#they're giving connecticut clark and malfina

[katestrophic]

My take on the "bride and the ugly ass groom" redraw trend only it's my OC Cadence and her ugly ass groom Hort.

[girlboss-malewife-gauntlet-melee]

locklyle (book) propaganda:

Lockwood is a homeowner at age 15 and he wanders around it drinking tea and charming people into giving him yhings. Lucy carlyle is a hotheaded aggressive and EXTREMELY powerful agent in his ghost hunting company. They both get shit done but in OPPOSITE ways. They have an interesting way of rejecting traditional gendered tropes- the sensitive dude and the bullheaded girl- that is both simple and INTENSELY complicated within their narrative, which i think qualifies them for the title.

she is the protagonist of the series, a once in a generation prodigy, the most powerful listener since Marissa Fittes, the list goes on. He likes to drink pulpy orange juice and strain it throught his teeth to pretend to be a blue whale

Imagine a buff kind of irritated teenage girl with a sword. No, shes even cooler. That's better. Now imagine a rich preppy guy. No, thats too much like Patrick Bateman. Think Artemis Fowl. Ok youtr there. Hope yhis helps:)

they are PERFECT for each other. she recognises the subtleties in his smiles and he allows himself to be vulnerable in front of her

resting 😒 face x resting ☺️ face. they both have swords and live in a house together (along with their other friend and a disembodied head, but that's unrelated)

Malficlark Propaganda:

Malfina is a sexy powerful demoness and Clark is just. Some guy. From Connecticut. Safe to say he knows a thing or two about good ol fashioned Connecticut hospitality and homemaking.

You know them, I know them, it's everyone's favorite demoness and blob man back to share their love with the world once again.

they're iconic

[total-drama-brainrot]

Hello! About the fake dating!au, I was wondering how the episode Niagara brawls would play out if Alenoaheather was happening. Would Alejandro and heather still be paired up or would one of them be paired up with Noah?

Well, to be entirely honest, I haven't really thought too much on it yet. Mostly because it's still kind of up-in-the-air as to when Noah's elimination would take place in this AU. I think we've sort of settled on post-merge, so he would be present in the Niagara Falls challenges, but the timeline's still really vague so I personally haven't really invested any time in figuring out the semantics of how each episode would play out.

But since you asked, I might as well toss my hat into the ring! I'll just type out my thoughts as they come, so please excuse this response if it's a little all-over-the-place or formatted weirdly.

Off the bat, it's been fairly well established that the canon final four remains unchanged, so at the very least both Sierra and Cody are still present in this challenge; this is important, since in canon the only reason Heather ends up partnered with Alejandro is because Sierra is the one who rejects him as a husband first. I don't really see a reason to change the canonical play of events here, unless a brainstorming session later on down the line necessitates Noah being paired with either Heather or Alejandro for whatever reason. Mostly just because keeping as many "pre-written" plot points as possible lessens the workload on our shoulders (us, of course, being me and @perpetualexistence, and occasionally @ur-local-brown-multifandomist).

But that does leave the question of who Noah would be paired with.

And again, this would be super dependant on who's left in the competition at this point; since Noah's made it to the merge, we know someone has to have taken his place in the London elimination- just that small change could have potential consequences on all of the subsequent eliminations afterwards, so the merge cast might look almost completely different to World Tour's "official" line-up.

And this is also super dependant on whether or not it's Blaineley who wins the Aftermayhem challenge- I'm not sure if any of the others intend to swap her out for a more interesting/plot relevant contestant (which, as much as I do love Blaineley, she's just find of there with no real relevance to the story) like perhaps Lindsay, Leshawna or maybe even Beth- I assume it'd have to be a girl, since the show itself works to even out it's gender ratios, but it could hypothetically be anyone.

So Noah's partner could be... literally anyone, save for the Final Four (Alejandro, Heather, Sierra and Cody).

...Unless?

Now, don't judge me here, but I do kind of like the idea of Noah ending up with Heather as his partner. Maybe it's the vast potential of how their (entirely self-constructed, and self-indulgent) character dynamic could play out in this scenario, or maybe I just want the opportunity to write Noah trying and failing to pick up Heather, eventually leading to her being the one to carry him across the Falls tightrope like a pathetic, soggy kitten. Or maybe I'm just getting my Noaheather on- who knows?

All I'm saying is, they'd be giving a lot of Connecticut Clark and Malfina vibes and I'm so here for it.

And maybe I just want to see something new; there's so many explorations of how an Alenoah Niagara Brawls challenge would play out (and they're all wonderful, don't get me wrong!) so it's time to give some other pairings the spotlight!

Plus, this particular scenario would not only allow the contestants to see Heather and Noah acting like the "fake" couple they're supposed to be, but Alejandro could also play it as either a double-breach of his trust (since he's also supposed to be "fake" dating Noah, at least, and he has his whole romantic rivalry with Heather) or take advantage of his position and try to charm whoever he's partnered up with and either secure a valuable ally for later on down the road, or beguile his next elimination target into a false sense of security- since a huge part of Alejandro's character is his conniving flirtatiousness, and I don't want to completely negate that.

Now that I'm thinking about it, Alejandro's flirty nature could be a conflict point between himself and his partners. That's a thought for another time, though.

But, again, it's still very up-in-the-air and I don't really think I can give a definitive answer until a proper elimination order has been established- or, at the very least, the elimination order pre-merge. So, uh, sorry for the lack of a definitive answer!

[normalestenstars]

Are there any funny propaganda from the response of the google form? Just curious

not quite, but a handful of people explained their thought process. i'll put the ones that could potentially qualify as funny under the read more

Mao Don’t get me wrong, he’s a weirdo. But his weirdo behavior is balanced. He has a carefully constructed balance on the scales of weirdo and it hasn’t yet fallen over. It’s still precarious but slightly less so than the rest of these creatures. Go for it Mao!! Gain your normalcy if only by relativity!!

Jun Though his inferiority complex is bad, I think he is far more normal than anyone else on the list. He is just some guy that Hiyori picked up because he worked hard.

Midori Midori just gives me "just some guy" energy out of everyone. He has depression but so do I. He carries broccoli in his pockets but thats not harming anyone.

Kuro I'm only picking Kuro bc it was between Tomoya and Kuro but in reality whoever can deal with Wataru is definitely not normal

Tomoya loses points for being a theatre kid but that's like more normal than whatever all the others have going on so

Mao Mao is literally Just A Guy. Jun is also just a guy but he also knew kaname tojo personally ((side note: i love how this implies that you're a weirdo if you knew kaname))

Aira aira is just an average stan who uses twitter too much. we all know someone like this

Mao mao: the normaler he is the funnier ritsumao is. connecticut clark and malfina ((i don't know what this means. maybe this means something to someone))

Tomoya I would pick Mao but no sane person enjoy’s actually working so Tomoya it is

Mao mao is the only one for whom i couldn't pick a reason why they're fucked up

Tori i dont have any specific reasoning i can just Feel it ((live your truth tori voter... i pers don't think tori is THAT weird but maybe it's the toriP osmosis influencing me))

Adonis hes beat jun only on pure fact that hes not in EDEN

Tomoya He's just a closeted gay teenager

[yardsards]

why blupjeans deserves the win:

-lup is canonically a trans woman and it was handled so well and so respectfully.

-which normally cheering something on just because it's Representation™ is meh but. it's just so heartwarming to see a trans person be valued and loved so unconditionally. in this case, i'm referring to the romantic love between her and barry, but also the love that other characters and the creators themselves and the fanbase have for her

-they're outwardly the "the coolest woman imagineable and Literally Just Some Guy" trope but the good flavour of that trope, where he knows full well she's the coolest woman imagineable and is head over heels in love with her, and she's like "he's not *just* some guy he's *my* some guy"

-barry is the Wife Guy of all time

-he loved her so strongly that his title in a prophesy about their group was literally "the lover"

-you like slowburns? these two took like FIFTY YEARS (whilst trapped in a sort of time loop/cycle of repeated apocalypses) to get together officially

-and the scene where they finally got together? beautiful. immaculate. they composed and performed a beautiful duet together commemorating their love

-the scene included a monologue that made me cry once:

"Our capacity for love increases with each person we cross paths with throughout our lives, and with each moment we spend with those people. But, too often we neglect that part of ourselves in favor of others. And by the time we realize just how important that is, we find ourselves with fewer folks around to practice with. But the seven of you have something that nobody else ever had: time. All the time in the world. Time enough to grow indescribably close. Time enough to- to learn how to care for each other, how to allow yourselves to be cared for. And in the case of Barry and Lup, time enough to fall deeply and truly in love. "

-watch this scene if you're curious and willing to listen to 6 spoiler-filled minutes of a podcast you've presumably not listened to before https://youtu.be/R6Ze7EFY8Wo

-on top of their "badass arsonist gf x weird nerd bf" thing, they ALSO have a "mad scientist wizard gf x mad scientist wizard bf" thing goin on. she's a nerdy coolgirl and he's the world's weirdest normalguy. there's Layers.

-these two decided to skip the normal people marriage step and instead elected to become liches together (as a tool to help them save the world but also possibly additionally as a failsafe for after they break the time loop thing, because he's a human and she's an elf who would outlive him by centuries otherwise)

-it was really sweet and they used their love for each other (as well as their bonds with their family) as anchors to keep their souls intact instead of becoming corrupted by the ritual

-as someone in the tags put it: they put the romance in necromancy

-at the end of the story they become immortal reapers for the goddess of death

-(and yet somehow they still retain their connecticut clark and malfina type vibes throughout all this)

-she goes missing for a DECADE and gets her soul sealed away and he never gives up on trying to find her

-he chooses to DIE (albeit kinda temporarily bc lich) instead of having his memories of her stolen away

-all the while, he clings to his love for her as a tether to keep his lich form stable as his family loses their memories of him and he faces extreme isolation and acute knowledge of the upcoming end of the world

-the first message lup manages to speak to her family while her soul is sealed away is a plea for them to trust barry

-there's a period of time between them being reunited where he has a body but she's still a ghostly lich and he offers to blow himself up just so he can hold her. then, after she gets her body back, one of the first things she says to him is "i'm gonna smooch your fuckin brains out". they are both so fucking Weird.

-but at the end of it all, they survived numerous apocalypses and years of separation and they manage to find a happy ending together and it's just so so sweet

[zosonils-art]

yo new mega man oc just dropped!! drum is a wily equivalent to roll the same way bass is a wily equivalent to rock. a handful of friends helped me think up a BUNCH of lore for her over the course of only about a day and i'm rotating her in my brain so hard at the moment i'll put it under a cut for convenience's sake but if you're interested here's a whole lotta stuff about her :O

in case the name pun wasn't immediately clear they're 'drum and bass' the same way their equivalents are 'rock and roll' lmao. since bass' name was changed from forte in localisation, i'd name her piano in a theoretical japanese dub [for those unaware, piano and forte are the musical terms for quiet and loud respectively]

her job is basically to keep things organised over at wily castle number whatever, whether that's by doing housework or evading wily's taxes for him or telling the latest eight robot masters her dad brought home what to do. like how bass' role as a combat robot leads him to being a hyper-aggressive, short-tempered blood knight, drum's role as an organisation bot makes her a bossy and overbearing control freak

despite their similarities, and as opposed to their lightbot counterparts' sweet and healthy sibling relationship, drum and bass fucking HATE each other with the kind of passion only siblings can. they're always butting heads over trivial things like who should do the dishes or whose turn it is on the xbox or who treble loves more [it's drum because she feeds him scraps from cooking when bass' back is turned lmao]. the only people they hate more than each other are their dad and mega man. the whole wily family dynamic is supposed to be something of a sad mirror image of the light family, where instead of the siblings being best friends and having a loving, supportive dad who'll always be proud of them it's a more pessimistic situation where the siblings are at each other's throats over everything except their mutual hatred of their even meaner father figure

i promise there's more to her than just parallels to other characters lmao but as opposed to her dad's bitterness towards light driving every war crime he commits or her brother's unhealthy obsession with being better than rock, drum very quickly came to the conclusion that she is and always will be inherently better than a lowly servant robot like roll and unlike SOME PEOPLE IN THIS FUCKING FAMILY she doesn't need to commit acts of heinous unprovoked violence left and right to prove it to herself. if anything she's insulted at being compared to roll and gets angrily defensive when the comparison is made

HOWEVER. the lads and i decided that perhaps drum and roll could end up being friends somehow - not sure how that'd come about aside from 'one time roll said 'why are you such a bitch' to drum's face and drum was so impressed at the sheer audacity that she legitimately started to respect roll' but it'd be so cute if they had a big/little sister dynamic..... one day drum realises that despite her best efforts she's developed genuine affection towards the less shooty of light's brats and she's like fuck. okay. how did i get here. eventually she begrudgingly accepts that she and the kid are ride or die now and decides to make the most of it by teaching roll swear words

while drum isn't supposed to fight, she's equipped with a standard arm buster, and her own treble adaptor in case she desperately needs some extra firepower. she heavily relies on fighting smarter rather than harder, but she probably wouldn't be able to hold out for long against a stronger opponent like mega man, even with the boost from treble

due to them both having the adaptor, drum and bass can fuse together with treble [but not on their own]. in theory the combined trio would be a hell of a force to be reckoned with, but in practice since drum and bass hate each other so much they can barely hold themselves together for long enough to spit out a bullet hell pattern before their nonstop bickering either renders treble-boosted d&b immobile from their own infighting like the archie comics doc robot or causes them to fall apart completely because one of them wants to yell at the other more efficiently. if something does drive them to put aside their differences for a fight, though, watch out

drum has the same voice as malfina the demon witch [wife of clark from connecticut]

she would unironically use 'dweeb' as an insult. in general i think drum talks like the mean emo older sibling in a narm-riddled coming of age movie from the mid-2000s

she's lead guitarist in an edgy teenage garage band with mix and level, a friend's extremely cool and awesome ocs. sometimes she also does vocals, other times she brings her little sister the blonder of the light lab brats along and gives her the honour of scream-singing the lyrics to [BAND NAME TBD]'s latest hit, Shut Up Dad