he's way too tall to fit properly. He might want to talk about whatever is bothering him or not but regardless, you have to play with his hair. If you stop he will look up and pout. Nicknames he probably will give you: Prince Muffin man Sweetiepie Fluffmuffin

And what you call him: Snowcone Snowdrop Little polar bear Vanilla Mocchi

74 notes • Posted 2021-07-11 11:54:29 GMT

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The week in review:

Raw 09/28 NXT 09/30 NXT UK 10/01 Smackdown 10/02 Takeover 31 10/04

Raw:

*bell rings*, *Asuka runs straight at her opponent*, *gets punched once by some weak ass looking shot*, *collapses uselessly* PPPFFFFTTTTTTTT

I hate that elbow kick off thing Zelina does. Becky used to have a hold like that in nxt. Hated it then, too. Awful.

That hurricanrana where Zelina fell on her ass, though. Wow. Okay.

Is it just me that thought the modified grounded octopus took awhile to cinch in? That was in for so long lol.

Why are women barely jumping for these german suplexes lately?

Omg that one-armed suplex by Asuka was great.

That kickout by Asuka was incredibly well done. What a perfect stretch with perfect timing. Zelina even tucked the left arm. Points.

Oh nice didn’t know Zelina could do a moonsault. And right onto the knees so the Asuka lock can be set in. Nice. Good ending.

That was better than their Clash match, and Zelina showcased different things, even if I wasn’t a fan of some of it.

Ah the debut of Mandy and Dana as a tag team.

I really like Lana and Nattie together.

Oh wow decisions that make sense and are building toward something. What alternate universe have I stepped into? Please bring back GMs and stop being so lazy, please.

I really don’t understand why they moved these women like weeks before the draft.

Alright let’s swap momentum... it’s time Dana gets some comeback before tagging Mandy.

That full 180 flip Mandy did to Lana was really cool. Not sure if Lana was meant to land on her left knee or flat, but I think it was supposed to injure her left knee. Beautiful.

Points to Lana for the kickout, negative points to Nattie for jumping in after the three.

I wish Dana had hit a bigger move against Natalya at the end.

The pump knee strike by Mandy was a little messy, I would’ve ended it with her other finisher instead. Good match though. Glad to see Dana and Mandy pick up some sort of momentum, especially on their Raw debut.

Also good for Lana not having to go through the table for a week *applause*

Mandy is fine on the mic. It’s not awful, it’s not super compelling; totally serviceable. Dana though... always comes off like she’s acting rehearsed lines or reading off a script.

Nice transition into the next segment. Quarter point.

Whether I like the Bianca video packages or not, it’s always a pleasure to hear her song.

LOVED the incorporation of the hurdles. That’s what I want to see, that shows me an actual challenge. I have no doubt in her strength or speed; I in fact do believe she’s the strongest and the fastest. They just aren’t showcasing that right lol. Give me something more convincing. Girl was jumping over fucking hurdles, that’s convincing.

Highlight: Dana & Mandy vs Lana & Nattie

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NXT:

Shotzi has too long of an entrance imo.

Dakota Kai is such a spoiled little shit lmao. She’s so annoying. Big fan.

Really didn’t like Shotzi trying to do her ballpit line so early. I really wish she didn’t take so long to set it up as well.

Wow I hate that submission move Shotzi, I’m sorry. Dakota sells it like death though, so she gets a point.

Dakota’s style is way too fast for her to play a slow, methodical heel in the ring. 

A one count lmao ballsy. Love Dakota’s reaction too.

Such a fan of Dakota’s selling.

Chicken wing german suplex into a pin? That was beautiful Shotzi, I agree. Great near fall. 

A common complaint I have with women - even on the main roster - is how they go to do like a spear halfway through the ropes just to set up some counter to their move (kick, a pump kick, the rope hangup Bayley does, Charlotte shooting through the middle to roll you up) and that’s fine, but it’s always easily telegraphed. Step up please @ everyone.

oof that landing by Dakota; hit her face right on Shotzi’s knee.

What does Dakota call that kick, Scorpion or something? On the apron? Awesome stuff.

Holy shit that... flipping backdrop - (?) I don’t even know what to call that - on the apron was amazing, but holy shit Shotzi that landing was terrible. The concept is there but man you might wanna practice/modify that one a bit more.

Cool Rhea came down to fuck with Raquel, distracting Dakota, but the rollup was weak. Also weak that Rhea merely pushed Raquel into the steps once before walking back. Good match though.

Stalemate after a bunch of pin attempts with zero offense. Could live without these spots tbh.

Very close range kick, could’ve been set up far better.

Li rolls out of the ring, heel 101.

Kacy you can’t just yell at Kayden to get up lmao plz.

This is the first time I’ve seen any personality from Xia Li.

Ballsy one counts, what’s with the one counts tonight lmao.

Kacy is a bad cheerleader, just getting that out there.

I love that roll through + side kick combo Kayden does.

Whoa idk how Kayden pulled that win out of her ass, but good for her. I can see this is pushing Xia deeper into frustration every loss. Won’t complain about it, love to see Kayden win. Good, short match. A rollup works here.

Highlight: Dakota vs Shotzi

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NXT UK:

I love Xia Brookside’s music, but not with her or her entrance.

Now Jinny’s entrance/wardrobe/demeanor matches her music.

Sure Xia Brookside’s rolls were quick, but I’m not understanding why she rolled sideways lmao it’s like Link in Zelda.

If you’re not going to add an actual crowd or monitors, get rid of the hairdryer fans. If I can’t see them, and more importantly they don’t exist, then I don’t want to hear them.

Too many wrist locks. Also refs getting involved for no logical reason, just so the heel can take advantage, is annoying. 

That back drop onto Jinny’s knee was ugly, hated the collapse. Took the impact out of it for me.

Nasty Irish Whip, points to both.

Nice flip off the hurricanrana.

Botched monkey flip. Perhaps Jinny didn’t think there was enough room for her to comfortably land; had she went for it and tucked her legs she definitely would’ve been fine. Feel like that was an amateur mistake, plenty of women would’ve just sold it with their legs getting caught up.

That was weird. Xia Brookside goes through all that trouble just to make sure she hit the monkey flip, just to lift Jinny’s head so Jinny could punch her. Weak.

Kick out was sloppy.

Xia Brookside is gassed and isn’t even doing any offense. Or selling. This match is odd. This would get booed on the MR.

Jinny stops to talk too much while wrestling. Obviously stalling. The dialogue isn’t even good for all of that noise.

Whatever. A match I could’ve lived without.

Lmao bow down? Queen of NXT UK?? Girl.... uh uh. Nah nah nah Go sit down.

Highlight: There was an Irish Whip into the corner that looked impactful

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Smackdown:

Alexa’s pyro was better timed than last week, but it could use improvement. This is important to me damn it.

You know Alexa, my spine feels cold and my body goes numb every time I smoke my weed. Has anyone asked this girl if she’s on drugs? Could just be drugs.

Kevin/wwe, I don’t need you to tell me she’s brainwashed. WE CAN SEE that she’s brainwashed. This has been escalating for like... 2 months lmao.

The hairdryer crowd being piped in kinda ruins this. This is set up like a scene from a horror movie and the noise is taking away from it. A live crowd probably would’ve stayed silent for her, you could’ve lessened the mass effect.

Love how she just sits there watching Kevin pace around. That’s good. She’s good. Love how Kevin knew she was calling to the Fiend with that line. That’s good. This is good.

She sits there poised and unafraid, yet intrigued with him. Like his queen.

The power of this angle and the fate of it succeeding lies solely on Alexa and her selling of it. If she doesn’t sell this or believe in it, or fucks up once, it shatters the entire mystique. Man I’m a huge fan of this story rn.

Glad I didn’t bother guessing who this mysterious woman was. The glitz and glamour has got nothing compared to the moonwalking, trashtalking, Princess of Staten Island.

Love the rainbow on the polaroid camera though.

Decent enough promo but that music was awkward.

Why did y’all make Sasha just stand out there shifting her feet staring at the hard cam lol.

This is all solid Sasha but like Bayley already admitted all of this lmao.

Yes, we know you saved her title like 15 times, we ALL agree with you.

I actually like the emotion written all over Sasha’s face that comes across as ALMOST awkward.

What I don’t like about this feud: Sasha’s still an asshole, and I’m not sure how I’m supposed to buy her as a babyface in like 3 weeks. She has the sympathy vote in a meta sense, sure, and I’ve been saying I want her to run SD on her own since November 2019, but that doesn’t mean she’s automatically a babyface within kf. Also annoying that they haven’t had a brawl that ends on equal footing, via interruption by officials or something. Also not sure how much I buy the character of Bayley being “too scared” to come to SD. If I could’ve gotten a quick interview by her, even if it’s her leaving the arena just as she finds out Sasha has arrived, that would’ve tied this together better.

Why she still staring at the hard cam lmao. Walk away. Leave. Make your exit. Alright whatever.

Highlight: Alexa becoming the Fiend’s queen

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Takeover 31:

Man true, I forget Io has beat both Charlotte and Sasha this year. What a big year for her.

Love how this entire “arena” is set up, but my covid-paranoia does not approve.

Lol that one single guy trying to start a chant, goodbye.

BEAUTIFUL corrected monkey flip by Io

The attempt at the springboard by Candice was there. Could’ve been cleaner.

Good transition having Candice counter Io into a backstabber in the corner, cuz that offense was taking way too long to set up.

Commentator attributed Candice being slow in the beginning because she’s sad Johnny lost. Tired of the Garganos being tied to each other.

Why is every female heel on every brand dragging people’s eyes/face across the ropes all of the sudden?

It was not a nice move, she needs to stop doing her poor woman’s version of Natural Selection. Done.

Y’all are losing me, give Io some momentum plz.

Every single heel wants to go slow and methodical. Ridiculous. Where’s Sasha.

This was not paced well, ESPECIALLY compared to their first match. Their first didn’t breathe enough and was a sprint with not enough selling, but it was still really good. This is paced on the complete opposite spectrum. And not good.

Io has the best dropkick in the division, especially when you consider how safe her landing is for her own body’s longevity.

Totally no sold that powerbomb, Io. That’s a yikes.

Lmao Io kicked out of Candice’s springboard moonsault. Haha.

Got a meteora, 2 backstabbers, and a crossface... again, where’s Sasha???

Lmfao 2 ref bumps and a fake referee. GOD I HATE HOW WOMEN’S MATCHES ARE BOOKED THIS YEAR. The first bump didn’t even look legit.

Io took a title shot to the face yet kicked out, and y’all out here calling Becky “Cena” for kicking out of a chair shot to the midsection? Annoying.

I’m now convinced Charlotte has the best Spanish fly in the entire women’s division.

Rich having Toni do a promo directly aimed at Io, considering Toni beat her to win the MYC. Also rich how unbothered Io seemed lmao.

Ahhh the nxt women’s champion that should’ve won her title by defeating Asuka. We remember her well. Injured herself chasing the 24/7 title back when they were running the Becky/Charlotte vs Sasha/Bayley feud. Good times.

Highlight: Io’s theme song

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*NXT shined the brightest out of all the other shows, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t give major props to specifically Alexa Bliss.

[janetsnakehole02]

Thanks for the tag bestie @asgardwinter <3

1 - Why did you choose your url?

LOL this is just my go to alias for everything it’s just the first thing I thought of and I don’t wanna change it either bc now all my moots call me Jan or Janet and it’s actually the cutest thing ever 🥺 there’s a reason April liked the name so much I mean it’s a solid alias lmao

2 - Any side blogs?

Nope this blog alone is too much to handle lmaooo although maybe all my Loki shitposting needs a sideblog idk we’ll see

3 - How long have you been on Tumblr?

I think over a year now? I got it in May 2020 quarantine was a pretty boring time lmao and I got it for this role playing game I used to play on my phone called choices GOD IM CRINGE anyway I didn’t start really using it till January 2021 after I got obsessed w Bridgerton and then binge read all the books. I was a lurker until I got the courage to start reblogging and then I think I posted one thing about people being racist shits about Simone Ashley’s casting and then I picked up traction from there. Then tfatws started airing and then I got into marvel tumblr and actually started posting more shit

4 - Do you have a queue tag?

Nah I don’t queue I don’t get the purpose of it lol

5 - Why did you start your blog in the first place?

Accidentally got ahead of myself and explained that in #3 lol rip but yeah most of my posts were Bridgerton-related first and then I got into MCU tumblr later

6 - Why did you choose your icon/pfp

Laughing Amora is the best Amora. And I know we’re never gonna get her in the MCU so I’m gonna give her the love she deserves

7 - Why did you choose your header?

Simu Liu stock photos + Avengers - ultimate duo

8 - What’s your post with the most notes?

MCU memes that I made using a scene from the Loki series. I honestly made them as a joke for one of my moots @lil-stark bc we make our own memes and send them to each other occasionally but I made myself laugh so I thought I’d share the wealth lmao. Did not think 1000 more people would laugh too so that’s comforting

9 - How many mutuals do you have?

I just counted 32 but I might’ve miscounted lol

10 - How many followers do you have?

145

11 - How many people do you follow?

61

12 - Have you ever made a shitpost?

Listen I qualify pretty much everything I post as a shitpost

13 - How often do you use Tumblr each day?

More often than I would ever admit in public

14 - Did you have a fight/argument with another blog once?

YUP and it gave me my most unhinged (affectionate) moot ever @ashdoesfandom we’re living our best enemies to lovers arc now

15 - How do you feel about “you need to reblog this” posts?

Depends on what it is usually, I’ll scroll past most of the time bc it’ll be something I heard about on insta first and I’ll already have done something about it but if it’s something I haven’t heard about before then I’ll like Google it and see what’s going on

16 - Do you like tag games?

I mean I’m doing one rn so clearly the answer is yes LOL but I’m always scared before tagging people bc I don’t wanna impose and I also don’t wanna seem like I like one moot more than another idk I’m weird

17 - Do you like ask games?

YES I love answering questions about myself lmao

18 - Which of your mutuals do you think is Tumblr famous?

Definitely @handmaiden-of-mischief your fics are out of this WORLD I fucking lost my shit when I saw that you followed me first, I was like OH MY GOD SHE’S THE ONE THAT WROTE BENEATH THE BLEEDING SKIES 😂 also @allaboutloki and @valkyrieandstrangeridingaragorn your Loki discourse and meta is amazing so I was once again losing my shit when y’all followed me back. OH and @xialing-tenrings I mean you have some of the best Xialing & Shangqi content so I am NOT the least bit surprised

19 - Do you have a crush on a mutual?

I mean I did say Ash and I have an enemies to lovers arc soooo ;)

No pressure tags @/lil-stark @/ashdoesfandom @missfairygodmother @aynanasstuff @anyone else

tag game!!

thank you for the tag @barnesafterglow !! 💕 (doing it on a separate post because is getting really long lol)

1 - Why did you choose your url?

my fist was @/habisbi (I was only here to read) but once I decided to write for marvel I chose it @/asgardwinter because I mainly write for Loki and Bucky (and winter is also my favourite season lol)

2 - Any side blogs?

I have I library blog (more for me than my followers because my own reblog makes me feel more confident when I post lol) and a fic rec blog I'm still working on

3 - How long have you been on Tumblr?

I created this acount a bit more than a year ago but only started to really use it on april/may

4 - Do you have a queue tag?

I did but I don't use it anymore

5 - Why did you start your blog in the first place?

at first I was curious about it and than when I returned this year I saw a lot of people writing here and it souded like a fun thing to do (I'm not a native speaker so it was a way to test if I really knew english lol)

6 - Why did you choose your icon/pfp

I liked it and that's it ? (I wish I had a better explanation)

7 - Why did you choose your header?

again, I just found it pretty

8 - What’s your post with the most notes?

my Loki fic Silly Wooden Box I'm so proud of this little oneshot

9 - How many mutuals do you have?

i don't know exactly but love every single one of them (I also know I don't have many but it's just because I'm afraid of talking to people)

10 - How many followers do you have?

244 (I still have no idea how)

11 - How many people do you follow?

about 161 but it increases every day 🙃

12 - Have you ever made a shitpost?

idk maybe?

13 - How often do you use Tumblr each day?

more than I should, for sure

14 - Did you have a fight/argument with another blog once?

no, the only thing I ever got into was some people translating tumblr works without permission

15 - How do you feel about “you need to reblog this” posts?

I just ignore most of the time? idk I fell like not reblogging is my protest lol

16 - Do you like tag games?

I love them!! (I'm just really afraid of tagging people and upsetting them, but I love to see that someone thought of me)

17 - Do you like ask games?

yes yes yes!!

18 - Which of your mutuals do you think is Tumblr famous?

idk about famous but I'll say about people that I freaked out a bit when they followed me. @buckysbiota (Ari's so talented I was shocked lol), also @poetic-fiasco (I read her stuff on ao3 and was like "you?? here?? on my page??really??")

19 - Do you have a crush on a mutual?

i need to confess that i fall for everyone who is even a bit decent to me... so more than one 🥰

💕 no pressure tags: @/buckysbiota + @janetsnakehole02 + @writing-for-marvel + @/poetic-fiasco + whoever wants to do!