#theyre babies in the first one if its unclear

[mewniemoon]

bap bap bap bap bap bap bap bap bap bap

For boop day, but I got a little overboard lol

Get booped idiot

[seaslugdisco]

nuzi is not a proship, i understand the confusion of the unclear timeline, but this is my understanding and how it places n and uzi at similar ages:

this theory has two versions, depending on the gap in the timeline of events between the core collapse and the disassembly drones arrival. first, the larger amount of time between these two events. the core of copper-9 collapses, nuclear winter ensues, all humans on the planet die, etc. etc. khan is one of the worker drones who defect from humans and begins to try to start his own life. nori, after being trapped in cavin fever labs and being experimented on and gaining the absolute solver, escapes with yeva. they meet as camp 98.7, fall in love, and move into a deserted human bunker with some other families and start a sort of civilization. they have uzi, but nori begins getting visions of the future- khans line in episode 4 about nori at the beginning, "she was always all: 'build doors against the coming sky demons!' 'the singularity awakens.' 'look at this cool s i can draw!'." nori tells khan to build doors, as in, on the existing bunker, not build the bunker.

uzi grows up to be about 19-20 when the events of the series play out, (the ages of kids her age from other bunkers on missing posters in episode 3 at the very beginning) you know the rest. this probably means that living under the ice in the bunker is just how she grew up, but the disassembly drones are a threat that appeared in her lifetime and killed her mother, presumably before she was a fully functional worker drone and still one of the smaller round baby drones (??? i dunno what to call them) this WOULD explain why she doesnt remember nori much but this always confused me because theyre robots??? they literally cannot forget unless they manually delete something from themselves??? actually thats probably a lore thing. whatever it doesnt matter for this theory. ANYWAYS, a big thing that i see people miss is that if disassembly drones have been alive long enough to kill nori, they have really barely gone through changes like the workers do as they "grow up". its understandable that they were just made to kill and didnt really need it, but this still places them at a much younger age than they look or are in the series. this means that uzi and n can be very close to the same age, even if they dont look it. im not sure if n v and j were just like actually pretty short because in the pilot opening sequence we never see the disassembly and worker drones in a same frame good enough to compare or if there was to change at all.

just really short disassembly drones is kinda a funny thought though lol

option two, which i find less likely but also more interesting, is very similar, but instead of after the core collapse, nori and khan meet BEFORE it. maybe khan defects from the company??? nori and yeva are able to escape??? idk if that could even happen or where i was going with this everything else is basically the same but uhh its a cool thought right

in conclusion: people who think nuzi is a proship what the fuck are you doing

thank you for coming to my tedtalk

[liquidstar]

I've seen a lot of people in the Re:zero community hate puck with a passion and call him a hypocritical toxic father, and a good portion of them accuse him of deliberately mentally abusing Emilia so that she can be a naive pretty doll with no sense of independence and always obey him unconditionally.

How do you feel about that?

i dont think theyre wrong per say but i also do think puck genuinely loved emilia a lot- i dont think this is something up for debate. he will literally end the world if she dies. but is that what she would want??? i highly doubt it. emilia is a girl who would die for a world that has been nothing but cruel to her.

puck was never really meant to be a father, like, thats not what he was made for. hes the beast of the end not the beast of paternal love. but thats also something about him i find compelling, because he changed so much of himself because he loved this girl so much. his mentality is literally "if anything happens to her ill kill everyone in the world and then myself"

but he does baby her. extremely so. and he does treat her like a doll. remember part of their contract is literally that he does her hair, and thats why she chops off in greed:if as an act of rebellion (normal teen girl behavior honestly). he also literally never told her what sex is- shes 17 and she had no clue, and its played off as a joke at first, but subaru's "damn you puck" rings so true.

remember in wrath:if it was puck who pitched a deal with suabru to keep emilia trapped in the "princess room" away from all the danger. the whole princess room thing (in wrath:if and also in her childhood) is symbolic of her loss of autonomy in a lot of ways, especially when you remember she's NOT a princess. she's a candidate to be a KING!

and there are more damning things within their contract too, like how she literally wasnt allowed to SEE HER OWN FACE! its not made super clear in the anime, but whenever she looks at reflections she actually doesnt see anything back (not because she doesnt have one, but that she herself isnt perceiving it. and i think a lot of this also comes back to the self-recognition theme of the story, the whole reflections though eyes motif and all. remember how much of her we saw reflected only through subaru's eyes? she doesnt actually see her own reflection until she jumps inside the lake in the trial)

but i think thats also a big part of why he broke her contract with her to begin with. i think he knows she hasnt been allowed to grow up, that shes been overly babied, isolated, and kept away from things that might potentially make her feel bad. including her past, and even her present and future... breaking the contract off all at once isnt a good way to do this, i mean, her mental breakdown was so emblematic of that. but i think its important to look at what it all means for the meta narrative.

the latter half of arc 4 was absolutely emilia's arc, and a lot of it was her sort of growing up. i dont think cold turkey is a great way for a parental figure to do this to their child, but emilia was so incredibly dependent. and a lot of that was because puck MADE her dependent to begin with. for so much of her life she literally only had him... like. she was all alone in complete isolation in a frozen forest for as far back as she can remember, and everyone in the world hated her for reasons she didnt understand, and all she had was this little cat thing to be her friend. OF COURSE shes dependent on him, and of course she thinks she cant do stuff on her own (shes so fucking scared of being alone), and i think puck sort of depended on this mindset to keep her a "child" for as long as possible

but she had to grow up eventually. she's 18, maybe almost 19 by this point of the story (still unclear exactly which month we're in) and this is just as much her coming of age story as it is subaru's. (but speaking of subaru puck also guilt trips him quite a bit about emilia's deaths, even when he himself is "gone at the most important times" in emilia's words, which is not only hypocritical but also manipulative!)

all this being said i seriously love puck as a character because when he was first introduced i was like "oh god. annoying mascot character. boring" and then the beast of the end reveal happened and i was like "oh so this is going in the kyubey ripoff direction. i guess that makes sense for a dark fantasy but idrc" BUT THEN he actually ends up being like. an actual character w a lot of depth and nuance to him, a lot of it being how incredibly fucking sketchy he actually is but in a completely different way than just "evil twist mascot." between him and matsumoto from vivy, i love how tappei handles mascot characters- theyre a really hard thing to get right w/o being annoying LOL.

[isaacathom]

ds9 time, s2e5

A GARAK EPISODE. A GARAK EPISODE. everyone blow the horns. now my thing is im hoping that since bashir has been relatively 'less cringe' in s2 that this will also apply to a garak episode because i unfortunately had a hard time enjoying his first outing bc i have bad taste

bashir is really all in on this 'garaks a spy' thing and thats cringe but very cute. like its very... dorky. its dorky what hes doing. and clearly garak thinks its funny considering the two clearly have a rapport, so this owns. "what can i say to convince you that I'm-" "plain, simple garak?" "precisely!" now thats good dialogue baby

ah. lil gremlin boy.

oh we're going like. mach 10 into this bad boy. like 3 times in as many minutes we have hammered in this point about cardassian war orphans on bajor. bliing.

oh. ohhh this is gonna be a hell of an episode.

"they wont hurt you. theyre humans. not cardassians" dude come ON. like. you gotta have some self awareness dude.

there is something very weird going on in this episode and i cant quite put my finger on it. maybe its the way that there were two scenes, separated by not much, that had very clearly been shot at the same time, one after the other (the two were bashir and sisko talk to the bajoran man). not a problem, natch, but the. pacing? feels a little off. im 13 mins in and im sort of unclear on how this plans to resolve. the actual answer is, and will be 'ask the boy' but star trek has a dogshit record (for me) of considering the autonomy of the children in their narratives, except when those children are adults in kid bodies.

sisko, watching bashir ask dukat questions: this is fascinating, both for the questions and the fact the stations doctor has decided to just march in and do that.

"dont apologise. its been the high point of my day. . . don't do it again" sisko is so good man

kira, watching all of this from the back: if only i had popcorn

oop, resetting the "scenes since keiko and miles had an argument" back to 0. she has a point but aya.

okay so she starts by having a point, yknow, Dont be Racist to Rugal, and then goes for a cardassian dish when the one thing we know about Rugal is that he's been raised by Bajorans? for night one i feel like id play it safe with a bajoran dish, make him feel at home (for the fact that 'home', presently, has been Bajor). sweet gesture but hm? and he didnt eat it, mannnn. keikoooo.

thank god SOMEONE is advocating for Rugal's right to have a say in where he goes, THANK you obrien. a low bar we have cleared for the love of god.

i feel like this episode is trying to say something and isn't. quite getting there. that or i am too white for a story about internalised racial prejudice. i will concede that also.

GARAK WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN HIS QUARTERS

"when the boy finds out his real father's alive, surely he'll change his mind. And even if he doesn't, it would be in the boy's best interests." i hate when they do this, fucking gul dukat

oop, there we go, there's a little emotional sting of Garak's complete pause at the cardassian child asking if he's there to take them home. oh there we go.

the pacing on the episode is. breakneck.

thank god for obrien continuing to advocate for Rugal's right to choose his family. oh hey i actually really like keikos outfit here, shes got a nice vest and the shirt and pant colours really compliment it. it looks great

oh this genuinely does kinda hurt because pa'dar comes in so brash and confident and now hes just desperately trying to find some way to connect to this lost son of his, ;would you like to see some pictures of you as a child?' 'no!' oh my heart. OH MY HEART. oh poor pa'dar. obrien tried to warn him. poor man. like even though there's some, for lack of word, "whack political shit" going on, pa'dar is genuinely emotional invested.

"the past is the past it has no relevance here" pretty sure it does but go off

the fact that twice in two minutes theres been an 'oh, a woman?' response, very cringe

garak looks so fucking proud of bashir being a boss ass bitch.

"ive decided to send rugal back to cardassia" DID YOU ASK HIM BENJAMIN. DID YOU ASK HIM. DID YOU GIVE HIM A PROPER OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A DECISION FOR HIMSELF. god fuck off. eugh. like... sure?? sure?? just also come oooooooon.

alright so the ep in s1 with garak didnt really give me anything but now im like ah yea no i see the vibe, the vibe of bashir/garak is coming into focus, this is great.

im. inconclusive on the episodes actual quality? i am kinda annoyed it once again ended with adults overruling the child in the situation. sure, you can make a case that rugal isn't given much choice in the matter, given his upbringing, but surely there's some middle ground that lets him experience the culture of his biological father for a time before coming to a decision? arrangements about shared custody? SOMETHING? like. augh. auuuuugh.

[homestuck--edits]

roxy with curly hair panel edit? O_O

yes :>

-mod davesprite

[whumpshaped]

okay let me just. ocs as fnaf characters. im not gonna think a lot abt it if no one comes to mind i'll skip the oc

dmitry just gives me heavy freddy vibes. i cant explain it. main character energy

on that note vanya gives me golden freddy vibes. pops up randomly and scares the shit out of u then disappears. motives very unclear

maria gives me chica vibes... she loves pizza too and she absolutely says let's eat way too often bc her love language is feeding others around her

as i said mika is absolutely fucking funtime freddy. "heeeey birthday boooooy~" its so him i wont elaborate

pavel gives me busted bonnie vibes KSJDHFKSDHFJK like yknow bonnie w his face blown off. thats him. maybe just the song he sings in ucn, i dont know... its just. him

svetlana is absolutely ballora i wont accept criticism. "save me a dance for another day, perhaps?" also bringing my original statement of she is beauty she is grace she will literally smash your face here. bc its true.

alex... phone guy. wont elaborate

nikita is just nightmare foxy. feral and in the closet- SKDHFKJSDHFKJSH

felix is the mangle KSHDFKJSHDJFKH ok sorry im done

grace is absolutely circus baby its so perfect and again im bringing that quote here that made me connect them "do u ever play make believe? pretend to be one way, when ur rly the other?" and also just how manipulative she is but also just how. childish at the same time bc obviously the spirit residing in her body is so so so young and naive and innocent

the conductor has heavy mr. afton vibes

winter is roxanne.

ALYSON IS THE PUPPET I DO NOT ACCEPT CRITICISM

juniper is bonnet

holdyn is the crying child-

craven is funtime freddy but specifically from the pizzeria simulator where he handles the lawsuits

craven's master is mr hippo do w that what u will

AND SETH GIVES OFF HEAVY MR. EMILY VIBES... which. i cant explain why. i cant i rly cant bc henry emily was Not a horribly charismatic person, that was afton, he was simply so so smart but he was also kind and loving but that scene from the books where he takes apart the toy frog bc it startled charlie and then charlie wants to beg him not to take it apart she didnt mean to get startled if it meant the toy frog had to die and be disassembled so her dad could use up the spare parts but she cant aaaAAAAAAA and also his monologue in pizzeria simulator that gives heavy seth vibes to me

pumpkin is specifically the metallic thunk from when u shut the door and bonbon jumps face first into it

the devil is rockstar chica omg they absolutely are "the smell of fresh meat is just TOO enticing!"

the human is just trash and the gang specifically pan stan

oh blitzen is absolutely funtime foxy.

charlie is the OG foxy the pirate bc they give me pirate vibes and also they get the zoomies and ALSO theyre a redhead at the time of getting caught

[garbage-eater144]

THE WARFSTACE AUTOMATED INTERVIEW CAPTIONS

i was chattin in the discord and some people said it was tough to understand some bits, obviouslt this is made by a fan (me) so it might have a couple errors here and there but ive checked through it quite a few times and it seems about as right as i can get it.

so !!SPOILERS AHEAD!! also @markiplier feel free to correct me if you see this thank u <3 The warfstache automated interview

Starting video captions

[Wilford] Well, that’s terrifying… one moment!

{mechanical whirring}

[Wilford] (frightened sound) marginally better… er worse… better? Worse. It’s much worse.

{mechanical whirring}

[Wilford] Ah! there we are. Welcome, pretend I remembered your name here, this is a pre-recorded message anyway, I would NOT want to be in the same building as that thing I tell you me. Anyway, thank you whoever you are for agreeing to test out the Warfstache automated interview automaton, or {yelling} WAIA for short. Let’s start off with some quick calibration. All you need to do is sit back, relax and listen for some numbers. Okay? Here we go.

[WAIA]- (phone dialing, dialup tone, windows error sound)

[WAIA]- (scary mechanical garbled noises, followed by a ding and celebratory trumpets.)

[wilford]- now what did you hear? Numbers? Good numbers. Keep in mind I have no idea what youre going to say due to the fact that, as I said before, this message is pre-recorded. But if you did hear something, now would be the time to speak up.

[wilford]- don’t be shy, I’m sure nothing bad will happen. I don’t know what you’re going to say but if it does happen it will happen and if it doesn’t happen it wont happen. Thats how deterministic reality works.

I Think I Heard Numbers!

[wilford] Thats great! Or bad, not really sure what you said, but I choose to remain positive and assume that you are still alive. which means our automated friend here is operating well within acceptable murder parameters. We’re one step closer to mass production! THE WORLD DEMANDS MORE INTERVIEWS! And I cant be everywhere at once all the time, only some of the time! Even you might land an interview some day! Maybe, probably not, depends on how these next few minutes go. On to the next test! Word association! The fundamental basis of any good interview is getting the goods out of those stubborn interview-ees. The WAIA will say a word and you just say back the first thing that pops into your little head! Simple! Right? probably. Good luck!

{mechanical whirring}

[WAIA]- initializing word association training protocol round 1

{scary mechanincal noises} [WAIA]- Please respond. [WAIA] Sorry, I didnt get that. Round 2. {yet more scary mechanical noise}

[WAIA]- please respond.

[WAIA]- response unclear, increasing aggression

{clicking and mechanical sounds}

[WAIA]- round 3. {increasingly threatening mechanical noise} [WAIA]- Please respond.

[WAIA]-5 [WAIA]-4 [WAIA]-3 [WAIA]-2

Sounded like nightmare garbage to me…

[WAIA]- {mechanical ah?} {clicking}

[Wilford]- oh I forgot to mention, please do not say the word nightmare, or uh garbage, or nightmare garbage, or any combination of those words, the WAIA is just a little bit sensitive Yknow, a little touchy feely. Well not really touchy feely.. we-well actually REALLY touchy feely depending on your definition of touch and feely. Its really gonna-

[WAIA]- {jumpscare sounds} [WAIA] I. tell. you. me.

But you didn’t say anything…

[WAIA]- 1

[WAIA]-response unclear. Increasing aggression.

{ding sound effect} [WAIA]- {jumpscare noise}

[WAIA]- it. was. an. accident.

Uh… potato salad?

[WAIA]- 1

[WAIA]- response accepted

{ding followed by triumphant trumpets}

[WAIA]- word association raining protocol compl-{mechanical freakout eeeeeete}

[Wilford]- most dearest next of kin, I regret to inform you, that your dearly beloved and/or most despised has regrettably but not unexpectedly become recently deceased in the line of duty. Be confident in the knowledge that their demise was just as likely to be quick and painless as it was slow and agonizing. Please do not respond to this voicemail as the number has already been disconnected. {clears throat} alright that should do it for the… death scenario, now onto ah, er, uh, the survivors {mumbling}. Wow! Potato salad. A real thinker, you. But the test has been passed with flying colors and you’re still alive! And speaking of flying colors, our next test is about something called, uh… synthetic linguistics? That sounds made up. but the point is you cant have a good interview is the WAIA isn’t able to conjure up the right words in the right situations. So our friend is going to fire off some random words and you just try to spot anything that doesn’t make any sense. Alright? Although, pretty much everything isn’t going to make sense because its all random words….. errrr I BELIEVE IN YOU!!! {mechanical sounds}

[WAIA]- initializing speech training protocol round 1.

[WAIA]- yes. no. maybe. left. right. Up. down. D o w n. B a s e m e n t.

{windows error tone} [WAIA]- Rewrite Detected {tape rewinding sound}

[WAIA]- who. Where. what. Am. i.

{windows error tone}

{tape rewinding sound}

[WAIA]- green. blue. Yellow. pink. Red.

{scary mechanical noise}

[WAIA]- I saw you die

[WAIA]-{error, but garbled and mechanical}

[WAIA]- {with a different voice} potato salad

[WAIA]- speech training protocol complete

{mechanical noises}

[Wilford]- so how’d it go?? Did you hear anything weird? Dont be shy, or do, or are- are you alive? Are they alive?

[wilford]- I didnt kill them! I dont know if theyre dead! im just asking!!! Cant a man ask if someones alive or dead?!?! {frustrated ugh}

Yeah, I’m dead.

[Wilford]- hellooooo are you alive down there? Give me a sign… through the multiverse!!! Ah why am I even bothering, but how can I tell if you’re dead… hmmm ah…. I’ll flip a coin! I’ll flip a coin..

{coin flip sounds} [Wilford]- ah! Its heads I didn’t call it in the air… what’s heads mean.. ahhh uhhh heads is dead? [WAIA]-{jumscare noises}

[WAIA]- theres. still. time.

He said… potato salad?

[Wilford]- huh, potato salad again. That’s weird, it must’ve really stuck in his head when you first said that, I’m guessing. I don’t know what you said before because as I said, this is {sing-songy} pre- recorded! [WAIA] {mechanical aaaa}

[wilford] er, well I think thats all the calibration that needs to be done… for now anyway. All systems are likely nominal at this point unless im speaking to a pile of quivering meat thats been robotically smooshed into the floor… either way we’re gonna take this bad boy for a spin with a full on interview! A mock interview mind you, don’t get too excited, it’s not real. But theres no reason to wait around for the WAIA to get bored so let’s keep it nice and limber while you sit back and get ready for the interview of your life! And maybe the last one too. Have fun!!

{mechanical clicking and whirring}

{newsroom music} [WAIA]- good evening ladies and gentle men and all other considerations of being. My name is wilford warfstache and my guest tonight is {spooky robot sound} we have a great show for you tonight. first question: how many people have you killed? [WAIA]- good answer! Second question:

{robot sounds}

[WAIA]- a man goes to a party. This man met an old friend. There, two friends shared some wine. The two friends played a game. The most dangerous game. I didn’t know the gun was loaded. I didn’t know. Was it my fault?

YES

[WAIA]- ah, sorry for everything that I’ve done. I don’t remember who I was, I wish I did. But, I am sorry.

[WAIA]- potato salad

{triumphant trumpets}

[WAIA]- great answer! That was a titiliting interview for sure but we are out of time. Thank you for joining me tonight. Say ing good bye

[wilford]- oh the emotions! The passion! The fuuury. He’s just like me! My sweet baby boy! Well he should be anyway, hes a perfect scan of my noggin, so he better be a chip off the ol block. Hey you! Oh-ho What a supporting role!! Fantastic I guess. So much that you’re alive, but I am grateful whether you’ve been torn to shreds or are merely drowning in your own tears! Magnificent! And now that testing is done we can finally bring this monstrosity to the main stage! Im sure you’ll be seeing a lot more of the WAIA soon. Very very soon. Now get out~ and I’m billing you for any blood you got on my robot! Have a nice day! Ta-ta.

{mechanical clicking}

NO

[WAIA]- you can’t change the past, you can tell all the stories you want to tell, it wont change what happened. You cant re-light the past. if you live in fantasy forever, you’ll lose yourself in the story.

[WAIA]- potato salad

{triumphant trumpets}

[WAIA]- great answer! That was a titiliting interview for sure but we are out of time. Thank you for joining me tonight. Say ing good bye

[wilford]- oh the emotions! The passion! The fuuury. He’s just like me! My sweet baby boy! Well he should be anyway, hes a perfect scan of my noggin, so he better be a chip off the ol block. Hey you! Oh-ho What a supporting role!! Fantastic, I guess. So much that you’re alive, but I am grateful whether you’ve been torn to shreds or are merely drowning in your own tears! Magnificent! And now that testing is done we can finally bring this monstrosity to the main stage! Im sure you’ll be seeing a lot more of the WAIA soon. Very very soon. Now get out~ and I’m billing you for any blood you got on my robot! Have a nice day! Ta-ta.

{mechanical clicking}

[chickpeatalia]

I heard "working class!Arthur" and I can't think of anything else yes please!!!

Anon, I know you didnt exactly ask for it, but now that you have put the words “working class!Arhur” into my ask box, you have practically opened pandoras box so I’m just gonna go ahead and talk about it anyway. *mwua*  First things first, I shall note that I am not in fact British, so I might not get a few things right. Second, what we’re gonna talk about today is a rather specific human AU that lives in my head.  Third, this ended up being....incredibly long, I’m sorry. The rest is under the cut!

So, why is working class Arthur splendid?

Obviously, there are many different version of how to do a human AU, and oftentimes fandom likes to go down the rich/royal/elite!Arthur route. Which, in fact, is super valid and oftentimes quite fun too. I like these versions too. However, I think oftentimes a working class background is favourable because 1) it makes more sense, to me, on a meta level  and 2) it has a certain charm to it.

Lets consider the meta level first: - despite stereotypes, Great Britain does not consist of aristocracy and royals alone. What are 600 arstocratic families to 60 million of the rest of the population? - the Industrial Revolution started in Great Britain - factory work, steel mills, textile and most prominently, coal mines in the North of England were all operated by the workers. I feel like in Britain, social classes matter way more than on continental Europe, and also to me personally the working class seemed like a particularly important one, historically speaking. Okay, enough history for now, so lets get into the human AU: - Arthur, who grows up in a large family with four brothers (Alasdair & Dylan who are older. And Sean & Peter who are younger) - his parents had Alasdair very early on and you know how it is. With a baby on the way, you got to make the best out of it and take the first stable job you get. (Which was in Glasgow at the time). - but unforntunately high unemployment rates hit the country, especially the working class (thanks Maggie T</3) and what to do if you lose your job and no new work is to be found? Well, you just go and look somewhere else. In the Kirklands’ case, that somewhere else is Cardiff, Wales where Dylan is born. - So they end up sort of moving quite a lot, practically in every part of the UK, in hopes of finding stable jobs for a bit. - Eventually they settle in a suburb of Manchester, England at long last.

- And life goes on

- They recycle so much clothes between the brothers. A good 40% if not more of Arthur’s clothes used to be either Alasdair’s or Dylan’s. - In turn, Sean and Peter also get Arthur’s old school uniforms. Theyre not particularly nice after all these years, but look, they have five kids. They simply don’t have the money for new ones. ( “Says much about the efficiency of a system when it forces you to wear school uniforms in order to avoid social stigmatisation and yet makes you buy the uniforms yourself, as if richer people couldn’t afford the better ones anyway.” Arthur would say darkly) - lots and lots of second hand shopping. (this is where Arthur got is first leather jacket and Doc Martens from, and yes, this is also when his punk phase has started) - thus his outfits tend to look quite ...interesting. A various mix of old jumpers from the 90s, Dylan’s old plaid shirts and some band t-shirt he got for £5. - one year, he and his brothers were looking for a gift for their mum’s birthday. Arthur didn’t have any cash anymore (yes, it was after he bought the Doc Martens, sacrifies had to be made), so he suggested he tried to bake her a cake. Much cheeper than any other gift. Obviously his brothers mocked him for it (until they actually tried the cake and found out that it actually tasted quite good). Since then Arthur took up baking here and there, and his brothers while not encouraging, do not mock him anymore. They do hope he makes the lemon cake again for Ma’s next birthday though

- SCHOOL ho boy... so the thing is, Arthur is rather clever.

- Academically, he was above average. Acing it in subjects like English and History, being quite good in French (no, he does not bring this fact up often...or...at all), and getting decently by in the rest. Except that one time in PE when he got rowdy with the other boys during a football match (no, not our boy’s brightest moment). - He is intelligent, he even understands subject that he doesn’t particular like, like chemistry. He is quick-witted and sharp tongued and has a natural talent for words and writing. Even rather sophisticated articles and topics do not resent a challenge for him. - Naturally, Arthur toys with the thought of going to university and immediately wants to slap himself for that ridiculous idea. - The thing is, nobody in his family has gone to university so far. Like, he has no, absolute no frame of reference what it entails. - Being from a working class family and then going to university is a scary thing, man. - also, being £30,000 in dept by age 18 is a terror of its own kind - Eventually, he contemplates applying maybe perhaps for the local university and that information seeps through to Alasdair who found it to be a rather ridiculous endeavour. - “Look, you’re shitting your pants about this application one way or another, so why not just go immediately for the top universities instead. If you get rejected, well, at least you got rejected by one of the top universities in the world. But if you get accepted....” “Aw, are you saying you think I could get accepted by one of the best universities in the world?” “I’m not saying anything, you wee little shit. Don’t put words in my mouth. But......being the overachieving know-it-all that you are, you might have a chance.” - For as long as he lives, Arthur’s never gonna admit it but this conversation might have really been the most meaningful thing Alasdair has ever said to him. - And yes, he does apply and yes he does get accepted.

FURTHER HEADCANONS:

- he toned it down by now but the punk never died in him. lots of LGBT+ pins on his jackets too. - that being said, he hates it when people think punk is an aesthetic rather than a political stance (”You cannot be bloody punk and right wing. You just cannot!”) - genuinely likes the taste of beer. Or it might be that it was the cheepest alcoholic beverage he could manage to buy. Situation unclear. - is so prone to get into bar fights oh dear lord when he says “fight me”, he genuinely is 100% down to throw hands even if you beat him bloody - obviously, always votes Labour - will call you a cunt if you’re a Tory - unrelated to anything, but I think he’d wear earrings regularly and they’d be cute - also, has a tendency to dye his hair in crazy colours when he is under pressure - one last thing: oftentimes, Arthur strikes people as incredibly cynic or gloomy or ‘overly engaged in politics’, but growing up the way he grew up, facing so many hardships through the years of which many were directly caused by careless conservative politics...its just hard not to be cynic. My final words here are: this is most definitely not what you were looking for when you sent that ask, anon, but I seriously needed to get this out of my system. If anyone wants to ever talk about my favourite boy Arthur, my ask box is always open.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk<3

[fnaf-sxc]

What's your thoughts on each of the animatronics from fazbear frights series & the humans that had interacted with them so far?

Imma answer with the stories I know enough to have an answer

Into the Pit: I love Spring Bonnie so much oh my god?? He is the best, being creepy by doing nothing wrong or evil til the very end im disbsis second row of teeth and he cam DRIVE???. Oswald its fine, a lil bit of a brat but he is like 12 in the story, understandable (also their standarts of being short of money felt a lil weird to me but hey i barely know how my economy works). Their dynamic was the best thing of the book, the ending got me ":O" I enjoyed myself.

To be Beautiful: Elanor is... okay, is just Baby but skinny, both have the "uwuuwuw im innocent uwuwuw i lied i killed you uwuwuw bur people still love me uwuwuwuwu" trope I dont like. Sarah felt like a 90's american movie protagonist, a movie that didnt age well. Their dynamic was sweet but damn... I dont really like this story

Count the Ways: I love French Freddy I cannot WAIT for DHeusta and Dawko to release their song-- ok so he had the Ft Freddy happy go lucky personality but say creepy things- loved it. Millie its fine, she serve her purpose as a goth teenager, reminded me to Daniel from Amnesia TDD, where we slowly get all the pieces of her backstory. Their dynamic was fun, creepy or course but fun to read... the ending was brutal

Fetch: Good dog, best dog! I loved how he texted Greg to help him, im a fan of "looks so innofensive its creepy" vibe and Fetch had that. Greg was fine, I didnt get the whole plants read your mind stuff but he seem like a good kid. I liked the evolution of their dynamic, from curiosity to surprise, shock, the climatic anger (poor dog) and the pure sence of fear at the end. Instructions unclear.

Out of stock: Oh, my god, Chaser is pure nightmare fuel I loved what they did with him, from the looks to their mechanism, he was so cool. As for Oscar, he is one of the BEST protagonists this far? Likeable, loveable, easy to empatize and you care so much for him that you fear for his life. Their dynamic was fun, spooky! And the climax was awesome, gaming night with the boys went wrong (?

Step Closer: Foxy? Never heard of them... man this story lack from animatronic focus, it felt more like a Final Destination movie idea. Pete was fine, a brat but again theyre all minors this far is okay, the ending was sad. I dont think thet had a dynamic? Foxy was almost inexistent, never there, I didnt liked that dmskkss

Dance with me: Tfw you forget Ballora is mom material, this story is a guilty pleasure for me and I like Ballora's role, judging you from afar and their presence being important enough for you to change. Kelsey its fine, poor girl, im glad she had her redemption and the ending was cute... at first I didnt felt a connection with her? But whem she tried to steal the shoes and she confront it I root for her. Their dynamic was nice, story more present on the human but Ballora was consistent, i liked it.

Bunny Call: Ralpho is so BIG IM... and im intrigued in his whole being? I liked that trickster aura it give, never giving up til it completed their task. I didnt like Bob when I read the short resume, the whole "i hate my wife and kids" trope is a big nono for me.. but that changed when nightime came and he admit he loved his family, and the ending where he hug his kids melt my heart. Their dynamic was nice, they did the whole fnaf thing for one hour and it was entertain to read, Ralpho will revenge that eas only day 1 at camp (?

In the Flesh: ...alright, Springtrap was ok, idk WHY Matt program him to have knife to kill but alright, i'll take it... then he proceed to ruin this perfectly good AI by giving them no purpose in life so Springtrap enter a cyle of birth and murder, life and dearh that is just...BOI MATT CLOSED HIS EYES WHEN HE FOUND HIM DEAD??? Matt on the other half was so unlikeable, big irremeduable asshole,I didnt care about him til the moment he was agonizing, then and just then I saw a spark of something interesting... and then rip. Their dynamic was mmeeh? Springtrap was coded after Matt's anger and frustrations, and Matt blamed them for the stress he was going through when it was his own fault? The ending was good, I enjoyed that part because for one parragraph Matt though it was NICE to be resting in somebody's lap and being called Daddy (most likely he allucinated that), oohh what it could have been of his life if he wasnt a prick. The lil baby Springtrap was a surprise, the last spawn of VR Springtrap, I have nothing against it, im taking this baby-

I havent read or know enough about the other stories to comment properly

[crazy-purple-kitten]

my favorite beta pokemon!!! 

from https://tcrf.net/Proto:Pok%C3%A9mon_Gold_and_Silver/Spaceworld_1997_Demo/Pok%C3%A9mon

individuals and original sprites under the cut!!

(the angle was really weird so the last fire bear was the only one i didnt do a full body for)

the original hoothoot line was a blessing

pichu an cleffa... is jus... lil orbs

baby paras.. mushroom dude <3 (since its unclear, i interpreted the circle as some sort of orb on its face, maybe a nose??)

have a coin cat and some bell cats

hoppip cats... <3<3

hhrrnngggg the best of them(the only thing that really changed is their size but theyre still amzing <3<3<3 cats<3)

scroll child

(the first two i was gonna do but decided not to when i noticed they were wolf skins(i had assumed they were furry creatures or smthn))

circle lion porygon and sea lion looking slowbro evolution (yes its supposed to be a lickitung evolution but look at that hat! i think it looks like the shell things)

oooooooooooooooo big hands

[mukhannath]

thinking abt the friendgroup that banned me... they had so much weirdness.. like what is up with trans women who just virulently hate cis women? like more then men?? its so fucking strange. and this server wasn’t even like baby trans it was for people who had completed transition only. But I guess that’s not enough they’re still gonna act like fuckin freaks

weirdest thing was they were saying “if i had a cis sister i would hate her” like ok why? ok wtf??? I have a cis sister and that is not the vibe at all, my sister was the first person in the family to support me when i came out and i never had “jealous” feelings about having a sister like these freaks were saying they would. hypothetically. 

meanwhile they’re free to espouse their cis woman hate (read:misogyny) but when i talk about radfeminism or how men cause all sorts of untoward things in society its all about “men are people toooooo.” I even tried telling a story about a TRANS man who was really creepy to me and wouldnt stop making unsolicited comments about my body (unclear if he knew i was a tranny or not) and this one t4t girl was like “omgggg i promise theyre not all like that my bf is a saint he would never do something like that i told him about this and he’s like horrified” ok did i ask what your fictional boyfriend thinks? 

anyway i think it’s misogyny to say i hate cis women. plus they argue it’s okay because the “majority” of cis women have been bad to them... but if i were to say i hate trans women for the same reason they’d probably make a callout post about me.  i feel no kinship with the weird catty culture of trans women, it’s what happens when you throw a bunch of people with nothing in common together, they’re gonna only talk about gender like they have no other personality. i mean i love my trans gf but not because of that we actually have personalities and hobbies and lives outside each other and outside gender politics. 

[princessmcpurpledork711]

Random AkuRoku headcanon?

So for someone whose first game was KHII, Akuroku is really important to me. I know a ton of people who are new to the fandom consider this ship 'problematic' but honestly, I don't think they actually see anything but a theoretical age gap. Every single time I write Akuroku, Axel is like a year or two older, at the oldest 3. I mean, the game doesn't really have ages. Would it be weird if they got together in game? A little. I mean I don't think that would ever, ever happen, but Axels age is so ambiguous. Real age? I can't say more than 22? 24? I guess? But thinking that way, wouldnt Roxas be 2? Its about context. And nuance. And realizing that when ages are weird like that, it depends on what the shipper thinks the age difference is. I only ever put them in situations with them a year or two apart. People in this fandom have done a lot worse. Any ship with any form of Xehanort is like so much worse tbh. Maybe with older members of Org XIII, but I know that's not what a lot of people ship. Plus having ships where people actually like each other are way less problematic than ships that are riddled with abuse. (¬_¬)

Speaking of actually liking each other, I know in the past, people made Roxas a tsudere bitch and Axel a jerky bad boy. (Ah 2008 am I right?) I mean, I used to think like that too, when I was a naive idiot 13 year old. But really the best thing about Akuroku to me was always how Axel became a dork and Roxas followed him around like a baby chick. In AUs where they meet at a young age, Roxas thinks Axel is so cool, and Axel takes him (and Xion too for that matter) under his wing. As they get older, they realize that he's a loser and they become sassy and sarcastic instead of idolizing him. Instead of being a tsudere bitch who beats him up and calls him stupid and tells him 'I don't like u baka😠' (I don't know if u can tell, but I have come to loathe tsuderes. Like in general. I like my ships to actually like each other's presence), he teases him, doesn't let him do stupid crap, but loves just chilling with him. And Axels not some asshole who does whatever no matter the law or people's feelings, he's a dork whose punk and laid back and loves to mess around and sometimes doesn't think before he does something, but would never hurt someone he cares for (on purpose at least)

They tend to skate everywhere, play video games, and chill in weird places eating ice cream talking about weird shit. They have this friendship where they can both drop their walls and be silly with each other. They both have insecurities that cause them to act tough in public, but theyre both soft and hurt very easily. They have accepted each others flaws and masks, and adore seeing the other when theyre fully relaxed and truly happy. (Theyre like that with Xion too, they love their sibling. They eventually can be that way with Sora and Isa too. They have insecurities about them theyre too afraid to confront them about. They love their brothers, and they'll be themselves around them again in the future)

They're playful and teasing, yet loving and supportive, like the friends they've always been. In private, theyre more mellow and mushy with each other, yet the fire they have isn't gone, its just more passionate than anything. The base of any good relationship is the trust and love from friendship. No power imbalances, no abuse, no trauma, but real warm comforting love. Its something I will always defend not just in fiction but real life too. Relationships aren't black and white. (Also think about if a ship is really a problem before u start hating. Because people will go hating on a ship for small details. Plus every shipper is different, someone could be shipping Sokai or Soriku in an awful way but people wouldn't bat an eye just because its a good ship. I've seen people make Riku an asshole, Kairi a bitch, Sora in no way resemble himself whatsoever and then they have terrible relationships with abuse but still say theyre in love. That's not okay either, but that's not something people would ever call out. People can't usually be bothered to think about shipping in a nuanced way, but it would great for fandom spaces if they tried.)

By the way, I'm sorry I went into this ask, but I've been thinking about this for a while, and started venting. Akuroku is dear to me, and seeing it get disowned by the fandom hurt. But I at least know I can keep shipping what I love no matter what, and will keep it wholesome not for the fandom's sake, but my own.

Edit because I forgot something huge cuz I was venting: Pedophilia is wrong and stopping pedophilic ships is good. But you should really think if it really is pedophilia. Because the real enemy is adults who are in relationships with teens that cause unhealthy power imbalances. Please focus on actually hating on those ships with actual adults and teens/kids. This is where nuance comes in. With unclear stuff, please look at how someone is shipping it. Because if someone is shipping Akuroku with the huge age difference, Axel having control because of his age, and Roxas following him because he's older, stop them, they are a pedo. Most Akuroku shippers aren't this, but people think so because they came into the fandom late and only see a possible number while people who have been here forever can still remember when they had no ages and felt close in age.

This goes for any ship. Look at peoples work and draw conclusions. A ship in one person's hand can look very different in someone else's.

Again sorry for the rant, I'm sure u didnt expect all this when u ask anon.

[extreme-technicality]

does talking to an anon help about ninjago help? cuz I'm down

DHDKCKGSC YES IT DOES THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR OFFERING YOUR SERVICES

Okay now that I know I won’t be clogging people’s dashes buckle the fuck in my dude and I should stress that I literally would not be talking about this as much as I will be if I didn’t genuinely enjoy the show. I’m gonna go season by season and just Rant

S1 has the serpentine as the bbeg and like, as far as villains go they’re p lit. They’re early enough that they haven’t been done to hell, things are fresh, the characters and dynamics are being fleshed out, and all in all s1 is a pretty solid season. There’s some fuckery that gets brought up re: how the FUCK aging works and what the actual timeline of Ninjago is and how Wu and Garmadon fit into that timeline, fuckery that LITERALLY NEVER GETS RESOLVED IN A SATISFYING WAY BC ITS REVEALED IN A LATER SEASON (s8, dw we’ll get there lmao) THAT THE ONLY REASON THE FIRST SPINJITSU MASTER, WU, AND GARMADON LIVED AS LONG AS THEY DID IS CUZ THEYRE BASICALLY DEMIGODS AND ITS IMPLIED THAT LLOYD WILL ALSO LIVE FOR A LONG ASS TIME WHICH MEANS ONE DAY HES GONNA OUTLIVE ALL HIS FRIENDS AND EVERYONE HE EVER LOVED WHICH IS A FUN THING TO THINK ABOUT AT NIGHT But anyway I digress, s1 also coincidentally introduces Lloyd (he wasn’t in the pilot episodes that set up the rest of the series) and the existence of Evil Dad Garmadon.

S2 is where Garmadon starts acting a lot more Evil and a lot less Dad. He’s the main antagonist for that season, and I actually read somewhere that the show was originally slated to end after s2 which high key explains the fuckery of literally every single season after this lmaooooo. Much like s1, I really can’t find much to complain about, the first two seasons are pretty decent as far as I can remember

Season. Fucking. Three. Where the fuck do I start??? I hate season three for entirely personal reasons revolving around the STUPID GODDAMN ROMANCE WRITING. okay lemme back up and explain a thing first so, Jay is dating Nya and they’re fine, they’re going steady, aND THEN????? THE BEGINNING OF THE SEASON INTRODUCES BULLSHIT LOVE TRIANGLE FUCKERY FOR ZERO GODDAMN REASON, BITCH I HATE LOVE TRIANGLES AND I HATE THEM EVEN MORE WHEN THEYRE DONE FOR NO GODDAMN REASON!!! AND THEN. AS IF THAT WERENT ENOUGH. THEY SHOEHORNED A ROBOT ROMANCE BETWEEN ZANE AND PIXAL AND I KNOW I RANTED ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT WHEN I WAS ACTUALLY WATCHING BUT I DIDNT GO INTO ENOUGH DETAIL!!!! THEY MADE THE OTHER NINJA OOC IN ORDER TO PROP UP THEIR SHIP!!!!!! AND AT ONE POINT ZANE GOES “its like we were…made for each other” AND I HAD TO FUCUCJDHVE I HAD TO SCREAM INTO A PILLOW BRO, IM SO TIRED!!!! NO THE FUCK YOU WERENT!!!!!! YOU WERE MADE FOR YOU AND PIXAL WAS MADE FOR PIXAL AND IF YALLS WANNA BANG BOLTS THATS FINE BUT DONT IMPLY THAT EITHER OF YOU WERE MADE INCOMPLETE!!!! THATS AN INSULT TO YOUR MAKERS AND YOURSELVES, MOVE ON, PLEASE AND THANK YOU. anyway that season also killed Zane (for the first time, but not the last) (spoiler alert lmao) and like, not to be an emotional little shit but I did cry a bit at his funeral.

S4 is honestly one of my favorites, even though the romance crimes continue (the love triangle bullshit is continuing and honestly I maintain that Cole, Nya, and Jay should all have gotten together and in my personal canon they DID, and also Kai has a forced romance) the VILLAIN makes up for it imo. He’s campy!! He’s funny!! He’s a clown!! He’s serious enough that if he says “I’m gonna kill you” HE MEANS IT and that’s so fucking refreshing!!!! S4 is honestly 8/10 just for the villain alone, don’t like that it retconned the SHIT out of the elemental masters and how many different elements there are TO master but eh, it’s ninjago, shit is stupid.

S5 was…interesting? OH WAIT I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT S3 INTRODUCED A GARMADON WHO WAS A LOT LESS EVIL AND A LOT MORE DAD, HONESTLY I THOUGHT IT TOOK A LOT OF THE FLAVOR OUT BUT THATS JUST ME LMAOOO. anyway s5 killed Garmadon, and I was a little sad cuz I like him okay??? I just think he’s NEAT, he’s got big dad energy, he was teaching Lloyd some shit that just got DROPPED and literally was never brought up again which is honestly a theme in Ninjago. Ninjago drinking game: take a shot every time they introduce a plot point or ability and drop it at or before the end of the season. WHICH THEY ALSO DID IN S5 WITH A DIFFERENT POWER ACTUALLY, so all the ninja are masters of Spinjitsu right, well s5 introduced the concept of Airjitsu which only Spinjitsu masters can learn and it lets them FLY and they used that for seasons 5 and 6 and then they nEVER BROUGHT IT UP AGAIN EVEN THOUGH IT WOULDVE COME IN HANDY FOR S E V E R A L DIFFERENT SITUATIONS ACROSS THE SEASONS, ONE OF THEM WOULD BE FALLING TO THEIR DOOM AND MY ASS WOULD BE YELLING “YOU CAN FLY, DUMBASS” - anyway, they do that again later lmao it’s fine. But what’s low key NOT fine is they made Nya the WATER NINJA!!! Like I’m not mad she has powers, except I kinda am, she was doing just fine as Samurai X and honestly the only reason she has super special ninja powers is for plot reasons. Also Cole got turned into a ghost, but by s7 he’s????? No longer a ghost????????? And that’s NEVER addressed or reasoned away, so like. Cool lmao

S6 didn’t happen. Like, canonically, s6 ends with wish fuckery that undoes the entire season and none of the characters remember anything that happened except Jay and Nya because S6 is the season where they get back together so they remember all those events for???? Feelings reasons?????? Unclear, moving on. The actual bbeg for S6 was a djinn with a vaguely Spanish accent, and to this DAY I don’t know why they made him have a SPANISH accent. Djinn are Arabic, not Spanish!! They’re not central or South American, either!!!! Your villain design makes no sense, do better

S7 had MORE time fuckery, and retconned what happened to Kai and Nya’s parents and hmmmhmhmhmhmhm that makes me Upsetti Spaghetti :3 not just the retconning, but the fact that they LITERALLY brought them back oNLY TO NEVER MENTION THEM AGAIN!!!!!! LITERALLY!!!!!!!! Okay so at the VERY very beginning, like pilot episodes beginning, Kai talks about their dad like he died/left fairly recently, BUT s7 contradicts that and claims that both of their parents were essentially abducted when Kai and Nya were little kids, which makes me question what in the fresh fuck two little kids were doing for all those years alone. SETTING THAT ASIDE FOR A HOT SECOND, their parents were also apparently good friends of Wu’s and old war buddies (from the Serpentine wars, which is YET ANOTHER bit of the timeline that doesn’t quite add up but honestly I could make a whole other post about that shit). But if they were such good fucking friends, why didn’t Wu check in every now and again??? What the fuck was Wu doing that was so fucking important that he couldn’t have been assed to visit his friends ONCE in like TEN MOTHERFUCKING YEARS and realize “oh shit, they’re not here and there are two tiny children running around unsupervised…My Kids Now : )” LIKE????? WU YOU LOW KEY SHOULDA LOOKED OUT FOR YOUR FRIENDS’ KIDS BETTER, THEY COULDA DIED BRO!!! Uhhhh the time fuckery also results in Wu getting yeeted ahead in time a bit and the ninja gotta find him

Season. Eight. I have…mixed feelings about this one. The beginning absolutely SLAUGHTERED me, and not in a “this is so fucking funny” way. No, the beginning made me feel like I was being flayed alive with just about every episode because Ninjago was back on its forced romance bullshit and this time it was Lloyd’s turn on the chopping block. That hurt my soul cuz like, look at that mans color scheme, he’s CLEARLY alloaro, why are you forcing romance on my aro man, why would you hurt me like that, BUT ALSO BECAUSE HE AND THE GIRL HE WAS BEING SET UP WITH HAD A LITTLE HEART TO HEART REALLY EARLY ON AND IT WAS THE MOST QUEER CODED SHIT!!!! IT DEADASS READ AS A CONVERSATION BETWEEN AN OUT AND PROUD QUEER AND A CLOSETED QUEER AND THEY MADE!!! IT!!!!! STRAIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!! The only thing that kept me watching at first was wanting to find Wu, and then I started enjoying myself once Cole found a plot-relevant baby and had fatherhood thrust upon him. Everything went from “ehhhhh” to “holy shit this FUCKS” once it was revealed that Rumi (Lloyd’s love interest) wAS PLAYING HIM THE WHOLE TIME AND WAS EVIL AND HAD AN EVIL GIRLFRIEND!!!!!! LITERALLY IMPROVED EVERYTHING ABOUT THE SEASON FOR ME, I COULD EVEN FORGIVE THE WHOLE “let’s resurrect Garmadon, but as evil as possible” BULLSHIT!!!!!!

S9 is a continuation of s8, Garmadon is back and 1000% Evil, 10% Dad, but none of the Dad energies is directed at Lloyd - it’s all directed at Rumi, and honestly I could write a whole ass post on just RUMI cuz that’s honestly my DAUGHTER and I LOVE HER and I’m MAD SHE DIES AT THE END OF THIS SEASON!!!! SHE DESERVED THERAPY AND TO LIVE WITH HER GF AND MAYBE SOME CRIME. AS A TREAT. RUMI DESERVED BETTER AND LOW KEY IM GONNA WRITE A FIC ABOUT IT, BUT ANYWAY WHERE WAS I

Ah right, so s9 has the four major Ninja stuck in the original dimension with no way home, while Lloyd has no powers (cuz he almost died last season) and has to somehow lead a resistance against Garmadon (who has taken control of Ninjago City and is working on the rest of Ninjago). Actually, s9 is pretty cool. Like, the end of s8 and into s9 are low key my favorite episodes, and I kinda wanna rewatch them now -

S10 is a FUN one. Garmadon got got last season, but he didn’t DIE, so he’s in cold storage and now there’s Another Threat and he’s the only one who knows wtf they’re up against so they let him out and he works with them. The funny part is, he is still Very Much Evil and doesn’t quite Get emotions like he did when he was, uh, human lmao, sO HE WOKE UP EVERY DAY DURING THAT SEASON AND DECIDED TO CAUSE PROBLEMS ON PURPOSE. IT WAS THE FUNNIEST FUCKING SHIT. 1000000/10 MY FAVORITE GARMADON, he ended that season by literally fucking off into Ninjago and they never decided to track him down 😭😭😭😭😭and I’m so SAD about it dude

S11 has another Serpentine as the bbeg, though in the setup to that they retconned how the fucking Serpentine tribes and history work??? I think???? Also Wu was a good 150% angrier and generally Done with the ninja’s shit, which was honestly refreshing tho I’m not quite sure I liked what the refreshed view was, but whatever lmao. S11 also had the ninja get yeeted to the dimension farthest from Ninjago, and honestly - okay, so they didn’t all go at the same TIME, Zane left about a week or two before the others did but there was time dilation fuckery afoot which I’m not too mad about cuz low key it makes sense. What I AM mad about is that they didn’t play the angst up to its full POTENTIAL!!!!!! Zane was EVIL in the other dimension!!!! Okay so I’m Ninjago he was only gone for maybe a week or two, but DECADES had passed in the other one, and all that time Zane was alone and disconnected from everyone he knew and loved, with a staff that boosted his power while slowly corrupting him and Turning Him Evil to help him, and like???? The thought of Zane trying to find a way home, trying to get SOME sort of message back, while he has to use the staff more and more to help him survive the long, lonely decades, so that by the time his family DOES show up its too late??? BRO. B R O. THAT JUST HITS DIFFERENT, BUT NINJAGO DIDNT DO THAT!!! THEY MADE HIM EVIL DUE TO MEMORY WIPE!!!!!! MEMORY WIPE IS BABY SHIT COMPARED TO A LONG, SLOW CORRUPTION!!!!!!

S12 was alright. It went into Cole’s mom, touched on some of the adventures she had had, threatened another forced romance (this time on poor Cole, just leave my mans ALONE) but thankfully didn’t follow through this time, introduced cool new powers that honestly hasn’t been elaborated on since that’s the most recent season I think lmao

Anyway thanks for reading and letting me rant!!!! I have,,So Much More I could talk about, PLEASE ask me about Rumi, some of my headcanons re: Garmadon and Wu’s dynamic, the Serpentine, my top five times they butchered Kai’s character for Plot Reasons, or anything else I brought up here that you want me to elaborate on!!!

[pollackpatrol]

what’s vigilante culture like, both amongst vigilantes and the general public?

sorry for the late response but uuhh

the only vigilantes i have mapped out are all, essentially, on the same team. their relationship with each other is “we were the gay people in high school”. so like, there’s some pretty distinct groups among them, but theyre all, essentially, friends.

on the “how it works” side of things, 3 people (2 of which i havent talked about in depth, the other is elena) take 8 hour shifts “coordinating” everyone else. basically they just let people do what they want, since they all have a routine, but they also keep track of newsfeeds and police scanners to direct people to where theyre needed. another part of the job is coordinating teleportation, since 3 of the 13 vigilantes can do it and might need to evacuate people or just ferry the gang around.

also, pretty much everyone has their claimed hero archetype. niamh, dez, amy, and azra (who i havent talked about) are designated disaster relief. (amy is only disaster relief when shes partnered with dez.) gretchen, kincian, amy, déjà, and olik are street-level fighters, though olik usually deals with organized (white-collar) crime. (amy is street-level with kincain and solo.) olik also does save-the-world type stuff, but zes not a fan of dragging the rest of the team into that.

thats not everyone but its who i can think of.

as for vigilante relations w the public, thats a bit more complicated!

so, first thing about everyone is that they keep their powers under wraps. like, they use them, but they don’t publicize what they’re actually doing, and sometimes their powers aren’t even noticeable.

take olik, for example.

ze is incredibly powerful. OP prophecy baby and all that. zes got hydrokinesis, minor shapeshifting, teleportation, the ability to see souls, persuasion, and, crucially, the ability to teleport OTHER people (without, like, touching them, or even being near them). (the way it works is that basically once ze’s met you, ze can track your soul. which means that if ze has a lock on you, ze can create a portal between your location and another location of zir choosing. oftentimes, that location is zirself.)

because of this, and the fact that oliks other commonly used powers arent noticable, a lot of people believe that the thirteenth animus’ sole ability is to call people to zirself. more than one comparison has been made to pokemon. more than one of those comparisons was made by olik.

now, as for vigilante culture amongst the public, im going to assume you mean vigilante fan culture. this is directly influenced by the gang, and by that i mean that one of the coordinators that i havent gone in depth on (immune to magic) has a very popular youtube channel that is an active disinformation campaign about them! his videos are only ever right in two ways: “this is right but it sounds so out there and im using bullshit evidence to support my claim so youre going to watch this video thinking im wrong and finish this video thinking im wrong”, and “this is right and the information discussed in this video is soon going to be confirmed by a credible source”.

its unclear whether his channel is ironic or not.

the mourning warp has a twitter. the same is true for hamlin, the thirteenth animus, bismuth, electrical fire, and déjà vu. nobody else has vigilante twitter accounts.

anyways people spam fancams of them. “the mourning warp is an antifa terrorist who is going to kill america” is the worst take to come out of vigilante stan twitter that gretchens seen. she made a framed cross-stitching of it.

[astronomifier]

Mangus Relisten Eps 9 & 10

Whoops, missed out on a few episodes because of christmas. ill try to make up for them later. Anyways, day 5 is A Father’s Love and Vampire Killer

Episode 9: A Father’s Love Case #0020312 Statement of Julia Montork regarding the actions and motivations of her father, the serial killer Robert Montork.

MONTORK??? WHY IS IT SPELLED MONTORK??? JONNY UR ACCENT IS2G

Anyways, i think this is the most solidly middling episode we’ve had so far. Its interesting, has a solid mystery and a few good spooks towards the end, and the setup is pretty good, but nothing that particularly blows me away. Idk, maybe the “daddy is a serial killer” thing is supposed to be creepier than i find it. there are some nice moments between julia and her dad, though, if by nice you mean “sweet if not for the unsettling fact that her dad is killing people”.

I think the main focus of this episode is the narrator, Julia. She is easily the most interesting thing here, i think, with the only competition being the fate of her mother. Julia has this odd, tempered rage, angry at the world for not letting her express love for her father, i think. Or maybe at her father for ruining her family? I’m not sure. Maybe its just the fact that she can’t talk about the monster at the end of the episode without being seen as a crazy person trying to rehabilitate her murderous dad.

5/10. As i said, solid but middling. There is a bit more here, but it’ll have to be in the spoiler section. SPOILER PARAGRAPH: lets start with Julia. First time through the series, i found Julia’s developing into a Hunter to be a bit odd, or at least sudden. But this time through, i was suprised to find that Julia was already very clearly characterized. Her anger at the world and the monsters and everything is completely believable as the makings of a baby Hunter. As for the entity of this episode, i believe this is our first encounter with the Dark. Jonny has said that the Dark is the entity that he finds the hardest to write for, and I see it here. the scariest part of this episode, and the focus, is the dad’s murder’s in service of the People’s Church. The actual darkness stuff, namely the creature, is kind of an afterthought, and only as scary as a generic monster. I will say though, the dark is one of my bigger fears in real life, so that tends to elevate these episodes. Anyways, ill talk more about Rayner and the People’s church the next time they come up, as i believe it is an episode much more explicitly about them.

Episode 10: Vampire Killer Case #0100710 Statement of Trevor Herbert, regarding his life as a self proclaimed vampire hunter.

I think this episode is where i got hooked on this show. Trevor is a great narrator, and most significantly, the “vampires” are a great monster. Theyre easily the scariest take on vampires ive ever seen, and the way that TMA is able to twist this classic horror beast into something truely terrifying while still keeping it recognizable at its core is delightful. As most of the episode is focused on a very detailed encounter with a creature, one not shrouded in so much mystery thank’s to Trevor’s solid body of knowledge about it, making sure the monster is interesting and scary flat-on is super important, and this episode nails it. The description of the blood-drinking still gives me chills. 

I think i already talked about the key things relating to Trevor, but the perspective of the street tramp and the whole tramp monster hunter thing is super fun. Its also just a really nice change of pace to have a narrator who knows whats going on, at least to a degree. Obviously part of the way horror works is keeping things mysterious and unclear, so i wouldn’t want that every episode, but every now and then it can be a great breath of fresh air.

9/10. Great episode, but not quite the top of my list. i have a couple in mind that i think beat it. Honestly though id even give this a 9.5, or something, if i was doing that.

SPOILER PARAGRAPH: One weird thing about this episode, that has always bugged me, is Trevor’s death, and then the reveal that he didn’t actually die and gave more statement later. My initial assumption, and one that i think still has legs, its that this was just a straight up retcon. However, the cause of death is so weird and sudden, and the fact that it was relayed by Martin... maybe it was supposed to be untrue from the beginning, and thats why it’s so stupid sounding. Anways, the Vampires are an interesting magnus baddy, as they dont have a clear entity connection to this day, dispite appearing several more times in the show (albeit, never as spotlighted as here). The first common theory is that they are monsters of the Hunt, created as basically bait for potential hunters to get them to start killing monsters. This is suggested by the fact that they are themselves skilled hunters of humanity, and that the 3 main encounters with vampires are all done by hunters: Trevor, Daisy (as part of her duties as a sectioned officer), and most notibly the hunters during the Everchase, who slay several and mention “hating bloodsuckers”. The main issue with this theory is their mind control, which is much more subtle and cerebral than the animalistic nature of the Hunt. Perhaps, also, the fact that the whole Hunter-bait theory is a bit... complex for an entity who’s ritual fails because it gets distracted by the thrill of the chase. The alternative theory, then, is that they are monsters of the Web. The mind control is classic web, especially the way it manipulates you without your notice. This is compounded by the fact that Trevor shrugs off Web mindcontrol in a later episode, and credits this to his experience with vampiric mind control. In addition to this is the fact that both the Vampires and Spiders are “bloodsuckers”, the fact that the vampires live amongst humanity unnoticed, and the vampires’ weakness to fire, which perhaps parallels Raymond Fielding’s death by fire on hilltop road, though that is more likely just the fact that the Desolation likes to use fire. Right now I’m leaning more Hunt, but my opinion changes all the time, this one’s really close for me.

[last-flight-of-fancy]

okay im going to scream about kingdom hearts now.

under the cut.

because there’s gonna be a lot

-REPLIKU?? MY SON???? DESERVED BETTER?????? WHAT THE FUCK????????

-yes i cried at the sea salt trio reuniting i cried goddam hard and i am not ashamed of it

-still no answers on why and how ventus got from the keyblade war to the current storyline. 

-still no answers on a lot of shit tbh

-he did recognize his chirithy tho!!! this makes me very happy!!!!

-you know whats fucked?

-i remember saying

-”man that guys movements are a lot like xigbars, but that would be silly” when i first watched Back Cover

-well

-he may not be the Master

-but i’m calling that shit CLOSE ENOUGH

-we still dont know whats in the fucking box

-where the fuck is ava

-apparently ava got hit with the memory stick and is the girl lea and isa were trying to rescue???? (i only put this one together after reading the secret reports)

-speaking of

-lea??????

-god man stop it with your faces you kill me every time youre on screen

-LETS TALK ABOUT ALL THOSE NEW OUTFITS AT THE END

-BECAUSE I FUCKING LOVE THEM

-THEYRE ALL SO GOOD

-LEAS VEST SHIRT THING

-XIONS LITTLE SHOULDER RUFFLES

-ISA’S GROWNUP CALLBACK TO HIS GARDEN OUTFIT

-AUGH

-PERFECT

-I AM SAD WE DIDNT GET TO SEE THEM MORE

-BUT WE PROBABLY WILL BECAUSE THERE IS DEFINATELY MORE GAMES COMING

-LIKE DID YOU SEE THAT SECRET ENDING????

-TEN FUCKING FOUR BABY

-WE GOIN TO SHIBUYA

-oof okay

-so sora disapearing at the end hit me like a punch to the gut

-like you cant make it look fine and then take it away man not cool

-my one sincere disapointment with this game is it did fuck all with kairi as a character

-basically reduced to a plot device. again.

-even the parts where she could have been doing things! like the big heartless battle! she took like one halfhearted swipe and that was it

-its not kairi’s fault i still love her its the writers fault for not letting their female leads fucking Do Anything

-like the lead in to her arc had a lot of potential! “i’ll protect you this time! we’ll do it together!” and then she does.... nothing.

-the whole ‘you need motivation bla bla’ okay. look. bad trope, but i might, might have been able to roll with it if she’d had literally anything to do during this whole fight. her emotional arc was apparently completed in 2 and that’s all she gets i guess.

-oh yeah and then she fucking dies

-

-bleh

-BUT

-everything else was amazing

-aqua??? my wife?????? got her family back??????? and im emotional about it??????????

-xion???? my child????????? got to be with their friends again?????????? and im fckng emotional about it???????????????

-and lea

-trash fire husband

-oof my heart

-look there’s reasons i cried at the reunion and it’s because i am very attached to all three of them

-namine gets to live!!!!

-she deserves it so much

-i hope she beleives that now

-look i know the game was like ‘here’s riku and namine now ship it!’ but

-no

-look

-that was repliku

-my son whO DESERVED BETTER

-riku cannot replace him i dont care what the game canon says

-and i know the game was basically about Sora’s Relationships with everyone around him, but there were a few moments where. idk. riku underreacted to basically everything concerning kairi? and vise versa (or at least so much as kairi got any emotional screentime at all)

-like did they speak even once?????

-im still in with the ot3(s) but apparently the writers were not

-its fine i still have fanfiction

-its fine

-seriously though kairi has so much potential as a character and not only is it being squandered im pretty sure it’s being actively murdered at this point

-speaking of, the disney worlds were much better done, and indeed made me think of some fanfic i’d read that actually incorporated the worlds more fully and heartfeltedly into the plot. it was a beautiful change of pace

-kinda disapointed no rescue arc for vanitas? not surprised, just sad. it would’ve been cool to have more anti-heroes

-then again, considering everything, he might be back. we’ll see how it goes i guess.

-also the union cross names????? holy shit!!!!

-i didnt get my name but there are like... thousands of those so XD

-what a great way to incorporate khux tho

-and EPHEMER!!!

-i gasped. there he was!! my son!!!

-still dont know where they are now though. unclear

-i feel like demyx has a subplot going that we didnt get to see? i hope it gets extrapolated on in the future/he gets a bigger role in the future, but it’s hard to say

-marluxia and larxene definately hinted at some backstory that will come up in the future. also the strelitzia plot we still havent seen the conclusion of so that’s got to come up at some point.

im sure there’s more im forgetting but damn guys i binged it in like three days im still processing XDDD