#surge talks

[shiftingexpanse]

Pigeon & Sparrow

[nightside101]

I drew my horrible favorite boy again :) view full size for texture. If you want.

[maskofnova]

[nightside101]

Tumblr booted me as I was answering this - tl;dr ignoring the storyline and doing napkin math, she’s over 700 years old

Wizards canonically age differently than we do. According to a forum post staff made, Ambrose is at least 2000 years old (likely older, but 2000 minimum, and it’s a nice round number so I’m using it) and in our terms he’s approximately the equivalent of a 90 year old.

Morganthe’s visual design is heavily based on her voice actor Lilas Lane (they really do look the same) who would have been about 45 years old when Khrysalis came out in 2013. But Lilas Lane has aged very well, and I always saw Morganthe as the equivalent of a 35 year old in Khrys, so for the sake of the conservative estimate I’ll use 35

So if you scale wizards’ ages to ours (I’ll admit this is making a lot of assumptions but we don’t have a lot to go on here), the most conservative estimate you’d get of her age, assuming Ambrose is 2000 years old and the equivalent of 90-100, and that Morganthe is the equivalent of 35, is… 700-780, approximately. This estimate goes up if you believe Ambrose is older (2000 years is how long he’s been studying magic, if he spent an equal amount of time goofing off who am I to judge?), or that Morganthe’s equivalent age is older/closer to Lilas Lane’s.

I always headcanon’d her to be around 500 actually, but “somewhere in her hundreds at least, but realistically not older than 1000” is as close to canon as you’re gonna get

wizard101 people - how old is morganthe?? i am unclear on this because how is it possible that she went to war with celestia centuries prior but also was young while artorious was king? is this a plothole or is there weird time-related fuckery going on that i'm not getting?

[candycatstuffs]

Okay I can definitely see surge X Amy not the greatest ship but it's a good ship don't you think what do you think about it

[krafterwrites]

[napstabl00k]

on my "kit has an oversized shirt that used to be the top half of surge's jumpsuit" bullshit again

[passionartx]

Reminder of a Starline themed BumbleKast Q&A where Ian Flynn as Starline talks about what he would have done with Sonic and Tails bodies after the events of Issue 50: [ Tw! Child Death + Taxidermy ]

Starline is such a genuinely terrifying character (who I miss everyday ahh) and his disregard for children and his willingness to mentally and physically manipulate them for his own evil purposes (especially in the context of this answer) is genuinely chilling. It’s something I think even Eggman would be semi disturbed by which is saying a lot.

The idea of him using Sonic and Tails preserved bodies as trophies and as an example to others is so insanely horrifying, and the “well then I’ll just have to start a gallery won’t I!” in response to the idea of other hero’s trying to rise up against him somehow finds a way to make it extra disturbing. The mental image of Amy, Knuckles and all their other friends seeing what Starline has done to the brothers… to their family 💔

The thought of Surge and Kit having a constant physical reminder of what they’ve done… that while Sonic and Tails may be out the way, the two unwilling doppelgangers will forever be in their shadow, unable to truly fill the roles they were forced into and the bond the brothers had. Them getting everything they thought they wanted, yet still feeling empty inside.

Long story short: Ian Flynn did not need to go this crazy with this answer but gosh am I glad he did.

[zeriq-5]

Daily reminder that they basically lived in Starline's weird morgue

LIKE--

[huellitaa]

the world is yours, literally 💭🎀🧁

so if you've been on this side of tumblr or any girly self improvement etc. side of social media, there's a high chance you've discovered the statement "you are the creator of your own reality" or "the world is yours" or something along those lines at some point. it sounds so far fetched when you first hear it, without any thought going into its true meaning, but the reason this is used so much is because it is true.

we are our lives. you are the world around you. everything in our lives is intrinsically entwined in ways we can't explain and the biggest connection out of all of them is us and life. it sounds obvious and self explanatory, sure, but when you think of it on a deeper level and dig into the complexity of the notion, like most things, you'll find it holds a lot stronger of a stance in your life.

have you ever noticed how so many metaphors for your life and bettering yourself reference and relate to nature and the world? "treat urself like garbage and the flies will come”, “water your own garden before anyone else’s”, “the darker the night, the brighter the stars”, “needing good roots to grow", they all relate to the sun and the sky and the sea and the world and the ground we stand on. they all relate to earth.

have you ever noticed how when people free themselves from bad situations, their reality and their world around them seems to get better too? how it seems to shift along with them?

because we are our world. every building we've built, every concept we've invented, every life we've created and every life we've lost, everything on this earth down to the last blade of grass was once nothing, but once we began to discover and create and flourish and bloom (see, the analogy still stands even there), the world grew along with us, and still is every day.

in truth, the world is in no set way, shape or form. it is not a singular entity. that's why your life can be remade and reshaped so easily within the blink of an eye (but that's for another time) because the world you know is solely your reality. that's the reason everybody has a different perception of you just as you do them, the reason why we have separate interests, conflicting outlooks, the list goes on.

the more we grow, so does our world, and our reality. you've seen how many people have changed and grown and gotten happier and healthier and only kept on going when they finally began to step up and better themselves, how their world changed along with them. because us and the world are one and the same.

the most important thing i'd like you to ask yourself is how do you treat the world? how do you view the world? and how do you treat and view yourself? are there any particular differences? similarities? anything that stands out? what is the world to you?

all my love... 💬🎀🫶🏻💗

[monotone-artist]

[id in alt]

some idw redraws

[shiftingexpanse]

The accent I made for this dragon got approved :D

[nightside101]

People love to shit talk myth but I once saw a myth summon a 0 pip minion and immediately next turn sacrifice it for 400 health for 1 pip. Big brain activity right there.

[slymanner]

Look all I'm saying is if that a shadow game can work THAT well and be so well designed story wise and gameplay wise

HE can work

[softstarryblanket]

umm they're breaking my heart

[citrine-elephant]

leon, but he's really good at hiding his panic attacks. or, uh, he's very good at being not so obvious upon first glance

dissociating saves his ass from being spotted. just full mental shutdown. able to hold down that agonizing buzz in his stomach. his hands still shake, but he's got it down to operate with that. been in hell enough times to need to just suck that up and adapt with it.

if he's not in his body, he's on autopilot.

deer in the headlights look, but it's not like that's out of place on the battlefield. in the office, it's a little weird for him. but he's a weird guy. (hunnigan spots it immediately)

tense? he's always tense. that's normal. normal to a-pose on your enemies.

bonus points if he's actually pretty damn aware and in touch with this quirk about himself. and gets annoyed that he's completely aware, "this is a panic attack, and it will pass. just a fun chemical reaction, mind over matter bullshit" and it doesn't just disappear immediately.