#probably kinda incoherent...

[kivaember]

For the couples, what’s one thing they like about each other? Like a core aspect of themselves.

HMMM okay let's see:

Rusty likes a few things about 621. There's the usual shallow stuff off he thinks he looks incredibly hot and is carnally attracted to him, but what really draws him is 621's brutal efficiency and cleverness on the battlefield. Rusty is attracted to competency, which there is a worrying lack of in a corporate setting, where people aren't promoted due to merits but nepotism or brown-nosing. So, seeing an pilot who can do sinfully amazing things with a junker of an AC gets him all kinds of hot and bothered...

What 621 likes about Rusty... well, he's not quite sure LMAO he likes that Rusty listens to him when he 'talks', and asks questions and seems genuinely interested in what he has to say. 621 is used to people brushing him off as strange or socially awkward, and while Rusty does think he's strange and awkward, he isn't put off by it and actively tries to understand him. Ofc those feelings became a little complicated when 621 realised Rusty was a spy and likely was profiling him as a future enemy BUT STILL. He liked it. It was Nice.

He does wish that Rusty stops being so confusing to deal with though...

Right, time for the jupiter lads. It'd be hard to get Walter to admit to liking anything about Michigan, but he does like some things about him. He gets easily annoyed with his loud and boisterous personality, and he hates how nosy he is, but he does like how Michigan just... rolls with things and is actually very open-minded, considering. Michigan is unbothered when Walter's in an anti-social and snappish mood, and knows when to give him space and when to pester him. Walter just likes that with Michigan he doesn't have to actually tell him things for Michigan to kind of get what he needs... but he wishes he stops being so fucking nosy lmao

And what Michigan likes about Walter is that he respects and admires how driven he is and all the hardwork he puts into stuff. Like, he understands that Walter had to work himself to the bone to succeed for that scholarship to Furlong Dynamics' pilot academy, that he began from a very disadvantageous position but clawed himself into something half-way decent. Michigan respects that kind of grit! He does wish Walter stops being so stubborn and acting like he's carrying the galaxy on his shoulders though...

(also michigan likes that walter bussy ok)

BONUS ROUND: freud/rusty time. Freud likes that Rusty is seemingly on the same wavelength as him when it comes to refining their craft as AC pilots. All the other Vespers are pencil pushers, with the exception of Snail who's. well. Snail. Freud also likes that Rusty presents a very intriguing mystery for him to pick at, because quite a few things in his past don't make sense, and O'Keeffe should've picked up on those discrepencies but hasn't... so there's a mystery for him to unravel here... it seems like a fun time :)

Meanwhile, Rusty hates Freud bc he's a corporate dog, but he respects his skill as a pilot and somewhat empathises with his position (from decoding, where he realises that Freud has little to no control over his life, thanks to Arquebus micromanaging everything). I feel that if Freud was an independent merc, though, Rusty would be just as attracted to him as to 621 because... competency, brutal skill on the battlefield... Rusty finds that so hot...

[yakkety-yak-art]

I find Boba’s connections to being Mandalorian super interesting in part because, at least in current canon, he seems to express no desire to tie himself to or to vehemently avoid the label of Mandalorian. In some ways he’s sort of Schrödinger’s Mando.

It makes sense. “Mandalorian” is already a super expansive label and in-universe, Mandos argue with each other over what makes someone Mando. Is Mandalorian a race? A religion? An ethnicity? It is all and none of these things, depending on what group of Mandos you ask. But someone can be from Mandalore and not culturally A Mandalorian in the same way that beings from various planets and of various races can be culturally A Mandalorian. To some degree, what makes a Mandalorian a Mandalorian is self-identity.

Boba does not claim to be Mandalorian. His father was Mandalorian. His armor is Mandalorian. He has familial ties to Mandalorians which he acknowledges, but he is not Mandalorian, because it’s not that simple.

Boba’s only living family, Mandalorian and otherwise (that he, and we, are aware of), died when he was very young. We know that Jango was a relatively absent father because he left Kamino regularly for bounty hunting work. We know that Jango was teaching Boba to be a bounty hunter, but we don’t know if Jango was raising Boba with any sort of Mandalorian cultural influence (accounting for varying ideas of what “real” Mando culture would even be). Even if he was, once Jango was dead, any active and present ties to the Mando culture he was raised with was gone from Boba’s life, and he’s spent the rest of his adult life being, at most, peripherally aware of Mando society.

Outwardly, he is Mandalorian in that his armor is recognizably Mando. He’s obviously going to be aware of this; he’d have to be more sheltered than Din to not be. If one ascribes to the idea that Mandos are a race or ethnicity, then Boba is, to those who know Jango was Mando, a Mandalorian. And yet, when confronted by Mandos claiming he is not Mandalorian, his response is simply that he has never claimed to be one.

Boba isn’t exactly the type of person to lie to appease others. His seeming indifference towards the label of Mandalorian—not seeking it, not seeking to deny it—is probably his true feelings on the matter, or at least close to it. But it makes sense that he wouldn’t see himself as A Mandalorian. Why would he? His armor is Mando, but his personal ties to it are largely just because it was his father’s. If Jango wasn’t Mandalorian, I don’t think Boba would feel less attached to his dad’s armor, especially considering he was raised to follow in Jango’s footsteps. And it also makes sense that he’s not going around declaring himself Not A Mandalorian. On the one hand, what would be the point? And on the other hand, he kind of definitely is or is at least perceived to be one, depending on someone’s point of view.

Boba isn’t Mandalorian because he doesn’t identify as Mandalorian. Being Mandalorian encompasses a wide range of experiences, but it is very much, above anything, a cultural identity, even though that culture has sects and nuances within itself. Jango was Mandalorian, but the impact that has on Boba’s identity is honestly probably pretty minimal. Boba is from Kamino, a planet that no longer exists. Boba is a clone, but was raised separately from the other clones, and he is now one of very few remaining of this specific people. Boba had no stable, healthy environment as a child and was raised with no specific culture, people, or place past the age of 10, and even before then he was clearly isolated. Besides bounty hunting work, for the most part, Boba has been alone for a very, very long time.

Boba’s relationship with being Mandalorian is probably complicated, because Boba’s relationship with a lot is probably complicated. But he does not claim to be Mandalorian, so he isn’t.

[antiquepearlss]

I’m thinking about my tts modern au where Rapunzel and Eugene are a small business tattooist/etsy seller, and a detective, respectively. Plus they’re the parents of twins who are very involved in various extracurriculars and clubs. Meaning, I don’t think they’re super well-off. They’re comfortable, they’re middle class, they don’t really want for anything because they’re humble people. But there are times where maybe there’s a pipe that breaks in the house and they can’t afford to fix it just yet. Or maybe their kids’ friends are vacationing in Europe but they can’t afford to send them with. Or maybe they’re just both exhausted from work and don’t feel like cooking, but they haven’t gone grocery shopping so there’s nothing in the pantry, so they don’t know what they’re doing for dinner because they can’t afford takeout. They’re not poor, but there are still times where money is an issue for them. Like it would be for any family.

And Varian I headcanon works for NASA, or some other prestigious scientific organization. He’s smart, he has a good job, and he makes good money. Like, really good money. And Varian doesn’t necessarily strike me as the kind of guy who lives a lavish lifestyle. He doesn’t need new clothes when his old ones still fit and can be mended. He doesn’t need a new, bigger tv, this one works just fine. He doesn’t need a fancier house because this one is near his family so he can visit them whenever he wants. He still impulsively buys shit he doesn’t need, but it doesn’t affect his bank account too badly. So he really just has a lot of money he doesn’t need. 

I just really like the idea of Varian repaying a lot of the kindness given to him by New Dream by buying them dinner when they need it. By sending them groceries because they ran out of stuff to make lunches with. Or paying for the repairs they just can’t afford yet. Or by putting money in their kids’ college fund. Or just by buying that set of paints Rapunzel’s eyes lingered on for just a little too long while at the store. I think he does the same with Lance and his dad, too. I think he straight up pays for almost all of Keira and Catalina’s schooling. 

I love the idea of Varian being a gift-giver. It’s pretty much canon that he is. So him using his wealth to help his friends is really dear to me.

[moony-talks]

Long rant post abt my original story that I have too much imposter syndrome to write

I’m mainly gonna talk about the prequel bc it’s so gay.

Everest is 14, the prince of the dark elf kingdom, is most people’s least favorite person to be around. He’s shy and awkward—if anyone wants to get close to his family, they just decide to get closer to his brighter, smarter, more sociable older sister—the one his parents also always prefer

In school after a particularly rough prank, a new student shows up at school. A high elf (15) from very far away, one of the most intelligent and prospective of them, was sent to help create peace between the kingdoms by getting closer with the future queen and future crown prince.

Everything goes to shit when Everest and Andy (the high elf) fall in love. Andy tries to persuade him to run away many times, claiming that his parents hate him and want him dead. Everest doesn’t believe in for months, until he overhears that they’re planning to stage an accident as his coronation the next day.

Everest runs and doesn’t look back, and he doesn’t wait for Andy to follow.

[sotogalmo]

12am

Heyyyyyyyyyy it's meee .back with chimera tangggg. More chimera tang sloppp for the ones that like my drawings and ideas .get your slop right here

(1: ouhh boy, he got the zoomies !!!!!chimera tang getting SMACKED with the cat instincts to like.pounce and play and hunt, but no sire!!!you can't doo thattt!!!you're the size of like. One of the tallest buildings....!!!!! you're gonna CRUSH Pigsy's Noodles to ASHES!!!! / 2: (chimera river) bro nesting and then getting out the instinct-haze and being so confused about it. Nest has wood under it for structure, lots of fluff tho to keep him safe- he even goes a bit farther away from his family but that's tiger instincts / 3: is just part of a page where I was writing stuff trying to make things make sense in my head + more of a slight reveal of how I would draw tang with more details and whatnot. to me he has upturn eyes that are slightly vaguely bug like .. / 5: I TOLDSS YALL I WOULD DO IT !!!!chimera tang half of changpao rip 🫡/ 6: some clothes because why not / 7: he's gonna explain shit to you autism way)

More thoughts undercut because .it be like that

Anyways I've been thinking of how chimera tang would happen in like. S5. Or just with MK in general actually. Because I can see their similarities and just. Oughhh they interest me a lot

Tang: some human -> to a fuckass Chimera who is Somehow Connected To The Great Tang Monk + MK: just a delivery boy -> Harbinger Of Chaos / both are dangerous (and they both showed it tbh), etc etc

There's gotta be smth they can work with together. But with Chimera Tang being earlier, .oughhrgrhrhhrhrgrggrgggr I dunno. But I think they should bond. At least hang out more. Since they now have at least much more in common

And withh . chimera river au: I still don't know when the kiddos would be born around (S4 special or towards the end of s5?). I also don't know if it'll take the common many years (what's the general years ...?) of demons (generally tang is considered to be one with all of the chimera stuffs) or be at least slightly closer to the 9 months (plus now with a divine spirit- so who knows honestly). — though, since they were like. Conceived when tang drank the remaining river, and how fast it went when both Bajie and Sanzang drank it (I think), I think like. The river makes the pregnancy go faster in some way. So who really knows

While I was thinking of that, I also decided to add more to the kids too—

First born Bao (taken from the mother child river au, but with added swag cuz of chimera tang) / second born Jian (acts like Knuckles The Echidna <- which I may or may not have taken to a bit of an extreme and then kinda made him a bit ..red. like the duroc/red wattle hogs but hey what the hell!sure! kinda reasoned with it with just- the red stone, and my idea of the main group being the core of the new pillars while everyone else on Earth are the outer parts of it. Tang red stone core real to me <- kinda made a whole post about the color stones and with a lot more beings, being the new pillars of Heaven and Not Just the main cast being the only ones. It interests me) / third born Yun (Silver The Hedgehog, fluffiest one of the bunch. Honestly he seems like he'll really like to hang out with Sandy) / youngest Xiaoxing (Tails The Fox (taking an interest in making machines and all) and Oliver Grayson ....be cause ....yeahhh getting into Invincible peopleee)

Though the more I think of when they'll be born I think it'll fit more around the end of s5 because that's a lot more stress and I think it takes a lot more stress to induce premature labor with demons/divines/etc. (they live longer, etc etc).

Smth smth it's the probably actual end of the world (sky cracking and finding the stones) and then your honorary son fucking JUMPS into the pillar and so now you gotta wonder if this is really the actual end but then suddenly YOU GIVE BIRTH.(I try to be funny)

Tho I still don't know .about the time and gap between the seasons and such. falls down, so who really knows at all

Anyways. Before S4/5 and when tang was still under LBD's control, ..I just kinda think. That when he would wake up after being transformed- Mayor would be around to just do check ups and all of that. (1: macaque does NOT want to deal with this shit , 2: explore the mayor's character because sure why the hell not , 3: it's interesting. 4: they're funny to meee, the funny beast4beast)

-also, back to it with tagging the ones who first made chimera tang au because I still gotta give credit to them for making me do the zoomies: @quitealotofsodapop & @oceanqueenmusical

[delimari]

Was anyone else confused when Cole got his earth punch ability and none of the other ninja got something similar for their own elements? Pretty sure in the sets this was called Cole’s “RX” form, so maybe I just expected the rest of the ninja to get an “RX” form? Idk, the earth punch ability just seemed so specific that it felt like it was setting up a new general elemental power ability or something imo

Random thought that I definitely haven’t contemplated for years now

[technicalknockout]

Do you care her 💔

im going to be completely honest,, i am so torn on what to make of mko

[questdrag0n]

Thoughts on Dark Might

Spoilers for You're Next below

So I just went back and watched the movie for the second time yesterday and I noticed some things.

Wanna preface by saying I loved the villain for this Movie. Dark Might was absolutely hysterical and flamboyant in a way that not a lot of serious villains are in this show, closest being Gentle Criminal who was meant to be a sympathetic villain who barely even qualified as a villain. Dark Might was a lot of fun to watch and a breath of fresh air, creepy scenes with Anna aside.

That said, there's something I noticed about him: The man has no original ideas. His entire villain plan was to try and recreate All Might's legacy, but in his own way. His fortress is plastered in All Might statues. While he did technically created his own villain name, he didn't do so until All Might said something that accidentally inspired it. His monsters? Clearly inspired by Nomu. Even his home base probably wasn't his own design, likely based on the Scervino home if his comment to Anna was anything to go by ("Do you like it? It was inspired by you" or something like that). Even that conversation with the erasure villain where he promises to "remember that for next time" is him taking something someone else said and planning to use it for the future to boost his own image. The only time where he appears to design something of his own was that horrendously bad outfit with the purple face paint, and then he gets mocked for it and never wears it again. Not even his face is his.

But this isn't bad writing or bad character design; rather it's actually genius. Here is a character who's quirk is the ability to create borderline anything (we don't really know the limits of his quirk without Anna), and yet he is unable to create something new; he instead plagiarizes from the world around him. It's deeply ironic, and is part of what makes the final face reveal so good. Once you strip him down to his own limits and his own ideas, all you have is a sad, pathetic man, with no original ideas who's power and money was handed to him on a silver platter. It's not just part of his character, it's the entire point of his character.

Tldr: Dark Might, while delightful to watch, has no original ideas and copies everything from those around him and it's genius writing for reasons I struggle to articulate

[becomealamp]

I know this could be read as validating the religious’s criticisms of atheism, but there is a fundamental sadness that comes along with accepting that all that is around us is based on nothing but a series of scientific chain reactions. the world, the universe was not created to be moral or to be balanced, just a byproduct of microscopic particles meeting one another. there is no cosmic rule to ensure that the world is good, that earnest labour will be rewarded, that evil will be punished. humanity can plummet into a miserable abomination of a species, and theres no divine being to save us, to bring us to salvation. they say every action has an equal and opposite reaction, but the same cannot be said for suffering. the laws of the universe couldnt care less about rewarding us for our pain. good people can be subjected to agony, and evil people could find victory, and the cosmos would not lift a finger to stop it. theres this widespread belief that humans are born good, and while of course i cannot know with certainty, i find this unlikely. just like the atoms colliding eons ago, we are a product of natural selection, an output of a natural algorithm. we prospered as a species because we could continue to reproduce, and nothing more. evolution does not guarantee that the victors are moral. one could say the opposite, in fact, as often those who reach the top do so by climbing atop the corpses of their peers. i find it rather conceited for us as a species to assume that our success means we are inherently moral, as no science backs this, only our own egos and self centered view of the universe around us. there is nothing holding humanity back from having a higher proportion of evil to morality, from everyone around you becoming cruel. nobody is coming to save us. nobody is coming to save the ones who remain good. the world could be hell on earth, and the universe would live on.

[spock-adoodledoo]

i think one of the things i'll always appreciate abt maomao is that even though she's the protag, it's not really that the world revolves around her or that things always happen to her, it's more that she gets involved in things (usually at the request of other ppl but whatever) that usually don't affect her immediately. idk but it's nice that she's kind of our dispassionate window into palace life instead of the person everything happens to

[basilpaste]

thinking about how just akizet thinking someone's going to die is enough to trigger a loop . how far does this go ? would it happen if she panics about possible deaths ? would it happen if she's under too much pressure trying to keep everyone alive ? would it happen if she's reached the very end for the first time , begging to herself , "do not mess up or people will die" ? would it happen if she is at the very cusp of freeing herself , if she thinks about the consequences of failure too strongly , if her dread grows stronger than her determination and slams her all the way back at the beginning ? what would she think of herself then ?

( again sorry if it's not structured .random brain blabbering this time dshjds )

never apologize to me for rambling i am the rambler. i understand.

ive mused on this a little before, but i believe it was mostly from caviks perspective?

and it is upsetting to know that everything can be taken back to the top just because akizet thinks something! it is frustrating for akizet herself!! and for cavik [...], it is actively distressing! because it means that if he cannot, without a shadow of a doubt, convince akizet of something: the safer option will always be to go along with her decision.

okay yes. there is that.

but its just!!! so!!!! man!!!!!!!

i dont think it would be very easy to trigger a loop because she thinks someone is going to die. to steal from isats rulebook (because i assume most of my followers will be most familiar with how it does loops), loops triggered by an emotional 'i cant go on' are MUCH less common than a physical 'i cant go on'. and theyre also a MUCH bigger deal because of that.

to her brain, 'dead' and 'will absolutely be dead' register as the same thing in this situation. in canon, akizet jumps the gun on calling folks dead a good handful of times. while looping? oh boy! it is worse!!

but 'dead' is not a simple thing to be. so for her to believe something will cause certain death, she has to be absolutely sure. like the message she sends to cavik.

as time goes on. as more people die. her nerves get more fried. her stress rises, she is more afraid. more tense. and that makes it easier to jump to the conclusion of 'dead'. so "do not mess up or people will die" might not trigger a loop in golem maintenance. but... when the groups split in groundsmindry? when approaching that final fight with vekoa? when dooming tozik to certain death within the embassy's bleeding corpse?

...i dunno. it would make sense, is all. for something to go wrong. to get so close and then to have it ripped away. encore, encore!!!

and of course akizet is miserable. but if shes back at the start of it all, she has no time to dwell. a single moment of inaction spills the blood of a friend. it was foolish of her to think that she would be freed so easily. velzie is not so kind.

so the show must continue. a grotesque of infinitesimal proportions. it rests squarely on her own shoulders. never mind that cavik remembers. the deaths are her fault. she is responsible for keeping as many alive as she can. and it is her alone that has this task. she can bear the burden. a cruel giggle of velzie, surely, but fitting punishment for her guilt. she caused this, she must suffer the consequences.

it will be worth it. she will find a way to save everyone. she must.

(and she will never admit to herself that this is a tragedy.)

[ayara-resara]

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[ice-sculptures]

ICE-SCULPTURES -> CITYSCREAMS

i don't usually change my url but i really wanted a taylor-related url for 1989 tv release week!! cityscreams isn't 1989 specific but it's from my fav taylor song and i thought it was so fitting for spooky season 🕸️👻

(for my non-swiftie mutuals....it'll be mostly the same content but with just a little extra taylor this week 🦋)

tagging a few people under the cut so y'all know it's me :)

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(i have no idea who's active rn bsjdfhlsjajks sorry if i forgot to tag you)

[meggie-moo]

he was my favorite in middle school

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

rewatching 13s era for me is not so much diminishing returns as it is something opposite and eviler...............increasing losses? increasing losses

[semisentient-entity]

Thinking about how suddenly being free after being trapped your whole life can be such a joyous experience but also the worst you've ever felt. When you had to hide yourself and bottle everything up that now it's all spilling out uncontrollably.

You're thrilled, you're exhilarated, you're furious, you're inconsolable, you're terrified. You want to run, you want to curl up and cry your eyes out, you want to leave forever, you want to go back, you want to scream to the heavens because how dare they abandon you. You miss them all, you want them all to rot, you want to go back, you miss that one person who was kind to you, you want to leave it all behind.

You're glad you left. How dare they kick you out? You're the happiest you've ever been. What did I do wrong? You're laughing and crying and screaming and-

Just. Sudden freedom.