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dirtbagcore Ā· 6 months ago
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HELLO im thinking about your saiki k / spyxfamily au...... im so fascinated by this family dynamic. does kuriko still have all her powers, or just telepathy? in your comic it looks like she still does the telepathic communication which i LOVE. pairs well with anyas constant yapping...... also, if kuriko does have all her powers, how powerful is she? id imagine she'd be about at the level of 16-year-old saiki with limiters, since in the time travel episode he was a bit older and a bit stronger (but he also didnt have glasses so i guess he didnt have the power to turn people to stone yet? i wonder if there are other powers he unlocks later. its probably in the manga but im only halfway through šŸ˜­). man, just imagine the shenanigans those kids would get up to..... even just putting kuriko in anyas place would be hilarious, but then also throwing anya AND kuusuke into the mix???? these kids are gonna accidentally destroy the world lmfao
but im also fascinated by the dynamic of. anya and kuriko being siblings and knowing about each others powers, but no one else knows about them (except probably kuusuke?). cause like. kusuo originally can use his powers at home, so now he can use them less freely, but anya originally had NO ONE who knew about them and now she has 2 siblings who do, so she can use them more freely. which would probably result in an even more reserved kuriko and an even more outgoing anya. plus kuusukes inferiority complex would be doubled..... loid has no idea what he just got himself into lmao. just absolutely insane family dynamics all around im obsessed
ANYWAY sorry for yapping in your inbox but i would love to hear any other thoughts you have about this au..... if you wanna share.....
^((TLDR; [in my SƗF / Saiki K crossover AU where kuriko & anya are twins] what are kurikos powers? what's the new family dynamic?))
HIII! ( ā‰§āˆ€ā‰¦)惎 THANKS 4 THE ASK!!! v happy to answer, i was thinking kuriko would:
1. still have all her powers, and
2. they would be weaker than in canon since she got her limiters earlyā¬‡ļø
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this obv includes the fact that she can remember all her time as an infant, so thinking of that (considering the vague experiments anya went thru in canon) i deffo think ur right about her being even more reserved ( Ā“,_悝`) </3 tho tbf anya being kuriko's voice and seeming (from an outside perspective) to always just KNOW what she wants, no matter how specific, sounds really freaking cute ( Tāˆ€T)
i imagine her other powers coming up in little scenes (+ prob main plot stuff but im not writing allat for a thought experiment lol)ā¬‡ļøā¬‡ļø
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overall, i think the family dynamic would be like thisā¬‡ļøā¬‡ļøā¬‡ļø
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kusuke wouldnt be threatened by anya cause all she can do is read minds, shes no genius on top of that. his relationship with kuriko tho, i feel like would be similar to how it was in canon, except that since kuriko is more fragile here, id imagine that she'd be less willing to indulge kusuke's games- leading him to harbour more genuine resentment, in turn leading her to kinda fear him. it'd make their dynamic more angsty than the og, but tbh i feel that that lends well to the new setting/kusukes new role.
i dont think kuriko would mind loid or yor, but since she can remember their bio parents (kuniharu & kurumi) better than anya, i dont think she'd be able to accept them as her parents right away, especially yor.
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the only other thing i wanted to mention was:
how did kusuke get into eden without parents, you ask? (you didnt but--) YOU ASK?? well obvi its cause he's a super genius and probably achieved something so crazy that the schoolboard REALLY wanted him as an alum, so he completely skipped over the regular admission process. he would live in the dorms and probably avoided talking abt his parents entirely (cause who would share their personal trauma with ants??), leaving a very convenient spot for loid to slip into lol
anyway! thats basically it!! thanks again for the ask, hope at least some ppl appreciate our wall of text!! (me n you are like this šŸ¤ž btw. YAPPING šŸ”›šŸ”šŸ”„) ā˜†(悜āˆ‡^d)!!
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howlonomy Ā· 8 months ago
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Ceroba just beat Clover's parents without any explanation?
On the legal level it's wrong, tho
Plus legally it's still their child (just monster like)
An' their parents can legally get away them from Ceroba. Ceroba just keep Clover near an' Clover can't be legally adopted bc they're not an orphan.
No offense I enjoy your comic! Just catch myself on a funny legal thought
Would like see your vision how Ceroba would make Clover their child on legal level. Gonna she hide their past or she would went into lawsuit troubles?
i actually went on a while tangent abour how ceroba got legal custody of clover here LOL
tldr; monsters already had no papers and it was chaos trying to make them legal, so another one getting lost in the mix is no big deal! considering clover is a completely different species there would have been little to no overlap with their human legal papers!!
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curtisberzattos Ā· 5 months ago
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no dally and darry friendship/frenemyship is soooo important to me. every interaction they have im obsessed. wut r u hc about them? i feel like the distance comes from darry wanting tb w the socs imo.
oh anon they're so special to me. i have so many thoughts about them across all sources but iā€™ll focus mostly on them in the musical for now bc i assume that's what ur asking about.
i definitely feel like their divide comes from a mix of darrys attachment to the socs (like u said), their age difference, and him taking up so much responsibility so suddenly. of course i can't forget se hinton constantly tweeting that darry did not want to be and was not considered a part of the gang šŸ˜­. dally would probably think darry was wasting how strong and intimidating he was!!
more than anything tho i think their distance comes from jealousy on darry's part. he wants to be pony's brother but he can't be because he has to be his parent. so he starts resenting dally, who still has that kind of relationship with pony. darry wishes he could let pony have more fun and get in trouble and be a reckless kid but he can't afford to, and dally is encouraging the very kind of behavior that puts darrys guardianship in jeopardy. and darry cannot support that bc his brothers will always come first!! dally doesn't understand (at least not to the full extent) why darry has to be so strict and no nonsense.
that is, until little brother. where dally finally realizes what it means to be a big brother and sees firsthand why darry was being so protective and strict about ponyboy; because pony and johnnyā€“ and by association darry and dallasā€“ could have easily switched places. darry criticizes dally and says that he's only ā€œplaying the partā€ of a brother and he's right. that song is the first time dally realizes the pain that comes alongside feeling responsible for someone and failing them.
WHICH LEADS ME TO MY FINAL POINT. one of my Favorite details in the movie is that dally asks for DARRY SPECIFICALLY before his death. that is such an important scene to me and carries a lot of implications about their friendship that you don't really see before then and i think it's such an interesting detail to add. it tears me upppppp that there's no such implication in the show and the only time darry mentions dally's death he does it with a bit of malice. no matter how much he disliked dally in the musical, i can't imagine him not being so deeply impacted by the fact that he's lost another person in his life in a very similar manner to how he lost his parents. all in all, i think their dynamic is much more interesting as "ex friends who fell out due to uncontrollable circumstances" as opposed to "rivals who have always inexplicably hated each other".
tldr: please please please please why can't they have one little hug. A Handshake even. exchange a Singular smile. i just want them to be buddies šŸ˜ž
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ladyowen Ā· 28 days ago
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It wasn't time that did it it
ā˜†Joel&Ellie fanfiction, no plot, just a lot of fluff mixed with a dash of angst and hope.
ā˜†TLDR: Ellie has flashbacks from Fedra school and thinks about her relationship with Joel and her friends, they all unite together to give her the best Jackson experience. Joel sings to Ellie and she figures out that they are intertwined in every universe
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Settling into Jackson is proving itself to be much more difficult, than Ellie thought it would be.
Everyone has been sweet and kind to her, especially Joel. So fucking sweet and kind. And that was the fucking problem. Nobody has ever been so..nice to her, not ever. At least not for that long, without wanting something in return.
(Ellie didn't think that she could really count Riley, because the girl didn't have much choice than to be her roommate. And even tho they were bestfriends, Riley had still decided to leave her and fun away to join the Fireflies, even if she came back in the end, which was a mistake. Maybe if she had never returned to say her goodbies, she would still be alive and well. Riley was her first victim.)
And that was the thing, she didn't know what could Joel possibly want from her and honestly, she has been getting more and more anxious thinking about it every day.
The people from QZ that had raised her, did so just so she could join the community in the future and be in the workforce, they didn't waste any of their precious recourses for someone, that wouldn't be a future working prospect.
Marlene wanted to keep her alive just because of her imunity, she had kept her locked inside a room for observation, caring for her as if she was more of a lost puppy than a human being. She wasn't exactly mean to her, but not kind either.
Ellie was pretty sure, that nobody could ever love her for herself alone, without seeing her as the way to the cure, as an asset or for her body.
(She didn't want to think about David, but his words were still carved deep into her mind. The way his hands had grabbed her, his face tensed up in anger, the smell of the fire and how it felt when he...)
That was until Joel came along.
She was just a cargo for him at first, a job that needed to be done so that he could find his brother- and save the humanity. But he didn't leave her, not after Tess's death, not after he had found out that there wasn't any way to make a cure.
Suddenly she wasn't just a job to be done and get over, she felt important and loved for the first time in her whole life. She became important to him for some reason. At least enough that he had saved her, multiple times. Even when he had never said it out loud, or directly to her.
'When i went to pull the trigger, I-I flinched, Still dont know why.
Anyway, the reason im telling you all of this-
I know why you're telling me all this.
Yeah, I reckon you do.
So time heals all wounds, I guess.
It wasn't time that did it.'
(And maybe, maybe she had saved him too.)
Like right now, he was tolerating having her head in his lap, slowly stroking her hair with his rough fingers, while they were watching an old movie and eating popcorn. Not as a special treat, for something that she had managed to do or some accomplishment, but just because. Without any reason behind it.
The main problem was, that she was living for these moments, to be close to him, listening to his stories from the time before the cordyceps outbreak, she didn't want this to ever come to an end.
But nobody had ever kept her for this long yet, and she didn't know what the the price for that was. He never said anything about how she could pay him back, not a single word. He wasn't reminding her of how in debt she was to him every day, or that she wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for him.
It was much easier in the QZ, she didn't have to think about it there, the rules and expectations were set in stone and everyone knew about them. If you fuck it up, you find out and they will swiftly make you forget about ever doing it again.
Not only was that system very effective and worked almost perfectly, at least in her school.
She knew most of the punishments, some were harsher than the others but there were always consequences to her actions and she was definitely one of the most troubled kids.
(It didn't matter than it was mostly because of the constant bullying from teachers and other kids, or that she was truly trying her best but it was never good enough for anyone.)
(Ellie had imagined that joel would say something like that it was because they were assholes and just didn't care enough to truly get inside her little gremlin brain. But she was never brave enough to share that part of her live with him, too scared that by saying it he would think it through and decide that she was truly not worth it.)
Fuck around and find out, that was the unspoken rule that everyone knew there. No exceptions. It didn't matter if it was clearly an accident, or if someone else framed you for it, you still got the consequences.
The almost faded scars, that were all around her upper back and shoulders, were a clear reminder of it for some time now, but it didn't seem to be the same here in Jackson, or at least not with Joel.
There wasn't much time for him to really discipline her on the road, or even in the hospital. But even than he had never even tried to, other than making his annoyance clear to her and trying to frame Tommy to take her away.
(But he came back in the end, and that was more than any adult had done for her before.)
Even when she was really trying to imagine him punishing her, there wasn't reay any punishment that seemed to suit him. At least not the ones that she had went through in the QZ.
He didn't hit her, not even once. It wasn't like she enjoyed being hit, but she was more than used to it from the QZ. She wasn't exactly the strongest and when Riley left, that had made her into guite an easy target for the other kids. She didn't even count the adults, because that was normal. A few slaps here, some kicks there maybe even a whipping if she had crossed the line enough or when they've just felt like it.
But for some reason, he was proving himself to be more overprotective of her, guarding her from any harm that could possibly come across her way. She still didn't really know why, but it seemed like he was even glad for her clumsy and yapping company for some weird reason. Even tho he had never missed the opportunity to tell her how annoying she was or call her a brat, it never seemed to more than just a playful teasing.
"Your head is gonna explode from thinking so hard, kiddo. Your brain is not used to it." Joel was looking directly into her face now, instead of the movie, again with the stupid kind smile plastered on his face. He must have noticed that she was out of it long ago, but just didn't say anything until now.
Which was another thing, that would have gotten at least her fingers snapped by the ruler a few times in the QZ, but here it didn't seem to be such a big deal.
"Fuck off, old man. At least mine doesn't have just hundred years old spiderwebs in it." She was now smirking at him, quickly gaining back her composure. He seemed to be more amused by her words, than offended in any way.
"Little brat, watch the movie." That was just one of his nicknames, that seemingly appeared to come out of nowhere, right after his favorite 'kiddo.' Not that she was complaining in the slightest, even tho it wasn't the nicest one, it was hers.
And she never had anything that was trully hers until now.
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Ellie was listening to Jesse's yapping about the new space movie, something about a big bang and aliens, that he had heard about last night from some new kid in their school, when the topic of punishments suddenly came up for the very first time from Cat.
They were tacked up the unused part of the barn, that now was more of as their secret base, where they were spending most of their time after school or just whenever they needed to get away from the adults.
"Can you even believe it, my mum is so freaking ridiculous, she decided to punish me because of the missed curfew yesterday." Cat was saying, clearly really annoyed by her mum.
And suddenly, Ellie was looking at her, her eyes almost popping out from her skull, scanning her from top to bottom, trying to find some kind of an injury or bruise from the punishment. But there wasn't anything visible, or at least not where she could see it.
No bruises on her face from slapping, no split lip from it either. The girl appeared to be moving just fine and not in pain, so the probability that she was whipped or cut were really slim, unless she was really good at covering it.
Cat didn't seem to notice Ellie's frantic checkup on her, too bussy complaining about her parents. And Jesse seemed to be too bussy explaining how the alien ship worked to care about how- borderline insane- she was looking.
"I wasn't even that late! Just half an hour. She's just so dramatic." There was an overemphasised sigh at the end of the sentence, before the girl threw herself back on the stack of old hay.
Ellie was pretty sure, that her heart was being really close to just jumping out of her chest at that moment, and running far away from there. She could feel the tight knot getting even tighter in her stomach, if that was even possible, before she managed to gather the courage to finally ask.
"How did..how did she punish you?" Ellie asked more quietly than usual, trying to stop her voice from trembeling. On one side, she really didn't want to know, but on the other she felt like she needed to know so she could prepare herself, because Joel would surely be at least similar in this like the other parents in Jackson.
(The fact that she had stayed past her curfew so many times without getting in trouble, didn't even seem to cross her mind, with how much she was focused on thinking about the perfect plan how to help out her friend.)
Her mind was fully running and she was imagining the worst case scenarios, from getting all of her rations taken away, to solitary containment for weeks on end.
She didn't know, how would the taking away rations really work in Jackson, because seemed to be more than plentiful there, but if that was the case, she could share hers.
Joel was always so worried about her not eating enough, so they have plenty of fresh food like eggs and vegetables in their fridge, even some snacks. Maybe she could just sneak in and take a little bit and he probably wouldn't even notice. It wouldn't be the first time, that she would have to steal food for herself or someone else.
Being fast and small- even tho it was mainly from malnutrition- were always one of her biggest advantages. She could sneak almost anywhere without being noticed, and there always was a tiny hiding spot, just big enough for her in the close proximity, somewhere where noone else would even try to fit in.
Or maybe, if it was really bad, she could hide Cat in her room. Or run away with her, maybe not out of Jackson but to somewhere safe. They could take some supplies and hide, just like she did in the QZ. There weren't much good hiding places in Jackson, but surely she could manage to find at least something.
Or maybe they could try-
"She took all of my new fantasy books away!"
Oh.
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The school in Jackson was also very different from what she had been used to.
Nobody was fighting over food during lunch time- mostly because everyone had their lunch prepared and delivered from the dinning room, or their parents had packed them one- but still. Not even one person tried to steal her food, which was weird.
More than weird.
They've had lunches back in the QZ too, but the food there had been entirely different. In Jackson, it almost always was some kind of meat or fish- mostly chicken or any other type of birds, because they were the easiest to take care of- potatoes or bread with vegetables and a piece of fruit, sometimes even something sweet for a dessert.
Where as in the QZ, their lunches had mostly consisted of dried meat of any kind, makeshift hard bread or crackers and sometimes canned vegetables or fruit, but that was only a few times a month if even that.
(Ellie was just really glad that they didn't have to eat rats at that time like she had seen some guys in the QZ cooking and than selling to people. Their food might have been gross and bland but at least it wasn't rats- or at least she had hoped that it wasn't.)
And there weren't daily fights about it like back in the QZ either, nobody was trying to take more than what was his, even tho she saw a few kids traiding a portion of their food, it never seemed forced.
The first few times, that she had gotten her lunch there, she was half expecting someone else to just grab it out of her hands and fight with her for it. But no one did, they didn't even try, she was still very wary about her food tho, gulping it down faster than anyone else, but nobody seemed to be judging her for it, even tho she did notice a few pitying looks here and there, that she didn't feel the need to react to.
But she never ate the meat.
Wasting any kind of food would be more than unimaginable for her just a few months ago, but now she just couldn't force herself to eat it, especially if it was a stew, no matter how hard she tried.
'It was a last resort. You think it doesn't shame me? But what was I supposed to do? Let them starve? These people who put their lives in my hands? Who expect me to keep them safe? Who love me?'
But she wasn't so stupid to tell about it to anyone, wasting anything edible has always been greatly punished in the QZ, she still remembered the one time that she had refused to eat a ration nut bar, because of her alergy to peanuts.
(It wasn't that unusual for people to be allergic to stuff even now, but even that didn't seem to matter that much in the QZ, depending on the guard that was on duty and she had the misfortune to get one that hated her guts that day.)
She had gotten all of her rations, other than water, taken away from her for three days and if it wasn't for Riley, she was pretty sure that that would have killed her already malnourished body at that time.
There was no way in hell that she would risk that happening again, especially because Riley wasn't there to save her ass anymore, by her own fault. How ironic.
At first, she did try to hide it somewhere, dumping it inside of a big flower pot or giving it to the dog, that was almost always roaming around since there was food, but just a week of her trying to get unsuspiciously get rid of it, someone had noticed.
And that someone was Jesse.
"Do you wanna swap with me?" The boy was asking her, suddenly coming almost out of nowhere, while holding up a small plate with a peace of peach fruit pie on it.
"Swap?" Ellie snaps out of it and looks at him, she has been too focused on scanning the room trying find a new hiding spot for the bits of her food that she didn't want- the meat, to notice that he came to her.
Swap was a new word and she didn't know if she liked it yet. Especially not if it had to do with her giving him a portion of her food, or him taking it away from her.
"Yeah you know I give you something you give me something in return. I don't really like sweets and you don't seem to enjoy the meat very much..i don't think the plant is really enjoying it either."
Alright, maybe her meat hiding ritual didn't go as unnoticed as she had originally thought.
"Fine, but just because i feel sorry for you and you really need to build some muscles."
(Jesse had never told her, that she could just ask the cantene lady to make her food vegetarian, he didn't think that it mattered that much, even tho he didn't really enjoy meat either, eating mostly plant based at home. It could be their little secret. And if she had ever asked him about it, he would simply just say that the plant was on its last leg and didn't deserve such suffering- that wasn't a lie either.)
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Ellie knew, that she could never live up to Sarah.
She wasn't as pretty as her, she didn't always have the right words to say and she especially wasn't as smart as her.
She just wasn't enough. She couldn't be enough. Not for him.
Even when he had placed her picture with him right next to Sarah's, it felt like the girl was looking down at her. Because he had never looked at her like he did at his daughter in the photos, not even close. Maybe that was the reason why she had decided to slowly start moving the photo away from Sarah's, hoping that it would go unnoticed and it wouldn't have to be a constant reminder for him that she will never live up to the daughter, that he had lost.
Joel's words were still rooted really deep inside her, digging their tiny thorns into her heart and squeezing tightly around her little heart every time, leaving it to slowly bleed out, everytime that she managed to even borderline dissapoint him, or when she didn't manage to live up to her own standards that she tried to set up for herself.
'Maria told me about Sarah and.
No. Don't say another word.
Im sorry about your daughter Joel, but i've lost people too.
You have no idea what loss is.'
She knew, that he was still deeply hurting because of Sarah's death, but that still didn't make it alright for him to tell her something so ridiculous.
If there was someone who knew everything about loosing people, it was her.
'Everybody i had cared for, had either died or left me.'
Everyone, who had anything to do with her, had died one way or another. Riley got infected because of the stupid need to say goodbye to her- and she had died by her hand-, Tess got infected because of her too- trying to chase a faint dream of finding some form of a cure that wasn't even possible-, and Marlene died... because of her.
Even her own parents hadn't bother to stay around and raise her. Not even her own flesh and blood, the ones who were supposed to be able to love her unconditionally.
Maybe she really was that unlovable.
'Everybody fucking except for you! So don't tell me, that i would be safer with somebody else, because the truth is, I would just be more scared.'
The truth was, that she has been scared her entire life. If not for her own life, than for somebody elses. There wasn't a day that she wasn't worrying about what will happen to her, or her loved ones. And maybe it wasn't noticible, but she was so fucking terrified.
She was so scared of her life in Jackson, scared of loosing her newfound friends again by her fault, like she did with Riley. She was so afraid of screwing up again and watching the people around her die or get hurt because of her.
Because Ellie Williams was a menace, a deadly curse that always managed to destroy everything at least tiny bit worthy around her.
'You're right, you're not my daughter.
And I sure as hell ain't your dad.'
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She has never really been a musical type of person. Sure, she did like to listen to some music during her chores or when she had free time, but it was mostly a way for her to get inspired and gain new ideas for her drawings.
Drawing was her thing, she didn't even know when it started, but she was always sketching something on any little pieces of paper or anything really, that she could find in her free time.
(Sometimes even during school, but miraculously enough that never seemed to get her in trouble in Jackson, since she was more than particular about staying on top of her learning at all times, never slacking no matter what.)
The whole process of drawing had always helped her to get her mind together, to stay calm and collected and forget about everything bad that was happening in the world.
It wasn't really about what she was drawing, but more about the reason why she was drawing it. If someone had opened one of her sketchbooks, they could see her whole life sketched out in front of their eyes, everything that had even mattered to her.
She drew Riley, because she wanted to remember her forever as her bestfriend, not as a mindless infected runner that was trying to torn her apart and especially not as the bleeding gun shot wound on her forehead.
She drew Tess, because she deserved to be remembered for her actions and for the hope in humanity, but mostly because she seemed to be an important part of Joel's life.
She drew her friends- Dina, Jesse and Cat, because they were practically like a second family to her by now, even tho they were usually an annoying pain in her ass.
There were also sketches of animals, from horses to dogs to other livestock. Some drawings of buildings, of the infected or even of food and just nature by itself.
But most importantly, she drew Joel. His drawings were always the most detailed ones, even if it was just a silly sketch of him being on the front porch, holding his favorite cup filled with disgusting bean water, that he seemed to love for some reason.
(Coffee wasn't really easy to get, but Ellie could never see the appeal in it. It was disgusting and bitter, maybe drinkable after adding a lot of milk. But Joel loved it, one time he even traded 2 of his favorite hunting knives for a stupid little bag of coffee beans, but he had banned her from ever mentioning it to anyone.)
Music was Joel's, most importantly his guitar. Ellie still didn't know where he had learned how to play it, but he was really good at it, maybe even better than she was in drawing stuff.
Which was why she couldn't make herself refuse, when he had offered to teach her how to play it one evening.
"Alright kiddo, just put ya little fingers there." Joel was trying to show her how to play the first accord of his favorite song, and she was desperately trying to get it right.
The guitar was gently placed on her lap, while he was standing behind her with his hand on hers, guiding her where to put her fingers to play.
She put her fingers in the right position, exactly how he was showing her, and tried gently stroking the strings with her other hand.
"See! You're a real natural. A few more lectures and you will be better than me." Ellie was fighting to keep the red color from coming onto her cheeks, but she didn't seem to have much success.
"Shut it old man. Agh this is horrible. Now its your turn." And just in a moment, she was turning around showing the guitar gently into his hands, before she sat down on the floor in front of him.
"Little brat." Joel was saying with a slight smile on his lips, knowing why she had done it but not daring to say a word about it to embarass her enough, he would save it for a better opportunity.
He sat down on a chair, with the guitar still in his hands, trying to remember all of the words to the song, that he had promised to play to her again, seeing how patient she seemed to be, maybe even a bit excited.
He was never one to play for someone else, but even that had seemed to change when she came around.
With his fingers in the right positions, he slowly started playing the melody, soon adding the words to it, putting the whole song together.
"If i ever were to loose you,
id surely loose myself.
Everything i have found here,
I've not found by myself.
Try and sometimes you will succeed,
to make this man of me.
All my stolen missing parts,
I've no need for anymore.
Cause I believe,
and I believe cause i can see,
our future days.
Days of you and me.
Back when I was feeling broken
I focused on a prayer
You came deep as any ocean
Did something out there hear?
All the complexities and games
No one wins but somehow they still played
All the missing crooked hearts
They may die but in us they live on.
Cause I believe,
and I believe cause i can see,
our future days.
Days of you and me.
When hurricanes and cyclones raged,
When winds turned dirt to dust,
When floods they came, the tides they raised,
Ever closer became us.
And all the promises at sundown,
I meant them like the rest.
All the demons used to come 'round,
I'm grateful now they've left.
So persistent in my ways,
Hey angel, I am here to stay.
No resistance, no alarms,
Please, this is just too good to be gone.
Cause I believe,
and I believe cause i can see,
our future days.
Days of you and me.
You and me,
It's just, you and me."
And with his last words, Ellie truly knew for the first time in her whole life, that she belonges here. Right in that moment, no matter her past or the mistakes that she had done.
There was no place else that she would rather be at that second, than with him there.
She knew, that the future will be harsh and cruel, but nobody could ever take this moment away from her and that was what mattered, because right now, she was his as much as he was hers.
Their souls were forever intertwined together, destined to meet in every universe.
They had truly saved each other, even if they didn't know it yet, they were engraved deeply inside each other's souls.
No mattered what will happen, they were each others missing peace.
Never to be torn apart by death, or any other force.
The two of them were intertwined by thousands of different lifetimes, playing an interchangeable role in every single one.
(Because every single on of us has a little piece of Joel and Ellie hidden deep inside, and through us they live forever, till the end of time itself.)
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ekat-fandom-blog Ā· 11 months ago
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Captain Marvel Power Sharing w/Gravity Falls characters
original post(as well as my addition) by @phoenixcatch7 + my first post based on theirs + my second post based on theirs
So, TLDR; Captain Marvel/Shazam needs to share his powers with a group of others in order to do something (most likely fight against a super difficult villain). His powers(not including magic) are: Power(lightning/flight), Speed, Wisdom, Stamina, Strength, and Courage(+invulnerability).
(if you thought i was done trying to use this idea as a thought experiment, you'd be wrong)
Characters that I've chosen are: Dipper, Mabel, Soos, Wendy, Grunkle Stan, and Grunkle Ford
Wisdom: Wisdom could be useful for any of them, but I think Dipper and Stan are the best candidates in this scenario since, while already super smart, don't have any sort of battle experience (other than fighting Bill) and might make use of the ability better than, say, Ford might (as he's been through multiple dimensions and probably seen many fights.) And I'm not giving it to Soos or Mabel because I genuinely think that would be giving them too much power (not as bad as giving Wisdom to Waddles, but similar). Wendy would use it well. I'll table this one.
Power: All 6 could use Power, but I feel like Mabel might be the best fit for this considering how well she's used flight and other powers before. But, she really isn't going to want to give up Power until she's had a bit of fun with it.
Speed: I think Wendy would get the most use out of this simply because she's already got amazing stamina, strength, and courage. She seems to favor a fighting style that I think would compliment Speed being the power she gets rather well, but I also think Courage would work really well considering how hands on she'd be.
Stamina: Either Soos or Dipper probably have the worst stamina tbh, but I'm not sold on giving either of them this power simply because I don't think either would truly benefit from it. Stan on the other hand, probably would, seeing as his fighting style seems to be street fight mixed with cage fight and "play dirty". Both styles aren't fit for longer fights (as far as I'm aware at least, correct me if I'm wrong tho.) I'd give this one to Ford if he wasn't more of a long range fighter/shooter.
Strength: Considering how often Dipper just flings himself at his enemies in order to punch them, I'm gonna say this fits him the best. Honestly, Wendy does the same thing and the only reason I'm not swapping them is because Dipper fights with his hands and Wendy seems to prefer her ax or other shorter range weapons and I feel like she'd run out of weapon to soon if she had strength. (also I get the feeling that she'd go for a high five or punch one of them lightly on the shoulder before Cap recalled his powers and just knock whoever over.)
Courage: I kinda think giving Courage to Soos might be the best option considering he's the one who - even without powers - would probably just use himself as a shield without even checking to see if he was still shielding anyone. Dipper also has a habit of trying to shield others but I think Soos would be more successful at actually preventing others from getting hit. And Soos would absolutely enjoy being a shield.
Leaving Ford with Wisdom, which I'm not sure I love, but I'm sure he'd use it well. Probably.
Our lineup is: Stan with Stamina, Mabel with Power, Wendy with Speed, Soos with Courage, Dipper with Strength, and Ford with Wisdom
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snailvibes Ā· 1 year ago
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How about some angst. After seeing how skilled Agent 4 is in defeating him, DJ Octavio has Maya kidnapped and uses his hypnoshades(he makes them harder to take/shoot off) to turn her into his perfect soldier. How would the squidbeak splatoon react.
Very funny fact I actually had a plot line like this in a splatoon fic I had YEARRSS ago like in my wattpad daysšŸ˜­ (itā€™s deleted on there now tho lol). Iā€™ve also kinda made art for this idea with that one bad end agents piece I did ages ago but I never put more thought into it aside from drawing it.
Obviously this would be pre splat3 considering Octavio wouldnā€™t do this splat3 - post splat 3 cus busy in the desert and then redemption arc, so tldr this wonā€™t include neo 3 or deep cut.
Most prominently Marie would fucking FREAK out. Since you word it as itā€™s after he sees how skilled she is at defeating him and we can see heā€™s obviously capable of getting out again, this would probably not be long after the end of splat2ā€™s storymode and Marie who is still coping with losing Callie and just now getting her back would NOT handle this well, like even just realizing Maya is missing and Octavioā€™s out would completely set her off. Callie would be panicking almost as much as sheā€™s also very much still recovering and now has to deal with facing Octavio all over again because thereā€™s no way sheā€™d let Marie get her back alone. Add Craig Eight and Three into the mix with them coming back from octo expansion; Ashley is essentially just like ā€œoh wow cool new agent- anddd already a new member of the brainwashed club got it.ā€ Lucky I think would choose not to get involved and leave it to the others and Craig is essentially just ā€œWTF happened while I was gone.ā€
Going into a scenario where itā€™s farther in the future though so everyoneā€™s already built connections: Ashley is PISSED more than anything because of her already strained and broken relationship with Octavio and this would make it a million times worse, along with being angry that their girlfriend has to go through another thing in her life. Seeing her actually brainwashed and being that perfect soldier would be what gets that anger to turn into just fear, because itā€™s a similar reflection of herself under Tartarā€™s control.
Lucky knows Maya can handle herself, but sheā€™s more scared for her than sheā€™s willing to admit, considering she has no memories of her former leader and only has the stories everyone else has shared of what heā€™s done, and sheā€™s never gone out of her way to interact with him. Similar to Ashley, seeing her brainwashed from the glasses just reminds her of her fight with three in the elevator, but similar to then sheā€™s more willing than the others to fight her to try and yank those glasses off her face.
I donā€™t think Marie would be able to even properly fight her. I think sheā€™d still feel guilty about shooting Callie in the face even though it needed to be done, so having to actually go outright fight her daughter would be way too much to the point that I donā€™t think she could even bring herself to do it. Her focus would be more on trying to snipe down Octavio in the background of the fight if heā€™s there, and if not, letting the others handle Maya so she can go hunt him down while his ā€œperfect soldierā€ is distracted, mostly because she canā€™t even stand to stay there and see her like that and sheā€™d want to still be useful. Callie I think would be in a similar situation with Marie, but staying behind anyways. She knows how disorienting it is to come down from being brainwashed and I think sheā€™d focus on that and staying behind at the fight to be there for Maya when they get the glasses off to keep herself distracted from how horrible she feels about this even happening to her.
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daphwritesworld Ā· 18 days ago
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Are you doing okay? I hope everythingā€™s alright and things are going well for you x
first of all thank, you for being so kind. i donā€™t know what i did to deserve such kind and thoughtful anonsšŸ«¶šŸ½ but fuck no lmao. this has just NOT been my month lol. on top of my grief my fucking dog tried to kill herself two days ago. she somehow climbed on top of the dining table and drank a fat ass glass of homemade hot coco. she then proceeded to vomit and shit everywhere, so i took her to the vetā€¦but when i got there they refused to treat her bc i didnā€™t have $10 of the $187 bill. so all they gave me were these probiotic pills and some gel i have to mix in her food that i paid $50 for. guys when i tell you i was freaking the fuck out thinking my baby was dying yesterday, iā€™m not kiddingšŸ˜­ her breathing was weird, she just kept drinking water, and i was convinced she was gonna die in my arms from chocolate poisoningā€¦ā€¦bro sheā€™s fucking fine. she ripping the most god awful room clearing fartsā€” but sheā€™s back to her old crackhead ways lol. so daily reminder: even if youā€™re dog is less then 10lbs and the size of a new york sewer ratā€” DO NOT LEAVE ANYTHING ON THE TABLE. i thought i was safe bc i got a small dog? NO WRONG. this bitch is Houdini šŸ˜“
oh yeah and i had an allergic reaction at my last thanksgiving dinner. my best friend bought duck eggs to cook balutā€¦.bro iā€™m high allergic to them bitches and didnā€™t find out until like 2/3 months ago. (my brain dead mother forgot and still refuses to believe iā€™m allergic) when my grandma told me. i was gonna buy a dozen duck eggs from the farmers market to try and she was like ā€œyou canā€™tā€¦youā€™ll dieā€ šŸ¤£ all i did was TOUCH the balut and then forgot to wash my handsā€¦.my whole neck broke out into hives and turned red from where i had touched it šŸ˜€
TLDR: my dog almost died & i almost died. we both good now, tho. the end.
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ap-sadistics Ā· 1 year ago
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@lizardsarecute THANK YOU!!! IT WAS A TRIAL. also also. i have more tips for taking on rhythm tower if youre semi bad at rhythm like i am. i was. super bad at it in the beginning. like. i failed to get to even the 10th floor in the first 5 or so tries hsdkjhflk. but i realized some things as i tried again after s ranking some stages. so like. this is sorta a guide
its obvious but the most important thing is TIME. and you only get more time from certain things. perfect beat hits, perfect parries, enemy kills, and successful rhythm attack sequences (there could be more but these are them most important ones. in order too tbh)
just Landing beat hits is not good enough. you should also try your best to hit perfect. you dont get time for good beat hits. mixing up combos matter less in this mode, and sure the time you get at the end of the floor depends on your final score/rank, you can make up for the difference in time by continuously landing perfect beat hits. and also spamming partners helps keep your combo up, the higher combo you have, the better the score multiplier is i think, so partners can help you reach s rank anyways (sometimes). the reason i use only light-light-light-light or heavy-heavy-heavy combos IS BC I SUCK AT SWITCHING UP THE ATTACKS ON BEAT.... doing other combos fucks up my sense of rhythm that i fuck up the beat hit. (also the light attack combo is one of the faster combos)
(also i THINK certain combos give you more time? i havent had the brain capacity to study this tho.)
so yeah. tldr: make sure you hit perfect beat hits. try to follow through on combos even if youre gonna whiff an enemy. bc even if you whiff, youll at least gain time. the only time i abort out of a combo is to parry an attack
BIG TIP THO: RIGHT after you finish a fight BEFORE you move onto a new floor, DO QUICK BEAT HIT (X+A). if you land it right , YOU CAN GET AN EXTRA 3 SECONDS. and if youre fast you might be able to sneak in 2 beat hits.
okay enough about beat hits. parrying is so essential to rhythm tower bc perfect parrying gives you time. honestly theres not much i can say about this other than try to parry always. though this is coming from a guy who never dodges. (dodging around a lot is just idle time i feel in rhythm tower. you should be constantly laying on the pressure attacking so you dont lose time. better to parry than dodge)
for specials i use hibiki and pick me up. pick me up is so important. its nice that you can heal before you start a floor. but also hitting it perfectly during fights ALSO gives you 3 seconds. hibiki i use against z shield enemies when i can afford it. waiting for macarons cooldown SUCKS. i consider them time suckers tbh.
also this is my chip line up
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i REALLY like high risk high return and i wish i could use it at level 3... bc you HIT SO MUCH HARDER AND THUS BEAT STAGES FASTER.... but AUGH. literally roquefort is the only reason i have it at lvl 1. it was too risky for him.... parry health is at lvl 3 also bc of roquefort. id say having either of the battery chips is pretty solid for rhythm tower to for pick me up and hibiki (or whatever special attack you use). actually maybe the other battery chip is better than parry charge now that i think about it. hm. i should swap that out for my next attempt.
oh and for kales phase two. when you cant attack him, you should still do beat hits even if its not AT him. light attack combo or quick beat him. maybe quick beat hits bc its faster. you really want to avoid idling in rhythm tower
anyways this turned longer than i thought. i hope this helps. if youre better at rhythm than i am you might fair better. but this is what i did take it on with my rhythm impaired ass. rhythm tower required you to play a bit differently i feel. at the very least it make you pay more attention to the beat hit circles kjsdfhbjdskjfhjl
ANYWAYS. RHYTHM TOWER IS HELL. BUT I LEARNED. ITS DOABLE. SO AS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU NEED TO DO. GOOD LUCK!!!!!!
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chapelbat Ā· 1 month ago
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Tbh thereā€™s rarely anywhere safe to discuss your trauma and by that, I mean there are plenty of people who will use it instead to pinpoint weaknesses they can use against you hahahaha
But fuck it
This is kind of a weirdly bittersweet thing but fuck it
After I woke up and was being molested, once he left my room, I locked my bedroom door and hid in my closet for a while and started listening to cds
I very very much remember one that I had stolen my friends Now 6 cd and it had The Middle by Jimmy Eat World on it and tbh, I just kept replaying that song. Just again and again and again. I kinda blocked everything out. I tried to anyways. I tried to pretend it didnā€™t happen. And it worked for a short while. But yeah. I hear it sometimes and I feel an odd sense of not knowing if I feel comforted by it. I do. The lyrics are comforting and thereā€™s very obviously a reason I kept playing it, bc it made me feel a lil safer, even with my door locked.
I remembered the other day that after that, I slept in my closet even more than I did before that. I already knew I could bc I thought itā€™d be cute to have a mini room in my room??? Idk id shove a lamp, blankets, the portable dvd player and a pillow in there and sleep. Or try to. Once that happened tho, id sleep in the closet, id sleep under my bed. Idk. I kept trying to figure out why I have sleep anxiety so bad and likeā€¦ yeah bitch you were molested in your sleep and woke up and pretended to sleep. When you were even younger, you were riding with your best friends parents to the hospital to see your dad and you woke up but pretended to sleep when you heard the mom tell the dad that ā€œheā€™s in the ICUā€¦ā€ and knew shit was bad bad bad even at age 7.
TLDR: Sleep is scary, The Middle by Jimmy Eat World is pretty good and I have mixed feelings idk
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scalecallerpeak Ā· 3 months ago
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Who do you think actually was there first in Skyrim? The snow elves or the people of the Reach? I donā€™t know which group is older.
I saw another meme about how "SkYrIm BeLoNgS tO tHe NoRdS" again and I saw a comment about this question. You're thoughts?
I think this depends larely on what part of modern Skyrim as the borders of what where Skyrim or Keizaal have been vary over time.
As in the merethic era the land owned by the dragon cult ranged from the Wrothgarian Mountain range into Hammerfell.
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It could have been bigger but this is the areas we can confidently say had dragon cult ruleing during this peak due to where Dragon Priests have been found. The easy answer is the Snow Elves. They where in areas of modern day Skyrim and High Rock till late Merethic Era. And they had been having issues with human races such as Atmorans since before Ysgramor.
Reachmen are very mixed in their oragins, but due to them having a close relation to Bretons modern Reachmen likely did not exist until the first era but the orgininal Reachmen have existsed in Karth since likely the Wandering Elnofey became man. So the orginal Reachmen would have lived along side the Snow Elves but the Atmorans where the ones who disturbed the dust.
TLDR tho Both of them but defenatly not the nords
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mistninja Ā· 1 year ago
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When you get back online after watching opla PLEASE tell me your thoughts!!
OKAY SO. I have now watched two episodes and i have so much to say (long rambling post ahead, sorry)
IƱaqui is perfect. I was worried that he would not live up to the hype but he does. He captures luffy perfectly and manages to adapt luffy's personality to the new medium / the tone of the show. He is not just copying luffy, if that makes sense. Hes funny and silly and clearly having a great time which is exactly why he is the best possible casting. He just makes me smile so hard (btw my friend said he was his favorite character hehe)
I love Zoro, I wish he would smile more/be sillier but I think his sense of humor in the show works. I hope we see him call out some of his moves eventually, like, Get over youself and be silly!!!! But i love the actor and I loooove the zoro/luffy dynamic so far. I do have to say that i have mixed feelings about the change to Zoro joining the crew, i have always loved the moment when he calls luffy captain at shells town, but whatever its fine
(((Zolu shippers keep winning tho. i went insane over the "he believes in himself" bit)))
Nami.... im still not sold on the actress, she feels a bit stiff sometimes, but its better than what i was expecting based on the trailers. Not a fan of turning Nami into the "older sister" character :/ but im not surprised that they went with that angle. LOVED to see her fight alongside luffy and zoro, it is something that i wish we could see more of in the manga/anime. I love that they give her a lot more to do and we see her actually lock picks and be a thief! Im hopeful for the rest of the season and cant wait to see how they did Arlong Park. I really enjoyed her scene with Zoro when they are captured by Buggy, again i really miss seeing them interact in the original so it was nice
And that leads us to BUGGY. oh boy. I do like the costuming and his crew looked amazing, but hes too edgy for my taste. Maybe the actor is taking himself too seriously? Idk maybe i should reread the orange town chapters but i dont think buggy was ever this threatening and scary... he still had some goofy moments tho, so im hoping that as the show progresses he will be more like the buggy we know and love. My friend liked him a lot so ig it might have been the right call in order to bring in new fans.
I liked how they changed Alvida! It was totally the best way to handle her character (also, the actress is so hot, no one would have believed it if they called her ugy lol). I dont see why they took away Kobys big moment :/ I think it was a great disservice to his character
So far, I like the way they are condensing the plot. Obviously they would have to cut a lot, so im okay with how they are doing it. Orange Town felt a little rushed to me, but its okay.
LETS TALK ABOUT MR 7 THO. I fucking gasped. Did everyone already know that mr 7 was going to be on this? Cuz i didnt. It was such a good fight and i loved that they added that, they are clearly confident on getting a second season which makes ME more confident too. God i really hope we get Baroque Works.
The sets look amazing, i love the transponder snails SO MUCH, the fights are really cool and the CGI looks so good. The Devil Fruit looked too fake but eh, thats just a nitpick. The costumes are a mixed bag. I know namis orange skirt with the rings on the side is iconic but i think the actress looked silly with that outfit lol.
Okay im done HAHA sorry im going a bit insane. TLDR: I love it, im having a blast, i dont like some details here and there but im extremely positive about the show and cant wait to see the rest :)))) What did you think????
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kfruityouth Ā· 1 year ago
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i have heard your plea for people talking to you about chnt! it's been a while since i listened but i'll ask some questions that i like thinking about...
who do you think the agents are? and what are they doing?
what's the deal with clocks? is it just symbolism or is it a plot-relevant thing do you think?
honestly i don't remember how much lore was revealed in the muse of the elephant/elephant in the room and how much is just my own theories so this is just me asking a question about canon- what's up with the camp? is it a pocket dimension, time loop, or what? was that even properly explained?
hey. i love you. OKAY SO ive discussed some of this on discord with a few friends before and here's what i've kind of put together: (spoilers obviously for all of season 1)
for the agents: personally i believe that the events of chnt arent in the present; theyve already happened. the files are what the agents are listening back on to make sense of what's happened at camp after some big 'event'. i like to believe that the 'event' was triggered so to speak at chnt and spread to the rest of the world or whatnot from there. the entity stuff is classifying who each person is, and how much of a danger they possessed/how powerful they were in an attempt to clean up and organize the disarray. the clocks? HOOOOO BOY. should i even go into this one? ok so this is completely a friend's theory BUT. to sum up and paraphrase, basically, there was someTHING related to necromancy that jedidiah worked into the clocks that is too powerful to be read plainly (as we see his father died because of it), thus meaning sydney cannot stray too far from camp. when he says that he can't leave camp because he feels sick being too far away from lucille, the theory is that it's actually the clocks keeping him tethered to the camp. the extension of this is also that necromancy isn't impossible, just EXTREMELY illegal and contraband etc etc, as well as unreasonably dangerous, which is why they push the "necromancy is impossible" line so much. TLDR: the clocks are keeping sydney alive. as for the camp: personally i think it's a mix of It's Just Like That (think gravity falls), something to do with the consistent theme of warped time throughout season 1, and as i mentioned earlier, being a retrospective of the "event" or the "limn" as i believe it's referred to by the agents. but thats a whole other can of worms. im sure some of what ive said here can be easily disproved but if im being real ive only listened to chnt twice (listened to the finale a few times tho) and only read the transcripts in part so im not all that sure about everything, but that's just my thoughts on the matter :)
thank you so much for asking
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karlie-what-you-want Ā· 1 year ago
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I'm going to try to word this correctly, because I'd like your take and I don't want my point to be misconstrued. The tldr is: I'm kinda bummed 1989 TV is such a commercial success. Here's the long of it. 1989 was my favorite album for a long long time and I was of course, excited to check out the vault. But I feel like these numbers are based on hype, not on product. Which is... fine, commercially speaking. Go girl, make those dollars. But... the result is a receipe. What perfomed the best for a long time is a record that was heavily branded by a stunt with a boy(band). What has now performed the best was a re record dropped in the middle of a tour that was completely overshadowed by the boybranding again. I feel like the rush was a mix of weird Haylor gossip thirst, football dude easter egg hunt, return of girlsquad branding... I admit, it stings that 1989 TV didn't even get a promo interview, a music video, or anything. (No, but we didn't forget the merch drops, tho!!) And it makes me sad, because... folklore, man. That had ZERO hype. Bam. There. And we ate that shit up. We loved THE MUSIC. I want the wild ride to be the music. And 2023 feels like Taylor has fully retreated inside the Taylor Swift TM persona and we're buying the TS Brand, not Taylor's music. What I was hoping for was: more 1989 vibes on vault songs, more "directed by Taylor Swift" creative expressions. What I got was: Ken and Barbie on tour. I'm sorry this is kinda rambly. I know anon asks don't take into account line breaks so this will be even more confusing. But. Yeah. I'm just a bit bummed out and I was wondering if anyone else was a bit disapointed, too? I mean. I genuinely don't know. Do people enjoy the soap opera and I'm the only one who's only turning up to check out the shoes Taylor wore in candids and for her artistic expression? Maybe I'm the weirdo. The market certainly seems to say I'm not in the majority.
Hi Anon šŸ’•
Iā€™m so sorry youā€™re feeling this way, and I can absolutely relate! It can be really difficult to separate the stunts from the music on a mental and emotional level. Itā€™s something I still struggle with occasionally, and when the music is something so personal to you, of course you can feel protective or even disappointed when the PR goes off the rails. That is completely valid!
It saddens me that any fan would feel the shine of Taylorā€™s actual work has been dulled by the PR schemes.
I, too, am surprised that we havenā€™t seen any music video for 1989 TV yet, but Iā€™m also not completely convinced that the book has been closed on that front. Letā€™s wait together in hopeful anticipation šŸ¤ž
I donā€™t blame you at all for how you are feeling, but I think in times like these, the most helpful thing for me is to draw that mental boundaryā€”whether itā€™s a boundary between the music and the PR, or myself and the PR. Sometimes, I just donā€™t check the news, or I scroll away quickly if I happen to see something. These stunts are a lot, so when I feel myself becoming overwhelmed, I really try to shut down my mournful thoughts with a ā€œNOPE! Thatā€™s not good for me right nowā€ and then scroll away, or shut my phone off, or turn on Taylorā€™s actual music instead.
I am in love with 1989 TV. Iā€™ve had it on repeat since it dropped, and hearing the vault tracks especially makes me so happy. I feel like thereā€™s a real story thereā€”things we didnā€™t get to see when the album originally came out. I have to imagine that even now, thereā€™s so much happening behind the scenes that we canā€™t know. Iā€™m just grateful for the chance to peek a little farther behind the curtain for a period of time that was very special for the T Swift community.
Lastly, regardless of the PR stunts, this drop has been huge for Taylor. Perhaps weā€™ll never know for sure whether thatā€™s because people have come flocking for her music itself or theyā€™ve grown curious due to the over the top PR, but I have a feeling that Taylor doesnā€™t care much either way. I think sheā€™s at peace with the way she gets her attention, because at the end of the day, people ARE listening to her music. If they saw her at a football game cheering on some meathead and got curious enough to check out 1989 TV, what they will discover is a woman with great intelligence, a depth of emotion, and an insane amount of talent. That is just to say, it will always be her music and talent that shines in the end.
Iā€™m reminded of YOYOK, where Taylor sings I looked around in a blood-soaked gown and I saw something they canā€™t take away.
No amount of stunts or bad PR (or good PR!) will change her undeniable talent. Even better that 1989 is truly Taylorā€™s now. I just find it comforting that regardless of how people find Taylor or why they first buy her music, they will get to enjoy it for the beautiful work of art that it always is.
Sending love, anon! You are not alone in your feelings, I promise šŸ’ššŸ’›šŸ’œā¤ļøšŸ©µšŸ–¤šŸ©·šŸ©¶šŸ¤ŽšŸ’™
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scribz-ag24 Ā· 1 year ago
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Stupid question but which one re-evolved first, Duskull/Dusknoir or Treecko/Grovyle?
First, don't say it's a stupid question, I would love to share ideas for the au and talk more about it, especially 'cause I personally am not very creative on my own, so interaction helps immensely.
Second, gonna be honest here, I actually have no idea. I haven't really put much thought into actual plot lmao. The AU doesn't even belong to me really, I just took jsab's one and came up with little interactions that I found funny and/or cute (in my defense, i was starving for actaeonshipping content xd). I didn't plan an actual timeline/story, and I feel that way anyone can come up with their own interpretation of it, which is fun. (and also less complicated cause the logistics of a swap au would be,,,,,,,,,,,,complicated i think).
However, since you asked, I am going to list some random ideas I had about how it could happen, which sort of mixes with possible story beats ig. Sorry beforehand for the length and change of subject lol.
tldr: imo it depends on what story you wanna come up with and whatever serves it better (i.e. you want it to happen post game, so you follow the game's plot; you want it to happen during the story, so sth weird happens, etc.)
So in PMD:EOS world, pokƩmon evolve through the Luminous Spring. The player can't evolve until the spring regains its light once the flow of time is fixed. So either we have Grovyle and Dusknoir re-evolving after Dialga is defeated, respecting canon, or we tweak it a bit to make it more interesting.
A way to alter the spring method would be by stealing a headcanon I saw someplace I can't remember (oops): that pokƩmon, while they usually rely on the Luminous Spring, on very rare occasions can evolve through high levels of stress to protect themselves. I personally like this theory because it explains why there are evolved pokƩmon in the future, like Grovyle and Dusknoir themselves. They were born in a paralysed world, with no magic skinnydipping, so what's up with that.
When I say this ties in with story beats is because I feel the choice here can make two different versions of the swap, 1. treecko and duskull literally take the hero and partner role to the very end (plus a face off against darkrai ig??), or 2. respect the game's kind-of-chosen one narrative by having partner keep their relic fragment, and making grovyle and dusknoir's main mission to help hero and partner work together again. The problem with this AU is that, if taken seriously, it would need a DEEP reconsideration of the game's events and characters. When does the swap occur? Why does it happen, is Darkrai involved again? If Hero and Partner are still there, does that mean the story of eos happened beforehand but had a bad ending? How do two characters whose actions are immensely influenced by their knowledge of the future act when stripped of their canon motivations? Do they keep behaviours and reflexes (perhaps theyre a bit more ambivalent with violence/more morally gray than hero and partner) or are they a blank slate? Do they feel compelled to evolve because they have a weird feeling that they're in a body strange to them? This is why I only draw the fun two panel interactions!
Leaving all that aside, here are some scenarios that could happen (...because we are just making shit up so anything can happen):
They evolve through struggle, like I presume they had to do in the future. Maybe Treecko evolves sooner, on account of being more reckless and referencing his status as a starter pokƩmon that evolves at level 16. Once Duskull evolves he prolly carries the team for a while, tho, since Dusclops was supposed to be a fully evolved pokƩmon in gen 3, and is iconically stronger than Dusknoir when it carries an eviolite. Then again, Grovyle and Dusknoir in game are way stronger than they would be in a mainline game, so perhaps they maintain some muscle memory that helps them in combat (funny how two amnesiac pokƩmons, who barely remember their own names, are somehow so accostumed to battle, huh, weird). I'd say the best place for an evolution would be the dark future, maybe they escape from prison without facing the sableye -cause a prison cell isnt that big of a deal for someone who knows dig and someone whose actual pokƩdex entry is "It can go through walls!"- and evolve in a fight against partner?
The evolution doesn't follow game rules at all, instead it's a physical manifestation of their old memories. Hero never remembers their past (sorry grovyle), but this is pure self indulgence so maybe the other two do, or at least are more encouraged to do so or get more information (celebi for grovyle, and dialga for dusknoir).
Following that last point, Celebi and Dialga, two time travelling pokƩmon, actively interfere to help them get their memories back/get them up to speed with the situation, each to their own interest. Perhaps this involve a separation arc between Treecko and Duskull, Ơ la Gates to Infinity. This would serve to make them less dependent of each other, and mature on their own for a while, differenciating them from hero and partner.
They don't re-evolve, they save the world/help save the world like hero and partner would do.
My favourite option is Dialga helps them somehow with time magic after the battle is over and time is fixed. The sole point of it is getting Dusknoir and Grovyle -with their memories back- to awkardly leave together on a slow stoneship that shoots rainbow, for the sole reason that it would be hilarious.
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manofmanymons Ā· 11 months ago
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You got any ships that'd have people side eying you?
Uuuuuuh out of any fandom ever? Short answer: yes.
Long answer: it's a little complicated what I would define as a ship for me bc when it comes to ships I actively ship and actually think should kith I have incredibly few. But when it comes to ships where someone else will be like "these two are cute together" and I'll go "yeah I see it" and maybe rt/rb a post about them it's like...almost any ship. Y'all have watched me write hcs for almost every mix and match combination of almost every character in Survive even though I have like,,,two ships from that game. And also what some people consider side eye worthy is different from what I do.
Like,,,for example, I know I've said it before, but I don't think human x digimon ships are inherently weird. I think it varies on a partner-to-partner basis. I've seen a lot of people in gg fandom ship Ruli and Angoramon or Kiyo and Jellymon and...yeah I think that's fine. But no one ships Hiro and Gammamon because that would be weird. And I don't think I really have to explain what the difference there is. But I know for some people it's just a hard no across the board lmao.
Probably the only ship I actively ship rn that people think is weird is, for reasons I will never understand, ThomAya. For those of you not in Genshin fandom they're just a classic cute longtime best friends to lovers ship that some people unironically think is incest because Ayaka told one person one time that Thoma is kind of like a second brother to her. These same people will turn around and ship him with her actual brother tho which...what? Like if you actually think they're related or whatever how would that not, in your eyes, also make him related to her brother I DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU PEOPLE. I digress.
OH OH OH NOT TO KEEP GENSHINNING BUT FUN FACT I totally got canceled on twitter for shipping kaether back when it was implied but not explicitly confirmed yet that Aether's an adult so the "Traveler is literally minor-coded" crowd came for my ass. I tragically got blocked by one of my only mutuals who liked Digimon back then over that shit lakfdjak. Like sorry for assuming a character who had "seen the birth and death of stars" but is kinda short was at least 18. I was right though.
I know a lot of my KH ships are side eye worthy because they'll be between characters who have literally never met (i.e. most mix and match combos of the characters who are Nobodies of or replicas of or the embodiment of darkness extracted from the other major characters). Some of them are between characters who, despite literally having entire arcs dedicated to establishing that they are NOT the same person, people will still point at and call self-cest. (i.e. shipping Roxas with Sora or Xion). So again I genuinely don't think they're weird, but I know other people do.
I've seen people say it's weird to ship Pao-Lin and Lara in Tiger & Bunny because of their "age difference." They are 16 and 14. Sue me.
Here's a special segment for things I shipped in middle and high school that no one thought was weird back then but would DEFINITELY get a side eye in 2024.
I was a sebaciel shippper when I was like,,,12. Would I still ship it today? Probably no. But hey it was 2013 and I'm pretty sure the show WANTED you to ship them.
Almost any hetalia ship. I am not even joking, almost every character in that entire show was related somehow or another. It was like 2015. I was not immune to smashing pretty characters together and shouting "now kiss." I also was not doing deep dives into whether or not the immortal personifications of countries were technically related or had age gaps, I'm sorry.
Totally shipped Yoichi and Gekkouin from OnS. I mean my main ship was kimiyoi but multishippping is real. To be honest it was just a classic case of being a teenager and shipping the character I related to with the character I thought was hot. It was not any deeper than that.
TLDR: if any of y'all do now or ever have shipped anything weird, I'm not gonna judge you for it. I literally do not have the right to.
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johannwolfgangvongoethe Ā· 7 months ago
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Hello valued mutual-in-law (I am the twitter mutual of Mattā€™s whose friend is long term essaying with him over curiouscat, for context); I just wanted to say I just read your writing on disability within enstars you linked in reply to one of the curiouscat exchanges (which Iā€™ve been reading bc I like seeing what both people involved have to say) + the post about guardianship re: the Merus that it linked to. Just wanted to say thanks for writing it all because it was really insightful ā€” particularly the Sakuma segment, because Iā€™m not very well-versed on the two of them and especially not with Rei, who Iā€™m mostly acquainted to through being a casual enjoyer of the oddballsā€™ group dynamic, as well as a 2winkP (the latter of which provides sort of complicated feelings on him based on Setsubun & its aftermath, or general lack thereof thatā€™s only really brought up in Nightclub from what iā€™ve seen do far;;). Like I did know to a basic degree about the Wagahai & Orei selves being personas but the detail in which you went into them + the way his disability affects him & his relationship with Ritsu really gave me some new insight on him & a motivation to learn more up on him.
Tldr; I enjoyed your thoughts and writings on the mixed bag of disability representation in enstars, thank you for writing all that it was nice insight, and it helped me understand the Sakumas ā€” particularly Rei ā€” better. Good posts op
HIIII holy shit, thank you so much for reading them. JUST HOW FAST WERE YOU.... i am really happy to hear you liked them!!! its just a lot of rambling but i love to yap + i love when others yap and it introduces me to a new perspective...... in my mind were holding hands and dancing in a meadow <:)
genuinely, i think no one can be immune to the oddballs, right. theyre just good. see.... my partner is a shuP and my bestie is a natsumeP and matt is a wawaP and i am a rei guy by necessity and ..... THIS IS HOW I KNOW NOTHIONG ABOUT KANATA.... i feel like often orienting oneself around enstars as a series is extremely about picking like a handful of charas to major in and knowing people who are into everyone else so you experience enough secondhand lore LOL
i extremely get you though, rei is not sympathetic. i am on pc but what i mean is 2winkP handshake emoji kogaP = Fuck That Guy
i could talk about rei (and ritsu for that matter. tho i havent read that much about him) in the context of disability forever.... and it feels important because it is an angle that discussion about him is just EXTREMELY lacking. it often feels like barely anyone bothers to think about how much being ill shapes his person, his relationships, his job, his actions.... and i cant really blame people either because they probably havent made the necessary experiences to really internalize how big of a deal that is...
and narratively..... there is a big trend of characters being very lenient with him and basically thanking him for being.... extraordinarily condescending, nosy, emotionally unavailable, and actively a danger for everyone involved. the worst examples that instantly come to mind for me are repayfes, setsubun (as you mentioned), and dont even get me started on hidden beast.
+ often hes some sort of deus ex machina plot device for lazy writing and its SO obnoxious.
setsubun specifically is so weird because i understand and support his weird cartoon villain act (as in, its engaging to read and an interesting manifestation of his issues) and obviously i LOVE the drama of characters being unwell and causing issues for others that way... conflict is great... but the way the twins react to it purely positively at the end is just a really disappointing. like i dont expect them to truly nail that hinata almost died an hour ago but come on. (ig sandstorm tries to pick up there....) also sort of why i never brought anything in there about being "monstrous" and how "monsters are created" up in my disability post.... really really fits the topic and a lot of it is coming from the horses (reis) mouth but the context hinata and yuta experience it in is just an entirely different one. hm....
its sort of a similar deal with himeru, right. narratively i am disappointed. they dont get chewed out by the people i want. and hes doing evil shit. but then i see him and i go :( thats my funny menhera man.......
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