#thank you for this extra context!

[starbuck]

I just saw a super old post of yours talking about Ravenous and omg what a film! one of these days I’m going to write an extremely in-depth analytical paper about it — there’s just so much to talk about. you don’t happen to still have access to those deleted scenes do you? bc I would love to see them

it’s sooooooooo good! feel free to chat with me about it whenever - i love to talk about it and hear others’ thoughts!

the deleted scenes can be found here! the editing of the final film is very tight, atmospheric, and dreamy in a way that the inclusion of any of these scenes would have stepped on, so i am ultimately glad they were cut, but i’m also so glad to have access to them and believe that they are mandatory viewing for fans of the film who want to engage deeply with it.

[holocene-sims]

a sneak peek for an upcoming (timeline tbd) update 😊

[stevethehairington]

no because like. okay i KNOW eddie does have wife related trauma but ALSO there are Layers here and it is s o o o o fascinating that eddie is getting CRIPPLING panic attacks over someone being called his wife. like. you would think maybe said wife related trauma would be the cause of that — like yknow. the woman i called my WIFE died, so now im terrified of ever having anyone else be called my wife , because what if that happens to her TOO. only NO. THATS ACTUALLY NOT IT AT ALL. it's anxiety about what having a wife means for HIM. like. LIKE. INSANE IMPLICATIONS INSAAAAANE IMPLICATIONS!!!!!!!!

[hunxi-after-hours]

happy double feature day one to the silliest ascended blind box AD!!!

[ao2fics]

📝 (I usually ain’t havin a clue what goes on, like in general but let’s see what happens ^^)

have some more fake married au. 👀

[hanafubukki]

My online friends are the best 🥹💞

[cuoredimuschio]

for the wip word search game, how about laugh? :D

but of course!! anything for you!! 💛💛💛

laugh:

Steve thought of that joke a few weeks ago. He’s been waiting for the chance to tell it to Eddie; he thinks that he’ll like it, that it’ll make him laugh, snorts and all.

[wraithsoutlaws]

47 for Dagger 👀💕

Crave

It starts with blood in his mouth. He tastes the rush of copper tang before he even feels the punch, before his body drops to the concrete and his vision blurs, and he knows exactly what he wants to do. Dum Dum stands above him, unimpressed, metal fist still clenched tight at his side. His laugh sounds like a broken radio, half static. Dagger flashes red stained teeth in a grin that begs for more. “Thought you stopped pulling punches…” He spits, blood dribbling down his chin as he looks up at the ‘borg. It always tastes like a kiss. He prods at yet another loose molar, wedging it back into place with his tongue. “”Less maybe you’re just a bitch.” “Stand on two feet if you wanna talk shit.” He’s smiling right back at him, smug as hell. He knows how this game ends. Dagger launches himself from the ground suddenly, throwing his body into the scrap metal standing above him with enough force they both crash against the brick wall of Totentanz. Dum Dum gets the most of it, a groan croaking from his throat on impact. The wall seems to crack beneath his chrome spine, and the sound of it makes Dagger laugh. He doesn’t give him any space, pressing close, soft flesh hungry for those sharp edges. He wants more. Blood pumps in his ears. He forces a leg between Dum Dum’s thighs and those fists became eager claws instead, scraping and pawing at him with another kind of craving. Their fervor sends them to the ground again, tumbling hard. Dum Dum’s weight rolls over him like a truck and Dagger uses the momentum to knock him sideways, crawling on top with his legs cinched tight around him. He’s breathing hard now, buzzing with adrenaline. Beaming. He takes a certain pride in the look of astonishment below him, and the bruising grip that holds him close. “What was that about standing on two feet?”  He doesn’t give him a chance to answer, head snapping low to meet his lips. That perfect copper tang fills his mouth once more. He never can tell where the blood ends and the kiss begins.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

also it's something (better) like, the exercise of deliberately [art imitates life imitates art] holding up Billions to My IRL Things Perspective and going like whaaat would i want for winston. first answer is you want any character to not have been within the scope of the show in the first place, and to exit it since they are. and you kind of get that in the accidental reward in banishing winston, since like in the end it's just that the show doesn't care about him existing at that point But like it's winston sitting there quietly as everyone leaves & turns out the lights & Then he can leave too; others have peaced out & nobody remembers he exists so Now he can go off & do whatever.

but like in true form i think they definitely accidentally baked in another divine reward for winston in that, like, the way he's kept around as fodder for these fun little [pov: enjoy abusing this guy] asides with him, where it Just So Happens that he's autistic as something they're unaware of but is completely relevant to the expectation we understand him to be inferior(tm), it Just So Happens that he's also ""bad"" at not ""causing"" abuse to be turned on him. he's ""bad"" at staying in line. like well yes Yes that's what i want for him. just like In Real Life it's like yeah Ideally i'd want people to be able to extricate themselves from where they're trapped in power structures & i'd want them to have the perspective about it of understanding they're not Inferior / i.e. they are as much a person as anyone else and they're not corrupting everything good / i.e. it wasn't them Bringing It Upon Themselves and it's not them being Destructive by toppling a jenga tower of a hierarchy that happened to be pressing down on them. and winston is the kind of [the ruinerrrrrr] who is Turned On exactly because he keeps acting like someone who's on the verge of breaking out of the [being in line] someone demands of him as autist, employee, whatever other supposed manifestations of [inferior]

like in the 5 second stretches in which winston's allowed to speak before retaliation, it's because he's like "matter of factly" delivering whatever Information that's useful for another plotline. then he Brings It Upon Himself by making people aware that he's Also existing in his own right as a person rather than what they think serves their own deal / what they want from him at all times, perhaps by expressing his personality (didn't appeal to them! so it was Wrong) or not b/c of anything in particular said or done at present, just b/c people have a constant / accumulating contempt for him so their being in the same room as him & able to see & hear him is already dangerous. the [we're just seeing Any Abusive Dynamic in action] continuing apace.

and it's like, well, right there. he's written as acting like someone who doesn't blame himself for how he's treated, which billions frames as being Rude & Mean, and so too does everyone's abusers lmfao like and that these are his moments that are written to be Bringing It Upon Himself. and it's like hell yeah he doesn't blame himself. hell yeah that his self-esteem can manifest as anger at all. hell yeah that he keeps expressing himself with personality & confidence & doesn't even disguise his having been hurt, & it's this [his ass is Not grey rocking] that billions frames as both him "causing" his abuse & making that abuse "successful" lol, wrow just like real life!! and when like speaking of real life yeah it's not "bad" that people Do engage in strategies to mitigate & survive, including things like blaming themselves or being too "boring" to be anything but a non dialogued background character b/c that's all that goes unpunished, it's bad b/c it's done to them at all, not [ohh they're doing it to themselvesss] and like i'm asking myself like Ideally. what do i want Ideally. and i'd want winston to know that it's being Done To Him & i'd want him to find as much room for his personhood & autonomy as possible. and that's basically how he's written anyways, and billions hates that like You See this is why he deserves it this is why he's doing it to himself. and i'm like my god if that's not Inspiration for like "so what if people don't find you Personally Likable" and not preemptively holding back all personality or anything that'd draw attention as if you exist as a person in your own right & not something that only either gets in the way of or serves their wants of a Real person (someone with more power) like hell yeah you have him out here doing it =']

another fun addendum is like, billions isn't getting into it much b/c it doesn't seem to care much about "what if some people were peers & seem to have a genuine, recipcrocal relationship?" but that it just so happened to be like "oh tuk as the next closest loser who deserves it might be nice to winston" while it's framing winston as the "worse" Loser as being....unconditionally supportive of tuk. while the one downside of billions Also giving bentuk as much as it is is that it also inevitably has that shadow of "but ben is Superior to tuk" and like that it's correct that everyone encourages tuk to Stop Bringing It Upon Himself and start being less of a loser; it's wrong for winston to be like hey let's go have a foursome. like yeah probably don't make a list of the women you work with you'd be dtf but it's not like i'm convinced "ah billions and it's strong anti misogyny stance like" roflmao and billions is Not reflecting on "the downsides of unconditional support?" there when winston was beaten up for criticising taylor earlier like we WILL take his ideas while looting his [beaten unconscious] body there but he WAS wrong to express them as though he's BETTER than taylor!!! mafee's beautiful show of loyalty in kicking his ass even when he might agree with the argument and then benefit when it's adopted by taylor anyways! so it's as usual actually purely based on hierarchy & who gets to be in charge of people. it's correct for ben to be in charge of tuk, unless he has to step aside for that bizarre dead-end subplot about how it's tuk's fault if he's treated badly, b/c it's really his own Failure to have Confidence to know he has good ideas [raising our voice to deliver this message over the sound of breaking desks and chairs and computer monitors over winston because he had the confidence to act like he deserved to talk to someone and because he knows his ideas efforts & results are good & valuable around there] like. and isn't it sooo fucked up to talk about who you're dtf in the episode that has it be neutral if your boss is dtf & lets you know but is nice about it (and you're already Correctly tending to their ego, which you're responsible for!) like hey no possible problem! it's not even so much of a problem for a boss man to have the sex they're entitled to & be rude about their leveraging their power in that acquisition that it Stays a problem into the next season. ew, winston is Known (Inferred) Dtf??? we'll use it to exploit His vulnerability, exacerbate it, & punish him further for good measure in another episode that just revels in abuse & violation with a sexual aspect once again, but like, hey tuk don't do that, winston's such a Bad Influence for being like, shrug, kneejerk intervening with the Good Friendship where the One In Charge leaps in & Tells tuk the Correct thing to do. obviously there's also the tragedy that billions will Never let winston push back against Real Winners like rian or taylor in A Way That Matters (actually gets in their way at all) lol like. one thing that would have really been fun, winston should've literal kneejerk started physically fighting wags in either pertinent scene in 7x03 for real 110%. i wouldn't be like Gasp Violence Is Never The Answer if he just hit someone to hit them b/c fuck you. or broke anything on his way out etc etc. billions would Never let him. which is the other side of the same coin of [why he should get to]

tl;dr how great that winston's being "out of line" means he's basically always noticeably flouting & rebelling against the [He Deserves Abuse] agenda lol. that IS what i want. his being "beyond hope" like ohhh he's sooo stupid he doesn't realize how much he has the bad tastes & wrong interests & annoying personality He Will Always Be This Way like hell yeah!!! billions like oh no winston's personhood will never stay tamped down & locked away such that some godawful person tolerates keeping him in their inventory :( ohhh the ABA will never work :( that's right!!!!!!!!!! although they're not sad about it because it's about relishing the promise there will always be True Inferiors you can enjoy abusing with your righteous power over, but like well you wrote him escaping anyways even while dragging other "better" characters into standing around to serve axe's need for more than 1.8 employees and [crickets, reverberating cough, sneaker scuff] like. another ""wrong"" thing for winston to do, another thing for him to not "deserve," which is itself godawful actually lol like lord what it "rewards" its Good, Deserving characters with, no thanks. meanwhile winston's punishment is that he's autistic and """bad""" at being abused like lmfao good for him, fantastic for him, just what i want

[salstray]

made a document about my OC's so my friends could figure out who the fuck was who cuase so many of my boys are just the same guy in a different font and one of them made a height chart for all of them, plus me and i just....

I really did this to my fuckin' self, huh-

[tiny-cloud-of-flowers]

🎤 with Zero!!!

Thank you so much for sending this, friend!!

(source: this post by sosawl)

send me a 🎤and I'll attempt to voice act one of my F/Os, either using a canon line or a custom line you provide to me - of course it had to be this bit (it's from 6.4 but nothing about it is spoilery)

I cannot match her intensity here, I apologise. But it was fun to try! Even if I nearly headbutted my laptop in the process by trying to copy the movement she does at my desk and leaning in too far. Here is the actual line from a video I found online.

I hope that this was alright! Thank you very much again for taking the time to send this in, it really means a lot~

[beskad]

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ok yeah i think the holiday blues are affecting me way more than i thought. I love Christmas, it was always my favorite holiday growing up. But it's so interwoven with extensive, constant, prolonged, ongoing trauma that it's. Idk. Tainted. I love Christmas and I'm so excited for it leading up to it, and then a few days before I just get so depressed. Last year, I spent all Christmas day in bed (like 11 hours) crying and falling asleep and then crying more. I miss my mom. She is horrible and she only ever hurts me. But I wish I was with her anyway.

it also probably doesn't help that I had 2 drinks in close succession last night and my current mental health meds REALLY do not play well with alcohol. I'm usually so careful, and I thought 2 would be fine, and sometimes it is, I guess I just drank them too close together. And fuck now I'm crying at my desk at work thank fuck for this high-walled, enclosed cubicle fuck

[bifairywife]

i still wonder what my grade would've been if i submitted this:

[south-sea]

Fuck them mean anons, tell me more about how Second Chance AU Metal got his hostility coding removed?

small context out of the way first: "hostility coding" in this case just refers to what makes a badnik inherently predisposed to aggression. it's not so much their capacity for violence so much as it is their tendency to attack just about anything/specifically seek to destroy sonic/etc. it, along with their "loyalty programming", is a key component in what makes them subservient to eggman.

to make an exceptionally long story short and more to-the-point: metal's new caretaker is a phenomenal inventor/coding engineer in his own right, and is responsible for identifying and removing it. i'd not put this caretaker on par with eggman or tails, not even remotely close, but he certainly knows his ins-and-outs when it comes to programming. you could say it's integral to his own existence, even.

so when metal falls and shadow brings him in for repairs, this caretaker is dissatisfied with the local engineers' treatment of metal. they clearly don't know what they're doing, and are treating him more like a Thing than a Person, and that pisses the caretaker off to no end. it strikes a personal nerve, even. in the end, this is how he ends up metal's new caretaker at all; he just decides this lil robot is his responsibility now, actually. completely unplanned for, unspoken, and if anyone asks, no, caretaker definitely does not care or have a personal stake in metal's well-being or anything. definitely not.

whether the caretaker wants to admit it or not, he has effectively adopted metal, and takes to fixing him up on his own. due to certain qualities about the caretaker, he's also got a knack for "mentally" syncing up with robots/the like. since metal at this stage is incapable of communication outside of a little sign language, the caretaker just syncs with him semi-regularly to help identify metal's needs/what repairs he's comfortable with, so on.

this caretaker is very big on acknowledging and encouraging a robot's autonomy/personhood, so doing upgrades/tampering with metal's coding without consent is completely out of the question. anything he does or doesn't do to upgrade metal is specifically only ever with metal's permission. (he is also responsible for, much later on, re-enabling metal's voice chip, still left over from his neo metal arc, but previously disconnected.)

over time, these sync-sessions lead to the caretaker finding the hostility programming, as well as this pesky loyalty coding. and with a little programming magic of his own, eventually he manages to overwrite and remove it for good.

it doesn't fundamentally change metal as an individual, but it does free him of eggman's influence, and allows him to make his own decisions for himself going forward.

[zeveth]

@c4rdsharp | start !

out from the darkness pocketed between a series of tall shelves that stood behind a long, wooden counter flashed eyes, catlike, when the bell rang at the door.

"can i help you?" the voice was low. she stepped out into the pale light cutting down from the window above, strange, an impression tempting toward inhuman, long-eared, smiling politely, mid-30s, 40s at most. she might have been blind, but for the way she looked this apparent young man up and down.

"well, i didn't expect to see you here. you're one of the gandors, aren't you?"

[fullcfphobias-a]

Ra really thinks that Oz is her bestie™️ and Oz is just too scared of confrontation to say otherwise