#the fundamental four

[samobservessonic]

This is not just a double Nigel story, but a triple Nigel story, as it was written by both Nigel Kitching & Nigl Dobbyn, with Dobbyn doing the art. Given that Kitching also does art for StC, this had the potential to be a quadruple Nigel story if they’d shared art duties, but alas, it was not meant to be

Anyway, the Chaotix have proven popular enough that they now get their own stories instead of having to tag along on the Sonic or Knuckles stories. It’s kind of wild that this just happened to come about on my first issue, so for all I knew back then, these guys were a regular feature. Though honestly, without StC, I probably wouldn’t have heard of the Chaotix prior to Sonic Heroes, since they weren’t in any of the games I had or cartoons I watched

And just to drill in this point for the millionth time, while Charmy singing and being annoying enough that Vector boots him out the door might’ve seemed like a regular scene for them in the Sonic Heroes days, it really wasn’t how these two characters were portrayed outside of StC at the time. StC just doing their own thing and getting it right is amazing to me

Like damn, none of them are sympathetic to Charmy? That’s a bit harsh

This is also how I react when my neighbours knock a hole in my wall

Come on, you all know Hydran, Gravel, Squall and Flare, right? Those incredibly popular Sonic characters, the Fundamental Four? …No? Okay then, let’s introduce them!

As you might’ve guessed, these characters are parodies of Marvel’s Fantastic Four. If you didn’t guess that, then don’t worry, because I also had no idea until years later, since I knew jack shit about Marvel as a kid. Or really up until I had a housemate a few years ago who finally got me to watch a bunch of Marvel movies (I like Thor, Loki, Deadpool, Venom and a bunch of Spidermans and that’s about as far as I go into Marvel). But back on track, StC includes a bunch of parody characters from both other comics and British culture. Not all of them I’m going to catch, but this is one of the more direct ones. I could be wrong here, but I think all of the Marvel parody characters happen to live in the Special Zone as well?

So yeah. These guys are here and they’re the four elements. I am mostly here for Flare, since she is the girl one and I’m always foremost a fan of the girl characters in Sonic

But all that really matters is that they’re here to fight everyone’s favourite trio of guys who somehow have shared custody of looking after a bee child

I do like that each of them has their own stylised word bubbles! That’s something I’d love to see more of in comics in general

Elsewhere, the unsupervised Charmy is bored :( 

You’ve got to admire his optimism. Charmy also gives us a bit of context for who these four are, that they’re basically villains who’ve burst out of prison. We’ve seen the Chaotix track down Nack in StC previously, so instead of being detectives here they’re more like peacekeepers or their own branch of Freedom Fighters. Eh, it’s not exactly the same, but close enough

Off to the Hive he goes! I feel like this isn’t much of a spoiler, but the one thing that StC Charmy and Archie Charmy have in common is that they’re both princes. Which doesn’t seem to be the case in the games, but as far as the comics go, it’s a pretty standard direction to take a young bee character in, so I’m not surprised they went that route, even if both of their approaches to it are quite different

[redvelbetty]

E.X.I.T. x Fundamental paper education!!

To know about Fundamental Paper Education, there's a video of Basics in behavior by Kaaatie, you can see the video on YouTube!

Unedited version cuz I drew it during class, and I took some paper scratch that is also about Math!

[all-yourn]

dean winchester & “gibson girl” by ethel cain [on youtube]

[pumpkinrootbeer]

i feel like we kinda miss the whole. catalyst for fiona and lips relationship exploding.

here's your older sister, and here's the only person you've ever been able to trust. she tells you to get out again and again and again, even though you're so afraid that the moment you turn around everything is going to fall apart. getting out, and then getting the rest of them out, is your job. that's what your supposed to do.

neither of you have been able to trust your parents and all you have is each other, and she's telling you to get out. and it's either doom everyone around you by staying, or trust her and leave.

and then, right as you're finally starting to find the rhythm of a world you've beed denied access to your whole life, it's because of her, the only person you've ever been able to trust in you entire existence, because of you leaving and trusting, that your five year old brother almost dies. he's comatose. he's covered in tubes. he might never be the same again. the only person you've ever trusted has done the exact same thing your parents did. Put drugs and alcohol and letting loose above the kids their supposed to take care of.

Is it any wonder Lip stops trusting her. That Lip takes the longest to forgive her. "it wasn't her coke she didn't leave it out" she got high around a toddler and left him near the cocaine. left the cocaine where he could get it. the two other adults picked him up and danced with him with coke on the table. Lip walks in on this after spending an entire day trying to rescue their other brother. His little sister is the one who finds their baby brother.

even discounting that in response to this he has to suddenly start stealing food or else all the kids in the house will starve, or that Fiona suddenly jackrabbits into another person he has to care for instead of someone he can trust, or that he now has to care for a 4 year old, while working a job, and being a full time college student on work study, discounting all of that of course Lip looses faith in his sister. Of course he does.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

talking to my brother about quicksilver and i was like 'ik him and wanda are twins but he exudes little brother energy so much' and my bro Without Hesitation just went 'well thats what happens when you're the least favorite in the family' and he says this to me, the youngest in our family like 🧍‍♂️

[tiredandoptimistic]

I just realized. In One Step Ahead, the "typical Curt" "typical jerk!" "ooh, sick burn" interaction is way more than just banter. Owen hears "time to save the world again" and can immediately write it off as Curt being Curt, unable to grow and think for himself beyond stupid impulsivity. Typical Curt, acting like it's a simple save the world scenario where he can cut corners and come out the hero. Meanwhile, Curt hears "and pretend to be a hero again" and can't square it with the Owen he remembers, it's just generic villain dialogue. Just a typical jerk who wants to cause pain. It's no coincidence that the next line in the song is Curt saying "what happened to the man I knew?" he literally can't recognize this interaction as things Owen would do or say.

[anghraine]

It feels extremely silly that only today did I realize that pantry and panadería are slightly similar-sounding for a reason >_>

(The English word pantry is one of the many, many common modern English words derived from Anglo-French: in this case, panetrie, from Old French paneterie, "bread room" ... Spanish panadería also has a complex etymology, but all are related to Latin panis, "bread.")

[ushstuff]

Instead of writing my homework

[beastlecreamxx]

I'm so bored so I made these doodles

[wardensantoineandevka]

I'm too tired to really articulate but Jesus Christ, Spahr is just so powerfully charismatic and intensely magnetic in that scene with Phineas, huh

[raayllum]

He has a wild imagination And tells me things that must be true Like there's a world where I can take flight Where I can freely move

[aliusfrater]

also in terms of the way that sam's ideal of normalcy and his pursuit of it plays into his role of the infantalised, innocent to be protected Sammy, i do think dean finds sam's ideal to be inherently naïve and infantile less so in the general concept of the pursuit of the nuclear and more so in terms of seeing sam's relationship with hope and faith as fundamental to his little brother. he asks, "what kind of kool aid you drinkin', man?" (4.07) the placement of the kids' drink in a metaphor usually about alcohol, when sam expresses his agency for an out, for the end of the cycle. there's the implication that that's not how it works for them, specifically, that dean's perspective is the harsh, mature reality of their lives that which they are not capable of receiving an out from and that believing they do is gullible thinking, which is a perspective that sam progressively (and in season four's case, temporarily) adopts. this, i think, eventually leads directly into 4.19 and dean's hypocritical exclusion of adam from their family despite 'adam's' expressed interest in favour of protecting the innocent, which betrays this fundamentally false belief (especiallyyy re: the idea that, "there will always be something to kill," / "evil bitches keep piling out of the volkswagen.") that their lack of inability to achieve the nuclear (largely relating to john's/the hunting ideal of there being paramountcy within the existing nuclear and the goal of the nuclear that hunters have a responsibility to uphold both through righteous unknowable protection and by being outcasts both within and outside of them especially as it relates to the us vs them dichotomy of monstrosity) is a fundamentally, true aspect of their reality -> "what makes adam so special?" / "he's a winchester he's already cursed." -> 4.21 "we were never gonna be normal, we were never gonna get away. grow up." <- 'grow up' being especially important because just as sam adopts and subjects himself to dean's dichotomy of monstrosity that he had been attempting to subvert within his agency (his usage of his powers for some perceivable good), he begins attributing dean's idea of sam's inherent naïvity in believing there could ever be an 'out' to himself and his monstrosity (4.22, "you're talking like i've got an 'after'." / "i can feel it inside me, ruby. i've changed... for good. and there's no going back now.") as well

[start-somewhere]

Book Goal Accomplished!

At the last possible second maybe, but done none the less!

So, here they are in no particular order:

[ramencat12]

Alrighty im gonna try this out

Fandoms i'll be drawing for this

Aqua Teen hunger force

The amazing digital circus

Homestar runner

Fundamental paper education

Please no inc3st, ped0phillia or pr0ship ship requests i will not do the request and delete it

[bsotted]

ok well. unfortunate news: sometimes ur niche is so niche u've already niched the niche. this is exactly the same as the feeling of hitting the end of ur ship tag in ao3 🥲

*edit: sorry i accidentally named like every character ever in the tags so ppl are Seeing this post who dont have the benefit of so much as a single crumb of context. if i accidentally namedropped ur blorbo its bc of this post:

anyway. i was excited for recs bc i also enjoy this genre of fictional character. unfortunately as above the niche is niched, it turns out. at least for me, content enjoyer georg, who has apparently already seen or read everything anyone else has already seen or read except for a small handful of specific media properties that i do not wish to see or read for various personal reasons and also not literally everything ever... just the same things as everyone else has already seen and read... u get the idea. ok thnks ���🏻

[waitineedaname]

One thing that I think muddies the water re: SQQ acting like a buffoon is that he’s much more physically expressive in the donghua? In a very comical and memorable way, like chugging the medicine he tries to give Luo Binghe when the system is about to doc him points, noticing it’s for external use only, and then visibly fainting in front of Ming Fan and Luo Binghe. He’s much more of a clown, and it’s mostly in good fun, even if it’s not accurate to the book. Thinking about it more, my ideal adaptation would have SQQ properly maintaining his immortal facade at all times, but also include an expressive chibi version of himself acting out his inner thoughts and yelling at the system constantly. Only the audience would see his flailing, and also probably SQH when he’s introduced. Also! Showing him get more expressive with Binghe as book 3 goes on and he lets out more of his real personality around him.

that's a really good point about the donghua! I'm charmed by how SQQ is in the donghua because he's such a fucking loser (affectionate) but it definitely isn't very accurate to the novel. tbh the difference between SQQ's inner monologue vs outward appearance/actions is one of the things that makes it hard to adapt from a written form! having a little chibi SQQ to express his inner thoughts is an option, or hiding his expressions behind his fan or waiting until he's alone to scream into a pillow or something lsdkjflksdjf it's tough! it's really one of those things that works best as a book, which is such a shame because GOD i want to see so much of it visually

also him being more expressive with Binghe as their relationship develops is really good :') especially post-canon! Binghe complains that SQQ smiles more at other people, can you imagine what it'll be like once SQQ starts letting more of those walls down and fully grins at him while teasing him? I think Binghe would just straight up short circuit for a second