#there is no context for this. well non that doesnt work in every context (the context is my crippling fear of outliving anyone i love)

[cat-with-a-keyboard]

please god let me die first

[puzzlekinq]

pls write anything for edward ily

using this as an excuse to post horny eddie headcanons >:3 (i love you too!!)

edward nashton x gn reader nsfw headcanons

amab reader inclusive !!

cw: pegging, power dynamics, dacryphilia, orgasm denial, jealousy, possessive behavior.

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♡ okay first off. its 3 inches soft, 5 inches hard, pink tip, very thick. stretches you out very nicely.

♡ frequently jerks off. (insert paul dano chronic masturbater image) he has to beat his meat at least a couple times a day. plus i think he'd wake up with morning wood constantly. he has to crank one out as quick as he can if he doesnt want to be late for work, or else hes going in public with a hard on. (he's done it before and it was agony. its your fault he was hard. what have you done)

♡ he would never tell a single soul what kind of porn he watches. but i will, because im the one writing this post

♡ hes embarrassed about how much he enjoys the idea of you pegging him if ya dont have the necessary bits. the first video he watched of someone absolutely railing a guys ass, he got so painfully hard in an instant. ended up not being able to keep himself quiet as he furiously stroked his throbbing dick while he clamped his hand over his mouth for some sort of noise control.

♡ the first time he tried to fuck his own ass was a challenge. yes, his fingers sufficed, they were long enough to reach the right spot, but he didnt know lube was necessary (inexperienced virgin moment) so he just stuck them in dry, and that along with the pain of stretching himself open made for an unpleasant insertion. but he eventually got the hang of it and shot a massive load all over his stomach in like three minutes.

♡ huge praise kink. i'd say he has more of a thing for being praised than degraded, although he likes both. nobody has said a kind word to him in his life, rarely even a simple "thank you". he needs you to tell him hes good, that hes doing so well taking your strap, devouring your cunt, sucking your cock- anything. he just wants to hear that hes doing a good job, and that someone thinks positively of him for once, in a non-sexual context as well.

♡ but he also enjoys when youre a little mean to him in the bedroom, of course. he fucking loves being manhandled, choked, slapped, spit on, or having his dick or ass used just for your pleasure.

♡ LOVES EATING PUSSY!!!! the taste, the smell, the slick and cum all over his face while he grinds against the mattress, getting off to your moans- its all so incredibly hot to him. he'll literally beg to eat you out.

♡ loves sucking dick too!!! he loves taking your cock as far down his throat as he can, usually ending up gagging on it, but hes trying his best. and you know, practice makes perfect, and god, does he love practicing on you. your groans as you push his head down further onto your dick is enough to make him cream his pants. loves when you cum all over his face!!!! he prefers tasting you though.

♡ will cum too fast if he doesnt control himself, and thats why he'll edge himself for as long as you need. the overstimulation from edging feels so fucking good to him, so he really doesnt mind at all if chasing your orgasm takes a while. he gets so drunk off fucking you, he could spend the entire day rutting into your slick warmth.

♡ he can simulate that fantasy by letting you cockwarm him all night, or while hes doing paperwork, or just when youre cuddling on the couch. he cant get enough of being inside of you, he always wants more.

♡ sometimes he'll have to pull out of you and squeeze the base of his cock while he takes slow breaths to stop himself from cumming, his bottom lip crushed painfully between his teeth as sweat drips from his forehead, eyes squeezed shut while he lets out several high pitched whimpers at every exhale. its a pretty sight.

♡ hes veryyy vocal. even if he tried to be quiet he cannot shut up to save his life. has to at least whisper frantic, slurred praises into your ear about how good you feel, how beautiful/handsome/amazing you are, and how you take his cock so well like your holes were made to fit him inside of you, like a puzzle piece- his way of putting it into words.

♡ you were the missing piece in his life for so long, being inside of you is the closest he'll ever get to becoming one with a devine being such as you. he truly does worship you.

♡ hes even louder when hes close, rambling about how bad he wants to fill your tight little hole with his cum, and how good you feel milking his cock.

♡ he loves to edge you as much as he does to himself. your desperate pleads and whines for release, the release that is in his power to take away from you, gives him a blissful feeling of control. he'll make you beg for him to keep fucking you with his fingers, stroking your dick- whatever it would be, he wants to hear you cry for him. he thinks youre so lovely when you cry.

♡ he can be mean about it too. sometimes he'll listen and keep pleasuring you, but goes agonizingly slow, just to hear you beg for it harder, faster, just to make your pretty eyes gloss over with tears. he'll just giggle at you looking so pathetic under him, the knowledge of the state you're in being because of what hes doing to you gets him so excited.

♡ wipes away your tears with his thumb while mockingly cooing about how he knows it hurts, but youre just not asking nice enough.

♡ it honestly just gives him a major power trip. he's like this more often when he's in his riddler getup. you know, the thing about being his true self under the mask, no shame, no limits, blah blah.

♡ not to say he cant be submissive when hes the riddler. because you can totally make him drop the scary, dominant act in like 2 seconds. hes not as tough as he feels in the costume.

♡ but if you let him indulge in his heightened ego he'll make sure you cant even stand up for a couple hours. he got too sillygoofy (wrecked ur guts with his dick) sorry

♡ he's so easy to turn on. it's he really just you being you that gets him so worked up. woke up to your sleepy, angelic self cuddled up next to him? horny. you gave him a hug that lingered for too long? horny. youre wearing his jacket that looks adorably big on you? MEGA HORNY.

♡ he just likes when you wear his clothes in general. he'll take any opportunity he can to offer you his clothes. he thinks you look really cute and hot in them and it gets him all flustered.

♡ he cant pick between chest, ass, or thighs. all of them are so good to him. his head between your thighs, or shoved in your chest with his tongue lapping at your nipples, or having his palm full of the plush flesh of your ass while he fucks you from behind- its all so heavenly to him.

♡ hes a tummy guy too. if you have a chubbier tummy he'll go SO nuts over it. he needs to squeeze your love handles or he'll die. he loves tummy rolls too!! he is GOING to drool over your body no matter what size or shape you are.

♡ speaking of your tummy, he likes having his hand on your stomach while he fucks you. its like a reminder of how deep inside of you he is. he loves having you full of him.

♡ loves the idea of breeding you and getting you pregnant, but if you cant, having you full of his cum is still his way of reassuring himself that you belong to him.

♡ hes very possessive when it comes to you. youre the one good thing hes ever had, and hes not letting you go. ever. and he lets you know that with the way he repeats the word "mine" like a mantra against your love bite covered neck.

♡ he gets extremely jealous easily, and the best way to make him feel better is to let him bury himself inside of you and mark up your body to alleviate his insecurities. he'll leave bruises and hickeys in very noticeable spots, and be like "oops, sorry 🥺" but hes absolutely not. he did it on purpose as his way of telling all of gotham "fuck you, theyre mine."

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oki doki im gonna stop there or this post is gonna be way too long . i have lots of Thoughts about this guy bfgdudhdh i hope this is like. good. or decent

[phlurrii]

so Unrelated but is Circe's future partner a shiny Latias?? :0 if so, can i have a tid bit of lore if that doesnt involve any spoilers? :D

Been working on this like a mad man to condense it, the first draft was way too long XD

Okay for for context, Citrine is a shiny Latias that will eventually become Circe’s partner down the road. This was based off the fact when I was shiny hunting Mewtwo, I couldn’t find it in the wormholes in USUM, but I did find Latias! So I took a break to shiny hunt her instead. I found her 7000 encounters in and then found Circe 2-3k encounters later after finally tracking her down X3

The two girlies are a sapphic couple, they won’t adopt or have any kidlets, but will be the type of aunts that show up to family events, spoil the niece’s and nephew’s, then dip after hyping them up on sugar.

Some old art I made of them a while back for visual enjoyment, but onto to explaining for how Lati’s work in this world and where Citrine and Circe come into play amongst it!

Lati’s are a companion based species, requiring a partner to survive whether platonic or romantic. Otherwise they are known to decline both physically and mentally, eventually perishing from loneliness. They also require a partner to reproduce, however both genders can lay egg making the sex of the Lati companions irrelevant. Due to being hunted by humans and predators alike, as well as Latias’s bright red colouring making it easier to spot has greatly reduced the number of their population. Causing even more to die from being unable to locate a partner, resulting in their very culturally strict mating/breeding habits.

Lati’s often pair up into larger pods in order to ensure survival of their chicks, of which are always guaranteed to be twins! However, if a Lati couple fails to produce two living, healthy kits they will be ejected from the pod. This is because:

1) They fear the miscarry was a genetic flaw and will be carried down by the chicks.

2) It causes an uneven of Lati’s, guaranteeing it or another will struggle to find a companion.

Ejecting the family removes the threat of tainting the gene pool and prevents a guaranteed uneven spread of Lati’s! As while more chicks can still die from illness, hunting, or accidents, it’s not a guarantee. The pods do everything in their power to prevent it, given to reproduce its required to have 2 Lati’s of which can only produce 2 chicks in their entire lifetime. Making uneven numbers very dangerous! Since every pair can only reproduce once.

Ejecting a family is treated as a death sentence, as often without the assistance of the pod it becomes difficult to raise and care for the chicks. The parents splitting up as one cares for the babies and the other provides. However if one parent is ever picked off by predators, it forces the remaining parent to risk leaving the chicks alone. All accumulating to a higher chance of the family perishing all together.

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So how does this all affect the gals? Well, Citrine is shiny, that’s a problem for Lati’s.

Shiny’s in my story, by admittedly accident, usually spell a bad omen or follow up a tradegy, a death, or a life altering event. Citrine continues this trend.

She was born alongside her twin brother we’ll just call Latios for now. Latios was a normal, non shiny Lati, while Citrine was bright gold/yellow. Upon their pod seeing this, her family was ejected from the pod and forced to live on their own. Her parents did not abandon her and happily, albeit struggling, raised her and her twin brother despite the HEAVY judgement from other pods. Given Shinys were ejected not because of any inherent defects, but rather because they were infertile.

Shiny Lati’s cannot produce offspring, and given it takes two Lati’s to make a kiddo, if one can’t contribute their side of the equation, their partner can’t have the chicks either. They are not asexual reducers and require the both partners to be fertile!

So upon seeing Citrine was a shiny Latias, her family was ejected due to the guaranteed inability for her to pair up. And whilst her family did successfully raise both her and her brother to adulthood. Even in lone Lati’s search for companions, no one will take a shiny. Which is a shame, give shinies are often larger, bulkier, more powerful, and their colors help them blend in BETTER then normal Latias’s especially. Latios’s stay generally the same with colour camp shiny or otherwise. So despite this, Citrine has a very good chance at surviving on her own!

If dying slowly from loneliness and depression was a thing.

Cue Circe.

Circe finds Citrine very much on her last legs, the will to move or find food is all, but gone. So she’s wasting away on a cliff face near an ocean. Circe, a shiny herself and having 0 concept of Lati’s or most Pokémon for that matter, helps her and slowly nurses her back to health. Her disregard for shinies, their status in the general population, and genuinely caring for Citrine as she is and not what she is ends up being the first time she ever has someone really look beyond her colours. Breaking out of a toxic mindset her species imprinted on her due to fear and desperation to keep their species alive in the first place.

From there it’s a very classic lesbian love story. No one confesses for 8 years and eventually they realize their “friendship” is very, very, very, very much not a friendship anymore and hasn’t been for a while ;]

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Anyways YAY INFODUMP!!! I’ve sat on this info for months and developing An entire Lati side story for ages. I love those goofy jet plane birds.

[indornaga]

Hey, Lets Talk About Therian Gatekeeping.

If you've ever seen my work, you know that I'm a very inclusionist therian. People & creatures who have read my work or been to one of my presentations of Therian: Dispelling the Earthen Animal Myth have been very receptive of the information and have passed it on to others in the community that havent been so fortunate as to have experienced and learned along side me. There's still a lot of work to be done in this venture, and every person & creature who shares it is a crucial part of history.

So why does the "therian = earthen animal" belief exist and persist? My favorite theory is that there's a pervasive need to be seen as legitimate. Fictional and mythical animals arent seen as real, in their therian-worldview. Not real enough for exclusionists, and that theory is constantly reinforced by exclusionists who insist that inclusionists are the ones trying to rewrite the term's history.

Let me show you what I mean.

Here's a link to where I got this screenshot. Please note the date in the upper right hand corner of the screenshot. For context, this is from a thread on the community's originating website, Alt.Horror.WereWolves. This is the thread that originates our current usage of Therian/thrope/y. (The censored info is the members' real names. You can see them uncensored at the link, unfortunately. I've censored them here for privacy.)

As I see it, therianthropy applies to *any* human/animal form, regardless of history, powers, or other attributes.

The original defining discussion thread of therianthropy includes "any human/animal form". Gatekeepers are the ones in the wrong here.

There's an argument amongst exclusionists, "if therianthropy can extend to include non-earthen animals, what's the point of therianthropy as a concept?" For those who arent aware, although therianthropy and otherkinity significantly overlap in their experiences and the way those experiences are described, the two communities developed separately, with overlap in experience and terms used, depending on which of the two a member found first. It's so deeply ingrained in these exclusionists that therians can only be real animals, that they choose a narrow inclusion or non-existence.

On top of this, it's incredibly disturbing that these people & creatures are encouraging revisionist history by completely denying original, first hand sources that tell them they're wrong. They delete messages that inclusionists reply with, giving them these primary sources. So I'm here showing you the truth.

If you've been led to believe, threatened even, that you're "not a real therian" if you believe therians can be non-earthen animals, then I'm here holding your paw, telling you that your inclusion in a term/experience doesnt hinge on how well you uphold the standards of a few.

If you would like more reading about this, I have a whole essay, linked at the beginning of the post, with dozens of citations to primary sources about this issue. If you agree that "therian = earthen animal only", I challenge you to read the essay. Read and really analyze the sources linked there. Engage with your history in it's purest form, not from others telling you things. Learning and expanding your worldview is the most powerful way to grow as a person.

[kaleidoscopic-quiddity]

what's the deal with dan everett and the Pirahã? I know very little about linguistics but I saw the documentary and q&a on internet archive a few weeks ago. the missionary part is already very fucked ofc but I'm curious if there's other context

im neither a syntactician nor cognitive scienctist so take my explanations with a big ole grain of salt, but essentially;

in linguistics theres this concept of 'language universals', that is, features that are found in all languages (spoken and signed), how many universals there may or may not be, and what phenomenomena is actually universal as opposed to just common in the languages that have been studied by linguists is the source of a lot of debate and research

operating off of this idea that there are some things inherent to all languages, linguist noam chomsky devised his theory of 'universal grammar', one of the most influential and widely held theories in linguistics, which is super complicated and honestly not smthn im able to fully explain bc i dont fully understand all the technical aspects but essentially; UG is the idea that humans are innately born with syntactic principles which is why there are syntactic language universals, or rather; humans are not cognitive 'blank slates' when it comes to language, our neurological structure/capacity dictates how our language functions

chomsky and other proponents of UG claim that recursion is a language universal, and thus evidence in favour of UG; recursion, in the simplest of terms, is the ability to embed a grammatical structure within itself, e.g; "he said they said she said the cat was sick" or "the table in the house on the street on the city on the coast", in theory these kinds of sentences could go on forever (altho obviously they dont) and whilst it can look very different across languages or be subject to different constraints, recursion seems pretty dang universal

then dan everett comes along and says, actually, pirahã (the language) doesnt have recursion, he makes a bunch of claims as to why this is the case, citing different aspects of pirahã culture that would negate the need for embedded grammatical structures (and, whilst i want to say unintentionally, nevertheless painting the pirahã as primitive and unintelligent) and says that hes disproven UG, and that his theory of language, that it is a tool devised by humanity like knives or wheels, rather than a biologically innate capacity, is correct

this leads to loads of debate and outrage, people, including everett himself, re-examine everett's intitial works on pirahã as well as conduct their own, newer, research and the issue of whether or not pirahã has recursion or not is still unclear (depending on who you ask), nevertheless everett maintains that UG is bullshit, chomsky maintains that everett is a 'charlatan' who doesnt know what he's talking about (yes chomsky called everett a charlatan, i love academic beef) never mind that he tweaks the definition of UG every time it gets challenged, and this is currently one of the biggest and longest ongoing debates in linguistics

UG and everett's theory are only two of many that aim to explain why humans have language and where it came from, and tbh you could dedicate your whole life just to studying that question

overall i personaly do align more with everett's ideas, and have my own beef with UG, but everett is certainly A Character to say the least (as is chomsky) and i dont take everything he suggests a granted

that being said, i do highly reccomend his book 'how language began: the story of humanity's greatest invention', its accessible to non-linguists (i read in high school before i started studying linguistics) and is a good introduction into the debate and theories behind language orgins, obviously biased towards everett's ideas of course, but you can judge the conclusions he makes for yourself, i personally find a decent few of them pretty dang convincing

i would also say you should go read chomsky's work on UG, but honestly thats like telling someone to read the mf bible, idk theres probably good youtube videos explaining it in a way thats understandable to people who've never had to suffer through drawing syntax trees to pass a class

[obscureother]

things one f.o. does but not the others. .

long post, so there's a keep reading below. though there are some that are technically done or shared between two f/os, most of these things are very odd or exclusive to only those one or two. ill probably edit onto this or reblog should other f/os develop, but i just noticed some odd things of them that i thought i would drop into a post for my own entertainment on them.

those things talked about are things between the f/o versions of the characters though, things specific only to the versions of the characters that live in my brain or how they work as little people i like to pretend exist even tho they dont lol. theres going to be some weird meta lore in there.

Gerik:

has a golden aura.

the only one getting away with the polar opposite tendency of my comfort aesthetic that doesnt scare me.

proto-f/o era, was part of a larger group of other versions of his character but the only one who stuck. there was one other version of "The Phantom" that stayed, though that f/o retired shortly before the other f/os started to develop or i got into other things.

Dracula:

acquires sunglasses and umbrella during daytime.

has an au form sometimes seen in f/o version. (most f/os may have alternate looks from canon sources, like 🥓, but they are not normally "fanon" or fan-sourced/off canon and do not effect the f/o version of them.)

proto-f/o. didn't know he was there until one night i was so new to the whole f/o thing going on in my head that i just realized he was there too.

Vonna:

though he does show up in other instances too, he generally only shows up in one. he never misses showing up whenever im lost in hallucinations or the dark of them. but he does not show up all the time other than that.

Conrad:

the one f/o most capable of reeling me back into a comfort space whenever i feel like im drifting too far from safe colors or aesthetics for me. (he is, visually and conceptually, the epitome of the comfort things i cling to every day.)

Aethelwolf:

tends to tag team with another f/o (💀) though they do not interact together much or exist together by default.

god i hate pink, but in his context, he's the exception i love. probably because it alternates with purple on his form.

has playlist of songs only related to him from roleplay lore from other person.

Fred Krueger:

started a whole genre of f/os. . not even my normal type. i almost did not like him at first.

floats around regularly (f/os normally base to something like the floor or furniture. floating normally means my brain is too tired to process them anchored to something but he does it when other f/os are able to anchor.)

dreams where he exists, he tends to know about like he was "there." not all f/os just know when they were in dreams or not.

has one alternate look from non-canon material (very well-known artist among other fred fans. love their art.)

⚫:

By far the most odd of f/os in terms of how he works and exists as a whole. His entire existence is a mystery. To this day, I am still trying to figure out how he works or what he is to me. He ghosted originally back in very early 2023 (I think. To be honest, he could have even showed up earlier than that in 2021, but it is too hard to say and I believe the evidence I would have used to find that has been altered with or lost.)

He just. . knows things? Everything? Like he always did, like he was always there? And in a way he was, but he was so suppressed. I don't know how he formed without me totally knowing it.

Total enigma. I could not even begin to describe how odd he is. The oddest f/o.

May have a black shadow/smoke aura on him? Not very certain.

Barton:

lore is mostly from me and my own headcanons. One of most obscure f/os probably for the longest time lol.

Inkubus:

first f/o to RUN OVER the processing of another. He and ⛓ both collided right about the same time on me, but somehow his development pushed over ⛓'s and slowed him down a lot. The two of them were both very wonky for a bit before they were collected together. He had to be tossed back into the processor to get fixed.

f/o is collaborated from version developed with other person. (f/os do not normally take much influence from other people. The version done with the other person, however, for inkubus, stuck very well and fit along with his canon self well enough for me that he is technically an alternate version of the canon, and yet close enough to fit the canon that the f/o version of him took a lot from both.)

there constantly. all the time. he is so automatic that i do not have to consciously think or summon him up, he is just there. forever. either right next to me, or outside the door.

🥞:

took the longest to develop (or perhaps just felt that way to.)

to this day, i also dont know why he's there lol. he is good company though.

borders between an aesthetic normally uncomfy for me but on the inside, to look deeper onto him, one recognizes there is the comfort aesthetic under there hidden below the one he projects on himself.

Jason Voorhees:

originally known from a source not of his own franchise, but following the source he originally comes from officiated him becoming f/o. his f/o version, however, is still mostly built off of the source that i know him from.

technically this bullet should also go under 🥓 too, but he is the only f/o to have a canon relationship with/against another f/o.

Data:

most background f/o (excluding the odd exception of ⚫), but f/o nonetheless.

other than ⚫, also helps the most with how the processor and my brain works with other f/os.

though not all the time, also sometimes has a sort of particle or glowing effect around him of dark space.

comes with sub-f/o, Spot.

Newkirk:

oh god what an oddball development he was. very odd throwback f/o. did not develop normally like other f/os, though otherwise works fairly normally for the most part. only some things does he do oddly that others do not work for.

also kicked off other group of f/os.

Joey:

only other f/o (exception from 🖤 so far) to be somewhat influenced by other person. though f/o has other forms that are not related to other person, there was enough effect from other prson for f/o version to take some alternate form from them.

can go through other f/os like literal ghost. layers on top of them or through them.

floats regularly.

developed the fastest from very little (other than 🎩)

only f/o where watching related source that does not have f/o present counted for development or engagement with them.

Rodger:

the most obscure f/o. existed for less than two minutes before f/o, oml. took less than week to form f/o.

most alternate forms from things ive done for him.

toppled over other f/o's development. He and 🪦 both developed very close together, though took less time than 🪦 because of having less source to absorb over time. they cook like buns in the oven. he had less dough to work on.

[2383-lines-of-code]

internet linguistics are interesting bc it develops differently depending on the fandom/app you’re on.

like blorbo, bias, fav, ult, and stan are all ways to refer to your favorite person/character/thing but often times there is a “correct” one to use.

(all of these examples are just based on my personal experience with the general usage of these words, so there could easily be words/fandoms/usages I haven’t come across)

for example when talking abt my favorite bsd character on tumblr, i could use fav or blorbo and no one would bat an eye, but it would be weird to use the term blorbo on insta or tiktok. this is probably because the word blorbo originated from a tumblr meme so other social media platforms have no context for the word or its definition/use. altho there are no strict rules for it blorbo seems to generally but used to talk about fictional characters from any type of media while on tumblr.

bias is rly interesting to me bc it seems to pretty much only be used as a synonym for fav within the kpop community (obv im not in every fandom ever so there could be an example im missing but im talking abt general use here) using bsd as an example again, i would never unironically say “Sigma is my bias” regardless of which app i was using because Sigma isn’t real, he doesnt care what i say about him, whether he’s my fav, idc abt him, or i hate him, but artists are real people who can be affected by hate, so bias at first glance appears to be a way to say who your fav irl ppl/celebs/artists are without causing any misunderstandings. (ex. saying “Yeosang is my bias” is a way to say “Yeosang is my fav ateez member” without unintentionally implying i think negatively of the rest of the group) however looking further into it, it for some reason sounds off if someone were to say “Margo Robbie is my bias” even tho it would imply you prefer her work over the work of other actresses. My guess is that within kpop there are set bands/groups with consistent members, so saying “Yeosang is my bias” means “out of these specific 8 people I like, my favorite is Yeosang” meanwhile “Margo Robbie is my bias” is too broad. There are countless actors/actresses you could pick from to compare her to, all of which work on different projects with different genres/themes, think of them as their industry’s equivalent of solo artists. You can have a fav solo artist but the word bias doesn’t tend to fit as well because you’re not saying “I like the group and I prefer _____” youre just saying “I like _____” bias appears to stay a consistent part of kpop culture no matter what platform you participate on.

the last word I wanna throw in here is fav. fav is like the baseline. no matter the app/fandom fav is the simple/non-offensive way to say “I like/prefer this thing” even if it can sound a bit odd sometimes and ppl may say “hey in ____ fandom we use _____ to say fav” no one gets mad or upset when fav is used. since it’s just shorthand for favorite, it’s like the base point that all these other words have evolved from

[cypreus-and-willow]

2, 8, 29, 43 For the fic asks if u wanna

2. Where do you get your fic ideas?

Honestly, just from random places. I tend to theorize a lot. But sometimes the theories border on headcanon and are kinda whack (hence my other name 'The Crack Theorist') even tho they're mostly based on actual observations. For example, my Digimon Survive Highschool gang came to me when I was wondering abt the job of Shuuji's dad - is he a doctor? A politician?

Then i remembered his dad tells Shuuji he doesnt have the 'qualities befitting a Kayama son'. So I thought well what are the opposites of Shuuji's natural qualities? Possibly strength, ruthlessness, cunning, blah blah. And the stupid area of my brain concludes that his dad works for the mafia. And thats how the Gang AU was born.

As for my non AU fics, I try to stick as close to canon as possible... but they're still centered around some headcanons.

29. What's something about your writing that your proud of?

That they're self indulgent. Ive spent a lot of time, worrying abt word count thinking that its only good if its 1000+ words every chapter.

But now, esp w/ my shorter fics, i try to just write whatever feels right for the story. To let a story end at 300 words because its what feels right to me. Sometimes I sit down to write one memo and 2000 words come out and its fantastic but Ive stopped trying to force that feeling every time I write.

(And also that I can somewhat effectively mix purple and biege prose together even tho ive never heard of those terms until recently)

43. Is there a trope or idea that you'd really like to write but haven't yet?

Coffee Shop AU? Or maybe the florist and tattoo artist? Lol

Im mostly an angst writer. So sometimes I get curious abt what its like to write the cheezy cliche stuff. It doesnt have to be romance, I just want them to be happy.

(I cant believe Pet Shop AU is canon in TokRev - I feel blessed)

Oh, I was watching the first Pacific Rim the other day and wanted to write something on that. That drift compatibility is really something huh?

8. Post an out-of-context spoiler from a wip

CW mentions child death

The boy of red hair and twenty years looks up to the sky as a creature of thundering swords swoops down from the heavens. The strike of his blade cleaving the ground in two. From afar, he watches Ifrit crawl with the last of his strength towards the open ground bubbling with grief's plague. Raindrops hang on the tips of red eyelashes. Refusing to blink as the water falls over smouldering rock. There he sees the body of his keeper burning atop the lifeless earth. And remembers the day they drowned his mother. Fire is the essence of life in Solheim. In the temple of Ifrit, his mother taught him the ways of fire. Of healing warmth. Water. Rain. Is the herald of death. “Tianna.” “Yes child?” Though now his height inches over hers, she calls him child all the same. And it gives his heart comfort that some things remain the same. Even in this strange new world where fire burns under the rain and children are taken from their beds to their graves. “Stay with me.”

From the first ever fic I wrote in June 2018 but never published. I wrote like 3000+ words in one night. Also based on a crack theory.

Tho maybe I misunderstand this question...

Spoiler: Aoi slaps Shuuji’s brother while saying "How f*cking dare you"

[low-pass-lullabies]

Ok, if you're knowledgeable about modular synths and/or circuits in general and you have the time to help me troubleshoot unstable pitches on multiple oscillators, I'd really appreciate it. Info below the break due to having a lot of context from prior troubleshooting to go through. So anyway here's the sich:

Behavior:

- Pitch is wobbling back and forth at varying speeds. Sometimes trending upwards, sometimes staying within a certain margin. Usually the wobble is very small (changing at a rate of around 0.1Hz/s) but sometimes its much more noticeable. Even when unnoticeable at first, everything is of course still slowly being detuned over time.

What is exhibiting the behavior:

- Instruo Ts-L

- Pittsburgh Modular Local Parks

- Makenoise Maths (only tested when turned up to audio frequency)

- Moog Mother 32's oscillator

- Moog DFAM's oscillators

Setup:

Local Parks, Ts-L, and Maths have been together in a a Tiptop Audio Mantis, using its built-in power supply and provided power brick. A sticker on the back of the Mantis says "13v", and while the power brick is 12v, it had been working up until now, and did come with the case. The Mother 32 and DFAM have been in their provided cases from Moog, and have been powered via the provided DC adapter. A 4ms Pod64x was used in troubleshooting as well, which has been using its built in power supply and the provided 15v power brick.

Circumstances:

Testing has been done on a Mordax Data. The Local Parks, Ts-L and Maths have been plugged into the same case for some time now. That case has been consistently plugged in but powered off. After several months of hiatus, I booted it up and noticed an audibly unstable pitch. There were several thunderstorms in the weeks prior, resulting in the power going out a couple times. The two Moog simi-modular synths had been unplugged for those several months until I plugged them back in for testing this problem.

Data points from troubleshooting:

(Testing was done using the Mordax Data's tuner and voltage monitor features.)

- Wobble persists after moving the three non-moog modules from the Mantis to the Pod64x, testing together as well as one at a time

- Persists after changing the ribbon cables

- Persists after changing which header in each case they were plugged into

- Persists across multiple power outlets in different areas of the house.

- Persists when testing the Ts-L in an outlet in another house.

- Persists across multiple wave outputs on each oscillator

- The attenuverters on Maths and the "mix" (attenuator) on the Mother 32 both output a constant voltage

- Using the v/oct input transposes the pitch correctly, but the wobble doesnt go away.

- If i let the pitch drift and then power the case off and back on, the pitch will return to its original tuning before the drift

- As emphasis: the two Moog synths were in no way connected to my main eurorack case. Neither by power or patch cables

- Yesterday I tried unplugging the Data, but the change in pitch at the time was too small to be noticable (showed on Data as changing every half second in increments of .01Hz.)

Im kinda at a loss at this point. I asked about it in the r/modular subreddit, and someone said they had the same issue with their Mother 32 when it was underpowered, but i know for sure that the Pod64x and Moog synths are sufficiently powered. I tried two different houses, but they both use the same utility company? If the problem is the utility company for the entire area, I feel like I wouldnt be the first person to learn about this. Idk man im stumped. If anyone has any insight, I'd be really grateful. I just wanna make (in-tune) music again, man.

[babyfaramir]

i genuinely didnt realise how difficult working with an extremely high need autistic child would be. as someone who considers themselves well versed in SEN training and autistic self-advocacy, nothing can prepare you for actually working with a child who will physically hurt you, has zero control of their bladder or bowels, refuses/is unable to engage with any task or comprehend any communication afaict (some mild success with visuals of certain toys he likes, but generally nonresponsive).

and none of this is at all his fault in any way of course, the kid is 5 and also has autism which, in a completely non pc way i can only describe as severe (yes ive had substantial training on pc language surrounding autism but i genuinely dont know how else to get across the intensity of his needs). all the compassion, knowledge, training, patience etc is actually quite a small thing when youre sweating and nearly in tears, and you do it every minute of every day.

it also doesnt help that i work with this boy one to one, but also within the context of a group of around 20 equally high need SEN kids. one of them like to wee on the floor or worse. another one screams constantly, and yes i mean constantly, unless he is allowed to hit the computer. one poor girl is terrified of a boy in the group because of his tendency to bite, so she weeps if she sees him. and they are all completely non-verbal, all are in nappies. and we all are in one tiny classroom.

tldr my job is hard, even though there are so many parts i love and find so so rewarding, and im glad i have tomorrow off LOL (im still going to work but its an inset day so therell be no kids just ppa). i earn £10 an hour bro

[kijosakka]

YES!! you see the vision here you Get It

foucaults use of panopticon as a metaphor relating to discipline/punishment could also tie in here i feel, where the 'punishment' in the situation is the negative publicity people like gwen, courtney, heather, duncan, or generally anyone in the td verse tbh would experience as a result of, in his mind, not being aware enough. thus, to avoid that, he self regulates and compartmentalises

^ and to his own detriment, at that. because people on the show have formed interpersonal relationships, theyve come out of the other side of being raw on camera okay, and he's been present for that, but (tacking more onto the backstory thing) has simply been on the untouched side of things watching things of that nature go wrong time and time again, perhaps pinning the cameras as the consistent catalyst to every one of those. < so he removes himself, he works his character out of plotlines and tangible motivations or incentives, and generally anything that would give an audience substance to himself (after all, what would negative publicity mean if its ultimately based on a person with no substance to themselves?)

noah as a character is the easiest to weave this kind of genre aware plotline around i think, because of his, as you highlighted, lacking.

hes non-expressive, his confessionals hardly disclose anything about the character, and his entire gag in the celebrity manhunt special was that he was completely out of the public eye. that and he. doesnt really have too many positive interactions with the cast?? theres owen yeah, and eva and izzy to an extent [and if you squint], but he was brash enough that everyone threw marshmallows at him on tdi and him and alejandros positive interactions were dashed with the eel comment. it could very well speak to someone who is strictly avoiding making long term, interpersonal relationships, and you could infer that the camera is the reason behind that. hell you could argue that chris himself makes up one of the few characters he has tangible connections to, by virtue of the celebrity manhunt special [in canon].

^ to restate what you said, hes an empty shell of traits moreso than a tangible person. and while that works when you look at it as him just being the one-liner/quips character, it makes sense, but looking in-universe there has to be some sort of explanation, because that kind of flatness wouldnt really track -- but then again, why should it? hes a character to the audience, and some characters just arent meant to be well rounded. < i would imagine this would leave a kind of uncanny valley taste in the rest of the casts mouth, since real ppl just dont act Like That (further alienating himself from the cast and kindof 'confirming' to himself that interpersonal relationships just arent meant to be formed in these kinds of circumstances)

london as a canon event is a little strange to write around or explain in this context -- while you could say it was potentially for audience benefit as a dramatic irony sort of deal, it contradicts the 'not opening up plotlines or incentives' and could show off flaws of his faked character with his inaction. it probably works well enough just being a moment of absentmindedness (in a similar-ish way to smth like the awakeathon, because despite the hypervigilance, things Slip)

^ then again, in a more au-ish route, that could be the audiences 'in the know' moment for noahs new character incentive being breaking down alejandros own mask, which could be continued via making it a reward challenge or eliminating someone from team amazon. though would raise whole new stakes and tensions unlike the full altered-canon events from the difference of alejandro knowing exactly what noah things of him vs being stuck in a limbo of not knowing for sure and having to try and puzzle it out.

(and as a side note, just in general, canonically everyone is very unaware of the 'reality show' thing? the only gag i distinctly remember [outside of the manhunt special, and the few aftermath bits with fans] that called attention to it was the 'give me the tape' thing in wt, with most other instances of a character having a freudian slip or smth similar its followed with a 'did i say that' in reference to the other characters and not the unseen audience)

iam thinking so hard about. noah. and nepotism. like uhhhhhhh

[midsummerpuck]

hey could i be healthy for FIVE MINUTES

[inventedfangirling]

Hello this is basically a long post about me sorting through my feelings about bad buddy and why it means so much to me.

So over the past few weeks ( i first watched the show 7 weeks ago) ive been trying to figure out what exactly about bad buddy and patpran in particular have got me so inexplicably fond and devoted to them and apart from the usual answers of great writing, directing, performances and the best most electric chemistry and banter known to humankind, i did arrive at couple of other answers too.

First of all pat and (especially) pran are deep and well rounded characters.

Their worlds feel lived in and real.

Their feelings and thoughts and motivations are of course excellently portrayed by both ohm and nanon. and they gave representation to queer people everywhere. pat being the pan/ bi king he is and pran being the gayest babyboy warrior poet ever. pran especially given his repressed nature and emotional closed-off-ness is somebody a lot of people surely saw themselves in, including myself. seeing myself represented like that starting off the way he is and then taking small steps one by one over the course of the whole show (and over years in the show's universe) to arrive at the more assured, more open, more ready to be vulnerable (but still very much the pran we all loved in the first episode itself) was so wonderful to see.

The fact that the show happens in a non homophobic universe doesnt take away from just how special it was seeing queer characters fall, be and stay in love. and most importantly that they got their happy ending (i wont be hearing anything against this cos the ending was happy, despite the slightly bittersweet tinge of it, it was happy and there shall be no counter arguments begone i cant with that)

That episode 12 gave a glimpse of their future.

A world where pat will one day be able to sit with pran in his house eating food made by dissaya. that pran and pat's mom work on a common hobby together cos why not. a world where they no longer have to hide, a world were they could well and truly thrive.

Its so so important as queer people that we get representation and that in a world that is often cruel to the likes of us especially here in asia, that we see happy adult queer lives, where they can be in love in the most mundane of ways.

Patpran and bad buddy gave us that and i will forever be thankful for it.

That still doesn't capture exactly why i rate them as a couple so so highly in my head.

So i thought of patpran in the context of all the other love stories i could possibly remember watching. i thought of some of my top favourite couples - mondler, phil & claire, schmidt & cece, peraltiago, leslie & ben, jack & rebecca, randall & beth, simon & wilhelm, jaeyong & sangwoo, ji hyun & jaewon, bai lang & xun an, tara & darcy, sumi & rimjhim and so so many more and what stood out for me when it came to patpran was that they were the one couple out of all these couples i adore who didnt let anything get between them once they got together.

Every other couple among the ones ive listed have had jobs or other relationships or distance or parents or workplace rules /etiquette or circumstances or the royalty standing in between their love and as a result causing the couple to break apart ( a couple of episodes for mondler to seasons of confusion for peraltiago and schmidt & cece etc) even if briefly.

Except for phil & claire (who btw wasnt even sure about marrying phil when she did) almost none of these couples got together and stayed together throughout their relationship. and yes i agree that a lot of these obstacles and circumstances are very real and taxing and no wonder people chose their own peace at least for a while to deal with everything BUT i just cant help feel more appreciative of pat pran even more cos these two 19 year olds figured this whole thing out faster than any of those full grown adults did.

And yes its fictional and maybe even unrealistic (given the kind of relationships i see irl) yet patpran really do deserve all the love they get. they do deserve a lot of props.

Its not like they didn't have adverse obstacles standing in their way, they had to fight against their families years and years of lies and all the intergenerational trauma and their faculty rivalry and a shitty friend who outed them and any single one of these should have caused at least 12 episodes worth of conflict and miscommunication in any other couple.

And yes i do recognise that bbs didnt have the luxury of time or multiple seasons but they could have kept them apart for a whole episode at least, i was convinced we were in for that at the end of episode 8 as the aftermath of wai outing them. like there is no way the relationship comes out of it unscathed ( i thought! ). and while im sure they personally were rattled and betrayed (pran more so), instead of blaming anybody else or each other they actually chose to handle it together, they worked together and chose to move forward together.

The fact that such a terrible experience instead of breaking them apart actually reaffirmed to both pat and pran just how much their relationship means to the both of them, that they come out of it actually stronger??

i was friggin shook to my core.

And then came the gunshots and the family finding out and the running away and the coming back and the fake breakup and the pressures of all of this should have been enough to drive a serious wedge between any two characters, especially at their age and lack of experience. and yet??? and yet at each obstacle they get up, they draw the other closer and they get down to working on it together again.

Over and over and over and over again.

So for me what separates patpran from everybody else is the fact that ever since they got together, they have chosen eo, intentionally, that has made the difference.

Pat and pran's story may have been destined ( i personally don't know if i believe in destiny). they may have been born neighbours and felt unexplainable intense feelings (that later turned to love) for the other but when it came down to it, at its core, bad buddy soars when the two come together and they choose to keep being together, despite everything that stands in their way.

Love is a choice. love is a sacrifice. but its also a sacrifice and a choice they made for themselves and for each other and above all for their relationship.

Almost all the couples mentioned above arrive at similar destinations but they arrive at it with years of experience and years of struggle. i just cant help marvel at our teenagers who did love better than whole ass adults double their age could.

And more importantly above the awe i feel inspired and hopeful because they showed me that there's always a choice. thats there's always another option. you dont need to get out of your comfort zone. but you also dont need to be in the comfort zone always. you dont need to keep lying to yourself. you dont need to hide every single part of you. there are always other options. there is always a choice.

That hope is not just a noun its also very much a verb. That you and i and each one of us can make that choice.

That if ever i choose to partner up with someone and if we do proper healthy communication (patpran invented healthy communication and consent btw, they deserve EVERYTHING for just that but thats a whole other post) prioritizing the relationship where it mattered, i too could have something ( even remotely) like their love.

For the first time in my life probably i felt like that kind of love was attainable for me if i wanted to pursue it. They gave me hope. and they gave me joy. and i will never not be unbelievably grateful for it.

[euclyta]

Well since you asked (and I've kinda been wondering about it) — what's chocobo's mystery dungeon like, especially compared to the pmd series?

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

im putting this under a readmore because i (redacted)

so i gotta give a bit of context first: there is an entire spin-off series of final fantasy games all protagonized by a tiny little chocobo. i bring this up first because there were two dungeon crawlers on the playstation- these set up the regular returning elements of the chocobo series (namely some main characters), and it even runs with the trend of having cid in every ff game!

the specific one i love is Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon, it was on the wii and its a very basic dungeon crawling, PMD-esque game, with a hunger meter, monster houses, etc. i think the thing that sets it apart from other dungeon crawlers gameplay-wise is that it has a job or class system much like mainline final fantasy games do, in which you unlock access to eight different jobs that completely change up the playstyle AND the difficulty of the game due to their own niches (my favorite job for example, white mage, is very high difficulty until endgame)

for me the main reason why i want more people to know about it and try to give it a chance even if its just via an emulator is the story. i might be biased here but i first played this game when i was 9 years old and it still lives rent free in my brain to this day (im 21 now for context)

to not give any spoilers, the main premise is that chocobo and cid are treasure hunters looking for a gemstone; upon finding it, they're suddenly transported to a town in seemingly a completely different world where the citizens constantly lose all their memories everytime the belltower rings

the very first night they spend in this world, a meteor crashes in from the sky, turning out to be an egg from which a baby is born. this baby then proceeds to somehow start bringing people's memories back by allowing chocobo to enter their minds

this is also why i think its such a cool concept, because it uses memories and people's minds as the main set up for dungeon crawling, even representing memories as scattered puzzle pieces. and everytime you are inside someone's memories, you can hear snippets of their thoughts as you go along, ending in the full memory being fully restored when you exit

there are a ton of memory dungeons, one for almost every npc in town, and they introduce a thing called "special rule" dungeons for non-story ones where you have to play with certain gimmicks the whole way through (1 hp, perma blindness, enemy gauntlet, stuff like that). and every single one has those snippets of lore and foreshadowing you gotta piece together, little by little, to understand the truth behind the town

for the characters, the cast is very colorful and i think everybody genuinely feels very human. granted the voice acting isnt the best but it adds so much to the charm of it. plus the designs and all the official artwork there is is just breathtaking (ive only now been noticing there are a few elements in my own art that are subconsciously inspired from this game's artstyle)

i HAVE to mention raffaello here because now that i have a bigger understanding of how tropes and storytelling work, i can say for sure that he is just so, SO crazily well written; its not all in the text, but all the worldbuilding comes together eventually and that's when it really hits

and of course i gotta bring up the soundtrack- its almost entirely comprised of arrangements of older final fantasy songs and each and everyone of them is MAGICAL. its remained as one of my favorite soundtracks for years, so much that i realized that the official disc release was incomplete and went out and put together all 42 songs in the highest quality i could to make sure it doesnt become lost (this is a very reocurring theme with this game in particular)

i want people to play it and i want to talk about it. partially its because this is my favorite game. but also because its been THIS close to being a major case of lost media. there are SO many things that have been lost to time because they were japan only or they were overwritten on the internet (including the entire japanese chocobo series website portal, thats like three different unique websites with tons of never saved artwork they nuked). so much of it i still remember but i have zero way to access it anymore and it eats me from the inside out.

its a common theme of things being lost to time with this game but its also incredibly sad and funny because the entire theme of the game is things being lost to time. ouroboros. time is a flat circle.

and... here is where i come in talking about the remake- chocobo's mystery dungeon everybuddy and why i heavily recommend the original over it

so... the original wii game had a japan only ds port with some new elements and stuff. but the main thing with it is that they changed a LOT of the story; same plot, different execution, to fit in with a ds format. the problem with this is that the remake was based off of this version and not the original one, which leads to a LOT of serious and emotional moments being gutted and sped through.

the gameplay itself is fine, they actually made it even more pmd-like by adding a companion system, and they upped the difficulty a lot if you dont know what youre doing. but the story changes genuinely kill it for me if im being honest. they retconned what made me sad about the ending at the cost of everything else (and even then im angry because that took away from the intensely emotional ending that still had me crying like a baby LAST WEEK)

in general though. i just think this game is so beautifully crafted. this game originally came out in 2007 and it still holds up SO well. the graphics are very cute and stylized, but everything is so detailed that every single part of the world feels lived in. the town is very small but i think its why it always feels like coming home. huge recommend and i refuse to die until ive convinced at least one person to play it through to the end (its been 12 years and im still trying)

[violentviolette]

In the context of supply and narc rage, do you have any thoughts on “narc highs”/“narc crashes”? Is there maybe a better way to phrase those? Are highs/lows/crashes just better off being described rather than used with short hand, regardless of whether or not we tack on the word “narc(issist)”. Actually, another addition - is there an aspd/bpd equivalent to the phenomena of emotion-specific buzzwords that don’t actually Help the person? So far, it seems like people latch onto emotion-buzzwords the most when it comes to npd. (I mean, maybe aspd/bpd rage but supply is almost always associated with npd.). I like reading your takes on this stuff

i think high/low/crash/spiral are still all fairly useful words, their meanings are used in many contexts and stay consistent across the board and do describe their specific emotional circumstances well. it's definitely always good to expand further on that for ur own sake, what kind of spiral, is it shame, embarrassment, failure, ect. but at least in my experience those havent had the same kind of negative or dehumanizing connotations that words like supply do. probably because they are used by so many other disorders as well, so it's harder to isolate and pigenhole them like that. but i do think adding "narc/narcissist" to them does kind of pathologize it a bit but thats a minor gripe and really moreso depends on the context of how its being used

i havent seen quiet as many buzzwords for aspd and bpd, but i think thats because most of the npd buzzwords were ones that got a lot of traction in narc abuse spaces and got popularized that way, and there isnt really the same kind of organized cult surrounding hating aspd and bpd. while narc abuse truthers do definitly go after people with aspd as well and rant on and on about "psychopaths" and "sociopaths" their language isnt as targeted towards aspd the way it is npd. there isnt quiet the same obsession with pathologizing and demonizing every single emotion and thought that ppl have, which is how u get so many buzzwords i feel like

cause i think that's really what differentiates something from being a useful new term to describe a unique experience, and a negative term that pathologizes every emotion and others/dehumanizes ppl. like, for example the word splitting for bpd is a much more universally accepted (at least from my understanding) term within the bpd community, and thats mostly because it originated with borderlines trying to describe their extreme emotional state. it's rooted in an emotion anyone can have, suddenly having ur emotions or feelings for someone change drastically, but the way it manifests and the intensity of it is unique for ppl with bpd and linked to their disordered and dysregulated emotions, and thus is a useful term. it describes what their emotions are doing, as opposed to describing some inherent negative need that only they have

whereas with something like supply, that isnt rooted in a human emotion or experience, and it forcefully dehumanizes the other non-npd person in the conversation which demonizes the narcissist. it has a negative connotation that says that what we are experiencing in that moment isnt a disordered or dysregulated emotion or an interpersonal dysfunction, but is instead a harmful need that cannot be fulfilled in a healthy way because the need itself is wrong. because "supply" as its defined is inherently harmful to the non-npd person, therefore ppl with npd should be denied it. but saying "actually supply is a human need that everyone has" doesnt really work, because it isnt. because the understood definition of supply is inherently disordered. it describes the shallow and often maladaptive attention and validation that we seek out in negative nad harmful ways out of desperation because we dont yet understand how to ask for, receive, and give ourselves, healthy validation and attention. supply as its understood is inherently harmful to the people its being taken from. and so u cant really disentangle it well in order to use it positively or in a way that promotes healthy growth and healing for ppl with npd. it's not a word that actually helps us describe our experience

and so to me i think thats why u dont see as many of these kinds of words surrounding other disorders, because for npd specifically, these words are being created with the intention to negatively pathologize and demonize all of our emotions and motivations in a way that dehumanizes us

[nonbinarykai]

Okay you know what, I’ve held this back far enough

Why I hate canon Kailor sm

Tw:// misogyny ment, incest ment

Im not gonna tag Kailor on this for obvious reasons plus this is kinda a long post, I don’t mind fanon Kailor mostly because tbh I don’t think it’s really a big thing and most I have seen of it is fine. Don’t read this if you like Kailor and don’t want to hear it bashed

Okay listen, s4 is my favorite season out of all ninjago, but if theres one thing I hate about it the most is Kailor. This ship has always been really annoying to me throughout the show, and I’ve hinted towards that in my blog. But why?

1. It’s basically jaya redone

Kailor brings nothing new or interesting to the table because honestly? It’s literally just the same dynamic as jaya. Socially awkward guy simps for usually unimpressed girl until she eventually caves in and they start dating.

Not only has this already been done before with jaya, but is also completely out of character for Kai to do.

While I admit seeing Kai as a flustered dork is kinda funny, once you realize the context of the situation that they’re in it’s pretty clear that Kai would never actually do this.

Reminder: Kai JUST found out his dead friend is alive and is forced to recognsizle with friends in order to get him back

Usually when Kai is presented in a situation like this, what he normally does is set himself dead first on the task at hand and usually ignores any distractions. He’s mostly distance and seemingly uncaring

((note this is after Zane died and Kai ran away from the ninja because of cole and jays bickering, knowing him he wouldn’t be the most excited to be back. His arc should have revolved around coming to terms with lost friendships due to death or distance but that never happens)).

What Kai DOESNT do is immediately fall head over heels for a girl he JUST meet to the point where even when he sees his DEAD FRIEND ALIVE AND WELL he completely ignores that for a girl he meet less then a week ago

This is something JAY would do, not KAI, Kai is a loyal friend who do anything to save his friends, he cherishes them and would fight god to help them with anything they need, he doesn’t forget them for someone new

It also does skylor unjustice as well, but we’ll get there when we get there

2. It adds nothing to the characters and is otherwise never mention again

You know how bad you fuck up a relationship if the best aspect of it is how it’s rarely on screen

Even considering the fact Kailor is just jayas dynamic, the connection between skylor and Kai feels completely non existent or one sided

Most of Kailor revolves around Kai simping for skylor

They have no common interests, common goals, they rarely actually talk outside of lloyds plan to overthrow chen

The whole relationship feels forced every time it’s brought up because of how disconnected they both are to eachother, Kai only likes skylor because she’s hot and that’s it, nothing else about her is actually interesting to Kai in anyway ((again sort out of character for him in this situation))

Skylor and Kai don’t form any genuine bond with eachother, it feels hallow and empty

Let’s compare this to lava, wait no that would be to easy, let’s compare this to pixane

Pixal and Zane both genuinely like and respect eachother, they both share bonds outside of being robots, they both care about eachother enough to know when they’re uncomfortable or need help

Kailor is barely mentioned past s4 and most of it in s4 is Kai being a creep

Oh yeah let’s get to that

3. It’s really really creepy

Im sorry I don’t find incest jokes funny ninjago, it’s just really uncomfortable and creepy

Hopefully this goes without saying but Kai thinking skylor is hot, figuring out they might be related and no longer finding her hot, and then finding out they aren’t and thinking she’s hot is really weird and creepy

Not to mention scenes like, Kai looking into her room without her knowledge or consent

Or Kai fighting people for her when it’s not necessary

Or him trying to impress her everytime he sees her

This isn’t cute or funny, it’s gross, privacy invading, and overall just very creepy and uncomfortable and most definitely not healthy

Again, this is REALLY out of character for Kai, Kai knows when to back off and respect people’s privacy

Literally the season before this he didn’t get involved in the love triangle probably because he knew that would make Nya’s situation worse

So for him to suddenly become this privacy evading perv is so grossly out of character for him and makes the whole relationship feel off and unhealthy

And finally

4. The whole thing is misogynistic

During this entire thing skylor doesn’t get a choice in the show once, she follows the commands of her dad before Kai tells her not to like her dad and follows his lead.

She doesn’t come to disliking her dad by her own thought, she was told to by Kai

She doesn’t get to do anything that SHE actually wants to do until LITERALLY the VERY END

She’s told by guys around her what she should do constantly, even without her being a love interest that’s just screams misogynistic to me ((Afab speaking anyways))

Everything about her character, down to the way she talks, who she’s allied with, and even sometimes how she looks is determined by male characters

Conclusion

If canon ships were shrek movies then kailor is easily shrek the third, a constant tired unfunny mess that caused everyone to think that these ships were shit ((to be fair Jaya is kinda bad to but at least it tired to get better))

There’s nothing redeeming about it to me, every time it’s viewed in a romantic setting it makes me groan or upset

What’s even more frustrating is how people constantly say lava can’t be canon because of it

Im going to go on a side tangent so you can just skip this part as it doesn’t add any actual substance to my argument

But it’s so frustrating to see people say that

Cole and Kai have had a much healthier relationship and would be a lot better for there characters

But no, this stupid misogynistic creepy ship where one side isn’t even consententing to it half the time is the one that has to stay canon because “it’s what the creators intended”

Lava isn’t the superior possibly canon relationship because it’s gay, it’s superior because it’s closer to a healthy working relationship in show then kailor has been ((fanon lava and kailor doesn’t count here because they’re isn’t any better fanon ship, Im just talking about in show))

But no it can’t be canon and it’s unfair for people to want it to be canon because tommy created this rlly shitty straight relationship for Kai instead

TLDR; fuck kailor