#weaver rambles

[nodaudaboutitt]

I know the show (and as far as I can remember the books) portray mb's integrated energy weapons as just being sort of slots on its forearm that fire energy bolts. But I really like the idea of taking that into a more machine like angle, with their fingers pulling back and their forearm splitting into segments that pull back/ reconfigure to allow the energy blasts to come out of its 'palm'

[b1adelight]

it’s way too late for me to be asleep right now but I’ve been thinking about this all day… it strikes me as odd that in fo4, the dogs you see in game are completely purebred. I don’t mean the mongrels, but Dogmeat and the Rottweilers that you come across.

you could create a hypothetical scenario that at least one person would be able to keep breeding some dogs shortly after the bombs dropped… but doing that would be nearly impossible with a sudden lack of resources (also hoping that you don’t die in the initial blast, or deteriorate too soon), and bringing pets into a Vault wasnt an option (unless, you know, there was a vault specifically designed for that, but there is no trace of that in the Commonwealth). so with that out of the picture… what’s stopping dogs from mixing breeds over the 210 years after the bombs hit? Literally nothing.

realistically, dogs in the fallout universe should appear a lot more like the dogs found in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. they’re pretty much just… really irradiated mutts. No specific breed since everything has been so watered down. look at these guys. they’re adorable.

(photo found here)

not much to add to this tbh. I just really like these dogs and wish fo4 could have taken a bit more inspiration from them. as much as I love German shepherds, I was always confused as to why Dogmeat is the only one… or why he even is one at all! same with the Rotties too.

[transgwender616]

"Isn't it weird that these 2 completely different characters canonically exist in the same universe?"

No not really.

You, me, Kendrick Lamar, Jaiden Animations, Weird Al, Lynda Carter, Scott The Woz and Sigourney Weaver all exist in the same universe and it's no big deal.

[pyrholidonhead]

alien season is officially upon us by the way. embrace winter with the cold terror of space, sigourney weaver, insidious corporations that want to kill you, space truckers and space marines, and your best friend the xenomorph

[cryptid-catnip]

my favorite part of Worm was when Taylor Worm said "it's worming time" and then murdered a toddler

[dewwshi]

princess of mithral hall

[akuma-tenshi]

finished closing night!! boy do i have some thoughts. and now that i've gathered them, i'm about to make my autism your problem. spoilers below.

the first part of the event wasn't awful imo, it felt like character building and just helping establish the dynamic. i know some people weren't fond of it but given that i was never really that invested in hullabaloo before this and didn't know every little detail of these characters, it was nice to get some character establishment and figure out how they all are as people. i am also a fan of slowburn character-focused horror, so that may just be a personal taste thing lmao

bryce papenbrook does a good job as mike, even though there are definitely points where he sounds exactly like nagito (namely the scene where he's shouting at margaretha in the foyer). he has a very particular way of speaking / voicing characters that make it immediately clear it's him. however, i do think he fits mike well and he definitely lays off the nagito-ness in the second part.

the rest of the cast was excellent as well. while there was a Choice made with murro's voice (he sounds WAY younger than he's supposed to be, which is off-putting and takes me out every time he speaks), it's very clear everyone knows their characters well and they all do a good job keeping their mannerisms and vocalisations unique and fitting to each role. aside from some awkward lines (which i attribute more to stilted writing than to the va's themselves), the voice acting is absolutely a highlight.

margaretha's trauma with sergi is portrayed very well imo. bear in mind i have not suffered the same abuse as her, so i can't say how accurate or good it is, but it feels like it displays that it was a terrible thing while also being respectful and avoiding being exploitative. the added layer that everyone else (except joker) liked sergi and was unaware of the abuse adds a lot.

in general, i think mike and margaretha are incredibly well-written here. i think ne could've absolutely gone the route of popular fan interpretations and completely demonised margaretha while making mike a perfect angel, and they would've gotten a lot of praise for it. but they stuck to their guns and made them both very flawed yet understandable people, and that just makes everything feel that much more real, at least to me. they're such different people with opposing goals, and their friction really comes through. everyone else is very well done (shoutout to me a couple of hours ago calling joker cute for some godforsaken reason i can't remember) and i love all of their characterisations, but mike and margie really are the standouts here.

i do wish there was a bigger payoff for margaretha using euphoria so frequently. i know it's implied to have been involved in violetta's death, and i appreciate the connection to game 5, but i wish there was a little bit more there. it's not a huge gripe though, so i won't harp on it for long.

the pacing at the start of the second part had me extremely worried; things felt like they were dragging along and being padded out for the sake of being padded out, and i was not having fun with it. fortunately, this issue was remedied about halfway through, and once things got going, i started really enjoying myself. the pacing of the first half of part two is my biggest gripe with this story.

i was noticing a lot of similarities between hullabaloo and fool's gold: hunter forms of popular survivors being announced and used as a major part of marketing for an update to the idv story. with the aforementioned pacing issues, i was really worried that hullabaloo's reveal would shape up to be similar to fg's: a kinda cool cutscene and a lame chase sequence at the very end of a long, boring storyline. however, despite hullabaloo having a much smaller part in this story than fg did in aom, appearing only briefly in the fire at the very end, i still think it's a better incorporation of the character than what they did with norton. better to have it be quick and intimidating than just kinda tedious.

every death in this (aside from joker's) felt very purposeful and well-done. violetta's death was heartbreaking. the change in animation towards the end, followed by the single sound of her machinery giving out after the screen went black, was beautiful, and hey, at least she died happy. margaretha's death pulled at a very specific and very major love i have in storytelling, that being a character choosing to die free rather than live in captivity, and the payoff of all the underwater scenes where she swims towards sergi finally coming through when she chooses to sink away from him had me losing my mind. i genuinely did not expect mike's death to be a straight-up suicide; like i said, i'm not completely caught up on hullabaloo lore, so maybe other people saw this coming, but the fact that he truly could not live with the truth about hullabaloo is such a heartwrenching yet satisfying end to his character. like i said, joker's is the only death that doesn't totally stand out, but i like that they let you put the pieces together yourself.

the chase sequence with joker was unintimidating and a little lame, and honestly it felt somewhat forced, just a way to get his hunter form in there bc they realised "oh shit right this guy's like. a hunter isn't he." i do like that they gave him back his chainsaw though; very nice little callback to the betas.

the animation of the hullabaloo fire was absolutely gorgeous and the ending had me in shambles. for a while afterwards i felt similar to how i felt after finishing end roll: drained and flat but in a good way, like a ton of adrenaline had just released from my body after some intense event.

all in all, i really enjoyed it. i can't say if i like it more than aom, but that may be the frederick bias coming through, so i'm going to choose not to rank them and just say hey. banger event. well worth the hype even with its hiccups and flaws. i always say this, but idv has some genuinely talented people in its writers' room, and i can't wait to see what they come out with next.

[trans-queen-administrator]

Taylor being paranoid about her passenger is such a fun character trait. Like none of her friends really seemed to give much of a shit when they learned about passengers from Bonesaw, but Taylor consistently notes the times her passenger acted without her consent, she tries to talk with it, communicate with it, just anything to learn what this thing that can control her without her say wants with her. One of my favorite little details is that during the timeskip this was the focus of a lot of her therapy sessions with Yamada, trying methods like hypnosis to communicate. I think part of it is that she's inherently just paranoid about the fact that this thing is helping her sometimes and she doesn't know why and she HAS to figure it out because no one would help out of the kindness of their heart, and another part is just that she can't bear to not be in control and this is something that threatens that in a very ominous way.

Another aspect of her paranoia towards her passenger is that she doesn't want to take blame for her own actions I think. During the Behemoth fight when her ally tried to shoot Phil Sē, she pulled the gun off target with silk and got him killed. She's the one who pulled the string, but because she's genuinely unsure if it was her being wary or her passenger setting up the string she settles on the second option because it absolves her of the possible blame or need to admit she's paranoid and ready to betray people in an instance. When Glenn shows her the video of her being the most terrifying fucker in existence she ignores how horrifying she is and fixated on how her passenger moved her, and then she doesn't have to think about the fact that she'd fit right into the ranks of the Slaughterhouse Nine because well, she can blame her passenger and focus on that instead. This applies to other people too, she sees Lung not using his power and thinks that maybe he's concerned about his passenger like she is. She projects hard onto Sophia in my opinion when she says that she got violent because of her passenger. If this person she doesn't like isn't to blame for everything she inflicted on Taylor, the surely Taylor can't be blamed for the violent steps she took to take over a city. It's another way she rationalizes everything to herself, if something is so bad that she can't justify it immediately there's always the excuse of "my passenger made me do it." But crucially, Taylor ends up being aware of the fact that she's doing this during Gold Morning.

And I think it's really good that this is something she grows and accepts about herself. It's wonderful growth for a character who's so often too stubborn to move herself forward. She's generally more in touch with her passenger during Gold Morning, like the time when she thinks that her and her passenger were in agreement in wanting to hurt Scion on the oil rig. No one else in Worm really seems to accept their passengers, Riley is questioning how much of herself has been subsumed by it, Eidolon is always annoyed it doesn't give what he wants, and most other people don't even know about them. But Taylor forms a bit of a symbiosis with hers after a long time rejecting it at every turn. I think this quote really sums up her feelings towards the end.

And by towards the end I mean like, at the very end, because immediately after this thought she becomes Khepri, and yet another fucking theme and character trait cumulates and reaches its peak with Speck. God damn what a good arc. The blur between Taylor and her passenger that she always feared is finally an actual thing consuming her, and she can finally communicate with her passenger as well. I do wonder what this is like on her passengers end. It's clearly down for the idea of killing its maker, and it's heavily implied that her passenger does care and doesn't want to actually leave Taylor as a husk (too lazy to get the quote because I've been typing for 45 minutes but Contessa remarks upon the administrator claiming everything about her until there's nothing left and she feels fear that she thinks is from both her and her passenger. 30.7 I think, near the end). But there's still so much about Taylor's passenger that's unknown. Was communication something it may have wanted when Taylor kept trying to communicate, but doing so required punching holes in the connection that would lead to more bleed through and functionally destroy its host? Did it slowly grow to care for Taylor more than the cycle, or was it always wanting to fight Scion? Did Taylor's autistic swag convince a multidimensional alien made of crystal to rebel? Is Queen Administrator trans? Idk how to end this post if it's not obvious, sorry.

[eternalscribbles]

@raggedytiger so I had a uhm. An idea. And originally it was meant to be sweet and all but I don't control the definitions of names so-

[n1-adora-fan]

It’s so interesting just how different Glimmer reacts to Shadow Weaver in season 3 compared to season 4

Like there’s the want for a mother figure aspect, and a desire to have control in a world that’s kinda crumbling (re: Flutterina stirring shit up in the rebellion and in the BFS, portal, etc), as well as wanting to connect with to her parents in any way possible (connecting with her father over using magic)

But it shows just how much the whole portal ordeal has caused her to grow up. Not only having to become queen, but also thinking less black and white.

Where before she was completely untrusting of Shadow Weaver and anyone from the Horde besides Adora (s3e1: 'She’s from the Horde. She’s evil. Evil people can’t change' ; threatening SW when Adora goes to heal her, talking about how she's waiting to hurt her), she can now see nuance. While she may still dislike SW, she understands that she can be both horrible and useful.

Obviously she is too trusting and almost ruins the world but while there's a lot to criticize about her actions regarding SW, they also show huge character growth !!

[nodaudaboutitt]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars: Rebellion Era - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Alexsandr Kallus & Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios, Alexsandr Kallus/Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios Characters: Alexsandr Kallus, Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios, Kassius Konstantine Additional Tags: future kalluzeb, Character Study, Canon Compliant, Alternative Perspective, kallus character study, Kallus POV, Mid-Canon, Rebel Alexsandr Kallus, Imperial Security Bureau (Star Wars) Summary:

After a night on a frozen moon with his sworn enemy, Kallus' imperial indoctrination begins to crack, how will he cope when his worldview begins to crash around him.

Character Study of Agent Kallus following The Honorable Ones, looking into his transition from ISB agent to Fulcrum. Will do my best to remain canon compliant but will take liberties since the show left some gaps for me to dig into >:)

[b1adelight]

what if i gave luther a different railroad code name than the one in game... none of them really fit tbh. bullseye was the closest but i think he would have used that in his backstory, and not in the main plot

[sharrkbaiitcartoonz]

I drew Catra :3

I plan on drawing cute shit soon but for now, here you go children

[citrusbuds]

SPIDERSONA POST !!!!!

Born and raised in the Philippines, Clementine Cortez gets chosen to be an exchange student at Midtown High School, Nueva York. There, he stays with Ben and May Park, and their nephew Peter Park. (i thought i was so funny making the Parkers korean and renaming them as Parks and tbh i still think i am hilarious)

During a field trip, Clementine saved Peter from being bit by a radioactive spider, getting Clementine bit instead and gaining superhuman abilities to become Tide Weaver (Spider-Man)

my GOD heres my spidersona this specific drawing was made all the way back in july 2023 but i finally have the power to talk about him (i kept forgetting)

Tide Weaver was based off of Web Weaver (Cooper Coen), the gay spider-man lmao. I wanted to keep his design very colorful and ocean-y. To make him stand out against other variations of Spider-Man, Tide Weaver has the ability to glide atop water, as well as trap water in his webs (making them heavier)

i really love this guy i have so many things i wanna talk about so i will be posting A LOT (cause i have like an entire years worth of lore in my brain)

if u read all of this i love u sooo much i will give u a little kiss on the forehead for it MWAH

[cryptid-catnip]

give me a fictional character and i will tell you how taylor hebert from the hit web serial Worm can beat them

[roccogauthier]

who up thinking about jordan weaver?