#tags because theyre very relevant

[anachronistic-falsehood]

whiskey you have GOT to stop sanders sides posting bc im getting more andmore tempted 2 watch it (<< SLASH SILLY i love ur liveblogs theyre so fun hehe :])

MAC. MAC. GRABBING U BY THE SHOULDERS AND LOOKING U DEAD IN THE EYE. IF U LIKE PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATES AND STRUGGLES WITH MORALITY AND CATHOLIC GUILT AND RELIGIOUS IMAGERY. YOU WILL LIKE SANDERS SIDES. the first season is very silly lots of fun filler episodes, kinda cringey (lilly singh and butch hartman are guests in a couple episodes) but after the accepting anxiety episodes we get more PLOT and it's soooo so so good. i am putting these guys in pringles cans and shaking them around ALSO THOMAS SANDERS MADE PLAYLISTS FOR EACH OF THE CHARACTERS AND U KNOW I LOVE CHARACTER PLAYLISTS AND ANALYZING SONG CHOICES/LYRICS

[rivalcobalt]

Okay actually yknow what, I'm just gonna do this on here cause I've been agonizing over this for too long

Firstly to prove I'm not insane, and I guess to his credit, the author has mentioned ONS as an inspiration-slash-thing-with-similar-vibes on twitter (archived):

That said, I feel like this really undersells it. Like, you can argue about how much inspiration you can take from a work, and ONS itself takes insane amounts of shit from Devilman, but even still it feels very much like a different story, and not like... the entire first half of the book being largely what you'd get if you just ported the plot of S1 of ONS over into a YA novel with and then altered who the love interest was.

This is long enough already (talking like nearly 4 pages point form on google docs) so I'm just copying it over as is. I only read the book once, so honestly this may have even missed some things. I'd put more effort into this but honestly idk how many people are gonna see this anyways.

Tl;dr no fucking way did you just "watch this while editing"

The Flood || unnamed apocalypse virus

Man-made virus

Kills most of the human population (ons' explicitly kills off 90%, the Flood has killed near 9 billion (earth's population when it was released)/appears to be a comparable rate)

Intentionally caused by Angels cult/Hyakuya Sect + JIDA (revealed in manga/LNs only)

Angels cult || vampires:

Signaturely wear white robes/uniforms + capes

Ons vampires are associated with (fallen) angels

New Nazareth/Sanguinem (city for cult/vampires that protagonist escapes from)

Don't want any more of their kind made (Angels forcing Angel parents to drown their newborns, vampires noted to be generally opposed to making more vampires for unexplained reasons; iirc only progenitors are able to sire and they're supposed to get permission from the vampire council first)

Angels cult || Hyakuya Sect

Religious cult

Doing human (S)eraph experiments

Benji & Theo/Yuu & Mika are children of cult members who use them as test subjects

Causes virus on purpose (manga/LNs only)

Responsible for creating Graces/Horsemen of John (manga/LNs only)

Benji || Yuu:

Only successful version of the (S)eraph experiments

Not fully in control of powers yet/powers emerge over the course of the story

Child of Angels/Hyakuya Sect cult members

Brought to New Nazareth/Sanguinem under the age of 12 and lives there for 4-5 years before escaping

Grow up in New Nazareth/Sanguinem with Theo/Mika during those years

Important family member dies as they try to escape together

Son of cult members

Posesses (S)eraph abilities from being experimented on by cult

Joins ALC/JIDA in their front-line forces after escaping and being found by Nick/Guren

Seraph || seraphs (humans possessing seraph gene and have ability to turn into them)

Aim to wipe out humanity (but this can be controlled by protagonist with effort)

Very powerful

Created via human experimentation on children by the religious cult that caused the virus

Picture of Yuu in complete seraph form in ons tweet from author

Theo || Mika:

Curly/wavy blond hair and blue eyes

Protagonist's childhood best friend

In love with protagonist, debatably reciprocated

Child of Angels/Hyakuya Sect cult members

Grows up in New Nazareth/Sanguinem with protagonist, but didn't escape with them

Wants to get protagonist away from ALC/JIDA and live with them

Seen in whites of the vampires/Angels for the majority of the story

Remains affiliated with the vampires/Angels (Theo sides with Angels & Mika is turned)

Soldier for the Angels/vampires

Protagonist often recalls memories of being in the cult/vampire city together as children

Protagonist thinks of them as someone they'll never see again after escaping (Theo stayed with cult, Yuu thinks Mika is dead)

Mika is revealed to be the son of the first vampire, a fallen angel, meaning he's also an angel (manga only)

Other (S)eraph besides Benji/Yuu, but not a fully functional one (Theo injects himself with a failed version of Seraph, Mika's seraph gene is dormant)

Theo's angry outbursts may be based on Mika's anger (though who they lash out at is very different)

Theo's character differences from Mika are almost all traits commonly found in other characters also influenced by Ryou Asuka (betrays protagonist, parallel to protagonist due to similarities but on opposing sides of conflict) (not sure if author knew about Mika being heavily from Ryou or just subconsciously knew the archetype via consuming other anime/manga/JRPGs/etc or just a really funny coincidence)

Upon escaping New Nazareth/Sanginem, Benji's dad/Mika is killed

Nothing can be done to save them

Bleeding out as Benji/Yuu tries to save them as a specific similar imagery (plus I guess gaping hole wounds specifically mentioned (from being shot in the head/arm thrust through stomach respectively))

Specific memories of looking at a map together to plan their escape

Yuu/Benji is forced to keep running alone to the only way out (only bridge out of Acheson/only tunnel out of Sanguinem)

Cult is using human experiments to create humans with the seraph gene/martyrs to turn into Seraph

(S)eraphs aim to wipe out the rest of humanity

The name. Are you kidding me

Protagonist is the only fully successful experiment

Main character and childhood best friend are children of parents in cult

(In the end) main character and childhood best friend are both (S)eraph experiments

The way the Flood is killing Benji has similarities to Yuu in his incomplete seraph form

Dripping blood and black fluid (Yuu: from wings and left eye, right sclera filled with blood and left eye may have burst upon transforming, Benji: from wounds from Seraph decomposing him)

Spitting up black fluid

at a later incident, Yuu's seraph form is triggered by multiple organs rupturing. Benji's organs are liquefying inside him and coming up in chunks as part of the Seraph transformation

Theo's death after injecting himself with Dominion-12 focusing on his shot-through left eye looking like a black hole is similar to Yuu's left eye blacked out by anime gore censor circle in incomplete seraph form

Same type of post-apocalyptic setting: 

Plants beginning to cover over a wrecked city (only a few years after the virus broke out, so not super heavily overgrown yet)

Skyscrapers and concrete brutalist architecture specifically shown. Downtown core type of stuff

Graces || Horsemen of John

Created by Angels/Hyakuya Sect (result of Flood virus/called by 6th trumpet (seraph) of seraph experiments)

Beasts that kill humans, just to finish killing off the population

Can be called upon/created/controlled by (S)eraphs

Described as both horselike and spiderlike

Ribs protruding out of chest, fangs, mouths in unusual places, and I think wings (not sure about Graces on that one) are common traits

Picture of a Horseman included in author's tweet about ons

ALC || JIDA

Wear all black

Surviving humans outside of New Nazareth/Sanginem

Fight against Angels/vampires

Rescue Benji/Yuu after they escape New Nazareth/Sanguinem

Secretly aim to use Benji/Yuu's (S)eraph abilities for their own gain

The Watch || Shinoa Squad

ALC/JIDA Moon Demon Company front lines squad

Comprised of teenagers

Protagonist joins them after escaping New Nazareth/Sanguinem to fight back against the Angels/vampires

Cormack is debatably based on Kimizuki (red/pink hair, asshole personality, rare bits of kindness show through exterior (when Cormack prioritizes giving Benji his jacket to block smoke while ALC is on fire, but not nearly as nice of a guy under it all as Kimizuki)

Aisha is like… maybe bastardized Mitsuba if you just take her emotional outburst parts, but I might be reaching on that

Nick || Guren 

Leader of ALC & the Watch/Moon Demon Company (strongest section of front-line soldiers in JIDA)

Black hair & eyes (Guren's eyes are dark purple, but could be interpreted as stylized black)

Finds Benji/Yuu after their escape and brings them into their group

Nick is literally just Guren in personality if you age him down a few years and add autism and make him nicer under the exterior. Like even the way he talks and him being mentioned dramatically stomping his leg up on furniture during speeches 

Heading ALC/JIDA's intentions to use Benji/Yuu for their own gain

Dehumanizes protagonist yet also having a bit of affection towards them (more debatable for Guren, but he has some rare moments of being caring towards Yuu in a more older sibling/fatherly way)

Erin || Shinoa

Another leader within the ALC/JIDA (though Erin isn't a soldier/in the Watch)

Sympathetic towards Benji/Yuu, protests against Nick/Guren directly for how they treats them

Pastel pink/purple feminine aesthetic

Wears hair at least partly in braids

Benji & Theo's reunion in Reformation Faith Evangelical Church || Yuu & Mika's reunion on the battlefield in Shinjuku

Reunite at first major battle protagonist participates in, but not their first (iirc both only have one minor fight between joining ALC/JIDA squad and this one)

One approaches other from behind, other only realizes who they are a moment after turning around

On opposite sides as ALC/JIDA vs Angels/vampires

"[Name]? Is that you?"

Benji holds a knife to Theo's throat || Yuu stabs Mika through the chest

Theo/Mika went along to fight specifically to find Benji/Yuu

"Abandon everything and run away with me" || "I came here to follow you. I couldn't let the city take you alone. If it wants you, it has to take me too."

Theo/Mika wants to separate Benji/Yuu from the ALC/JIDA (but Mika has good reason, while Theo wants Benji to come back to the cult)

Forced to separate again at end of fight

Picture of Yuu stabbing Mika from this scene is also on ons tweet from author

In general, first half follows the escape from Sanguinem/New Nazareth leaving behind a dying family member who tried to escape with the protagonist but died to let them get away -> get found by JIDA/The Watch upon escape and rescued by Guren/Nick with the intention of using Yuu/Benji as a weapon against those he escaped from due to his nature as a human experiment -> join JIDA/The Watch, meet other members and the leader Guren/Nick -> do some missions with them -> reunite with previous friend-slash-love interest they had left behind (Mika/Theo) at first major battle as soldiers for opposing sides and are forced to part again progression, which isn't super unique but still very specific, and given everything else... yeah

This is by far not the first time an English work has copied a Japanese work and was praised for originality, but "gay trans YA novel rips off mediocre gay vampire shounen" has to be conceptually the funniest and yet there still seem to be 0 google results about it

[runefells]

rubs my gay lil hands together (Eso au tag)

ok some basic general info. ESO = Elder scrolls online. The game takes place in the same universe as other elder scrolls names such as the very popular TES V: Skyrim. I won't go too in depth in explaining lore unless its relevant since theres way too much

Jon is a half imperial/half redguard member of the Mages Guild who contracts vampirisim on a research mission hes sent on. He doesn't look to get it cured before its too late because of a mix of stubbornness and trauma from the ordeal. He starves and isolates himself for a while before finally deciding to look for a cure, however vampirism isnt exactly easy to cure once you're in the full stages of it. he starts going looking for Elias for help because Elias was researching vampirism when he was still in the Guild. Jon did know of Elias before this and looked up to him quite a lot as a mentor.

Elias is breton Necromancer who got kicked out of the Mages Guild for practicing necromancy. They turned a blind eye to it for a while because he was a very accomplished healer but he resurrected the wrong noble once and that was it. He leaves and settles in Summerset to continue his... research... undisturbed. He studied Restoration magic and practiced as a healer mostly as a way to extend his own life, and when he exhausted that knowledge jumped straight into necromancy to continue his search for immortality.

Eventually Jon tracks him down and begs him for help and Elias eventually agrees when he figures he can use Jon as study material (without Jon's consent ofc). Elias does secretly know a way for Jon to be cured but hides it from him so he can continue using him.

Both of them eventually get mixed up in the Main Questline of eso which involves one of the daedric princes (think... evil gods kinda) trying to merge his own realm, Coldharbor, with the mortal realm, Nirn. Elias gets captured by the cult worshiping him and gets sacrificed and his soul stolen. Jon has to rescue him from Coldharbor and from then on theyre sorta dragged into saving the world? (Elias *very* begrudgingly.)

They get into a lot of other hi jinks on their travels, mostly Jon wanting to help people and having to convince Elias to go out his way and be a good guy for once.

um! thats the general gist and whats going on in the posts me and benny have made so far (other than Elias being horny for Jon's monstery vampire form lol). The au does continue after Elias gets his soul back but this post is already way too long haha

@nureyev-steel-institute @megalunalexi-aesthetic @sm0kebreaks

[marsipain]

Hey I hope this isn't rude but when you reblogged that post about prosthetics, that post was about how more media should have character who Don't use prosthetics since irl they're bulky and most people do t use them except to make the abled people around them feel confortable (:/). But all the characters you tagged it with All use prosthetics besides the last one who has a wheelchair? I get Misako trying them since she had arms b4, but Lloyd was without them. He'd probably be more comfortable without.. even if in the future theyre better than now that doesntmean every disabled person is gonna use them

Hi! Thank you for sending these asks anon! When I reblogged that post with the tags about the cyberpunk AU, I really only used it as an opportunity to list the physically disabled characters, and wasn’t thinking of writing much about the specifics of what contexts each character uses their prosthetics for (for all the ones that use it) and was more noting it down for later, which honestly, is my fault! You’re right, it was very tone deaf of me and very inappropriately placed. I shouldn’t have brought it up on a post specifically about how physically disabled people feel pressured to use prosthetics by abled people and how it’s pushed to be the norm, and at LEAST provided the information on the characters specifically and how it was relevant to physically disabled people using prosthetics and how abled people around them fit into that picture. I did not provide a nuanced description that does the topic justice, so thank you for pointing it out!

I’m going to attempt to write fully into detail about it here, but with that being said, I am (for the most part) an able bodied individual and will not be able to do as well justice to this conversation as it deserves. I have done my fair share of research on the topic and also got @hiddensneker (who is hard of hearing) to read over this for me and give me a few pointers, but it is still nowhere near the experience and knowledge of all physically disabled people, so if you’re a physically disabled person reading this I would love if you corrected and criticized me on whatever I get wrong and add anything to the conversation you feel is important !

I want to start off by pointing out with that, yes since this is a sci-fi esque setting the technology is much more advanced, and stuff like prosthetic limbs are able to be connected directly to the brain through artificial neurons in the prosthetic limb and to the rest of the nervous system. Like you pointed out however; not all people with missing limbs use prosthetics and that STILL very much applies to this universe regardless of its cyberpunk setting and does show in a couple of the characters in this AU, as I’ve attempted to write a range of different physically disabled characters with different relationships to their prosthetics and/or their lack thereof.

I will be going into depth on all of the characters mentioned in the tags of the post and their relationship to their physical disability and/or their prosthetics separately, and then put some final thoughts and reasonings at the end!

First off Misako! Misako lost both arms (right under the elbow for the right arm and above the elbow for the left arm) in a racing accident in her early 20s. For context (because I haven’t spoken much about her publicly yet besides briefly mentioning her here and there) in this AU Misako does professional racing using the alias Lady Iron Dragon, and is considered one of the most skilled racers to ever live (if not the best) and a legend. She had already significantly built her reputation by her early 20s, so the accident really took a hit on her mentally; racing was her passion, would she still be able to race without her arms? She DID eventually recover, for a while she practiced using temporary prosthetics for racing, but after an eventual full recovery a couple years later and permission from her doctors, she got permanent prosthetic arms installed. This was because she’d lived all her life with both arms already and so she feels more comfortable living with them full time. With how advanced the technology is in this universe, it was always clear to her that this was what she wanted, but I want to acknowledge that if this wasn’t set in such a technologically advanced universe, she would not (and probably could not as flawlessly as I described here) install permanent prosthetic arms.

Now for Lloyd! In this au, Misako gave birth to lloyd in her early 30s, which is around 10 years after she herself lost her arms in the racing accident. He was born without his right arm (right below the shoulder and down.) When growing up, Lloyd was mostly kept away (but not forced away) from prosthetics, mainly because both Misako and Garmadon did not want him to think that he needed them to properly function in society (because he doesn’t) (and also that they would love him regardless.) When he grew a bit older he started becoming more and more interested in certain hobbies, starting with ring fighting (but mostly just training with his dad) which he had a prosthetic arm specifically designed for and later racing, which he also got an arm specifically designed for. When he grew a little older he developed a love for music (especially electric guitar and keyboard) and got a prosthetic designed for that! Outside of that he doesn’t use prosthetics very much (if at all.)

Now for Pixal. Pixal was born with a rare heart disease that there were no known cures for. Her father (Cyrus Borg) was distraught and desperate; none of the doctors knew what to do, no medical professional had any idea of how to help his daughter. With nowhere else to turn, he took on the task of helping his daughter himself using cyborg technology (his profession) together with his coworkers (?) He was eventually successful in helping her, and although it doesn’t show much on the outside (unlike her father) she is a cyborg! The purple markings on her face and arms (and perhaps other parts of her body) are simply aesthetic choices; glowing tattoos, if you will (there are a couple other characters with this that aren’t cyborgs, for example Skylor and Cole, as well as any Anacondrai Ring member who have a glowing snake tattoo on their back.) As you can see, while Pixal does not have any prosthetic limbs per se, she does have prosthetic parts inside her. This is not the same as Misako, Echo/Mr. E, Kataru and Lloyd’s situations however, because she cannot live without it.

Zane’s situation is similar but not identical to Pixal’s. He was discovered by his (later adoptive father) Dr. Julien as a young child in critical condition; barely able to move his body due severe chronic pains. This happened due to not having the resources as a homeless person to get treatment for his chronic pains (that were caused by injuries sustained living in the shadier parts of ninjaglow.) Dr Julien helped him by taking him home and altering parts of his body using prosthetics, completely getting rid of his chronic pains (at least for a while, he may have needed updated parts when he got older due to his body growing but his prosthetics not growing, as well as additional fixes and updates from now and then.) As you can see, it was not a choice to get the prosthetic parts; for he would have to either live every day in pain and unable to do basic tasks (for his chronic pain does not have a known medical cure outside of cyborg technology) or simply die due to how extreme his chronic pains had become. I also feel that it is important to note that Zane completely consented to becoming a cyborg, and that he and Dr. Julien had several in-depth conversations about it. (PS. No his face is not a screen built into his face, that is a mask.)

Echo/Mr. E is quite similar to Zane’s story. Dr. Julien found him abandoned in an empty alleyway (age 6-7) with a large slash on his throat. I’m not going to get too carried away with the specifics of his story (mostly because I have content planned around it) but just know that the injury was caused by another person and was not an accident. Dr. Julien took him in (this was a few years after he adopted Zane) and discovered that the slash had severely damaged Echo’s vocal cords, and that he was rendered mute. Echo begged Dr. Julien to help him, to find him a way to speak again because he loved speaking, he loved being vocal and it was a big part of him! Dr. Julien caved and started working on a device for him, and after many years of hard work he finally managed to create a voice box that Echo could strap to his throat that would make him able to speak (he was around 11-13 at this time.) Through the years of not having a voice, Echo used sign language with Zane and Dr. Julien (and everyone for that matter), and discovered that there were other ways to express himself without having a voice (facial expressions, body language, signing etc) and that he would be able to live a fulfilling life whether he ever got the voice box or not. He also continued to use ASL (or NSL? Ninjargon sign language? lmao idk) to communicate even after getting the voice box, and remained even more bodily expressive as a result of his time completely without his voice. It is important to note that this voice box is not a prosthetic (since it isn’t an artificial body part) but an assistive device (proving similar use as a hearing aid for example.) But was still mentioned because being mute (from any cause that isn’t self-afflicted regulation) is a physical disability.

Last but not least we have Kataru. Same as Echo I have yet to talk much about their story before meeting Zane, and that’s because I do have plans to make content surrounding it! So I wont be going into what happened before they met (and were adopted by) Zane. Kataru and Akita were homeless and barely scraping by. Kataru has lumbar spinal stenosis (which is basically a narrowing of the spinal canal, compressing the nerves traveling through the lower back into the legs), and due to being on the streets without treatment for [insert time between 1-2 years] it drastically increased in severity, causing complete paralysis of his legs. Because of this Akita had to act as their provider. They were barely scraping by with what they had, and without any money to treat Kataru’s LSS, things were looking bleak. Eventually they were adopted by Zane after meeting through [redacted], and were then able to treat his LSS. IRL there is no cure for LSS, only treatments, but in this universe you get it cured using mechanical parts (aka becoming a cyborg,) but Kataru chose to not do this, 1. because he doesn’t really mind using a wheelchair as transportation and 2. He doesn’t really fancy becoming a cyborg at all. He’s just fine the way he is (kind of like the star trek character you mentioned in the second ask!)

This AU is very important to me, and it’s also important to me that the characters and concepts I choose to include in it are done well and done justice. I’ve read articles about cyberpunk 2077 (reminder that this au isn’t directly connected to this game, I’m just bringing it up because its very relevant to this topic) and how it handles cyborgs and artificial body parts. I want to make sure that this AU does not follow the same mistakes as cyberpunk 2077 (and its predecessors in the genre) as a fellow cyberpunk themed universe.

Director of cyberpunk 2077, Adam Badowski, made this statement during E3:

“This is cyberpunk, so people augment their body. So the body is no longer sacrum [sacred]; it’s profanum [profane]. Because people modify everything, they are losing their connection to the body, to the meat,”.

In the wonderful and insightful article “Disabled Representation in Video Games and the Cyberpunk 2077 Problem” written by Elizabeth Rogers, she replies to this statement with

“And this is what insults me, as a disabled individual: the implication that we are less than human, that the relationship to our bodies is now profane, because it contains artificial parts. For many of us, the choice to include said plastic and metal bits and bobs is not really a choice at all. PICC lines and portacaths, insulin pumps and feeding tubes. You could argue that choosing to get an artificial arm or leg is a choice, but for many, it’s between not being able to walk and regaining movement and freedom. These are devices that allow us to achieve a degree of normalcy, one that we couldn’t before their implementation.”

This is what I’m trying to do in the Ninjago Cyberpunk AU. I’m attempting to show that these augmentations to the character’s body’s are directly done so that they can live out their lives to the same extent as an abled individual; to follow their passion, to persue their hobbies. And yes, it’s also partially to explore how a more technologically advanced universe would look like, but not for the spectacle like cyberpunk 2077, but to truly show how much it could help people physically disabled people, and to show the nuance in how people would or wouldn’t use that technology to express themselves without directly romanticizing the concept. The body is not profane because one adds “non flesh” to it, and it does not make it less sacred to do so either. While I understand that often in the cyberpunk genre it simply explores how humans in general would implement cyborg technology into their bodies and how that would affect society as we know it, in the Ninjago Cyberpunk AU I am specifically using it to explore how it’s an opportunity for a normal everyday life for physically disabled people, not only through a more advanced technological standpoint, but also in a society more accepting and respecting of the physically disabled people themselves. (And I hope to be able to casually implement that into content I will create surrounding this AU in the future.)

These are all important details I definitively should have mentioned in the tags of where I originally brought all of this up (or better so, made its own post about it in the first place) and it was never my intention to make it sound like I was completely disregarding the contents of the post in which I added the tags in. It was an unfortunate and unintentional misstatement, and I see now how easy it is to interpret the tags of the post as directly offensive. I was never aiming to make it come across that way; I never considered how bad it would look without all the information I held about the characters and their individual relationships to the prosthetics they use, (and while this isn’t an excuse) I was just excited to share with you all these sides of the characters that I had yet to mention, but failed to notice how bad it truly sounded without knowing the full context I guess? I hope that makes sense. I’m trying to create a narrative with multiple physically disabled characters, all ending up with a range of different stories and different connections to their prosthetics or their lack of thereof. It’s now very clear to me that when you read out the list of characters that I tagged in that post, it comes out looking like the complete opposite of that, and that’s completely my fault.

I hope I managed to explain it well enough anon! If you still have criticism, feel free to send in another ask (as many as you wish for that matter) and that also goes for any physically disabled person who has thoughts on this!

[paperbooart]

i LOVED hearing your thoughts about togiri!! i love all the thought you put into thinking about how they would interact after the 5th trial bc, while it makes sense for the pov to be from makoto's, its a shame we missed out on byakuya and kyokos potential interactions. if i may add i think a nice detail would be for kyoko to take off her glove and extend a hand to byakuya, silently asking for his trust while exposing herself. byakuya obviously recognizes this as big feat and is the main reason why he comes around to her. i also think it would be cool if they had a more explcit rivalry/competitiveness with each other. theyre so similar to a point where they even have the same flaws, and i can imagine it would be pretty annoying to see how ugly your flaws really are when you see them on someone else. sorry if this was a lot but i just love what you wrote ! :3

oh my god imagine if we actually got a temporary pov switch to kyoko like the temporary nagito pov in dr2 PLEASE that’d be so cool 

you understand… you understand. i flip my shit for kyoko taking off her gloves at significant moments (the one moment in dr3 that immediately made me glad i watched it)

HAVE TO READMORE AGAIN BECAUSE I'M INSANE

i was also thinking it’d be funny if the way kyoko approaches byakuya post-trial is she just busts into his room using the master key because i don’t remember if he ever learned that her having that key was the lie makoto ignored, but that would be a funny way for him to find out, like HOW did you get in here ma’am 

YES I WANT SO MUCH MORE OF THEM AS RIVALS getting in each others way because they think of things at the same time, when they’re talking to makoto he’s like ‘haha byakuya said exactly the same thing’ and kyoko’s like what the hell. get him out of my brain. and vice versa like remember when byakuya was like ‘a dead body is just an object’ and kyoko’s like ‘he’s out of line but he’s right’ i bet she’s just like a little grossed out that she doesn’t feel much different than him. he’s just louder about it. 

i feel like all we really got of them as ‘rivals’ was byakuya making weird demands and kyoko very mysteriously accepting them. like him taking her key. from a personal pride standpoint that is a wild thing to agree to. or in chapter 4 when he straight up was like ‘youre annoying. you guard the body.’ LIKE GIRL WHY ARE YOU NOT THROWING HANDS. i bet even byakuya is unsettled by her total non-reaction to everything he says to her. 

nabbing this tag from my post because it is relevant thank you clown-chaoticz

like byakuya wants them to be cool rivals so bad but kyoko is far too calm and collected and he is an angry little man. any time he thinks he’s won an interaction with her, like when he calls her out in front of everyone and demands she explain herself or hand over her room key, she pulls some weird shit and is not even the slightest bit ruffled. 

i’m so glad you enjoyed what i wrote btw yall are enabling my madness AHDJGH i literally have a word doc i add to almost daily, of just scattered thoughts about danganronpa, so any opportunity i get to spill them (if it’s a topic i have already thought about, like anything to do with naegirigami for example) i’m like OH BOY 

[ashthemadwriter-archived]

ok, ok, I'm back. I don't find that mbti type relevant enough and I despise tags, maybe because I have multiple personalities 🤣 instead, I will give you a quick description. Oh, and I choose Haikyuu as the fandom.

Adult girl, short, brunette, skinny with a big ass👀 I am very understanding and kind until someone really steps on my nerves. I have quite enough patience, however I multitask a lot and freak out when some things don't go according to plan.

I'm bi, if it matters, dom with women but totally sub with men (tbh, just my bf, but you get the point).

As of interests, I am a writer (started off with porn, but now I write mostly angst). I am also a photographer. I like to read, swim, watch series and well.. write. I do that way too much, never enough.

I like all animals besides birds 🙃 but my favourites are dogs and horses. I tolerate spicy food, but don't expect me not to cry while eating it. Oh, and speaking of crying, I cry SO EASILY when something touches me (be it a positive or a negative thing.)

If there's anything you need to ask, go ahead and dm me 😌

Fandom: Haikyuu

Format: Headcanons

Warnings: Nsfw content cuz you're VIP

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A/n: tysm bestie :D Here you go

I match you with...

Hajime Iwaizumi!

Ok tbh I always imagine Iwaizumi every time you talk about your boyfriend lol idkw

Oof I see a relationship between two understanding people. Iwaizumi has a HIGH common sense, and he has a high tolerance too, despite what people think of him.

:readmore:

He's not one to freak out (thankfully lol) so he would be there to calm you down by talking to you or helping you with your tasks. In the end you feel relieved cause the results are far better than expected, due to the help of your supportive boyfriend.

Lmao you a sub with men? That's nice cause I definitely see him as a top and let me tell you, he's a pro in bed🚶🏻‍♀️takes care of you like no one has ever had, and might be a little mean but it's just a teeny tiny bit and ngl it turns you on but you didn't hear this from me lol🚶🏻‍♀️

YEAH so overalls, a really fine man in bed :D I see him as the type of guy who would want to make his s/o faint from pleasure. He loves the expression you make when he drives you crazy with his cock so I contact is a must for him, which is why I think missionary is his fav position cause he gets to hit that sweet spot inside you and watch you roll your eyes back as you moan his name.

Did I mention that he's supportive? Like, A LOT. Would encourage you to do anything you want to as long as it's not harmful lmao. If it's kinda dangerous and you still insist on doing it then he's coming along, you cannot stop him.

MAN HAS THE MANLIEST VOICE EVER. Imagine him reading one of your favorite books before going to bed. He would have your head on his chest, holding the book with one hand and caressing your cheeks with the other one. If you're in for it then his hand might go to other places too🚶🏻‍♀️But it's rare cuz he just loves how you stick it to him and he gets to watch you drift to dreamland. He will slowly plant a kiss on your forehead, adoring how pretty you look when you're asleep.

He would always how his arm on your waist when you're out in public cuz mf is POSESSIVE as hell but is really good at hiding it. If anyone dares to flirt with you, he will give them a death stare and also a peace of his mind if they don't stop.

Treats his s/o like a princess. Anyone will forget about their problems once theyre out with him, and you are no exception. Would hold you and comfort you when your crying and will remain quiet, if you need him to be.

So yeah he's a gentle man, so you better not lose him🚶🏻‍♀️

Tysm for participating biscuit, and I hope you like this! :D

[my-lunaberg]

Throughout this entire Tubbo Joins Las Nevadas vod there was just this alarm going off in the back of my brain going "QUACKITY DREAM PARRALLELS QUACKITY DREAM PARALLELS QUA" and I initially just dismissed it because, Quackity seeming pretty manipulative in that conversation and Dream being confirmed pretty manipulative doesnt mean theres some kind of parallel there, yknow. However, then i thought about it a bit more and yes, yes there are parallels

Before we start though, if any part of this seems like weird disconnected rambling to you, please do me a favor and go on my blog and go through my c!Dream and c!Quackity tags. The thing about all of my analysis posts is they kinda build off eachother and the thing about me is that I hate repeating myself so I just end up scantily referencing some other posts of mine, probably leaving the people who arent caught up on the seven analyses from a blog with like 20 followers confused. So yeah, heres that disclaimer

Tldr: Dream doesnt care about politics at all, Quackity cares very much. Dream wants to be The Leader in a very wishy-washy Confident Guy Whose House Everyone Hangs Out Is The Proxy-Leader Of This Friend Group-way, Quackity wants to be The Leader of a nation (ie. President). Dream cares about the individuals and sees governments and political movements as a means to the end of manipulating other people, Quackity cares about the governments and political movements and sees individuals as a means to the end of manipulating the politics of the server. Thats all the important stuff I think

Now, i this post Id like to talk about the ways in which they are manipulative. In one sentence, Dream largely relies on negativity while Quackity largely relies on positivity. Obviously Im specifiying largely bc you cant just rely on the same few tricks when youre trying to manipulate a bunch of people, you gatta be versatile and you gotta be opportunistic otherwise you cant do shit. The way Dream gets others to do what he wants is either through threatening them (notable examples are Quackity, Eret and Wilbur during the Lmanberg war) or through systemically breaking them down until they do what he wants, like he tried with Tommy (I say tried because he wasnt successful, like at all). Quackity meanwhile focuses a lot more on positive reinforcement, trying to make himself as well as his country look as good as possible and complementing those 'beneath' him when they do what he asks correctly, while not lingering on their mistakes or flaws, whereas Dream would use those to further beat them down.

I think the reasons they choose to do it like that are pretty complex, for the sake of this analysis I'll just focus on one of them: Dream lost a lot of his goodwill with the majority of the (active) server members fairly early on and he tries to turn that into an advantage by just 'leaning into it' so to speak. Quackity also lost a lot of his goodwill with the server when he joined Schlatt, however, he has since done his best to regain it, pretty sucessfully. I think he did it deliberately, both because he does care a lot about other peoples approval and, more relevently for Las Nevadas, because he realized that it doesnt matter how you gain power, if the people dont like their leader, theyre just going to get rid of them. Another thing to keep in mind is their difference in resources and combat ability. Before Dream was locked in jail he was practically untouchable because you couldnt fight him because if you tried, he was guaranteed to kill you because his armor was too strong and he was too good of a fighter. He could get away with pretty much anything because you cant refute a sword to your throat. Quackity doesnt have that, hell, he barely wears armor most of the time. Because he already knows hes not going to beat a lot of people in a physical fight, he instead makes himself seem vulnerable in order to lower peoples guards and make himself appear more trustworthy. Dream also definitely tried to do something similar when Tommy visited him on his first day, where he tried to seem pathetic and pitiable, now that he couldnt be threatening anymore.

Anyway, thats it. I feel like thats a weird note to end it on but my brains all out of juice again so

[circular-bircular]

yo wair what?? whats wrong with sophieinwonderland?? i mean i get like weird weird vibes from them but im usually just paranoid about these things i didn't know they were actually bad help

(feel free not to answer)

(btw im a singlet so like. i dont know much about plurality blogs i just kinda look at your posts cause theyre funky /lh /pos)

(Note: I believe SophieinWonderland uses she/her pronouns exclusively, so I'll be using those.)

This'll probably be one of the only ones of these I'll answer, and only because it became relevant again tonight. Sophie is always very polite, very kind, and does spread good information about Endogenic Plurality. She's actually said things I often agree with in the past.

She also:

Frequently ignores or speaks over the voices of those with DID/OSDD

Argues that DID/OSDD is not a trauma-based disorder and can form without trauma (which is something that those with DID/OSDD have had to fight against for years)

Has time and time again ignored the voices of both people of color and systems of color

Believes breaking boundaries (posting endogenic content in anti-endo tags despite those tags being used by those who are triggered by endogenic content, interacting with people who have endos DNI, etc) is absolutely fine, because "turnabout is fair play."

Believes that breaking those boundaries is the same thing as "enforcing" her boundaries.

Calls Anti-Endos a hate group (which is ignorant at best, and actively harmful at worse)

Agrees with TransID (Trans-Age, Trans-Abled, Trans-Race) individuals.

Minces words and twists them to avoid actual debate (such as derailing a post about how DID is trauma-based by focusing on the word "adversity" for over half the post and saying how it's not a good choice of words)

And, while there's more, I think one of the big things (syscourse wise, the racism has always been bad and I should've blocked ages ago) is the extremely heavy focus on diagnostic criteria. This is actually something I'm noticing more and more from the endogenic community. There's a heavy reliance on the DSM by many pro/endos to define DID/OSDD.

Most anti-endos I see acknowledge that the DSM is a horrible book, flawed in many ways, and needing improvement. It is a guide, not a cookbook - you can't use it as a checklist for "is this person a system or not." I do not fit the "textbook DID" that we see in most systems (I have "created" alters, I have near-perfect communication, I can control switches and have always been able to to some degree, etc etc) however I am still diagnosed, and anti-endos accept me because I am open about my experiences. Meanwhile, I get ran out of pro-endo spaces for these things, because "you can't be traumagenic if you experience that."

So seeing such a heavy focus from such a major pro/endo individual in syscourse on the DSM is... confusing and frustrating, to say the least.

Hope that helps, Anon!

[windypuddle]

I posted 5,413 times in 2022

That's 5,365 more posts than 2021!

152 posts created (3%)

5,261 posts reblogged (97%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@lowestechelonabomination

@spixi

@seishun-emergency

@ryusei-blue

@just-a-lonelypenguin

I tagged 929 of my posts in 2022

#enstars - 126 posts

#puddle talks - 44 posts

#fletcher's archive of useful stuff - 36 posts

#kaoru hakaze - 32 posts

#bungou stray dogs - 32 posts

#ensemble stars - 24 posts

#star trek - 24 posts

#rinne amagi - 15 posts

#shu itsuki - 15 posts

#rei sakuma - 14 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#but currently? the contender for making the next sweater vest is this neon orange yarn i have three skeins of. and i think that would be :)

My Top Posts in 2022:

(this is a long section so i cut it off but its: 5. enstars bsd au part 1, 4. kuroshu from the valkatsuki mv, 3. dramatica autism post, 2. incomprehensible screaming about favorite characters, and 1. the ryuseitai post)

#5

Ensemble Stars!! > Bungou Stray Dogs

For clarification: this AU is about Enstars characters as if they were in the BSD universe. it is not the other way around. it is not a crossover.

this au did not start with the Agency. but the very Second thought I had about it was:

wouldn’t Rinne Amagi be a great Dazai?

and I was so, so, right.

[Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5]

here’s part 1 of 5 of my mediocre, slightly inaccurate, horribly blurry diagrams. (in my defense i got the enstars icons from one of the appellations pages)

Madara founded the agency after finding Leo (somehow) and it grew from there. (think origins of the detective agency)

Leo is a prodigy detective but it’s like a hit-or-miss whether he’ll help on regular cases which is why the agency is A Whole Thing

Kanata and Madara were childhood friends like in canon, including the cult thing. Kanata’s ability has the healing element of Thou Shalt Not Die, but instead of the catch being that the victim had to be half-dead, kanata either has to use water to heal them, or consume some of their blood. (slight reference to stuff from meteor impact because i think it fits thematically with the bsd setting)

kanata and madara lost touch with the beginning of the great war (same war as in bsd canon) but eventually reconnected and kanata joined the agency

ok. heres one of the reasons i called this slightly inaccurate. yall need to know that when i make aus its never exactly 1:1 with the characters. example in question: ritsumao. just think... their normal dynamic in enstars canon, but they join the agency instead of becoming idols. ritsu uses light snow to pretend he’s working and mao always slaps him to dispel the illusion

trickstar are just  there. theyre like the background workers of the agency

anzu is haruno because shes  potentially plot relevant (do not ask me who natsume-sensei/mii-chan is i do not fucking know. probably the godfather)

HiMERU honestly fits the Normal Guy (actually has problems). that’s part of why he’s kunikida. the other part of why is rinne.

Rinne is ex-mafia because he’s dazai here and im not making a completely new plot, thats why its a bsd au and not something totally different. He uses mafia money to gamble and everyone is all like Where Does He Get The Money??? he spends half his work hours annoying HiMERU and the other half annoying Niki.

Sora is just some kid. he introduces Leo to video games and everyone watches with trepidation (it actually makes Leo more productive)

Kohaku... is sort of ex-mafia. His family operates a highly successful business in killing people. Kohaku has never killed anyone. In the interests of the mafia, they send him to assassinate Madara. he gets offered a job instead.

Tsukasa goes after Kohaku to get him to return and ends up... also getting a job.

And Cafe Cinnamon:

Niki just works here. He doesn’t get paid to deal with all this shit. (he does get free total access to the kitchen at all times.)

Aira joins later (more on that in part 3). He helps Niki out around the cafe and ends up entangled in the agency’s problems way more often than he would like.

29 notes - Posted November 15, 2022

#4

See the full post

30 notes - Posted October 23, 2022

#3

wow guys i cant believe approximately 2/3 of DRAMATICA is autistic... really says something about theatre people

31 notes - Posted September 18, 2022

#2

me talking about my favorite characters to the average person: oh i really like their design. and they’re funny. i like the narrative themes.

my actual thoughts about them:   auayuyarytardtagdhurifhigjrkslgjdlkjhdfjkjhasdGATUIYURFHUHURHUDDFGKLSHGJDFHJGCKEMDEKOEKDOEKDOA;DKKSLMKJDSPOAOIOAOAAOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa) hahahahahaha their interactions (sobbing) (hwkjgrwdwrgffgwrfwg)

34 notes - Posted December 4, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

RYUSEITAI! RYUSEITAI M AND MORE IMPORTANTLY RYUSEITAI N!!! RYUSEITAI!!! RYUSEITAI RYUSEITAI

RYUSEITAI N ARE GOOD AND ALL HUG EACH OTHER

SHINOBU IS SO IMPORTANT AND LIKES FROGS

MIDORI IS SO IMPORTANT AND DESERVES THE WORLD

TETORA IS WINNING AT GENDER

THEY HAVE CUDDLE PILES SOMETIMES

RYUSEITAI M IS JUST CHIAKANA BUT THATS OKAY!!! CHIAKI IS THE SUN AND HE CARES ABOUT KANATA AND KANATA IS  THE OCEAN AND CHIAKI IS HIS CONNECTION TO HUMANITY AND I THINK THAT IS BEAUTIFUL

I LOVE RYUSEITAI!!!!!!!

39 notes - Posted October 29, 2022

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[cursezone]

richternette and lisadracula

ill do richternette here and then lisadrac next : )

when I started shipping it if I did:

Well, Right Away. yknow

my thoughts:

they literally deserve so much relevance but they get NONNNNEEEEEEE relatively speaking. especially from the fandom, and i know it was probably konamis intention for her to just be a damsel in distress but they should've thought about that before they made her badass and strong while also giving richter a major flaw which leads to sotn. i feel like things dont just stop happening in between the events of the games, theyre supposed to lead into each other so why WOULDNT annette be instrumental to richters motivations in sotn

What makes me happy about them:

THE LONGING. listen i know there is not much in the games but i dont think the events of the games really outline their whole relationship at all. i think the interaction between drac and richter that's like "do you not have any desires?" "well.." there is so much potential for richter to feel guilty about their love because of the church, like what does it REALLY mean that "richter is ruled by the church", there's the belmont legacy but i think the gayness with annette is a compelling way to express WHY the belmont legacy is bad, annette is part of the Self that richter is being forced to repress in favor of Belmontism

What makes me sad about them:

THE SEPARATION. i dont see richter as having just Left in the middle of the night without telling anyone.. i think it was an incident with richter and the church that was kind of building over time.. after rondo when richter is able to see the churches power over her with annettes help, richter stops being able to tolerate it the same way. 4 years later the church becomes suspicious of their closeness, the church wants to persecute richter and once they gather evidence they confront richter, and hell breaks loose, richter loses control instead of complying to them and is Forced to run and escape the persecution.. i dont think annette was just There while richter was like "ehh not feeling this *runs away*"

things done in fanfic that annoys me:

i havent read any but when i checked the tags i sure saw a lot of fucking p*rn so that's annoying as hell but i also hate where annette is completely separated from richter possession or like isn't aware of anything surrounding it and doesn't understand why richter left.. but that part i understand is mostly just because of the vast importance i decided annette Should have LOL. (I'm right tho)

things I look for in fanfic:

i would look for... hurt/comfort in the form of annette helping richter process the trauma of belmont legacy and monster hunting, richter helping annette process her trauma as well, but i think annette is really the REASON that richter was able to see past the churches control and decide to be her own person

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:

unfathomable. but annette and iris are best friends who kiss and i do believe in alurichter

My happily ever after for them:

OUGH years after sotn while alucard maria and richter are in hiding developing their narratives, once theyre finally are able to reunite with annette juste maxim and lydie, richternette hold hands once more and eventually alucard holds her hand too. alurichternette is endgame and they live happily ever after in the village.

who is the big spoon/little spoon:

annette tucked into richters arms is a nightly ritual. although i think richter enjoys little spoon very much too, especially when being comforted richter loves Annettes Strong Arms

what is their favorite non-sexual activity:

training together!!! after rondo richter teaches maria and annette martial arts and annette very much enjoys it. i think she also enjoys doing work with richter like farming or caring for livestock, i think they love being AROUND each other doing literally anything, but they work and train together very well

[flagellant]

You responded to that ask seeking a native to ask, so I hope this isn't out of line- how do dreamcatchers work? I know I read that they're meant to be replaced after a time, but I don't really know where to begin looking for more information, and frankly they've fascinated me since I was a kid and I stumbled across one at a yard sale.

It's not out of line at all.

So, just so you're aware: not all native americans have dreamcatchers. I'm Tachi Yokuts, and we don't have them--theyre pretty indigenous (pardon the pun) to Plains Natives.

I'll explain as to the best of my knowledge, if any of my followers sees this and has a bit more knowledge feel free to tag in and correct any misconceptions.

ELI5:

-Dreamcatchers work by catching nightmares in the single bead in the center when hung over the bed. It gets stuck and burns away at the light of morning*

*second bit might be inaccurate/White People:tm: folklore

-They're meant for little kids and growing up almost like training wheels for sleep. It's a sorta monster be gone, or a metaphysical nightlight. You get rid of it when you don't need its protection anymore because they're just dreams, kinda like a coming of age.

-This is very contested, so this is triply so "if anyone is a higher authority than 'Native but not a relevant one' like I am PLEASE tap in if I'm wrong or right in this understanding, but afaik non-Natives using/purchasing dreamcatchers from actual Natives is perfectly fine. YMMV here, this is what I'm most unsure of, but in a vacuum situation I'd say this is probably acceptable just as long as its sourced from someone who knows what they're doing when they make it.

[vividaway]

It's obviously your choice what you publish on your blog, but I would advise you to not answer the pro-amber anons. They want to be visible in the pro-johnny tags, since most people will simply block any person they see in the tags who are this delusional and unreasonable. They won't block you however, since you're defending johnny. So they use this discourse with you to put their manipulative opinions and 'proof' out there since they can't reach the pro-johnny people on their own. Don't give them the platform they so desperately crave.

normally, i would have to agree. there are a lot of asks i HAVENT been answering, because they ARENT relevant. the side of tumblr i'm on doesnt have a lot of pro-johnny (or, for the matter, pro-am-b-er) posts, and i WANT to make sure people know about this trial. theres SO much information, and i feel that these anons work as a good way to show a "General consensus" on each of our opinions.

the ask shows "side A generally believes this" while "side B generally believes this", and it gives a good starting ground to not only get people to WATCH the trial whom havent yet, but to be educated if they CANT due to any other reasons. i'm trying to be careful in which hateful anons i'm giving a reply to, and which i'm not. i think its very important to address some of the issues and claims they make, because some of them CAN BE logical assumptions to jump to if you havent seen all of the information.

i'm just hoping i can provide a little to my side of tumblr, but i promise i will make sure to watch the language theyre using. i DONT want to give them a platform, but i do want to give a platform to the information their ask spurs. i really hope this makes sense

[cutekittenlady]

Cutekittenlady's Hamefura Ship Chart

Blanked out the characters I'm not quite as familiar with since they show up in some light novels I still haven't gotten around to reading.

Made using the template @sapphireshineauthor made over on her blog! You can find it HERE

Lol the lines get pretty confusing so here are the images broken down by color with small explanations.

First and easiest to go over is probably my limited selections of OTPs which largely consists of GeoKata and AlaMary along with Nicol/Fray, Ian/Selena, and Geoffrey/Suzanna. The first three are all ships I think are quite cute (Nicol and Fray only got one episode together but wow was it a damn good episode) and the last two are, lets be frank, outright canon or otherwise set to sail any day now. (Feel free to argue with me on the Geoffrey/Suzanna boat but, cmon, theyre just too good for each other)

sNext up is "Likes" since its next down the list so might as well keep up the chronological order. I chose to view "likes" as any ship I'd probably enjoy reading fanfic or seeing fanart of, but I'm not super compelled on. Like, the stuff that if I cam across it in the tag on tumblr or AO3 I'd probably check out but not actively seek out most of the time.

You'll likely notice a distinct lack of yuri on this train, and sadly, I think the yuri train for this series just passed me by. I think the girls feelings for Kat are very sweet and the series handles it decently well for the most part (yes even the light novel though folks seem inclined to feel otherwise), but they just don't personally compel me like some of the others do.

What you *will* notice on the other hand are plenty of m/m ships on here. And I will make no explanations or excuses for the very clear double standard between the m/m and w/w rep on my ship chart.

Look its not my fault they filled the series with pretty boys with problems who I wouldn't mind seeing hold hands or mac out, aight?

And finally the big one;

Can you tell I prefer Gen Fic yet? lol

I actually had to cut down this selection quite a bit because Katarina is a friend making MACHINE. So I ended up trying to think who her bff/unofficial siblings were. Mind, I see her and Alan's relationship as pretty sibling like too, but by the time I was done with this mess the whole thing was getting pretty sloppy XD

So I tried to include only the ones that I thought might not be obvious/relevant.

So, yeah, that's my ship chart. I haven't deep dived into WHY I ship/don't ship certain characters together, but if you ever get intensely curious then feel free to shoot me an ask! I can't promise I'll jump on it right away, but I'll make an attempt to gush about the stuff I like.

Thank you, and good night!

[flower-zombie-rob]

Yo! I got a lot of new followers since i last posted my oc related stuff, so lets introduce you shall we?

OC MASTERPOST

(Last updated 20th April 2021)

This is walter melon

Hes a hot-headed mess of a phsycopath boy, but we love him anyway. He loves a knife and likes even more to throw them at targets. Hes a little bit of a weirdo so he isnt good with people and is actively agressive to his brother stanlee in a tsundere fashion, loving him deep down, but despising him for existing. He has a very soft spot for his sweet baby honey dew though who he gives kisses on every occasion. He hasn't had the best past as his strange demeanour lead to him hanging around a lot of the wrong kind of people, ones who really encouraged his love of knives and didnt tend to stop him from doing dangerous daredevil things. After an unmentioned inccident, the only one left of that group there for him was Canary and its lead to him having a large distaste for people in general. However, hes an absolute loveable crazy one and we all love him.

This is stanlee melon

One of the kindest melon bois you will ever encounter, named after stan lee himself, stanlee is very sweet and prone to helping people and just being an in general Samaritan. Many who know him feel an overwhelming need to protect him from any dangers because hes just so darn sweet with his circle glasses. Hes very chilled and tolerable and gives away all his compassion, even to people that dont give him any back. An all round lovely one.

This is phara melon

She is the older sister who treats her two siblings like children, looking out for stanlee and forever scolding walter for his stupidity and dangerous nature. She looks out for the two of them and shes a lot more mature and gives them relationship help, although single herself. She also has a pink dog named lolly

This is devon cantelope

They are cool with a capital C. They have that certain charm that just makes people instantly want to be their best friend. Luckily for him, they have a certain eye for a sweet boy named stanlee! They love boba tea to an unhealthy obsession and they arent seen anywhere without their signature denim jacket an sunglasses. Theyre also the only one with they/them pronouns though he/him is also one he uses every bow and again(it usually depends on whether i remember that their pronouns were supposed to be they and just used he accidentally because i was tired, so it stuck)

This is honey dew

Perhaps even sweeter than stanlee, honey dew is fragile and insecure. Hes the kindest thing and when he falls in love he fallllllllllls. Hell do anything to be around the people he loves and he cant stand to see any of them upset. He is very affraid of a lot of things so jes very hspoy to have walter, a brave chaos boi, to protect him all the time.

Lastly, this is Canary

Shes the most recent addition. Shes a real emo kid and right dick to people. Shes very reserved and all she has plot wise is that she was the last and only person willing to come to the rescue for walter after an unnamed incident with his toxic old friends.

Story set up: its not super serious its just me having fun

Stanlee and walter are brothers and are human versions of watermelons i have created. They are my lovely melon sons so please treat them well.

Stanlee met Devon and instantly fell in love with their lovely hair, their heterochromia, their love of boba tea and denim, he was hooked. However, so was walter. Walter and stanlee began to both attempt to catch devons eye.

The battle begins. Its not really a battle in stanlees mind since he isnt competetkve, in fact he'd be happy for walter if he managed to score devon. Walter on the other hand is determined to beat stanlee and laugh in his face. He requires the assistance of someone he knows he can rely on, his friend honey dew, the sweetest little thing in the world. Although honey is holding onto a crush of his own, he wants to spend time with walter, so he does his best.

In the end devon just tells walter to give up. Devon wants stanlee and promptly asks that walter leave him alone and stop stalking him and trying to win him over. Heartbroken, walter goes into ice cream eating depression rejection hours.

Honey checks on him regularly and lets him rant on and on about devon until one day he just snaps and kisses walter, very pissed off by how ignorant walter is to his feelings

There we have two happy couples now theyre all lovely. Canary and phara are kinda just there they dont have much plot relevance

Thats all there is so far! Feel free to ask about them, draw them, request them to be drawn, go through their tags, whatever you wanna do!

Their tags(you will see some old cringe art)

#Stanlee melon

#phara melon

#canary melon

#walter melon

#honey dew (alternatively #walter melons love intrest maybe)

#devon cantaloupe

[shoezuki]

This is a post on the cheating accusations around dream mostly surrounding his response video.

If you don’t want to see this or any of these posts then blacklist the tag #discourse

SO I’ve been doing a lot of digging into what dream has said in his response to Geosquare’s original video and report, which was compiled and conducted by the Minecraft Java mods on speedrun.com. 

I won’t talk about that original report in detail, but basically: the mods came to the conclusion that Dream had a 1 in 7.5 trillion chance of getting the pearl bartering rates and the blaze drop odds that he did within the 6 streams he did. As in, someone would need that luck to replicate what dream got. Therefore, he cheated. 

I’m going to put this into a sort of ‘point form’ in according to topic, attempting to put it in chronological order.

Dream’s Initial Tweets

Ok so first like. these are bad. these tweets are what he said (on twitter, excluding in the speedrunning discord) directly after the video was Uploaded to Geo’s channel. 

worth noting he did apologize later, although i wanted to talk about these two instances so i felt the need to include it. 

there’s a lot of interesting wording in the apology tweet itself too. I personally find that when he apologizes he tends to still be very subtextually angry in them with the tone, but more specifically. where he says ‘although i have reason to be upset’, that’s kinda weak and really unneeded. Alongside the ‘intense criticism’, it reads as him trying to say he’s still in the right. kind of like “im sorry i was rude even though I had reason to be rude’. Its an apology sure but he’s not saying sorry for how he really reacted; its justified to him.

Dream’s Response Video

Dream posted a response on his side channel DreamXD on the 22nd, along with the report he had a supposed astrophysicist conduct. I’m going to talk about the report separately from the video for reasons I’ll explain. 

Frankly, the video doesn’t really summarize or explain the report in a meaningful way. At most, it takes some points from it but tends to twist the numbers around, misunderstand the probability and math, and also what the report itself concludes. 

Essentially, dream’s video insists that the numbers found by the mods are wrong and therefore he didn’t cheat at all, yet the report concludes that the numbers found by the mods weren’t entirely accurate, however they’re still extremely unlikely. This is also all under the assumption that the report is entirely correct (ill say how its not next)

His first point is that only his 1.16 run (that was at 5th place two months ago, would have now been 16th) was deemed cheated. This is true; the mods have said that he isnt banned outright and theres no reason to question the legitimacy of his 1.15 runs. 

He also concludes that Geo’s statement that Dream didn’t cooperate with them, and that he deleted 1.16 mod folders, was false. This one is a little more complicated. It could more be chalked up to a miscommunication, although it’s relevant. Geosquare posted screenshots of the specific conversation they had:

Essentially it wasn’t entirely clear, i can understand how geo and the mods interpreted it in such a way. Altho April added in a quote retweet thread that dream didn’t supply the folder she asked for, so he didn’t supply everything they asked for like he states in the video

Essentially: yeah, misleading and weird on both ends. I dont think this is really anything quantifiable, although dream talked about this in the video heavily. 

Out of this though, Geo DID correct himself in the description of the mods’ video. Dream shows this in his own response, but it crops out some of what geo says. here’s from dream’s video

that Update 2 is where he corrects himself. literally why the fuck would you crop it like this and put it in the video i mean this looks so weird and genuinely doesnt provide anything. Here’s what geo actually said

Dream specifically cut it before the line where geo mentions how he said he deleted his specific 1.16 speedrun profile. This one is just so dumb to me. I’d say ‘why not include that’ but either i feel its a) so there’s no potential for people to say what he had actually said could be interpreted otherwise easily or b) doesnt want people to know he got so upset he deleted files (ego wise yknow). Again, I dont think this is definitive of anything but god. it feels scummy lmao

The Video: Incorrect Representation of His Own Report

Dream straight up doesnt present the report’s numbers properly. In fact it makes the entirety of his visuals forfeit, i.e. the gold block analogy that goes on for like 20 minutes. 

The mods said his luck was 1/7.5 trillion. Dream’s report says its 1/10 million (with the addition of 5 other streams) or 1/100 million (only the 6 streams).

I’ll only consider the 1/10 mil odds, since its all dream really brings up. but Basically; there’s not much difference between 1/10 million and 1/7.5 trillion. 

Dream says that the difference is 7.5 trillion minus 10 million, aka 7.4999 trillion. This is what his entire visual with the gold blocks is based on. This is absolutely incorrect, i cant stress that enough. 

You can’t find the difference of fractions by subtracting only the denominators. Like. this is elementary school math. it just doesnt work. 

It’d actually be calculated as: (1/10 000 000) - (1/7 500 000 000 000) = (74999/7 500 000 000 000)

If the mods are wrong, they’re only wrong by 749999/7.5 trillion. that’s literally only  0.000000099999866666667. 

Dream no doubt saw the numbers, considered 10 million vs. 7.5 trillion, and used these big numbers to hold his own point. PROBABILITY DOESNT WORK LIKE THAT. I really think he was just taking advantage of the seemingly big numbers here and wrote it out in a way that favoured him. The gold block analogy in the video played throughout the entire video practically, jokes were made on it, and he made a point of it being ‘so big the game crashed’. 

It’s just plain wrong. even so a difference in the odds doesnt prove shit. He’s downplaying his own odds that he found too. 1/10 million isnt a small number. Even though the legitimacy of that calculation is in question, it is still significant enough to proclaim he cheated. 

Some quick points before I move onto the report; these aren’t as significant in my eyes but it adds to the picture

there’s been criticism of his joking manor throughout the entire video, very specifically the Bill Nye joke. Considering he doesnt actually have a name to provide for his astrophysicist, this joke doesnt feel right

the mod he had a voice clip from (willz) even believes that he cheated and has agreed with the mod team the whole time. 

Dream never has a name for the mod who is apparently on his side (more understandable), the minecraft developer he quoted, or the astrophysicist (most damning)

Dream states that fabric is used by most speedrunners which is true, but fabric and fabric API are different; dream also had the latter installed. my knowledge of how theyre different is limited, all i really know is the API is what can enable editing of the code while fabric is more a modloader. im not entirely sure on this

Dream has said at the end of the video that all funds will go to the mod team so they can make a client that will regulate cheaters. this has been noted as feeling manipulative or like a ‘bribe’, but it definitely puts the mods in a bad position. 

either they accept it and look like they ‘gave in’ to dream and therefore acknowledge him in the right

they deny it and look selfish/taking dream’s kindness for granted

geo said they would insist it goes to a charity instead

Dream constantly disregards the mods as young, inexperienced, ‘just volunteers’ etcetcetc, despite the fact that theyre analysis has been discussed by people with confirmed PhDs without much criticism

Dream’s Report

The report itself is extremely interesting, in that it’s very questionable, but even so it doesn’t come to the conclusion that dream didn’t cheat. The tone between the video and the report is drastically different. 

This is from the “3. What are the goals of this document?” section:

It essentially says this isnt intended, from the very beginning, to completely exonerate dream of cheating. Also note that the author says the mods’ report was mostly correct. 

This is at the end of “9 Conclussions”:

It does notably say cheating isnt the only explanation, but it doesnt actually go as far to say that it’s not possible that he cheated. 

But this can be argued to not matter if we consider the validity of the report as a whole

Dream’s Report: Criticisms

Possibly the first and most known debunking of the report is by u/mfb on reddit, although there’s been much more such as this programmer criticizing the code provided at the end of the report (partially due to how the author of it stated that piglins barter 4-7 pearls, which is incorrect: it’s 4-8), Andrew Gelman, an actual statistician professor from harvard, commented on the original mods’ report as ‘impressive’ while Dream’s report is being regarded as something funny in the comments, and even analysis of dream’s behaviours and his argument by a law student

But what u/mfb posted is what i’ll focus on. Some background into the user; he’s a particle physicist, is moderator in subreddits like r/cosmology and r/astrophysics, he’s regarded as a reliable source on r/askscience and r/askreddit. Basically, multiple other people have vouched for him and before all this he had many posts in these fields. 

that’s already better than the unnamed astrophysicist. 

The post is better speaking for itself but here is a few exerpts from it;

Essentially, the report’s methods are debunked by u/mfb-, alongside that a moderator of r/statistics regarded the report as ‘nonsensical in its application of statistics’ and linked to u/mfb-’s comment. 

i’m going to end this here. Partially because severe backpain or whatever,.

but I want to say at this point its practically definitive that dream cheated, that he lied to us, and that he continues to do so. Much more could be said on his video such as his tone, intentions, the overt emphasis on the ‘biases’ of the mods. 

I havent even mentioned that the ‘astrophysicist’ themself may be a scam; they are sourced from a website that is extremely sketchy, has no names attached to it, and was created less than a year ago (with practically no traffic on it until maybe a month ago). 

But i hope this is coherent. I have interest in this so if theres questions im always open. 

[mish-tique]

I’m the anon who talked about the Libra-Virgo thing :

So just a disclaimer I believe if two ppl love each other and are determined to make it work, astrology shouldn’t be even relevant and we just talk about it for fun and we shouldnt take it seriously

With that being said from an astrological perspective, you have to look at a couples synastry chart to tell if they’re compatible. Generally, Virgo and Libra aren’t compatible because Virgo nitpicks and annoys Libra with details and making the relationship “perfect” and Libra is a “go with the flow” type and very romantic and their head is kind of in the clouds sometimes (no offense but Charles is kind of a himbo 😜) Virgo can also be very controlling in a relationship, Virgo men are like this more than the women.

However looking at Charles and Charlotte’s charts, she’s a Capricorn moon and he’s an Aries moon. Emotionally theyre not compatible. She’s a double earth and way more controlled in her emotional expression. His aries moon is very capable of emotional outbursts and as an earth moon she grounds him but she wouldn’t know how to take it/deal with it. Its like an awkward mom dealing with a kid’s tantrum.

Their Mercury’s (planet of communication) are both in Libra so they’re ok there

His Venus is in Sagittarius and hers is in Leo, so again their love nature/language and what they find physically attractive is compatible (she LOVES grand romantic gestures and he likes doing them)

Both their Mars is in Sagittarius so no tmi, but they’re compatible in that department as well.

I took a quick look at their aspects and honestly their synastry is pretty good. They find each other very exciting and love spending time together.

So yeah their Sun signs are incompatible but you have to look at the overall picture

P.s I’m imagining Charles surrounded by two Virgos henpecking and nagging him every now and then 😂 Libras hate to be pushed and he probably wants to escape both his teammate and gf every once and a while

aaaah its astro anon hi sweetie

ah yeah that disclaimer is indeed applied, nice to talk about it on here but if they are happy together yay for them, that's all i ask.

charles being a lowkey himbo makes very much sense to me. also carlos being lowkey controlling in a relationship since he is a virgo would somehow also make sense because he does seem like someone who could have a temperament (even though he does seem laid back in videos. does this make sense? it's just the feeling he gives me). I can't really say how i imagine charlotte is as a virgo because i know way too little about her.

that said we're back to charchar, because i for some reason had to make a detour to the core reason why this discussion even exists.

"An awkward mom dealing with a kids tantrum" help im dead. why does this sound like charles would be the kind of gf that would get mad or upset about whatever bc he misunderstood and charlotte would be like "dude wtf you on about".

But hey im lowkey happy that overall they match because i want them both to be happy and if that's with each other, yay for them. Wished i could tag the other anon bc this might be interesting for them but let's just hope that they find this and find it interesting too.

(About your ps comment, my brain made this:

"Charles, what the fuck are you doing here."

"I'm escaping my girlfriend and my teammate."

"But why do you need to be in my drivers home?"

"They wouldn't look for me here Max, this is the last place they imagine me hiding." )