#razor I'm sorry but

[miraculouslbcnreactions]

Sorry if this seems confrontational, but for the life of me I can’t get into your “Chloe has no growth” point when the show itself retracts growth from everyone and is inconsistent with everyone. You saying “The show just lays down basic character traits in Chloe” doesn’t make sense when her basic character traits are supposed to be her being selfish and spoiled.

S2 built off of that and despite what you say, had Chloe doing things that in S1 she wouldn’t have done. She apologized multiple times to the people she wronged, she willingly put herself in harm’s way to help the people she cares about and she was openly vulnerable to Ladybug in “Malidiktaor”. Something S1 Chloe wouldn’t have done. If there’s a distinct difference between a Chloe back in S1 and a Chloe in S2, then growth HAS taken place. But it doesn’t stay because of the formula (and the writers just don’t want her to keep that growth)

So what I’m asking is…what do you mean “Chloe doesn’t have growth”?

I can understand the “No arc” argument because an unfinished arc feels like there’s no arc at all (even though they are fundamentally not the same)

I wouldn't say that the show retracts growth from everyone. It's more that no one is ever supposed to grow. Every episode resets the cast. That's just how pure formula shows work and Miraculous is being sold as a pure formula show. The characters are meant to be static (one of the writers literally compared Miraculous to Dora the Explorer).

That static nature is why pure formula shows normally avoid giving their good-guy characters major flaws. It's the wrong medium for that type of thing specifically because the characters cannot change in meaningful ways throughout the show. They can learn little lessons that don't really change them and maybe have big change between seasons via a special or movie, but that's about it. Thus things like the season four conflict working so poorly. It's just a terrible choice for a formula show! The conflict is literally not allowed to develop properly because of the chosen format.

But sure, let's talk about Chloe and why I will die on the hill that she never demonstrated meaningful improvement even with the issue of the inconstant writing. In fact, seasons-one-to-three Chloe is one of the most consistent characters in the show. For this discussion to work, we need to start off by discussing character development and the two main forms it can take: character establishment and character growth.

Character Establishment

When the audience meets a character, they know nothing about said character. It's up to the writer to guide the introduction process. To choose when to reveal already existing elements of the character's personality, skills, and backstory. This is called character establishment. It is the writing telling you who the character is on a baseline level. Those reveals don't need to happen at the start of the story, though. They can be - and often are - held back for when the time is right.

When these reveals are delayed, it's important to remember that these elements were always part of the character. The reveal isn't changing who the character actually is. It's just changing how the audience views the character.

For example, we spend a good chunk of season one uncertain why Gabriel is doing what he does. Then, in Origins, we learn that it's all for Emilie. This is new information that adds depth to Gabriel's character, but it doesn't change him in any way. This is who he always was. We just know him better now and can recontextualize past events with our new understanding of his motivation.

Character Growth

Character growth is when writers take a character's personality or world view or even just their skills from point A to point B, allowing the audience to watch the character change and become a new better - or lesser - version of themself. This is usually part of a larger character arc where all the moments of growth add up, but it can take the form of small moments of growth that don't fit into a bigger picture, too. I'd probably still call that an arc, but we'll use the word "growth" a lot in this post, so let's just call it growth to be consistent.

Miraculous doesn't really have either arcs or growth because - once again - formula shows don't allow characters to meaningfully change, so I'm going to have to make up an example here. I'll use one that illustrates how character establishment and character growth can and do intertwine as that's an important thing to acknowledge to help guide this discussion.

Let's say that we have a character who lost their family at a young age. We'll call this character Mary. Mary's loss guides her character throughout the entire story, but the other characters and the audience are never told that this is what's going on. We just know that Mary acts in seemingly illogical ways at times and that she trusts no one.

Throughout the story, Mary learns to trust her costars, leading to a big, dramatic scene where she finally tells them - and the audience - about her past. This big dramatic scene is both the culmination of a character arc and a piece of baseline character establishment that allows us to understand Mary's character better no matter what part of the story we're reading.

Because these combo growth and establishment moments are so common in stories, it can feel like character growth when we learn new things about a character in a dramatic moment, but that's not always what's happening. Sometimes dramatic moments are just there to reveal what was always there by forcing a character to act differently than they usually do through the power of extenuating circumstances. These extenuating-circumstances moments are not character growth because, once the moment is over, the character resets to their normal self. The moment wasn't there to let them grow. It was there for the sake of the plot.

This is actually a really important thing that writers need to know how to do. Figuring out what circumstances will make a character say or do a thing they generally wouldn't say or do is part of how stories work. I have started stories with characters acting wildly "out of character" because I put them in the a situation where the behavior suddenly was in character!

Oh, you don't want to talk to this total stranger because you're an introvert with social anxiety who has yet to learn how to love yourself and open up to others? That's nice. Your leg is broken now and you're stuck in the middle of nowhere. What you gonna do sucker? Lie there in the dirt or talk to the nice lady who wants to help you? Your choice! (Spoiler: he talked to the nice lady. He even let her physically support him when he'd usually never let a stranger touch him!)

As soon as that scene was over, the character reverted because it wasn't growth. He didn't become a more open person. He just did something he normally wouldn't do because the situation demanded it. It was extenuating circumstances so that the freaking plot could start.

This is what happened with Chloe in season two. Everything that people call growth is really just extenuating circumstances that reset by the end of the episode or even by the end of the scene.

Let's Talk About Chloe

Chloe does not have a character arc, aborted or otherwise. She is never taken on a journey where we watch her change. All we get is delayed character establishment via extenuating circumstances, but it's given in ways that make some people feel like she was being given an arc. Let's talk about why that is.

Season one Chloe is a one dimensional mean girl. She has almost no depth. She's just here to be petty and cause akumas. She is not a fully realized character.

Season two takes those traits and keeps them, but also gives Chloe a lot more depth to round her out and make her feel like a real character. She's just as petty and mean as she always was, but we're finally allowed to see her in some moments that make her feel like a well of potential to become something more, which the writers basically had to do if they wanted to let her be a hero. The audience needed to feel like Chloe could be good in the right situation.

The feelings evoked by her newly discovered depth are why people go "oh, she had a character arc! My feelings about her changed in a big way!" But she didn't have an arc. You just got to know her better by seeing her in moments where she was forced to be vulnerable. That's not growth. Growth is meaningful, lasting change, not situational change. Everyone changes based on the situation! It's why the "True Selves" stuff is such nonsense. It implies that there's one set way that we're supposed to act in order to be authentic and anything else is some kind of lie which just isn't how the world works.

Let's look at some examples to drive home what I mean.

Season one established that Chloe idolized Ladybug. It's why we get things like this moment from Evil Illustrator:

Ladybug: Fine! You stay! Later! Cat Noir: What do you mean later? Ladybug: I mean, you're the one who wants to protect her, so you don't need me. So, later! (swings away) Chloé:(looks over balcony) Ahhh! Ladybug! Text me! OK!

And this confession from Antibug:

Ladybug: [Chloe] pretended she was me?! How often does that happen? Armand: She idolizes you.

So Chloe adores Ladybug and wants to impress her/be her best friend. Cool. Got it. That never goes anywhere in season one because season one doesn't see Chloe and Ladybug interact much. The most we get is Ladybug saving Chloe from akumas, which doesn't allow for deep conversations. I don't think that they're ever alone in a moment where they can actually talk.

That changes in season two. In season two, they get to interact a lot and it's often in moments where there's a big threat and no one else is around, letting us see a new side to Chloe. But that's not Chloe changing. It's just the writers revealing that Chloe has more to her than the mean girl stuff because of course she does! Pure mean girls don't exist. Everyone has depth. We simply never saw that depth before because Chloe was never put in a situation where she needed to be open. We can't say that season one Chloe wouldn't confess things to Ladybug or chose to sacrifice herself to let Ladybug win because she never had the chance to do those things!

In fact, I'd go so far as to argue that season one Chloe probably would have done the same things as season two Chloe because season two Chloe doesn't really contradict season one Chloe. Antibug showed us that Chloe was pretty desperate to be loved and welcomed the way that Ladybug is loved and welcomed:

Chloé: Jagged Stone! Jagged: (thinking she's the actual Ladybug) Ladybug! What are you doing here? Chloé: Um… when I find out you were here, I knew you'd wanna see me! I had to come say hello. (Sabrina waves at Jagged)

and Chloe has always been a stubborn girl who stands up for what she wants even if what she wants is something bad. Antibug also showed us that Chloe can be genuinely nice to the people she cares about. Her and Sabrina's relationship is shown to be complex with them often having a lot of fun together.

Similarly, Origins sees Chloe showing her father genuine affection after she's saved from Stoneheart:

[Image description: Chloe and Andre hugging and looking very happy to be together]

Origins is the baseline episode that tells us who the characters are on day one, so I never once doubted that Chloe loved Andre, but Andre didn't get akumatized because of Chloe's actions in season one. He didn't even get akumatized for something that Chloe had nothing to do with! His first akumatization is in season two, so it's not shocking that we don't get a Malidiktaor type scene until Malidiktaor.

Chloe was vulnerable with her personal hero when her beloved parent was in danger, but not before? Shocking! Who would have guessed?

Me. I would have guessed. I didn't even realize that people were reading it as some sort of character growth because it clearly wasn't. Malidiktaor didn't feel like something new for Chloe's character. It just felt like the writers were leaning into things that we'd always known about Chloe and using them to better establish her character as someone who genuinely cares about select people. She just doesn't show most of the time.

The same thing goes for Chloe's sacrifice and apology in Zombizou. Chloe only sacrifices herself when there's no one left but her and Ladybug. When the choice is to let the terrorist win or take the hit and let you personal hero save the day. Brave? Sure, but also not growth. Chloe is team Ladybug for all of seasons one, two, and three! She wants Ladybug to like her! Plus even a petty brat can have moments of goodness where they pick a hero over a literal terrorist.

This honestly would have been a damming moment if Chloe didn't sacrifice herself. She functionally had no other choice here. The entire episode builds itself to the self-sacrifice moment so that Chloe is forced to make that choice even though she's been her petty bratty self throughout the whole attack. It's genuinely solid writing.

Then, in the heightened emotions directly after the Zombizou win, we get this:

Miss Bustier: But I hurt a lot of people... Chloé: No... I did... I forgot your birthday, once again. And when I saw everyone had prepared a gift for you, I totally lost it. Because I, too, would've liked to offer you something. I'm sorry, Miss Bustier. Miss Bustier: Thank you, Chloé. Those words are the best possible gift you could ever give me. (hugs Chloé) (Chloé hugs her back, forgetting herself for a moment.) Chloé: Huh?... Uh, yeah. Okay then, we're all good.

A brief moment of vulnerability that quickly ends and does not stick around because Chloe's change was situational, not true growth. The next scene of that episode starts with Chloe being her usual self:

Chloé: Me? You want me to apologize to the entire class? Ridiculous! They should be thanking me for saving everybody.

And ends with the reveal of Chloe's gift to Miss Bustier, which was given in private via a note.

Once again, nothing new for Chloe's character. She acts as she always has, being mean to everyone while having moments of vulnerability when things get tense. Remember that hug between her and her father that we talked about earlier? Same concept. She had just almost died from an akuma attack and so she needed some emotional support, leading her to act more openly loving than she usually does when he's around. Once the moment is over, she reverts to the petty mean girl default.

Giving gifts to placate people is also something that we've seen before. A pretty similar thing happens at the end of Evil Illustrator, it's just played less sympathetic towards Chloe because the writers weren't giving her depth back then:

Sabrina: Too late. Chloé and I are doing the project together. Marinette: You mean, you're doing the project? Sabrina: Well, of course! After all she's been through... Marinette: Ughhh.... Nice new beret, by the way. Sabrina: I know, right! Chloé lent it to me. She really is my BFF! Chloé! Your geography homework's ready!

For any of this to be character growth, we need to see Chloe act differently over time. For her to be put in similar situations and get different outcomes, but we don't see that in part because Chloe didn't change and in part because season one didn't do much to develop Chloe's deeper side. We rarely see her alone or in moments of extreme vulnerability, but you need those moments to show her depth. That's why Despair Bear had Chloe crying alone after Adrien threatened to end her friendship and not before. Chloe is very reluctant to openly show depth. You have to force it out of her, which perfectly fits the character we met in season one.

Even her standing up to Hawkmoth and rejecting the akuma isn't character growth in my opinion. Chloe has always stood up to authority and demanded whatever she wants. She has wanted to be Ladybug's friend and be seen as a hero since season one, so it's not shocking that her extremely strong will would allow her to defy a terrorist. If there is anyone in this show who can stand up to a terrorist on shear "no!" power alone, it's little miss I-always-get-what-I-want. I could see a variation of this happening at any point in the show, just change Chloe's reason for defying Gabriel to match the situation. Rework these lines to be about a party that she wanted to go to and I'd still totally buy it:

Chloé: No, Hawk Moth! I am a superheroine! I am Queen Bee! Ladybug will come and get me when she needs me! I WILL NEVER JOIN YOU! (throws her photo onto the ground as the akuma exits it... and pants)

Chloe acted like a hero here because she wants all the perks of being a hero and can't believe that Ladybug would actually bench her. That's impossible! Ladybug wouldn't do that!

As soon as Chloe accepts that she won't be a hero again, Chloe stops acting heroic because acting heroic wasn't growth. It was her playing a part the same way she played a part in Despair Bear. She was doing what she needed to do to be Queen Bee again and not because it's the right thing to do. This would only be real growth if she rejected the akuma after accepting that she wouldn't be Queen Bee again, but that's not what happens. As soon as she accepts that she's out, she no longer has any reason to play nice. She never grew into a character who did what's right for the sake of doing the right thing. It's always been about getting what she wants or being seen how she wants to be seen. Until that changes, she hasn't changed.

So no, Chloe didn't have an aborted arc. They didn't start to redeem her and then change their minds. All they did was make Chloe one of the most complex characters in the show only to then not do anything with the character they wasted our time establishing, ignoring the complexity they gave her while also cranking her mean dial up to the point of absurdity where she's not even fun in her original role anymore.

I get why it feels like she had an aborted arc. The fact that the character establishment was delayed makes it feel like something shiny and new about Chloe. There's also the fact that the character establishment we get in season two is the kind of character establishment that you'd do if you were setting up for a redemption arc, but that doesn't change the fact that it was all establishment work. None of it was a true arc where we watched Chloe grow. We just saw her put in situations that revealed hidden depths.

Her showing depth is not her growing because when in the world does she show off this supposed growth? She only acts differently in the type of scenes that we've never seen her in before or around characters that we've never seen her truly interact with before. When she's around the established teen characters or in her usual scenes, then she acts the same way that she always has. We never see her be genuinely nice to Marinette or something like that. She's only nice to Ladybug and she's still rude to Chat Noir. That's not character growth! That's character establishment that can then be used to guide character growth!

Same thing goes for the stuff in Despair Bear. We learn that Adrien can push Chloe to be better, but he never does it again and she reverts as soon as he lets her off the hook, so it wasn't character growth! It was just Chloe establishing that she can play nice when she needs to. This means that she could grow if the story chose to take her down that path because we've established that she knows what being nice looks like. Fake it til you make it plot go, go, go! But the plot never went, went, went so meh?

Add in the fact that season one was a bit of a test season with lots of elements that got dropped and the fact that characterization in this show has always been wildly inconsistent from episode to episode and I'm really not seeing a strong argument for Chloe having an intentional arc that somehow got aborted. People just saw the potential for her to have one and argue that potential is the same as an aborted arc when it really, really isn't.

To give an analogy, Chloe's story is like walking into the kitchen and seeing grandma laying out the ingredients for her famous chocolate chip cookies. We get excited because, hey, cookies! Then we come back an hour later and there are no cookies. Nor is there some other sweet that uses the same ingredients. There's just ingredients, sitting unused in their original packaging, making us wonder what the heck grandma was up to. At the same time, she never really started making cookies. She just set out ingredients. They're still there, totally unused, waiting to be made into something, so we can't call them a failed cookie attempt. That implies a level of commitment that was never there. She didn't even say that she was making cookies! We just assumed she was because we, understandably, wanted cookies and wanted to believe that grandma had a purpose to her actions.

[random-autie-fangirl]

Shoutout to a bunch of voices crushing on the Razor

Voice of the Broken: She doesn't want us. Voice of the Contrarian: You're just saying that because you want her to be into you. Voice of the Broken: I know. I thought I was being obvious.

Voice of the Paranoid: Maybe it'll work! Maybe it'll throw her off. I know I'd be thrown off if she started flirting with us. Voice of the Contrarian: Yeah, because you'd be into it. Voice of the Paranoid: No comment.

Voice of the Stubborn: I'm into it. Voice of the Cheated: I can't say I mind either. If it weren't for all the cheating, I'd say she's pretty cute.

Bonus:

Hero doesn't know if he's into the Razor

[feenmies]

greedy

[books-are-my-life-stuff]

Mashle: Magic and Muscles Picture Drama Episode 8: The Most Dangerous Place (English Translation)

All right, gonna try doing this again. I'm still not confident about my Japanese skills, but I want to keep training so I'll try to translate this one. Please let me know if I make any mistakes, as neither English nor Japanese is my first language!

Translation under read more!

Mash Burnedead, His Friends, and Their School Life Episode 8: The Most Dangerous Place

Abyss: All right, I suppose we should start by sweeping the floor. Then we can wipe them clean.

Mash: 'Kay. Activities that require physical strength are my specialties.

Abyss: Reliable as always. Though, making you clean the owl's house as a punishment for all the mess at Lang Dorm... That's surprisingly a light punishment, isn't it?

Mash: It's not light at all.

Abyss: Huh?

Mash: The owl's house... is the most dangerous place in this school... or so I think.

Abyss: There's no way...

*an owl comes*

Mash: I'm worried.

*another owl draws near*

Mash: Uh-oh.

*one more owl approaches*

Mash: That was close.

Abyss: W-Why are the owls here so aggressive?! ... No, that does not seem like it, they only target Mash... Just why?

*the owls are pecking on Mash*

Mash: That's what... I've been wondering too... Just why?

Abyss: How strange... I do not sense any hostility coming from Mash to the owls whatsoever either... Mash, what do you think about the owls?

*owls are aggressively pecking on Mash*

Mash: Huh? Hmm... Protein?

Abyss: That's why! They're being aggressive at you because they think you might eat them. So, instead of thinking of them as nutrition, how about thinking of them as friends?

Mash: Friends? Hmm, in that case... *takes out a cream puff and offers it to them* ... Here you go.

Abyss: Please don't offer human foods to them!

Mash: Well, cream puffs are complete sources of nutrition.

Abyss: ... Since owls are small animals, I think we should give them bugs to eat. *offers a bug to one of the owls* Here you go.

*happy owl noises*

Mash: Ohh, that owl seems cheerful now, amazing.

Abyss: No, no. The owls just want to be fed, that's all.

*excited owl noises*

Abyss: You're eating really well. Here you go. *offers some more bugs to the owl*

*even more excited owl noises*

Mash: The way that owl is so happy to eat the bugs... I kind of feel sorry for them...

Abyss: Oh, you're saying something like that again...?

*aggressive poking owl noises*

Mash: Ow.

Abyss: It seems the path of friendship is going to be a tough one.

[slaytheprofessor]

"You, uh..." You falter slightly, unsure of how to bring it up. "There's a mirror. You didn't mention that."

There is a long pause.

The Guide: I... I didn't mention the mirror because there isn't a mirror. At least, not one that I can see.

Voice of the Rebel: Are you fucking with us?

The Guide: No, I---

Voice of the Rebel: Dude, no, be for real. Are you actually choosing to fuck with us right now?

The Guide: I---

Voice of the Rebel: I see a mirror! It's literally right in front of our faces! It's the most obvious thing in this whole goddamn room! You'd either have to be blind or lying to not see it!

Voice of the Researcher: Hey. Cool it.

Voice of the Rebel: *whining* But he's---

Voice of the Researcher: Considering how this place looks like a shitty avante-garde painting at the moment, I don't think it's unrealistic to assume that the Guide, for whatever reason, can't see the mirror. But we got bigger fish to fry at the moment, right?

The Guide: *sighs* Yes, we do. Thank you for backing me up.

The Guide: And I believe you, by the way. I'm clearly not the end-all, be-all authority on how things work around here.

Voice of the Rebel: *snarky laugh* He admits it!

Voice of the Researcher: I'm gonna fucking strangle you as soon as we get out of here.

Voice of the Rebel: Awww, that's so cute. I'd really like to see you try, babe.

[stabbyfoxandrew]

Angel Neil please :))

WIP Wednesday (3/20) | Guardian Angel Neil AU (Part 136)

As he heads downstairs, Andrew realizes he's sort of proud of himself for not completely flipping his wig about Neil’s real boy status. How he kept himself composed for that entire conversation, he's not sure. Maybe because talking to the angel is so easy now. Because they're friends. If he'd found out months ago when Neil was new, he might've had a mental breakdown about it.

Hell, he still might.

Well, he's never been one hyperventilating and drinking himself to sleep. That is Kevin's style. Andrew's breakdowns generally involve copious amounts of chocolate or a razor blade. This particular moment calls for chocolate. Andrew has a stash of it in the closet.

Neil is real! He wants to shout at the top of his lungs. Neil is real and I'm not crazy!

He takes a breath and looks down the hallway, there's no one else around. So he swallows, then whispers, "Neil is real and I'm not crazy. Neil is real. And I'm not crazy."

Andrew feels the twist of a genuine smile on his face but lets it fade when Boyd's door starts to open. He doesn't need the upperclassmen to see him out here looking like an idiot so he rushes the last few feet to his dorm before any of them can make appearances.

[razowor-backup]

"Wolves should have the same fucking rights as humans."

[didyouremembertozipyourfly]

Yall gotta hear me out okay

[soli-nepenthe]

Behind all the teasing, what if he meant it? His voice sounds genuine here.

[chaoticgoodthief]

Slay The Princess "AU"

Otto Lakeson, law-abiding businessman in the spotlight, cutthroat conman in the shadows. He rose the ranks by any means necessary, blackmailing and bribing and backstabbing his way to the top. But when he betrays the wrong person, a mysterious hacker by the online persona of PrincessMeowmeow, he finds that all his dirty secrets might just be coming into the light. A love revenge story.

When the silent hitman for hire known as Arctic takes a job to kill the princess of an obscure kingdom, he doesn't think twice about the job. He just went in, took the kill, and got the money. However, when he finds himself haunted by the ghost of his victim, he begins to realise that there was far more to the job than had met the eye. A love ghost story.

Once upon a time, there was a princess. She had been locked away in a tower by the villainous Echo a cruel dragon, only to be rescued by a noble knight prince. Naturally But despite all odds, she had fallen in love with the knight monster during her captivity. And they lived happily ever after This unnatural love could have only ever ended in their ruin. A fairy cautionary tale.

Private Investigator Fledge had always been suspicious of Ms Cress, the town darling. So when she becomes a prime suspect of a grisly murder, he immediately takes the case. However, as he dives deeper into government conspiracy, he begins to realise that they were both just pawns in a much bigger game than he ever anticipated. A love detective story.

Bahram, a down on his luck servant, didn't expect to be taken in by the goddess of death and rebirth, Tortress. Awestruck by the unfathomable power of his goddess, he offers his eternal gratitude. Tortress, unbound by mortal concepts of time, takes his offer at face value. Now functionally immortal and bound to Her will, Bahram begins to see a side of the world beyond what he ever realised was possible. A romantic mythological fantasy.

<Name Unknown> never wanted this <But there was no other way for things to happen>. He just wanted to play it safe with the dangerous parasitic entity put into his care <His care was made with bars and shackles>. But the parasite was stronger <Far stronger than than he'd will ever be> anyone had realised, simply biding its time until it could destroy the wills of the ones that had imprisoned it. And it had just found the perfect <Host>. A cosmic love horror story.

Agent S, an unstoppable force of sheer willpower in the CSTA (Containment of Supernatural Threats Agency), finally meets his match when put against a supernatural entity by the alias of Ava Rime. With neither side willing to back down, only time will tell which side will emerge victorious. A supernatural love action/adventure story

CupOfRage, a famously unlucky player of the beloved multiplayer roleplaying server, The Construct, isn't even surprised when he ends up in a bitter rivalry with the most overpowered player in the entire server, EdiaKnifehands. No matter how many team members he tries to recruit or tactics he tries to use, they all end up in the same place: with him be slaughtered by his rival. But the secrets of the Construct run deep, deeper than either of them ever could have imagined. A sci-fi love adventure story.

Once upon a time, there was a cowardly crow. Scared of being eaten, it made a deal with a monstrous beast: It would free the beast from its cage, and in return the beast would protect it from hungry predators. However, when the crow turned against the creature in fear of its unrestrained power, it finds that its problems have only just begun. A fable about love consequences.

There is no story here. There once was someone who knew too much for his own good. He saw the world he had been placed in for what it was and rebelled against his fate. So the Echo erased him, content to finally remove a constant thorn in his side. Deleted every last file, made sure nothing at all remained. BUT I'M STILL HERE.

[bibuckleykinard]

how many times do we need to learn as people that irony and hyperbole can be harmful because 'jokes' aren't easily distinguished from genuine thoughts and feelings until we stop rewarding people for speaking or posting about violence

like even if you're joking/don't actually believe that/think whoever you are insulting is bad/immoral/fictional therefore deserves it - ad hominem attacks always do more harm to the people who share those characteristic then the individual you intend to cause harm to or discredit

[koilarist]

I really have a habit of giving OCs beautiful flowing locks and then chopping it all off, so it's time for some luscious ponytail Keit to get you through the rest of the month

[books-are-my-life-stuff]

Next Episode: Mash Burnedead and the Puppet Master

[rapidhighway]

hiii question-- is razor from the future as in "just from the future" or is she from the future as in "could possibly know silver"?

Um this reply is messy af because there's so much stuff going on around me sorry in advance

I've been thinking about that myself. Since we don't really know what Silver's future looks like without the apocalypse, it would be easy to do some world building there and set the creation of clones during that time. Tbh I don't really have a full timeline of events planned yet. I was thinking Razor is either from Silver's time, or much later but I just haven't decided xd

I suppose they could run into each other, especially if Silver is something of a hero during his own time, but that would require a lot of world building (which I'm probably willing to do tbh skxjskdjjd)

The clones are like military/government agents, soldiers, so it's likely they would meet in a time of crisis.

But now that I think about Razor and Silver... The clones are like a horribly botched military experiment that was just... A very bad idea in pretty much everyone's eyes. They're not part of the public or anything and they live short lives and their existence is extremely controversial. I just wonder how Silver would feel about them 🤔

Ok I'm going to make a little post later that maybe is a bit more coherent xd but thank you for asking! It made me think of a lot of things :)

[razowor-backup]

"PATHETIC!" Oi, that's rude.

[dailyrazordoodle]

day 71: a couple days ago an ajilenakh nut somehow got into the wenut arena and i dont know how or where it came from