#teeny proto

[physically-bloody-medibot]

What if I eat you like a baked potato? (Fork and knife)

I WOULD JUS-ST LIKE THE 'TATO P-PLEASE!!!

[kedreeva]

I saw your post explaining about Polaris and his two colored tail feathers, and you used the word "sword" to describe one. It then hit me that the different types of feathers have different names?! I am gobsmacked! Could you educate me more on the terminology on them??

Lol You would definitely do better just doing a web search for "kinds of feathers" because there are SO MANY different kinds. But I can tell you about some of the cool ones peafowl have!

Their head crest feathers are actually called filoplumes- a thin shaft with a tuft at the end.

Their train is made of tail coverts! The longest ones that end in a Y shape with no eye are called frame feathers, then there are the eye feathers, and then there are the sword feathers

Sword feathers can actually have eyes on them, as well, since they are modified eye feathers. They frame the bottom of the fan when the bird displays, to give the bird a solid bottom frame. These feathers are actually the most important feathers peacocks have; they are the feathers peahens inspect most closely to decide if a male is worthy of being a mate.

Most feathers have vanes made of barbs, but peafowl tail coverts do not! The feathery bits down the shafts of their eye feathers are called hurls instead.

Birds have little teeny feathers that cover their ear canals. These feathers are calls auriculars!

The area over their "shoulders" (between their wings on the back) is called the "saddle" and it is covered in contour feathers called "scales" in peafowl. I assume you can guess why. When we say "scale feathers" it means these ones!

The scales actually are like proto-eye-feathers, and they slowly fade into eye feathers down the rump

and the last cool feather kind I'll mention is the alulae feathers! These are feathers attached to the bird's alulae, the little "thumbs" of their wings. Peafowl have nice big ones and they're not afraid to use them.

gotta hold on while there's fuzzy babies under you.

[evilminji]

Ya'll know our BELOVED? Little Baby Man?

The noodliest ghosty boy?

What if he WAS Baby? It wouldn't be the first time Danny's enemies plotting gave him offspring. Only this time it's not a clone! It's a proper GHOST baby. Like Lunch Box.

Who's the other parent I hear you ask?

Pretty human-centric view point there buddy, to assume Ghosts NEED two participants to make an offspring. OR are limited to two! Just cause Lunch Lady And Boxie are a couple doesn't mean that's the standard!

We lack data here! ASSUME NOTHING. *sciences harder in your direction*

*awkward cough*

*shuffles notes*

ANYWAY! The child! All it would really take is one(1) VERY poorly timed ambush attack. Imagine if you will, a cell. How does it multiply? While not even close, the simplistic images ARE pretty good as an explanation!

But isn't that just an ecto-clone? You say?

Close!

But THOSE? Are hollow bags of GOO!

No CORE! *slaps the chalkboard behind me*

However! If you wanted, say, a precious bundle off joy? Well, nothing can come from perfect void! You must contribute the building blocks of LIFE! And what are those, my students, in ghost biology??!

Two vital pieces! The Ectoplasm aaaaaaand? That's RIGHT!

The CORE!

A critical and ever vital part of ghost biological function.

Which, like every OTHER part of the body, is malleable. One could, say, make it smaller. Create part of a proto core. OR, should one be ALONE in this process, a FULL protocol.

Upon which, ectoplasm latches, builds, develops and grows. Becomes its own soul.

Now! Do Not mistake me! There is a WILDLY vast difference between the formation of a core and a shattered core. Between willing life and untimely second death. It is not, and never WILL be, easy to create the soul of a child. Tampering with your core is PAINFUL, dangerous, and leaves you WILDLY vulnerable.

There is a REASON Neverborn are so precious.

Buuuuut..... *pulls out a book labeled "Curses Though The Ages"* we must ALSO consider the famed Fenton Luck(tm).

Consider! Where would be the "safest" place to practice making clones of yourself? A place that's wide open. No one wearing white likely to take pot shots at you while your attention is divided in multiple places at once. No parents blowing up the basement at a delicate moment and leaving you trying to hide that extra arm for a week...

Maybe you forget... oh yeah... OTHER GHOSTS.

So there Danny floats. In the Zone. DISTRACTED. His core HUGE from all that recently Royal business as it tries to digest it. Feeling bloated. Trying to work off some energy, as it were. Then who should come along? Why, the universes BEST HUNTER of course! To say *gun powering up noise* :) HI :)

Like buddies DO.

Danny doesn't see him.

Danny is mid-split.

At his limit, honestly. Already made as many copies as he usually can. Is trying for ooooone moooooore..... when...

PAIN. Something cracks.

He loses concentration. Tries to curl in on himself.

Both 1.5 of him tries. He loses hold of the "clone's" Ecto. Somethings free floating leaving his chest along with it. Behind him, Skulker is freaking out. That was MEANT to be on opening volley. A gentle little "hey, come fight me". That crack sounded SERIOUS.

Danny can't breathe. It's like the portal all over again. He curls tighter and tighter. Feels the crown, which was not THERE until this moment, press down tight and gripping onto his head. Thrumming. And then... something feels like a muscle releasing.

His core is... smaller? He'd been watching its progress, it couldn't have digest so fast... how did it lose so much... mass...

Danny feels all the blood drain from his face.

He nearly died.

Again.

His... his soul... WHERE IS HIS SOUL?? That's a piece of him! A part of his SOU-!

He spins around... only to meet the eyes off a blearly blinking, noodlish, cartoon like gremlin with his color scheme. Who's floating along like they're in zero-g. Just... drifting in a slow circle.

They yawn at him with a mouth full of teeny tiny baby fangs. Then chirp.

That's his Son. He doesn't know how, he doesn't know WHY, but he somehow instinctively... just... KNOWS?

They blep.

Danny looks a Skulker. His eyes hold MURDER.

"You're paying child support."

"......yes sir."

@hdgnj @stealingyourbones

[agbpaints]

How To: Basic Model Photography

Far too often I see folks post their newly painted minis online only to fumble at the last hurdle with a poor picture. It doesn't matter how good a painter you are, a bad photo can ruin any model. While you can invest in an expensive light box and a purpose-made camera, there are some things you can do to get at least quality photographs with a phone camera and some items from around the house.

Light

You want as much ambient light as possible plus some extra sources to account for the scale of the minis. If you have a room with big windows and the sun isn't directly blasting through them, that's great. If not then a reasonably bright overhead room light will work too. I also use an articulated LED desk lamp as a more controlled source to light the miniature from the front and illuminate details that an overhead source might cast into shadow.

Background

Try to get some sort of flat color backdrop to photograph your minis against. The easiest method I've found is to get a sheet of paper, I use some lightly colored and textured parchment paper, and then prop that up against something sturdy to make a gentle curve before setting your mini on it. Neoprene warhammer play mats or paper battletech maps can also work great for this if you do want a more thematic background to match your game of choice. This not only makes the model stand out more without visual noise in the background, it helps control your lighting and gives your camera an easier target to focus on.

Stability and Camera Distance

Your weak, fleshy meat hands might seem kinda steady but for the purposes of doing very scuffed macro photography they almost certainly aren't, so you’re gonna want some form of mechanical stabilization for your camera. A tripod is great for this, but if you don't have one then you can just prop your phone up on whatever surfsce you're taking the photos on.

You'll also want to play with how far the camera should be from the model for the best picture- I find that about 6-8 inches works best for my Galaxy 20 but your mileage may vary depending on what hardware you use.

Angles

Because a photo is a static 2d representation of a 3d object, the angle you take a photograph at relative to the model will chance which details are most visible and how the pose is read by the viewer. Think about how you want your finished piece to look like and consider taking a couple of protos with different angles and poses tonsee what works best.

Cropping

A teeny tiny mini in the middle of a big wide photo means anyone who wants to look closely at the details needs to zoom in on it, and most people won't do that! Once you've taken your photo, crop it down so that the miniature is filling the frame.

You could also consider the Rule of Thirds- most photo editing software will give you pairs of vertical and horizonal lines that divide an image into 9 segments, framing your subject in the photo so that it ends up falling along or framed by those lines can give you a guideline to easily produce a well composed photo.

Hopefully these tips help you take better photos of your models! It does take a few extra minutes compared to just snapping a quick photo off the paint betch but the extra effort is absolutely worth the results in my opinion

[milkydraws8]

teeny boppers on a shit little mission/camping trips

ft. a proto kid-flash

[harperhydra]

Are you happy with how your favorite canon muse was portrayed in canon?

What trend would you wish to see on here?

What new addition would make your Tumblr experience so much better?

What caused you to start writing? What was your key point?

What are the trends when it comes to writing that you adore?

What are trends when it comes to writing that you dislike?

What are rare-pairs that you’re passionate about?

Have you ever written a canon muse that you first thought of ‘meh’ when they appeared in their canon show/movie/book?

How far do go with divergencies when it comes to your canon muse?

I love how Helenas portrayed in the one game shes been in period but I’m actively taking her from Capcom god dammit. She didn’t need to keep Leon completely in the dark she just needed to make sure Simmons wasn’t LISTENING.

Not sure what this means by trend but hey, normalize just popping into peoples inbox’s without a meme. You can just pop into most peoples ask boxes for any reason and start a thread out of it. I fucking love when people just send Helena unprompted jokes and situations.

Just give me the ability to trim threads on mobile holy shit

Honestly idk what prompted it. It started with writing self-indulgent self-insert fanfic for myself and my friends in middle/highschool. We’d have a notebook that we would pass around between classes that was like a proto-RP forum before the medium of RP forums got popular around 2004-2006. Everyone had their own OC’s and we’d write insane scenarios which eventually lead into us writing our own IP that got insanely meta. (It was about a bunch of teens with magic notebooks that made whatever they wrote in it a reality). It carried me through until junior year when most of my friends graduated lol, but it was great.

Dash comm makes me so happy when its just people reacting to silly crack scenarios (ie: Jill getting blown up repeatedly)

TEENY TINY ICONS… This isnt a writing gripe per say but holy heck if the actual characters face in the icon is smaller then 100x100 it actually hurts my eyes. I have to squint so hard to see them and it just makes me sad :(

HarperNivans. I think they’re cute even though they like never speak in canon and y’know Piers fucking dies at the end but like… They’ve got cat and dog chemistry and I just wish I got the chance to write it more. And then there’s HarperRad- Because Carlas a bad bitch and thats like crack for my specific portrayal of Helena lol.

Steven from Pokemon ORAS tbh. I got real passionate about him a long while back and honestly he was a forgettable champion to me before then. I breezed through Pokemon Sapphire with an overpowered Swampert so he barely registered on my radar pfft.

Usually anything before their canon first appearance (unless otherwise expanded on) and anything directly after their final appearance are fair game- Within reason. For their backstory, I usually take context clues based on how they react to things to start building an idea of what they were like and what made them this way, and then after, its a matter of what exactly happened to them and stretching the truth a bit. (Ex. Helena being infected with C virus and taking on waking J’avo traits because Deborah stabbed her in that one QTE) After establishing that baseline its all interactions from then on out, and the headcanons may change as new information becomes available.

[sonicasura]

Yeah that defently happens when the third gets their kotatsus out. Though they are honestly smart in getting either Mina or Soshiro to get the himbo out. Noone wants to deal with those sharp claws or that those teeth all alone.

At least with either the vice-captain or captain there, theres a less chance Kafka would attack right away when someone tries to get him out or try to use the kotatsu his inside of.

Kafka does infact notice when his winter coat start growing. And he is more like "Really? NOW you decide to show up?!" than anything else. He always was a little jealous of his mom and grandpa not struggling as much in staying warm during winter.

He honestly goes on a small tirade should someone ask why he seems so miffed about it too.

Speaking of warmth. When Proto was able to get away with it, he would turn back into his kaiju form and snuggle up to either Akari or Kafka when they were babies. Hina often found herself giggling at the sight of a 12 meter tall kaiju trying his best to snuggle with his teeny tiny daughter or grandson to provied both warmth and security. Its kinda like how RedCoaster desciber her verson of the Titan Eren in her story Rough.

Its a quite the good read and quite a bit of fun too. And has given me much inspiration in how Kafka behaves as a kaiju. Especially when it involves the kids or anyone who's in need of a father for that matter. Theres just too much similarities between I can't help it.

I'd also recommed you try a read. But I don't know if you much of Attack on Titan fan.

Attack on Titan was one of the shows I indulged in during my late middle-highschool years. Season 4 sucks, I actually wrote stuff involving the franchise and Red Coaster's Rogue still remains my favorite AoT fanfic to this day. Hell, I once joked about dropping our kaiju himbo into said franchise. Totally agree with Kafka acting similar to how the Rogue Titan was portrayed in their story.

It's best to handle the kotatsu kaiju like one handles Bakko. Get someone you know is least likely to get scratched up or bitten. Soshiro probably laughs at the sight as Kafka's antics tend to do that.

The himbo going into a tirade about his winter coat finally growing in is on point. Also Proto trying to snuggle against his smaller daughter and grandson is hilariously adorable. I won't be surprised if Hina has a picture of that.

There's probably an entire photo album or recordings of family kaiju shenanigans hidden somewhere.

[peterlorrefanpage]

You know what, this has been clanging around in my head for a bit so I'll share it: [Arsenic and Old Lace]Herman has been bugging Johnathan about getting a cat for weeks. Initially Johnathan was reluctant but one day after walking back from a job interview he sees a kitten abandoned in the park under a bush. He decides *fuck it, why not* and takes the kitten home to Herman. What both of them failed to realize is that the kitten is a teeny ball of terror that loves attacking people's feet

Oh, I love this! Here the boys are, trying to be Good Citizens (I am proud of Johnny going on job interviews!), and now they've got this ball of fur joyously clawing and chomping all visitors like a proto-Johnny. I can totally picture it. Oh, the looks on their faces! And they are utterly helpless before this tiny creature. Also for a moment, I spiraled off into a fantasy that connected the kitten Dr. Lorencz has in "The Boogie Man Will Get You" with this kitten. If we stick with film chronology: -Boogie Man was 1942 -Arsenic was released in 1944 - but was filmed in 1941 - Therefore: Herman Einstein + kitten foundling could become Dr. Lorencz + pocket kitten (Herman having had to, for various reasons, temporarily separate from Johnny, gone on the run, and adopt a new persona). Though kittens don't stay kittens for very long, so Jonathan would have had to find it in December 1941, and Herman would have had to take off almost immediately to get to the Boogie Man town and establish himself, and when we saw him there it was summer, so we may need some timey-wimey manipulation, heh.

[captain-kit-adventuress]

Not trying to derail a Black History Month post, but there is one teeny fact that's wrong, and that's that George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter. He invented over 300 other uses for peanuts, and holy shit, that's amazing as hell and we owe him so much for each and every one of them. But peanut butter wasn't included.

A lot of sources will tell you it was John Harvey Kellogg, but that's complete white-supremacy bullshit. (And also fuck that guy, he was the worst. Have a wank in his honour so he'll spin in his grave.)

A proto-PB was very common among Incan peoples at least several hundred years earlier, if not more, and a lot of indigenous American populations (including from Central and South America) have ground all sorts of nuts, peanuts included, into all sorts of mixtures. I'd be willing to bet that lots of cultures worldwide had and have similar culturally-important foods, too.

That said: George Washington Carver was a ridiculously great inventor who contributed to science in ways many people can ever only hope to, and his legacy shines on in ways most people won't ever know, much less see or understand. This is absolutely not to take away from Carver's achievements, because there were so, so many of them and they were WAY more important than peanut butter.

He deserves to be memorialised about his actual accomplishments.

This Black History Month, reflect for a moment on the fact that George Washington Carver, famously "the inventor of peanut butter and more than 100 industrial uses for peanuts" wasn't, like, Doc Brown fucking around in his garage because he really liked peanuts but was specifically trying to introduce larger use of a nitrogen fixing legume into crop rotations against cotton monoculture which was destroying yields, livelihoods and the biosphere, and how most agribusiness farming now just destroys that topsoil on purpose and continues to grow a cotton monoculture (or soy or corn or whichever local monoculture is profitable) using petrochemical derived fertilizer, which is one element driving climate change

Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful heart surgery. He also founded the first nonsegregated hospital in America because he was keenly aware of disparate health outcomes by race which is still a problem today.

WEB Dubois was a part of the delegations for the birth of the UN. His proposal to include in the charter that "the colonial system of government … is undemocratic, socially dangerous and a main cause of wars" was not adapted for the final draft. We might see inaction against colonial violence to this day as part of the failure of others to heed his warnings there.

I feel like so often when we look at Black History Month so much of it is driven by factoids but when taken as history in context its about a direct line from decades and centuries to what is happening right now.

[the-firebird69]

👀 Ape Proto by Loris Rosati #rally #racing #drift #motorsport

AND NOW ANNOUNCING THE FIRST BIANNUAL MODIFIED TUK TUK CLOWN RACES YOU COULD WIN THE RACE BUT TO WIN THE WHOLE SHOOTING MATCH YOU HAVE TO WIN THE CLOWN CONTEST TOO OR IT'S A SPLIT DECISION

Zues Hera

I'm going to enter and I have a great clown and he says so what that's great perfect

Trump

I'm going to answer it I'm going to use my father's clown and I found it from the computer and my nephew wore the costume and it was scaring everyone and I'm going to add the shades I probably won't be able to see but who cares

Paul d

I'm going to enter this is going to be fun I will use safety equipment probably slower but I'll probably win yeah I know how to make a motor work this is going to be great a clown race I never thought of it until I saw the stupid car almost crossed my mind at the same time and his wife says no I can't help it but yeah that's the clown car she says this is going to be great and there might be an added component to clowns per car two pounds per car two clowns per car

Freya Ridings

I agree

Trump

We do

Dan dave

We're going to answer the race too and ben and I

Mac Daddy and yeah as it that's my character

No it's not it's mine I'm going to enter and I'm going to beat you as it and the real it and he says remember what I told you and I get that I'm still going to do it

Stan I have something to go with me Sherry and she's raggedy Ann and Mac is mad he's stuck with his homo

I did say that and he's mad at me but we're going to do it

Mac Daddy

There's a lot of contestants but now I'm going to do it

Joey

I'm quite prepared to do this and I mean it too and I'm not Trump I have a personal go with me he's in all the shows with me

Mr Goodman

No I'm not Trump I'm his co-star I'm using the girl and he wants to have me go in there if that's terrific but all co-pilot and I'll save him from being eaten by a bird gross

See I a director 2021

Okay I'm out and I don't have power I don't have as much..

..

Table might think I wrote that but people think I might wrote that but I didn't it's this foolish computer

Zues

It's really people messing with it

Hera

Ok ok we're going to have to have contestants race for us but they won't

Olympus

I'm going to have to race for him again and it feels good a real racer and Chrissy as a copilot as a co-racer and we're going to cream everybody where very light

Bg crossy

This is great we're in the race now

Megan merkle

I have a copilot it's my husband and people still can't find his name he's not that little teeny kid in the first mad Max close no he's not in the karate kid too or three damn it

...

I'm here and I'm her husband brother LOL we're going to do this in a win cuz we weigh less than all of them

No you're not it's us we have the Java and we win all the stuff always it's all our stuff the small stuff and you can stop laughing yeah yeah you're right about that they went under the wheels who did the entire army it's not very funny but it's tr

jawa

[glowingstaranon]

Who’s the best boy Minus or Proto

They blush.

"T-that's a tough question to answer! They're both my mates and I love them dearly - they're both good boys in different ways."

[physically-bloody-medibot]

proto you are so small can i hold you in my hands for a moment? i promise ill be careful.

JA!! BE CAREF-FULL!! OH! AND GLOVES ARE REC-COMENDED, UNLESS YOU D-DONT MIND BLOOD AND LEAD T-TOUCHING YOUR SKIN!!

[cao-the-dreamer]

So I read this post by @pastelpaperplanes and I was like “ah fuck it this is too sad I want to give Crusade a friend” and then my brain remembered HEY WAIT THERE’S ANOTHER BABY AMONG THE CONS!!

Bam plot and fluff were born

One unexpected friendship (feat my fav obscure character) coming right up hehehehe. 

*******

If someone had taken a photo at that precise moment, there would only be a blur of colours as a result.

As for Crusade, they had a second to be surprised when they were brutally tackled before fighting instincts kicked in and they tried to use the momentum to roll around and pin their opponent to the ground. Unfortunately, it was like shaking off a Proto-Leech, as the attacker clung to their frame with all their might. 

“Getting tired already, teeny?” they taunted.

“Nope,” Crusade shot back with a devilish grin, “I just haven’t used my secret attack yet!”

They threw their hands against the smaller one’s belly and they shrieked with laughter as Crusade began tickling them mercilessly.

“Unfair!!” they called out between two fits of giggles.

“It’s still super effective! Do you yield, Connie?”

A faceful of purple skin was shoved in their visual field before the girl half-heartedly kicked them and finally relented. Both kids dropped on the floor, snickering, then Connie stuck her tongue out at Crusade.

“Cheater.”

“It’s not cheating when it’s a fight,” Crusade stuck their glossa out too.

“Yeah yeah, you’re gonna defeat baddies with tickles now?”

“Why not? You’re just cranky cause I’m not gonna carry you this time.”

“Hey, I make a perfect backpack!”

“A lazy backpack then.”

“Am not!”

“Am too!”

They kept bickering and didn’t notice Soundwave quietly laughing in the background. He then sent a warning ping to Strika, as the following days were going to be filled with double trouble. She responded with a request about unleashing the kids in the same room as Tarn and filming until the purple tank lost his nerves. 

Soundwave pinged back with a “will do” just as the minibots gathered around Connie and Crusade with various toys in hands. The purple organic clapped her hands when she saw a frisbee, then grabbed it and threw it at Crusade while shouting “think fast!”

Nobody knew what exactly went through Scorponok’s helm when he created Project Firstborn, but once Megatron heard about it, he promptly shut it down and ordered the scientist to put his brain on more useful matters and focus on the war instead of wasting resources. But Connie had already been born, and Megatron didn’t hurt sparklings, no matter how squishy they were. 

In the end, maybe Scorponok deserved a little credit, as the unlikeliest friendship had bloomed between Crusade and Connie.

It wasn’t really a secret the young heir possessed civilian frame coding, it just wasn’t said out loud. However, said coding had given them a more fragile frame compared to other Decepticons, which made Megatron extremely worried about his child getting hurt. And their difference ostracised them from the rest of the Decepticon army, not blatantly, but enough to make them cry in confusion wondering if they did something bad.

But Connie was smaller, more frail-looking, and absolutely didn’t care about bloodlines since she was herself a “freak”. She was literally unable to hurt Crusade. Add the fact the little spitfire loved to rough and tumble, got an extreme (and surprising) resilience, and was unable to shut up (blame Misfire for that), this was the result: Crusade got a playmate with whom they didn’t have to hold back, in sass and in strength. And they both didn’t care about the other’s origins.

Soundwave dodged the frisbee just in time before it smashed him in the face. The disk bounced on the wall, clattered on the floor and Connie launched to grab it. She grinned at Crusade, readied her stance, threw the frisbee…

Which whacked Megatron right in the helm just as he entered the room.

Both kids froze. Megatron raised an eyebrow. Crusade moved in front of Connie, trying and failing to be inconspicuous in shielding her from their carrier’s possible wrath.

But Megatron simply laughed and picked up the frisbee, which looked hilariously small between his digits.

“Your stance is not bad, but you could use a little more force. May I show you?”

Taken aback, Connie nodded. What followed was an improvised class of frisbee with Megatron more often than not receiving the disk in the shins. The kids enthusiastically followed the big leader’s advices, then promptly used him as a jungle gym once they were bored. 

Soundwave smiled behind his mask as he witnessed Crusade’s radiant expression spread across their face.

[joisbishmyoga]

Random thought: so we all know how Spock keeps popping immediate family out of the woodwork without ever having mentioned them before?

Worldbuilding idea: This is Vulcan manners. 'Not mentioning family' is so deeply rooted in their culture they don't even notice*, but it's straight from pre-Surakian times, and very early on at that. Vulcans were in a state of constant, complicated, and ever-shifting internecine warfare for most of their history, all of their recorded history before Surak. Like, Romeo and Juliet would've been Baby's First Fairy Tale levels of clan war. (Only two clans in the fight! Barely half a dozen deaths! It's practically Sesame Street!) So you don't want to talk to that stranger at the oasis only to discover your grandfather's pet sehlat ate all the plomeek in their great-grandfather's garden, so now you're obligated to fight to the death once you're far enough to not contaminate the water. (Vulcans are also a desert people; their planet has very little water. Tie-in novels claim there was a massive solar flare around the same time proto-Vulcans were figuring out words.) So yeah, Vulcan culture, Spock (and any Vulcan) can have as many relatives as the writers want without ever having to mention they exist.

* this might even explain the completely illogical bias against teeny!Spock, racist bullying going unaddressed and esteemed scientific officials flat-out calling his human heritage a handicap to his face. Everybody can identify his family on sight, and that is abhorrently rude.

[stitchieau-the-actual-one]

Okay, so an this is an idea I had at like... 3am this morning when I just couldn’t sleep. (yeah, yeah I know more stuff for @megamanrecut be mad at me some other time)

This is Aspen Proto and Elec’s adopted son, whose actually an alien equivalent to an advanced android. As a newborn he had clear hair, skin, and eyes for developmental reasons, so he needs his father to assimilate his coding. But since his mother was a neglectful sort, and his father was mostly presumed dead. So him and Proto kinda just bond and Elec just rolls with it until he too succumbs to the tiny developing android. Aspen is a rather quiet child who only really gets chatty if he’s around family or really needs something in particular. 

so some factoids on this too:

* you know how you can calm a fussy baby by driving them around the block? Well the way to Aspen’s heart in that context, is to literally sit him next to Wily. He loves hearing world domination plots sooo much, it puts him to sleep.

*Proto and Elec actually had to be in close constant vicinity of Aspen for 1 year and 3 months, because his tiny body needed their coding for the development of his tiny system. Everything from viral protection to eye color is determined by the parental coding bond. So in those first year and 3 months, Proto and Elec had to take turns taking care of him. However its a slow process and doesn��t require 24/7 attention so, Aspen would stay with Elec during crazy world domination schemes, otherwise its Proto.

*After that Top would get stuck with babysitting.

* Aspen has met his actual father, but since his father left him. the necessary paternal bond isn’t there, so to Aspen he was no different then a random stranger off the street. So he pitched a fit until Dad or Papa found him, and saved him from this crazy spooky looking guy. 

*For Aspen’s kind sight is the last thing to fully develop, so he’s severely nearsighted until the age of 2. But he knows his family without it. Papa smells like Polo and old bookstores and Dad constantly smells like a hanger. kinda hard to miss it.  And well, Wily and Top look unique enough for Aspen’s teeny developing eyesight and brain not have trouble knowing immediately who he’s looking at.

*Tango and Aspen couldn’t be any closer, even if they wanted too. 

*Yes, Aspen assimilated Proto’s sleeping habits. you could burn the entire world down, place him near a jet, nothing will wake him. except maybe Papa shaking his tiny body which in that case he’ll always have a microfit over. “No I don’t wanna wake up, lemme sleep. No I don’t want snackies! I want sleep!” essentially. 

* when under immense distress Aspen becomes a tiny electrified hot potato, but getting him to that point takes a lot since he has Proto’s Aloof disposition and Risk taking behaviour and Elec’s ability to just straight up not give a single shit. 

*if you hand him something, Aspen will just stare at it. 

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Do you think that Ron and Hermione's relationship is normal? I'm shipping them for so many years now. But now after seeing so much romione bashing and people pointing out small mistakes in their relationship I doubt.

Btw I love your blog<3

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I certainly would have liked Romione better had Half-Blood Prince never happened. Seriously, I’m not bashing Hermione because I like it (........... ok fine I do enjoy it on some level because it’s complicated), and really I hate it that I can’t ship Romione as wholeheartedly and as happily as I used to back when I was teeny.

But... one of the reasons I’m so virulent about Hermione’s flaws and how much she hurt Ron is to fight Ron-bashing. Because Ron-bashing involves putting Ron under a magnifying glass and decreeding to hate on him for every tiny, single thing he did, in order to pretend he’s “unworthy”, in order to pass him off as an incel or even worse. Here, I’ll show you -

Do you think that is it possible for Ron to become abusive given the incidences of violence and just being a really shitty person that occur in the books?

This anon immediately got under my skin, because I had recently witnessed a truly hideous Ron-bashing fic posted in the Romione tag without being tagged properly and when I asked the author to tag it “Ron Weasley Bashing” they refused, stating it was “their opinion” and they were “extrapolating” canon. (The fic was about Ron-the-domestic-abuser-raping-a-pregnant-Hermione. Yes. Clearly that's an opinion and not just an open delusion. /sarcasm)

So I went all out. Because they want to “““extrapolate”““ from Ron’s flaws, but in the same breath pretend Hermione doesn’t do fucked-up shit? They try to quote Ron’s “incidences of violence” like Hermione wasn’t the one who canonically sent birds at Ron’s face?

That’s what makes me furious. That’s what gets my blood boiling. The double standards. The injustice, the unfairness of it all. So apparently Ron doing stupid shitty teenage things like dating someone he isn’t actually interested in because he’s starved for affection, or wanting to punch a proto-Nazi who insults his friends would translate into him being “abusive”, but Hermione can go around kidnapping and disfiguring people and she’s pure as the driven snow?

This is what drives me insane, the fact that people will scrutinize every single one of Ron’s actions and proclaim him an abuser but turn a blind eye to Hermione’s entirely, or worse, attempt to justify her behaviour by trying to make it out like it’s her victims’ faults.

I try to be as loud, as angry, but as implacably logical as possible when I’m confronted with idiots trying to bash Ron by “““extrapolating”““ his attributes. Because if you’re gonna put Ron under the microscope to find something to dislike, you damn better do the same to every other character. If you’re gonna apply ludicrous standards no human being could ever hope to meet to one person but not to others, then you’re no better than the common Draco Malfoy: a bully trying to lord their perceived superiority over others. And I despise bullies.

So... yeah, that’s why I’m Hermione critical, bordering on bashing at times, because I just can’t with this fandom full of moralizing, hypocritical cunts. Which has led to me being more critical of Hermione, which has led to me being critical of Romione... and I don’t like it much, I can promise you that.