#why does he need this stupid ass robot so bad? i know he got a connection to him but like. it just tried to kill him AGAIN.

[ftmbruce]

why the actual fuck does IG-11 need to come back. can we explain anything here. are we just throwing shit at the wall? he just threw the baby across the room like a football

[yanderefarm]

I NEED. another part of that achilles x sadistic make reader thing PLEASEEEE

cw;; nsft language, misunderstandings, hurt/comfort, suffocation

ok i wanna write this idea i had so im putting it here bc im attaching the actual part 2 to another ask.

this was supposed to be filthy femboy achilles sending you sexy videos. it got away from me bad.

your lovely partner is a hard worker even with his proclivity for perversion he very rarely ignores work to get off. usually you two maintain a healthy balance, work and play and on weekends you get him for the more extreme play, but he's out of town. his father needed him to go take care of somethings in another city a plane ride away leaving you without your lovely boyfriend's company for the time being.

the first few days coming home without him being there was strange. it was strange to not have him on his knees at your feet, or curled up in your arms, or tied to your metal slab. you hadn't even realized how much your life had become entangled with his until he was gone. you still texted him every day but you were really starting to get lonely. i mean... his texts leave something to be desired.

'good morning.'

'good night'

'i had an avocado and banana smoothie for breakfast.'

'im working'

'please don't call me at this time.'

it's bad enough that in person he looks like a lifeless robot sometimes, why does he text like one too? you could get more emotion from an alexa. you've been trying to be understanding because you know he's just that kind of person but it didn't help your loneliness. you were trying to call him at night before he went to bed just to hear his voice.

'please don't call me at this time.'

that message was really starting to piss you off. you couldn't be nice anymore.

'answer your fucking phone or im going to bleed you.'

it took a few minutes, about 10 to be exact, for your phone to ring. you immediately picked it up about to scold him for his lack of communication when you heard his harsh breathing on the other side. you could recognize it as how he usually sounded after something intense.

"chilles? are you ok?" your brow furrowed in worry.

"m okay" his words slurred slightly which usually meant he was fucked out.

"... you wanna try again? maybe this time tell me what bitch you're fucking?" your eye twitched in anger.

"m not-"

"im not stupid. you've been barely talking to me this whole week, you won't answer my calls, and now you sound like you just got your ass pounded. so you wanna try again? one more chance before i start sharpening my knife."

you heard him struggle to take a breath before finally letting out a pathetic little whimper. "m sorry, sir."

you let out a heavy sigh and ran a hand through your hair, gripping a handful of it as your anger became overwhelming. here you were being lonely and worried and missing him! and this stupid whore was out in another city running around with some bitch.

".... so. is this another attempt to get your throat slit or do you just.. not... care?" fuck you hated how your voice started to crack at the end.

"i.. i would gladly accept your punishment. i tried to resist for as long as I could."

"you fuckin-! yeah! you poor thing must have been so fucking hard for you to resist that!" you were messing up your hair as you rubbed at your head like you were trying to scrub him from your mind.

"im sorry sir. i know im a disappointment."

"disappointment?! that doesn't even begin to describe it!"

"im... im sorry... i didn't realize you would be so angry." you heard him make a hesitant sound before he spoke again. "we'll be here another week and I'll try to behave until we return."

you dropped your hand from your hair instead rubbing the bridge of your nose. tears were starting to gather in your eyes.

"don't bother coming back here. next time i see you you'd be lucky if i don't actually kill you."

you heard a strangled noise on the other side of the phone.

"no... please please, i know im bad. im the trash beneath your shoes. im disgusting and vile. but please please please" you could hear his voice cracking as he started to quietly cry.

you hated how it pulled at your heart.

"you should have thought about that before you 'couldn't resist'." you heard your own voice sounding rough and raw.

"i... i didn't think a toy would make you this angry i-"

"a what."

"a -a toy? the-the toy i bought..."

".... im gonna fucking murder you. you bought a sex toy??"

"yes-! im sorry. im sorry i knew i shouldn't have. i should have just waited. im sorry."

"you..." you couldn't help but laugh as tears fell down your cheeks. "fuck you're stupid."

"im sorry i know. im sorry."

"shut up. jesus... i thought you were cheating on me moron."

"i would never?? i-??" he sounded so genuinely confused.

"you've been avoiding me all week, chilles. you won't take my calls, you text me like a robot, and when I finally hear your voice you're all... horny."

"ive been very busy... every night ive had to go to different nightclubs for meetings... you always manage to call when im trying to be intimidating and I know i wouldn't be able to compose myself if I heard your voice."

"and tonight? you did it again."

"i... i should have answered but i knew i was misbehaving. .....and it would have been hard to speak."

"what were you doing? don't spare the details. i don't want room for more misunderstanding."

you heard him swallow hard.

"i bought the largest... silicone penis... they had at the store. i used some spare rope to tie a noose to the closet and then i put a chair with the toy in it underneath the noose. you called right when i started..."

"you're such a freak. jesus..." you wiped the last of the tears from your face. you let out a sigh of relief and relaxed into the couch. "you shoulda just answered i would have talked you through it."

"i was embarrassed and ashamed of myself... i knew you would be angry"

"yeah i think being convinced you were cheating on me is much better."

"i would never cheat on you. you're the only thing that holds meaning to me. you are my god, i only continue to exist by your will."

"there you go saying weird shit again."

"i mean it... my whole being is only for you. you're not my soulmate you're the owner of my soul. i wish you would carve me open and live inside my skin only then would i be close enough to you." you heard him whine softly.

"freak. ...i miss you. so much. i guess it's getting to my head not being able to hear you say your weird shit and worship me every day."

"i miss you so deeply... i feel empty and purposeless without you. even sexual gratification was empty..."

"did you finish?"

"yes... im.. im still sitting on it. i just removed the noose so i could talk to you."

"perv. c'mon baby boy drag yourself off that thing. it's bath time."

you heard him shift slightly most likely shivering.

"will you... guide me through bath time?"

"yeah. it'll help me relax too."

"thank you, sir. i love you."

you let out another sigh. you could feel your heart swell at his words spoken so softly with only the slightest of warmth. it was like you were freezing because his slight warmth seeped into your heart and spread through every inch of your body.

"i love you too."

BONUS;;

achilles: i don't really sound like a robot do i?

sadist darling: sorry babe. you're super roboty.

achilles: ive been trying to be sweet and text you everyday....

sadist darling: .... just add 1 emoji babe. it'll do you wonders.

achilles: like this..? ⛓️ good morning ⛓️

sadist darling: .because you're chained to me? is that right?

achilles: yes. 🧎

sadist darling: i take it back no more emojis.

[ddollfface]

𝐈 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐉𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬

𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗦𝗶𝗰𝗸!𝗔𝘁𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝘅 𝗮𝗳𝗮𝗯!𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿

"Don't bite your lips, you're so selfish. Lemme do it for you ;)"

Trigger Warnings; jealousy, Cocky!Yandere, manipulation, possessiveness, yandere behaviors, bad writing, hinting at nsfw but doesn't show anything, I had afab!reader in mind but I think it can be gn!reader too If I missed anything, then please let me know ♡ Just some jealousy thoughts about LoveSick!Athlete... As usually, if ya' got any requests/suggestions, then let me know!!! (I'm definitely not running out of steam lol)

Well, you see, LoveSick!Athlete doesn't really get jealous, so to speak. I mean, of course, he does get jealous, everyone does, seeing as it's a normal human emotion. And he's not a complete robot or anything. The thing is, he's just too cocky, too confident in himself to feel it often.

It's a mixture of confidence for you and himself. He's attractive, and he knows it. He's a twenty-one, lean, athlete who can kick anyone's ass if they dared to flirt with you. Though, he never does, seeing as he doesn't see any of these men as threats. Actually, he sees it as comedy, something that makes him laugh. He really pities these guys who think they can get with you, the hottest chick on uni campus. Like, really, what does this guy think he's doing, doll? Does he really believe that a babe like you would fork up your number to anyone? Especially, a guy who's already got a bald spot?

Honestly, he's really mean about it, and sometimes you can't help but feel bad for the guys who approach you. But, come on now, they must be stupid or something to completely brush off the arm that's wrapped around you shoulder. They likely just ignored it, hoping to save their ego, somewhat. They should've just seen it coming, at least, that's how you rationalize it.

He knows you wouldn't fuck another guy for two reasons:

1. First of all, why would you? Especially, when you have the hottest guy around the block. LoveSick!Athlete loves you to death. He makes sure your needs are met. That you're never hungry, thirsty, or needy. Nope, his baby's never left hanging. He's never left you high and dry, the bedroom set aside.

2. Who would hook up with? No, really, I'm serious. LoveSick!Athlete has practically chased off all competition, all you got is him. There's not a second that you're away from him, besides the bathroom. If you got a different class than him, welp he's waiting right out the door for you, ignoring all the whispers from your classmates who gawk at the hockey player.

3. He knows you're busy, he makes sure you are, with all that classwork, trying to get through college in one piece. What a hard worker you are; he's so proud of you. You're far too caught up in your grades and semester hours to be bothered with other men, though he's made sure that he's the only one that stuck around. Don't worry, he doesn't mind your tight schedule. You can't go to a cafe, date, 'cause you have to study? That's okay, what do you want? He'll bring it to your dorm! 'Cause, y'know, he's sweet like that ;)

4. And finally, though this isn't really a separate reason, he made sure that everyone knew ya'll were together. Well, not that you know that. He told all his buddies about you, how sweet you are, and how you're such a good girlfriend. I mean, he knows you guys never made it official, but what's the problem with that? You're practically dating, in his mind. You guys text/call all the time, you go out to eat together, go to amusement parks, and so, so much more. How is that not dating? Why *wouldn't* you want to date him? You guys would be such a power couple, don't 'cha think, babe? Our babies would be so cute; I hope they have your eyes <;3?"

Huh?

[talesfrommedinastation]

My redneck neighbor Doug's interpretations on various 'Bad Batch' characters: Side Character Edition!

I'm chuffed that everyone thinks my neighbor Doug is funny: he really is a gem. I had no idea we'd bond over Star Wars and crappy weather, but here we are.

Naturally, I had to bother him about other characters that showed up on The Bad Batch, so, here we go!

Phee Genoa: Ah-ha, that there’s Church Lady. You know her, she’s got a big square in her pocketbook and you don’t know if it’s pound cake or a brick, because the Lord saves but He can’t help you in the alley when you’re in Treme and the streetlights just turned on. She has two ex-husbands who are both preachers and they turned to Jesus because they are so scared of Church Lady in court. 

(So I guess he’s saying Phee has raw WHO DAT energy, for my Saints fans out there)

Cid: Looking at this fat lizard bitch makes me hungry. I call that one Houma-BBQ because I’m guessing we could feed a whole parish fire station based on the size of her tail. I wish she’d shut up, she reminds me of my mother-in-law. 

Cad Bane: Homeboy looks like a Sesame Street character who teaches Big Bird about concealed carry laws. I call him Gun Safety Muppet. I don’t like him because he shot my Wife and I’s Boyfriend on the other show and his robot needs to be tossed into a wood chipper. 

(“I’m not gay, but Jenny and I…well, we would make an exception to that man. You ever see ‘Deadwood’? Man is fine. I’m not GAY.”)

Fennec Shand: That’s The Chick that’s in Everything. She was on ER and Boba Fett and I think a Marvel show too? I like her. Hope she kills Gun Safety Muppet and hurls his blue ass into a dumpster. 

Howzer: That’s my niece’s boyfriend, Jorge. We all love Jorge, nice guy, owns an auto repair shop and always remembers plates and napkins for the cookouts after church.

Gregor: Jorge’s cousin, Manny. Met him once at Christmas in Miami, nice guy, only drinks brown liquor and insists everyone arm wrestle him. But he’s got a good job as a PE teacher, we respect education, come on now. 

The Martez Sisters: Aw, man, it’s Jorge’s Unemployed Sisters. I hate it when they show up for Christmas and get into fights with my momma. 

(“Doug, you know they’re not related to the clones at all, right?” “Says who?” “The PLOT?” “Eh, they’ll change it, just watch.”)

Mayday: Aw, I liked this guy so much! That’s Sassy Park Ranger, he’s the type that gives you your camping permits, warns you about the bears, and then is all disappointed when you don’t properly stow your food and the bears destroy the campsite. I need to go back to Little River Canyon, that place was pretty. 

Lt. Nolan: THAT STUPID BLOND JACKASS. (Doug was so enraged by the guy he had nothing else to add. Damn.)

Senator Chuchi: Why does this lady make me want a blue slushie? I’ll call her the Sonic Special. They need more Sonics here in the north, they really do. 

Cody: That’s Obi-Wan’s Boyfriend, he’s sad all the time. We know why. (Confirmed that Doug is a Codywan shipper and I don’t know what to do about that)

Royce Hemlock: Is that Jimmy Neutron after he grew up and became one of those guys that’s on the internet all the time writing creepy things? It’s Jimmy-the-Scientist. He looks like the type of person dogs get weird around.

Rex: That's Rex. He's a king. Respect him.

[alexanderwales]

Movie Review: Subservience

I did actually end up watching Subservience. I had absolutely no preconceptions going into it, but ... man, bad movie. I will admit to having watched this one on a second monitor while playing a video game, but I don't think that really impacts my reading of it.

It turns out that it's an erotic thriller, and specifically, a type of erotic thriller that I'm not sure has a name, but which I'll call "man ruiner". These were all the rage in the early 90s before petering out, and I've seen it called the "woman from hell" genre, though this is a somewhat more specific subset that would exclude movies like Single White Female.

Basically, there's a hard-working but horny family man, a woman comes into his life and seduces him, he either cheats on his wife or resists temptation, then the woman goes psycho and attacks his family, his wife, and him, before dying, with the man having learned a valuable lesson and reconciled with his wife.

Fatal Attraction is the ur-example, and there aren't that many of them, even if there were enough that people got sick of them. Swimfan is a bad movie, but I have the impression that it's the most recent one people really remember.

Often the woman in question is a subordinate of some kind: a nanny, temp worker, an assistant, someone who is, in theory, in a position of much less power than our male lead. Sometimes, she's young. Sometimes real young, like creepily young (The Crush).

The psychological impetus for this kind of movie is male desire. It's playing on a male fear of a "moment of weakness". One of the key features is this inverted power dynamic. The woman is the aggressor, not just when we get to the thriller part, but as we're ramping up. The woman might be a maid or teacher or employee, but she's on the pursuit almost from the get-go, and her obsession is what drives the plot.

So this movie is just like all of those. Our protagonist is a construction foreman whose wife is in the hospital with a weak heart, and he's taking care of two little kids on his own. He hires a hot robot maid/nanny, played by Megan Fox, who basically immediately begins acting inappropriately. She eventually sleeps with the main character, but when she does, he has basically as much deniability as he possibly can while she pushes through his weak resistance. I'm pretty sure a movie like this will always have that structure, attempting to preserve the man's "virtue" and make him into a victim of the woman and her wiles. These movies are always sympathetic to the man even as he makes his "mistake".

The fact that she's a robot woman is immaterial until like ... act three. She could have just been a maid he hired until then, and virtually nothing about the plot would need to change. There's a half-assed B-plot about robots taking over a construction site and automation taking jobs, but I never felt like they were taking that seriously, and I doubt anyone in the audience was thinking that either. It didn't tie in well with the main plot.

There's fuck-all explanation for why the robot maid goes psycho, except maybe that it's part of a bad batch and our hero had her do a minor memory wipe so she could experience Casablanca fresh without her pre-programmed spoilers. This somehow gave her root access. I know that sounds stupid, but I swear that's like half the explanation they give.

This movie, and others that are in the same subgenre, come from this sort of anxiety about having power over other people, and especially being attracted to people we have power over. It's a horror story whose moral is "don't fuck the nanny" or "keep it professional with the secretary" or "absolutely do not chat up that sixteen-year-old" or just "don't shit where you eat". I think that these are good morals, but I feel vaguely gross about wrapping them in eroticism and presenting the people these horror stories happen to as the victim. The roles are almost always reversed in real life: the protagonist of this sort of movie is in a position where he's far more likely to be a perpetrator abusing a position of power. It's still a plot I can get behind, if they execute well (by this I mean, sell me on the mistake, sell me on the allure), but this one didn't.

(There is at least one example of an opposite-gender version of this basic plot, 2015's The Boy Next Door, which features Jennifer Lopez as a teacher who sleeps with a teenage student in a "moment of weakness" and gets her life wrecked when he goes obsessive stalker on her. 12% on Rotten Tomatoes. I haven't seen it but the trailer is the whole movie.)

So a bad movie, overall. It sadly had nothing to say about artificial intelligence or our relationship to it. It doesn't even really have much to say about these characters, and their relationship to each other, and the ethics of fucking a robot maid. There is a genuine lack of subservience. It's the kind of movie that makes me want to write a better version of it, something that gets at its actual themes more than it did, making better use of the conceit. But I felt no desire to absolve this man of his sins, and I think that's also one of the central fantasies the film offers, so maybe if I ever attempted to write a "man ruiner" film I would end up getting it wrong.

[blackstarchanx3new]

Creations AU, But I obnoxiously over explain it PT 3

Pages 61-90

Back at it again with Mike and his silly little adventures in Freddy's.

Huh.

What'd you see.

Stop being vague.

Who are these creepy masked people???

The bullies from FNAF four

Damn if only there was an entire side comic FNAF 4 cough cough I made about them that will explain that lol. We'll get to the side comics I promise. ;)

Whatever he saw, he's terrified to re-live.

Ouch.

Someone got hurt-

What the hell are you apologizing for exactly?

What'd you do?

None of those people in the masks were you...

We can tell cause they actually had a skin tone lmfao.

Oh that could use some cream.

So that's why "the bite" kept making Mike uncomfortable...

This kid got his head munched on.

And it wasn't ACTION but LACK of action he's cowering in fear from a child over.

Side note this panel out of context is hilarious and I won't pretend it's not.

Hi Bonnie! :D

He is the best.

Damn okay.

What's reality?

Ominous poster of the yellow Freddy for sure isn't important.

Haha Mike ya have episodes like this often? Often enough he composes himself afterwards.

He's utterly bamboozled Bonnie apparently SAW the kid he was chasing so...maybe.

That smirk is unsettling.

So this part of the building used to be "Fredbear's" the place Michael's favorite animatronic "Spring Bonnie" is from and mentioned earlier. Fredbear is clearly the one who bit the child.

I'd be scared too Bonnie thousand yard stares are concerning.

That's hysterical coming from the clearly possessed giant rabbit but go off I guess-

He's obviously trying to make Mike feel better which is nice of him. UwU

Aww. Hug how sweet.

So now we know a bit more about Mike. Let's review:

This nameless kid Mike saw die was obviously Michael's brother Cody Afton from all the context clues we've been given:

Mike's reaction to Micheal bringing up Fredbears, due to it being a traumatic event.

Cody being "Bit"

Mike doesn't seem TOO sure they're the same person but we know it is.

Mike blames himself for not doing anything at the time to stop Cody's head from getting crunched.

Mike's grasp on reality is...Flimsy. Self admittedly he thinks it's flimsy and he knows when he needs to go home when it's too much.

Mike is desperate for comfort over his trauma with Freddy's and Bonnie's a cool dude who'll give it.

You'd think Bonnie would be a bully from his intro but he's actually a super caring guy, he just can't stand people who purposely cause problems.

Bro comes in clutch with the hugs.

You can see why Freddy would run to this guy to solve issues haha.

So from those first panels we know 1 thing:

He had no clue Ennard was in the room with them. So add stalking to the list of creepy things that clown robot has done so far.

My god it's an old man-

He's Micheal's dad! :D William Afton!

Alright I'm gonna stop being goofy and vague for a moment:

It's obvious he's evil as fuck and for the people who like to bitch he has a personality in this comic or ANY media where people give William a personality: Stop making excuses as to why you write him one note you cowards, you can give him a personality without condoning what he does lmfao. Only a bad writer would say you HAVE to make him one note for him to work. Fucking morons actually you are stupid if you believe that.

If you wanna make him cartoonishly evil with NO redeeming qualities: Cool. Whatever. Just shut the fuck up don't act like yours is "Better" because you can't think of ways to make him anymore interesting.

Everyone's William caters to their tastes. Nobody's is PERFECT. I only judge stupid vapid bitches who complain about other interpretations while blowing smoke up their own asses. Because an ego isn't pretty on anyone lmfao.

The idea giving William a personality makes you a terrible writer/person needs to die I'm sorry that's such a stupid as fuck idea idk who came up with it but kindly stop writing and stop giving writing advice. UwU With love~ From me!~

Anyways I've spoiled William is a bad person who does a bad thing, Won't say what yet but all the death in the building can give ya some ideas. And apparently because William is bad guy there's "Rules" on how to write him. From a bunch of 12 year olds who dunno how to write but I digress.

I detest the idea of that. Because let's be real all FNAF characters are blank slates and the idea of squashing creativity is dumb. Literally go wild with your FNAF AUs.

Rant aside: William seems to be a bit of...An ass.

Just slightly manipulative and rude language towards his only living child it's fine-

Ah yes. He also demands physical affection.

We get Michael's age, he's 23 aka still a damn baby.

Also, William and Michael are British.

Since we're on voices:

Mike Schmidt would sound like Legoshi from Beastars lmfao. I imagine Bonnie with a new York accent. Freddy sounds like a lady.

We finally get to see what Ennard and Michael interact like together...

Michael doesn't seem to put up with him.

Ennard's kind of a prick.

Also apparently they have a HISTORY.

One that involves Michael talking shit about his father...

For people who know shit about the games: Yes Ennard is possessed by the same person from the games.

Hah Michael tricked him.

Okay so everyone in Michael's life is manipulative towards him.

Neat.

Also Ennard is a raging hypocrite.

Also conformation William is an owner not just a robot maker. (Can't remember if this was brought up earlier again some of these pages are 2 years old lmfao)

Also this comic assumes you got SOME Fnaf knowledge. I'd hope it's still interesting for those of you who are here for my other stuff! XD

Like ouch Ennard ya don't gotta be such a jerk.

Also Mike is cute.

This panel unironically is one of my favorites because this man doesn't scream in terror at any of the terrifying robots:

It's the gay guy he's trying to befriend he screams like a little girl at.

Another help wanted joke about the Faz token under the cupcake in the office.

Michael just wants to hang out with Mike obviously.

Despite all the shit he's clearly going through dude puts on a very pointy smile.

This man is built like a cat.

Lol they made pizza together. How cute.

Hah bro is apologizing for something he didn't even do nor has control over-

Is it obvious Michael is abused yet?

Going real unsubtle here: Everything about Michael shows off he has been abused in some way shape or form.

Michael wants to think he's being friendly for reals despite clearly having second thoughts due to Ennard.

Bro is desperate for a connection with someone.

Also

Pff.

Mike c'mon Bonnie's so sweet how could you- X'D

Few things: William doesn't "Let" Michael do things.

If it wasn't apparent he was controlling as hell before it sure is now.

Also Michael is embarrassed of his interests.

Also the locker:

Again we see an instance of Michael going by "Mike" as his locker literally just has a piece of paper tapped over it adding the rest of his name lmao.

Michael is used to being toyed around with that is sad.

Bonnie continues to be a sweetheart even when he's off screen. X'D

Mike attempts to relate to Michael's interests once again.

Also another instance of Bonnie lying his ass off about how close Michael and him are:

He knows Michael's locker combination and puts gifts in there lmao.

Mike clearly likes that plush a lot. Maybe he likes Chica a lot lmao. Who knows.

One thing to note:

If Michael's working day shifts and night shifts...when does he sleep?

Grant it, it isn't ALL THE TIME but still bro's sleep schedule must be OBLITERATED.

Oh hi giant floating head in the hallway you're stalking Michael too huh?

This is just two sides of someone's brain arguing with itself that the entire positive interaction they just had was terrible AND the other party hates them.

And that comparison only makes more sense down the road.

Yeah Michael you tell him. You don't need to take that from him.

Jeremy's a cool dude.

Also the fact the kids pay no mind to this argument is funny.

Also Ennard taking genuine offense to Jeremy being a better friend lmao. Anyone can be a better friend than Ennard. X'D

We hit the image limit but oh boy. So much joy in this update.

[bearpillowmonster]

Transformers One Trailer

That new trailer and I have some thoughts? Surprisingly.

I don't normally watch trailers anymore and I've said why before but it basically boils down to they spoil too much too much of the time and what's the point if I'm sold anyway. Now Transformers One seems like a no-brainer, gives those fans a prequel origin sort of thing as well as an introduction for the newbies who only know the Bay and Rise and Bumblebee movies in animation no less so completely different. Then I saw the images of the designs and oh man0

It looks generic. Like I never watched Transformers Prime, it has its fans but I just do not like that art style and this started making me think of that, like it wasn't finished. I much would've preferred a 2D movie but 3D can be done, look at the War for Cybertron trilogy (which I've already talked about)

Nice and stylized, distinguished, scuffed metal, I wanna lick them. Anyways, that's a show though, it'd look good as a movie and heck, T-One looks good as a show but I don't know, is it just me? I also didn't finish the trilogy because the first one was good and I thought it'd only get better but reviews for the second one came out and they were bogus so I dropped it.

But then I watched the trailer-

And it looks better! Notice anything? They're all close up shots! And you mean to tell me this is the same movie>

Ugh. Visuals out of the way, cast. Why? We don't need all these celebrity voices and I'm someone who supports Peter Cullen just being Optimus all the time but I also understand that he's getting older just like Charles Martinet did with Mario leaving the character in a specific position but you didn't get Chris Pratt?? No I'm just kidding, we got Chris Hemsworth, and really, I can't even tell that it's him, I saw his name attached and I was like "Here we go again" and there are a few times where he had traces of that Cullen voice pattern and it's like an adolescent Optimus settling into his voice- wait am I complementing? Stop that.

Josh Cooley is directing and he's got a pretty decent track record with Pixar, we even see Keegan Michael Key again for whatever reason- oh, it's goofy, it's made for children

"But he says bad ass!" mehmehmehmehmeh, so do the other movies twit, somehow, someway, they get away with anything. He's gotta go and announce everything that's happening "I have knives?!" "I have machine guns in my butt?!" Stupid even for a kid, especially menaging Megatron, what'd you do to my angry baby? He's just reading the script, I know, which also isn't great. So, instead of just being a race of transformers, they're a race of robots that gain the ability to transform to save Cybertron. There's the generic nature again! I also don't see it in the trailer but with the toys, they have this weird thing where they use energy to summon their weapons? Bumblebee is fine with the "KNIVES" but

"I put my hand on a ba-all to see if I still bleeeeddd and nothing hurts anymore, I feel kinda freeeeee" What is that? Just give him an axe, he doesn't have to summon it and then attach it to a ball. But wait- the design is different here, what's going on? These toys don't match up with the movie. Like, look at Bumblebee before and after he transforms, he doesn't look like the toy does (I've used enough pictures, do some leg work) and Megatron...just looks like Megatron and I know these are movie toys, just look at Alpha Trion, so I don't know how much of it is an accurate conversion between the two and I normally wouldn't care but it's that ball that drives me bonkers.

BUT I will say that I support Scarjo playing- who is she playing? Because that's not Arcee. Elita One? Cool name, at least. Oh, she's an OG, we're good then. Lawrence is also a good one. Anyways, disappointed, we'll see.

[autobot-ratchet]

MTMTE 56, 57, and Revolution

MTMTE 56

and now for something completely different

“I know I'm paranoid. Contrary to popular belief, that doesn't mean I think everyone's out to get me. It just means I don't know who is and who isn't.” HEY. BIG SAME LMFAO not to gripe on fandom culture once again but y'all literally ruined my brain chemistry and I think it's fair for me to talk about it lmAO I know that not literally everyone who participates in fandom is an insane person who wants to start a harassment campaign against a complete nobody like me because it would be easy clout and no one would help me, in fact most of you are pretty cool, but I know someone will. Because someone always does. I've seen enough of my peers get hurt and/or die to know that someone always does, even if you think you're not popular enough. Like, I hope y'all realize what a fucking act of bravery posting all this has been for me lmfAO you have no idea how many times I've had to stop myself from editing out a hot take out of fear that even one chronically online individual might feel the need to punish me to protect the purity of the funny alien robot comic, including this paragraph

gfdsjkk I forgot Fort Max just fuckin kicks Prowl while he's in his alt mode so it just looks like he's kicking a police car. ACAB

oh god Outrigger's a fuckin youtuber lmAO

aww I do like that both Fort Max and Red Alert tried to get in contact with anyone they could when they saw everyone's farewell message, they still have everyone's numbers. Ooh except Chromedome changed his, or at least I assume Prowl's talking about Chromedome

ooohh right, this was another theory if I remember correctly, that Fort Max used to be Pious Maximus, like he got shadowplayed from being one to the other. I vaguely remember a panel I think way back in the Shadowplay arc of a dude in the background who looked kind of like Fort Max when Prowl and Chromedome found one of the institutes

casually thousand yard stares off into space at Sentinel's monologue about how Cybertron is now full of “mongrel Cybertronians” and he wants to “wipe the slate clean.” I wish life would imitate art would imitate life a little less lmfAO

*points at Prowl* lol but also Sentinel leave Red alone, he doesn't deserve this

MTMTE 57

ohh man here we go, last issue of MTMTE. It's not the end of the comic, it just changes names, but this still always feels like a milestone. The name changes, the main artist changes, this is absolutely a turning point and it always feels strangely bittersweet to reach it during a readthrough

“You're not one of THOSE, are you?” is still such a funny line of dialogue, truly on some care bears villain shit

still incredibly funny that Prowl has to use his table-flipping skills to reactivate the titan. The release mechanism was just. Conveniently table-shaped

man no wonder Red Alert got overwhelmed and tried to end it, poor dude's been out here playing 4D chess with his own brain for millions of years

fgshdjks Sentinel gets knocked into a pit by a bird and unceremoniously falls to his death. I've never seen anyone get more owned in my life

“You hate change. I sympathize.” “I hate endings.” “Same thing.” yEAH. YEAH THAT'S WHY THIS ALWAYS FEELS SO BITTERSWEET like yeah it's not an actual ending, but it is the end of certain constants that had been established (like the name, the main artist, etc) and like. That's enough! That's enough of a change for it to be felt! Not to get too deep or anything but it's normal to mourn for the loss of a life you're still living because it's no longer the same life

MTMTE Revolution

but before we move on, one more issue of MTMTE lmAO

god I completely forgot about Crankcase's online boyfriend

gfsjdkl Krok and Fulcrum trying to help Crankcase prepare for his date........ they're real ones

gOD THEIR STUPID HOLOMATTER AVATARS...

THEY FUCKIN BURIED HIS ASS god they are so bad at humans lmfAO

aww, Grimlock... shame he had to level a handful of cities to get his keepsake back but that's very sweet lmAO

fdhjks poor MP3

[woashi]

Nameless Psychosis has got me thinking…

Did Carrie ever leave a note when she died?

How did Rory know it was the girls from school to push her to such a point where she killed herself?

Now I’m gonna throw the idea of the note out of the window and say that Rory DID know it got that bad and “thought she could’ve handle it” so he never stepped up, he never intervened because HE would’ve been more involved than he already was.

“About being MY sister” he says talking about the reasons why Carrie was bullied in the first place.

And I think about the KNN Rory and I know that that he isn’t Rory Rory but he mentions to be there when a friends in need. Maybe a part in his head is still feeling shame of letting it happen?

He wasn’t only upset that he lost his sister he was upset that he had the chance to stop it and he never took it for his own selfish reason of not getting too involved with it.

Similar to how Alex could’ve stopped the final pushes that made Rory kill himself.

Rory reached out and Alex was like “no lol? Robot time.”

Or maybe that’s rly obvious and I’m shitting out of my ass like I always do idk.

It may be in your face but I’m stupid.

Also I’m dead set on NC to be a manifestation of both Rory’s and Alex’s guilt.

Alex’s own guilt about letting him and his sister grow distant and Rory not stopping Carrie from jumping off the overpass.

They’re both neglectful brothers in their own way. But I think the “Good Brother Bad Brother” is complete bullshit, because they both hold good and bad traits. The “muddling up” NC does is probably just a red herring and is there to fuck with you because I believe both are bad and good and since she gets dubbed Carrie but looks like Allison …erm… idk

I think that cause for the ad read for the GBBB(<-lol cba doing it again) it was the other way round of how I thunk it.

“Like uhhh no? Rory isn’t the bad brother? He cared about Carrie even more than Alex cared about his sister!!” Well, erm… you’re both wrong because that’s not how people work!

They’re both bad. They’re both good. They’re both extremely guilty about how they’ve treated their sisters.

Idk I’m rambling at this point and it’s 1am which means I sprout a LOT of nonsense like one time I thought the reason alex wore glasses was because it’s a metaphor for how short sighted he is with everything eueueueue… no.. that’s just a character design, Ray… you’re better than that…. Good erm… YIIK scholars give me a finger wagging if I’ve got anything wrong or if I’m saying the obvious and I sound slow!!!!!!!!!!!

[estellardreams]

Chapter 19: Dome Sweet Dome

Shadow flew out through the crack of the gateway, turning back to see the Grim Blaze's right after him.

Shit. This was bad. 

He took off flying from a shard, trying to escape them before they could snatch him. He tried to make his way towards the closest gateway, New Yoke, only to slip up on a shard and begin crashing into others.

The cats kept chasing after him, forcing him to hide and deflect as much as he could. 

"Argh! Venice! Stop this right this instant!" Shadow yelled.

Venice kept watching the screen, looking through his robot's eyes. He heard a soft grunt from behind him, before some straining.

He turned to see Infinite, now in his recently built shockade, holding him there. "You're awake..."

"Let me go!" Infinite yelled, struggling to break free.

"... No. I need you for something important."

"The hell are you talking about?!"

Venice hummed a little, typing on his computer.

"If Shadow does care about you... He'd come running right back here for you. He'd have no choice but to give himself up to me."

"You... You're a maniac if you think that."

"Perhaps I am... I'm sorry, but this is just how it has to be."

Infinite gritted his teeth, growling a little.

Shadow flew into New Yoke, landing directly on the trash can lid and sliding off of it.

"I'm never going to get used to that specific landing..." He groaned.

He got up and ran to the roof, noticing just how many tears into the void there were. 

"This... This is a disaster... But why would he... Do this?" he asked softly.

"That's rich, coming from you." a voice scoffed.

Shadow looked up to see a figment of Venice staring down at him.

"What the hell are you doing?! Can't you see everything falling apart?!" he snapped.

Venice gazed at the sight, his expression softening as he solemnly stared. He shook his head. 

"... Its not important... None of it is."

"But it is!"

"That's what you said before."

Shadow frowned, seeing that Venice wasn't understanding the situation at hand.

"... Shadow. Come with me back to the Grim. Now." Venice ordered.

"No. I know what you'll do when I come there."

"It's for the greater good of the Shatterverse, Shadow. Why must you be so selfish...?" the figment began to fizzle.

Venice suddenly strained, struggling to keep his connection. "No no no! I'm not... Letting go!" he yelled.

The Grim Blaze's swooped into New Yoke through the cracks, almost striking many civilians. Shadow rushed down and brought them to the safest place he could find.

A cat pinned him down, about to fire directly at his skull before it was struck back by a hammer.

"Get up. We need to go, now!" Thorn held her hand out to him.

"Thorn?! How are you-"

"The world is falling apart. Get on!" Rebel directed.

Thorn pulled Shadow to his feet, launching him to Rebel. She caught him, dropping him on the Yolkamotive. 

"There you are... You okay?" Vine asked, kneeling down to him.

"Yeah... I'm fine." Shadow breathed.

"Black Rose. Head to the Yoke." Tempest directed.

Shadow's ears perked up. "Wait... The Yoke?! Where the Chaos Council is? But... That place is dangerous!"

"We don't have anywhere else to go! It's the safest place here." Tempest reasoned.

Bullet grumbled. "I don't want to go back there..."

"Ye don't have much of a choice." Gale sighed.

Shadow watched as the world kept crumbling around them, the team driving over to the Yoke before landing.

Venice collapsed to the ground, panting heavily. 

"Wow. That was stupid to watch." Infinite remarked. 

"SHUT IT." he snapped. 

Venice turned back, breathing in slowly to calm himself back down. 

"The Prism energy unstable... I need Shadow to get here..." 

He paused, trying to think of a way to lure him in. He turned to look at Infinite, flying down to him. 

"Perhaps... An ally of his universe would be a fair enough trade?" 

Infinite froze. "You wouldn't..." 

"Oh, I would. And don't worry, once this is all over you'll be free again..." 

"Tch, yeah... Free to kick your ass." 

Venice glared at him, his stare enough to kill others with how terrifying it seemed. 

Infinite stopped talking, clasping his mouth shut. Venice's expression returned to being more muted again. 

"Much better."

Meanwhile, the Chaos Council continued to watch from inside their Mothership. Shadow leapt off the Kraken, quickly running off as the grim cats flew after him.

"Fools. As if we'd ever offer shelter for the common rabble." Eggman scoffed.

"We barely have enough energy in reserves to save ourselves!" Done-It said.

Babble babbled, unhappy with this situation at all.

Shadow continued to skate around, hearing the cats chase after him. He swerved around a corner, avoiding them as they began to fire flames. 

He turned another corner, going down an alleyway and leaping upwards. He got to the rooftops and continued to run, trying to figure out how to take out the cats. 

He then noticed them make a turn and head towards the Yoke. He quickly redirected himself, chasing after them before they could attack anyone else. 

He got to the top, ramming into the cats and charging up his chaos energy, he was about to fire before he was thrown to the ground by another one of the cats. 

He grunted, staggering to his feet and gripping his arm. "Is that all you got...?"

The cats began to approach Shadow, all about to fire at him. 

"Hey cat brains. Get off my lawn!" Done-It pointed his charged up cane towards the cats.

Shadow looked at them, confused. Before the rest of the Chaos Council in their mechs came forward. 

Done-It began to fire, making the cats screech and go after the council instead. They all charged into the fight as Shadow watched in surprise. 

"This is where you thank us, you miserable rodent!" Done-It said, continuing to shoot at the robots.

"But... Why are you helping me all of a sudden?" Shadow questioned. He was whisked off his feet by Deep by his arm. 

"Helping? More like using. We need your energy." he began, dropping Shadow back down to the ground afterwards. 

"For what?"

"We'll talk later. Plus, if we don't stop this crazy rat, New Yoke City and us won't be around for much longer."

... Huh. Self serving. 

Fair play. 

Babble chucked one of the cats as Eggman blasted the other back. More cats came in, hissing loudly. 

Shadow sighed. "I can't believe I'm saying this... Eggmen. Let's destroy some cats."

"Behind me, simpleton. I'm the leader here." Eggman pushed Shadow back.

"Au contraire, Mr. Doctor. I clearly lead this multitude." Deep cut in.

Shadow groaned. "Focus on the now and discuss this later. Now we need to destroy those cats."

Deep threw his ninja stars at one of the cat, letting it dodge. Shadow grabbed onto its legs, forcibly pulling it down as Deep aimed again, the stars exploding on impact and sending the bot crashing to the ground. 

"Hm... Not bad." he remarked.

"Indeed. And now, for another." Deep directed his sword to Shadow, who immediately began charging up his chaos energy again.

"Same. Side." he gritted his teeth.

Deep chuckled a little. "Old habits."

Eggman punched one of the cats as Shadow spindashed into it, launching it back. The mech threw the cat into the air, letting Babble slam his fists down and send the cat crashing to the ground. 

The final cat remained, with Done-It aiming his cane as Babble made sure the robot couldn't escape. It hissed, taking off into the air and out of sight.

"It's... Gone. Thank gaia but... Why?" Shadow pondered out loud.

"Hm. It seems like you've... Destroyed the bots. But it's fine, maybe a trade would entice you more-" Venice's figment began to glitch again. He stopped, trying to fix it as it glitched.

"No... Not again...!" it fizzled out.

"Come back, coward! We are not done!" Eggman yelled.

"... I don't think he wanted to go. It was like... His powers must be on the fritz." Shadow said aloud.

"How? If he's managed to complete the Prism, he should have nearly unlimited power." Deep said.

"He still needs something... Me." Shadow said.

"Argh! No no no! Why can't I..." Venice struggled to keep himself upright. The prismatic energy was already taking a toll on him. He groaned, leaning on the railing.

He flew up, seeing the shield he put up continue to glitch and decay. He swooped back down and tried to draw on more power, only to collapse from exhaustion again. 

"You'll just run yourself ragged like that. I should know." Infinite remarked.

"No... You don't understand. I... I need this to..."

"Fix your home? I get that. But Venice... I'm not the voice of reason here."

Venice paused, turning to look at him. "Huh?"

"Shadow's not perfect. He tore my family away from me. But he's proven he's changed... For the better. But how it led to that event in my life... Was all on me. I joined the wrong side because they threatened to hurt my family... And then I was abandoned... All alone... I quit on the spot. I didn't care anymore. All I wanted was for Shadow to pay."

"Then why are you helping him?"

"Mutually benefitial."

Venice gave him a flat look. Infinite coughed, continuing.

"But you need to understand he has everyone's best interests at heart... Even if his methods are unorthodox."

"Even so... That doesn't excuse his actions. And I'd prefer to live, thank you very much." Venice turned back to the Prism, trying to draw on more power.

Infinite sighed. "You'll just burn yourself out like that. It's time to stop."

"Never... He will... Pay for this..."

"This is preposterous!" Deep snapped towards the crowd the Kraken came with.

"Just having these things in our home is an affront to everything we hold dear!"

"You know what? You keep talking, Doc, and my hammer will be affront to your face." Tempest spun her hammer around.

Babble yelled at them in retaliation. 

"Everybody, stop!" Shadow yelled.

"... They started it." she scoffed.

"They started all of this." Bullet growled, his ears flattening.

"And we'll gladly finish it. You ungrateful-" Deep began, only to get hit in the back of the head by Done-It's cane.

"Oh, for the love of- keep a sock on it, Deep, and let the hedgehog speak." he said.

Shadow breathed, refocusing on the task at hand.

"... I made a deal with the Chaos Council."

Everyone else on the other side seemed to gasp. 

"You made a deal with these egg-omaniacs?" Black asked.

"Venice is using the Paradox Prism to siphon energy into the Grim. He's created this protective dome to keep his world safe, which has accelerated the decay of the Shatterverse started by... Your portals." Shadow explained. Eggman smiled, a tad embarrassed.

Shadow continued. "We're running out of time. We can't escape him anymore, not while he's got the Prism. But if we use my energy and the Council's Shatter Drive, we can protect ourselves without doing any damage to the Shatterverse. At least until we can figure out how to stop him... So the deal is: I charge their drive, and they give us sanctuary inside the dome."

"I want to hear it from them." Rebel said, staring at the Council.

"Ugh, the hedgehog speaks the truth. Once the dome is up, we'll let most-" Eggman began.

Shadow cleared his throat, his arms crossed as he stared at them.

"All who wish will be allowed inside."

Done-It hit a button on his controller, letting the glass fade out to show the hamster wheel they'd be using. 

"So, they're gonna drain your energy?" Tempest asked. Rebel swatted her arm. 

"There has to be another way." she said. 

"I don't think there is. You've all seen it. The world's are falling apart. This dome is our only hope." Shadow reasoned. 

"How much energy are we talking about?" Prim questioned. 

"Heh, nothing the hedgehog can't spare, I assure you." Done-It said. 

Bullet narrowed his eyes towards the council. "Shadow. You do realize we can't trust the council, right?" 

"I know, but I don't have a choice. Look, I know you don't trust each other, and you probably shouldn't. But right now, we all have bigger problems." Shadow reasoned. 

"... Told you we couldn't trust that hedgehog." Tempest said. 

"As much as it pains me to admit it, Shadow's right." Rebel said.

"For once, everyone in New Yoke is on the same side. We're all just trying to survive. Once this is over, we'll go back to freeing the city."

"And protecting our forests." Thorn said.

"And saving our seas." Black chimed in.

"And we'll go back to crushing you under our heel! Uh, but only after we've saved New Yoke." Eggman said.

Venice continued to draw on more power, trying to establish a connection so he could see what Shadow was up to. He finally managed, his figment appearing in the city as he looked down. 

He saw it... He saw right through the Yoke. Shadow had teamed up with everyone and was going to use his energy to generate a shield... 

If that's how he wants to play... So be it. 

Venice summoned more Grim Blaze's, sending them out through the cracks and towards New Yoke.

As they flew in, everyone else was busy preparing. Shadow stretched, fluffed up his quills, then got into his stance. 

He took off skating around the hamster wheel, beginning to charge up energy as everyone else watched. 

Venice forcibly controlled his psychokinesis, slowly drifting crystals in and smashing them against the Mothership. 

Don't checked the statistics. "Structural integrity of the Yoke is at 67%. Guy's got game."

"Another blast like that and this whole building will collapse on top of us!" Eggman said anxiously.

Babble babbled, slamming his fist on the table. 

Rebel and Prim took off flying to the outside in an attempt to stop the incoming robots and buy Shadow some time. 

Shadow picked up the pace, going even faster as more energy was built up. But it still wasn't enough. 

The Grim Blaze's soared down, with Rebel and Prim flying up to them in an attempt to stop them.

The shield finally began to go up, slowly enveloping the entire Yoke and preventing the mechanical cats from getting inside. 

Venice's figment dissipated in frustration.

"So... It worked?" Tempest asked.

"Of course it worked, you insipid fool!" Eggman said.

"Oh, that's it. Time to pound some eggs." she pounded her hammers handle into her hands.

Just then, the doors opened as Bullet and Black helped Shadow walk after using up so much energy. 

"Are you... Okay?" Dust asked softly. Windthrow whimpered a little, concerned.

"Yeah... I'm fine..." Shadow heaved.

The entire process was too draining for him, and he couldn't move that much for now but... He'd regain his strength. He just knew it.

Venice growled, slamming his fist on the railing. He breathed, trying to refocus.

"Hm... Well played, Shadow. You might be safe for now..." He flew down to the computer, showing the remains of No Place in its decay...

With Daria and Castaway still aboard the Golden Rose. 

"But not everybody is." 

Bullet, Windthrow, and Gale belong to @son1c. Dust and Castaway belong to @starprincejelly.

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[dracox-serdriel]

The other reason it's sad is because our introduction to Sazz in Season 1 was tainted by Charles quite a bit. He's annoy when she shows up, despite the fact that Sazz is the only person we know who actually kept in contact with Charles and visited him since he started being a recluse (which I believe was around when he broke up with Emma, Lucy's mom) before the Mabel and Oliver came along.

It's possible that for about a decade, Sazz was the only person who interacted with Charles outside of work. (Like, Lester and Bunny both had to interact with Charles as part of their jobs. But it doesn't seem like they interacted outside of that.)

Sazz shows up in Season 1, and what does Charles tell Jan? She shows up "like we're still best buds" and complains about her "bad timing" and how everyone liked Sazz more than him on set. He also says that she stole his girlfriend Candy, and yet he HAD to keep working with Sazz, because even though he was the star of the show and COULD get her fired, he knew if he did, EVERYONE on set would hate him for it. So he was FORCED to keep working with her after she stole his girlfriend.

But it's still hard to hate Sazz, even after that super rough introduction. Even when she whispers to her agent that she'll need too be "aged up" (as commentary on Charles), she's still hard to hate. And it's made clear pretty quickly that a lot of the negativity from Charles is jealousy and maybe a touch of "grumpy old man hates the world and is mad that Sazz won't stop showing up" as well.

In Season 2, we see Charles was kinda lying about why he couldn't fire Sazz. It's clear he trusts her and relies on her, and people like that in show business are rare and hard to find. How many people can you reliably ask to break up with a serial killer at a prison for you?

Season 3, even when we hear that Sazz is with Jan, it's still hard to hate her, because here she is, walking Charles through his relationsip problems with Joy like a champ. Whatever bad taste anyone might remember from Charles' bitter introduction from her is now completely gone -- Sazz is clearly a great friend to Charles, knows him well, and has never given up on him.

At one point she mentions something like how she never understood why Charles can think so poorly of himself. Like, yeah, a revival of his career would also be a revival of her career -- but that's NOT why she shows up for him. She kept showing up for a decade with no promise of revival in sight because she legit cares about him.

And then this season, we start seeing how much Sazz really did for Charles. She saw that he was too socially awkard to make friends himself, so she found him a bunch of people to play poker with so he could actually be in a setting where he could MAKE some friends. She went with other stunt people to support them when they got replacement bone/joint surgeries. She shared her expertise with other stunt workers. Hell, she even taught other stunt people.

And when she runs into a hopeless kid with a great backflip, she didn't berate him or scream, "Don't you look where you're going?!" No, she saw his potential and invited him to learn from her and work as a stunt man.

All the show's murder victims (with the exception of Zoe) had revelations that humanized them a great deal.

Tim Kono was robotic and unliked by most, but at the end of the day, he was actually a good person fighting to correct the one bad thing he did in his life -- which he only did because Teddy threatened the life of his oldest friend (Mabel).

Bunny was an antagonist to the trio in season 1, but after her death, we saw that both Charles and Oliver deeply respected her. She loved the Arconia, and from what she tells the waiter, it was the only thing she really loved. She dedicated her life to the building and its residents, even if she was harsh about it. She was immensely capable and knowledgable (or, as Mabel puts it, "bad ass") despite being rough around the edges. She was hateful toward "stupid insurance" stuff (aka memorial they were forced to hold for Tim Kono) and toward the trio -- but that makes perfect sense when you line up the fact that the trio made the building she has loved and served for decades into "the murder building" and made the private lives of so many people who lived there public via their podcast. Like... Ok, I get the hate now. They dissed her building. They dissed her people. Publically. They also ended up saving the building, though, so she couldn't keep hating them.

Ben Glenroy was self-centered, sure. But he also joined a sewing circle with four older ladies to keep himself off drugs. He had to literally starve himself because he worked as a superhero in a Hollywood franchise where actually buff people are called "flabby" unless they're so dehydrated their viens are popping out. He has to work with his childhood villian and as a result acts like a total ass. And we learn that he's actually a lot like Charles -- beyond the four seamstresses, there's not one person you can say was Ben Glenroy's friend outside of work. And he's only known them since rehearsals started. He has Dickie, but they also work together. We later learn he had a relationship with his stunt double, but that's it. Sound familiar? Ben Glenroy, an actor in his 30s, essentially had the same personal life that Charles had in his 60s -- that is, no friends. Only relationships with people they worked with. He was a selfish ass who stole a franchise from his own brother -- but he was also a hot mess who couldn't manage a friendship. He was a man who beat himself up because he ate a regular sized cookie.

But Sazz? We already knew Sazz was a good, kind person. And after her death, we learned that she was way kinder than we even knew. What's more -- it's not till after her death that Charles really "gets" who Sazz was to him. And now she's dead and he can't tell her.

This season of Only Murders in the Building has got to be the saddest one, and I realize now that not only is that because it revolves around the death of someone we as the audience know and love, but because it's the first time an honestly kind and warm character died.

She wasn't cold like Tim Kono, hateful like Bunny, or self-centered like Ben Glenroy. Sazz was nice and cool and a friend who genuinely cares about the trio. She also supported Charles in his endeavors, and she had dreams of helping other kids realize their dreams too by building that trampoline park.

This season hurts, bro. I nearly cried a couple of times. Like, it's a whole season of exploring what it's like to lose an innocent person to murder.

[the-firebird69]

Led Zeppelin - Kashmir (Live from Celebration Day) (Official Video)

This person is different we have to be careful. He said you're trying to have him have a nightmare that he's eating his own special parts and was his people saying it and he said that you only had 20 nightmares his entire life they want help with stuff and they're giving his wife a heads up about the air here and the air conditioner is a piece of s***. And we figured it out too and we'll see you guys trying to force him to do it now we're going to come after you someone who's only had 20 nightmares this is quite literally nightmares you have to be careful even though he's only 55 years old he's smack dab in the middle of everybody. I saw him watching the show and he's watching this boob and he knows what he's up to I did figure it out but he seemed alarmed I tried to take action and then the movie I could see why he's a filthy pig and demands his way in and he was forcing me to retain my companies and he's acting like some sort of nitwit so I did figure out what he's doing and you can see in the movie did I tell you what those this guy knows what is up to but he's saying to him using me he's going to have me pose as his character Odin and inside that's fine because I'm going to kick his ass and he means me and I'm going to to weigh in there to see what this stupid son of a b**** is doing and we have to fully investigate he is a complete nonsense person her friend here says the robot computer could not take over and it was not allowed to if it took over Saturn it's isolated and he doubts it very strongly because it was the clan that took over and we saw them do it and David loses with that ai and we have defeated it even though he's not using the master program it's not meant to used it would be caught and taken over or stops quite easily on every occasion too early and this guy just does not seem to get this stuff and he's trying to beat him he's talking about it and he is a buffoon and he goes around and he rigs practically everything and it doesn't do anything and he's got idle time I think said them invading is going to be a huge distraction I'll tell you what if all of them invaded it would but they're going to do it slowly one in a blank group at a time and they're just going to be getting rid of themselves almost like to say we're getting back to you by getting rid of ourselves and people have time to get ready and they said that's what they're doing it's a filthy and it's a filthy waste of time and it might not do anything but they're going ahead with it and I guess we are too but there's some big problems

Anthony Hopkins

Some of the problems are we're going to take their ships and people are going after them not extremely aggressively and that's good one fine day will take them over and it'll be it and we do plan on doing it. There's other things that we have planned to do we're getting to them today we have a monstrous number of things lined up and we will start knocking them down and getting them done. One of them is to make sure this place doesn't flood again Tommy f is up and he noticed that the water is going down a little faster than normal today's high tide is coming up it'll be about a foot plus down from the high clam not even high tide and it was high tide for like 11 years at that watermark. And after today tomorrow it will be probably 2 ft down from the high clam it's about 1 ft 3 1/2 in and that's not too bad at low tide it's about 4 ft down and the mouth of the harbor is being disturbed right now by about three parties that are looking at this horn and we said 10% of it is uncovered and that's about right right now it's about 15%, the end of the day we think 20%, and they simply won't stop afterwards because they see it and they can tell it's very hard they're testing it and it's about two miles down so they're going to be drilling all sorts of things out there and you'll see that the harbor will be lowering quite swiftly and they do need it to be cleared no but they're doing it after today it will be clear and faster and that's the harbor and it's because of the river and the fact that the harbor is ripping muck out and it's a little bit better than we thought the middle is going to be clear the end of next week and it'll be clear for about 20 ft wide and that's outstanding right now about half of it will be clear by the end of the weekend in the middle but only like 3 ft wide that's going to be going real fast and pulling a lot of the muck out like a third of the month that's in there now I'll be out by Saturday night and that's the whole harbor that's outstanding he says usually it's out where we need it out and that's true too it's going to be affecting the middle and we really need it out and it is going to be moving out a third is huge and by the end of next week half of it that's there now and it will be down to about 3 ft by average or lower it is going to be good it will work and also the cavern in the front of the harbor by Friday tomorrow it will drop down to about 7 ft and 12 ft at the front end and it will speed up a fully dropped it'll be down about 18 ft and 25 ft what's coming up next week sometime this will drop 3 ft twice and we'll speed up dramatically and rip tons of the muck out and that's good it'll help a lot I can't believe they went through this with all that water also the canal and Guatemala and we feel that it will be opened possibly Monday the crabs are beginning to complain a lot and they will start moving and nothing will stop them they said hell or high water and they're going to move it they have huge groups talking about it in crab and they're saying it where the sun goes down and they hear the word and they realize it and they say a lot of people don't care about it because they want you to attack these guys and some of you don't like them and they said we noticed where and there's a bunch that don't like them so they think it's funny and they're going to try and go out there and have a better life and survive they're moving out and they are going to feel better so the turtle we think represents the crabs and Stan is the one who lifted the turtle out so we think that the guys think the crabs will go after Stan if properly bated they can't see anything and the crabs don't go into bunkers so we're wondering what the hell that is few other things and they can keep those crabs away and use them to attack you and that could be it and Stan said it's not a bad idea but risky and our son says and their minion and they'll just keep flowing in and they don't care about death certain number maybe but not half certainly and he says oh oh so he might do that more shortly

Thor Freya

Olympus

[tartrazeen]

Five Nights at Freddy's is stupid and Scott Cawthon is both a) a hack, and b) a creepy person in general who's actively donating to politicians that fight against the existence of ¾ of FNaF's fanbase.

Anyway, here's stuff I want to see happen in the series to fix it:

Make the original serial killer a separate character.

Apparently, there are two missing children incidents. Afton's also a guy who built robots (apparently) and then went on to spontaneously murder children. And also there was a "wound first inflicted on Henry" that started all of this off. And Afton started as a business guy in the books, not a robot guy. Also Afton's purple in the 8-bit minigames, and in the movie, he apparently already knew he would "always come back" before he got springlocked. And apparently "someone used the spare suit" back in FNaF 2 to do something bad.

Lots of pieces, right?

Bam - the first missing children incident was done by a completely separate serial killer. This guy went to Freddy's, found five kids before FNaF 2 took place, ran off with them, and who knows what happened.

But in the process of dealing with the kids, the serial killer also kills William Afton. Shoved Afton right into the spare springlock Bonnie suit, killed him, and that's what shut down FNaF 2. Why was William there? Pfft - idk, trying to save Freddy's in the wake of all those missing children, I guess, and working late to manage that side of the business.

What happens next? Henry hears about Afton's death, goes to inspect the animatronic, then finds out Afton's still alive - haunting the suit somehow. Henry (being the robot guy) finds a way to essentially rebuild Afton: using the remnant of this suit, he makes a new person-shaped endoskeleton for Corpse Afton to haunt instead. What does that look like? Like Purple Mike in Sister Location.

That means Afton's actually already been a corpse the entire time we've seen him. Purple Guy is purple because he's dead - like Mike, how he turned purple as he started rotting. If we think Afton is orange man from Midnight Motorist, that's also why he's orange: Afton isn't dead yet. But since Afton gets to walk around again, Henry and Afton make a deal to just like... pretend Afton never died, don't even worry about it, what a miracle this is.

Henry's got his own kid to worry about. This is where the remnant thing should end, because this could get dangerous really fast. Afton wants to keep experimenting. Henry doesn't. Afton needs Henry (since he's the robot guy) and decides to give Henry some motivation: he murders Charlie. That's why Charlie dies. Doesn't work in motivating Henry, but does become the first wound of Afton becoming a monster and starting all this.

What prompts it? Any of it? Probably the crying child's death, assuming that's Afton's kid: "I was saved so we need to find out how, and then I can put my son back together too. Henry, you gotta help me, look I even killed your kid so you have the same motivation. Move your ass."

So because Henry's ass is unmoved, Afton decides to start learning robotics himself. He starts killing kids to experiment on the whole haunting thing, and that's how the second missing kids incident happens, with corpses actually getting stuffed into suits to see if they can be haunted too. There's already a precedent for this incident anyway, so Afton has a built-in scapegoat to frame: the original serial killer.

Later on, Afton can come back to harvest the kids' remnant - and when he does, waking up the ghosts, he tries to hide in the original (not the spare; that was already used) SpringBonnie suit and gets springlocked. How does he know he'll come back? 'Cause he's already dead, so he knows how this works. He's not trying to get springlocked, but it's not the end for him.

ALL OF THAT happens because there was a totally separate killer at the beginning doing all the original killings. Afton seized on the opportunities presented as a result of that (including his own death/haunting/revival), but it doesn't just spontaneously appear in his head one day anymore, and he doesn't have to be retconned out of being 'the business guy'.

Glitchtrap is everything that was in the Blob.

I hate the idea of "hey, we uploaded spare parts from Springtrap or Scraptrap specifically to Help Wanted." Way better for Fazbear to be excavating the site for the Pizzaplex, come across the melted remains from the animatronics stuck in the FNaF 6, and upload all of that. It includes Scraptrap, but also Scrap Baby, Molten Freddy (which also has the missing children incident 2 kids), and the Puppet. It's their concentrated agony that turns into the Glitchtrap virus.

Why's that matter? 'Cause it stops Afton from being weirdly singled out, and it makes total sense to reuse all of that info. "Chica has seen everything," right? Great - now upload her memory and get an ultra-authentic FNaF 1 minigame. Oh no, we also included the agony of Suzy! Into the virus you go!

Afton's agony comes in with the game plan, like Baby does with Ennard. That's why Glitchtrap adopts the rabbit motif. But they're ultimately working as one mass of agonizing memories, going along with Afton's scheme to possess Vanessa and get back out into the real world again.

We get to have Afton back without such an obvious "UGH HE'S BACK" beating of a dead horse.

It also keeps Glitchtrap and the Mimic as separate entities too. There was lots of confusion around that and there doesn't need to be: make them separate, have Glitchtrap be the evil agony mentor, and have him be the brains to the Mimic's brawn.

Glitchtrap is in the Glamrocks and also Bonnie Bro.

The whole point of HW2 is showing Glitchtrap getting crushed by Vanny - after he gives Bonnie Bro all the voodoo dolls and reveals Bonnie Bro is now a staffbot.

Glitchtrap is in all the Pizzaplex's animatronics: from the Glamrocks to the staffbots to the wet floor signs. So when Vanny crushes him in HW2, sure, he's crushed, but he's already been copied into these other robots.

Hooray - now you can have Glitchtrap continuing to face off against Vanny as a Big Bad vs. Big Bad fight, and the Mimic can be the wild card Big Bad too. We finally get some variety instead of trying to copy and paste the same schtick over and over, and we don't even have to sacrifice the golden goose that is William Afton.

Also: surprise Cassie lmao your dad's been possessed too, get that mapbot into safe mode pronto

Make Baby and Sun/Moon work together.

I like Moon being a helpful, grabby guy who's happy to change sides. That tells me he doesn't care if he's helping Glitchtrap or Vanny. Why? 'Cause fuck 'em both, they both suck. Moon is a double-agent who's actually working with Baby.

Not shitty "ooh i'm so sexy aren't i daddy" Baby from the books and FNaF 6. That's Vanny's thing now. I mean Baby from Sister Location, who was doing a "free my people" revolution by busting the Funtimes out of there. And clowns gotta stick together, right? Right, Moon?

Eventually Moon's gonna reveal that a jester is not exactly a clown, because he is genuinely the wild card villain. He's just a funny little trickster guy, happy to do crime for the lols but always looking for the best time to sabotage someone else. Glitchtrap is taking over the Pizzaplex? Awesome, he'll hunt Gregory and grab Freddy. Vanny wants to crush Glitchtrap? Cool, he'll be the claw machine or whatever. Baby's just about to eradicate both Glitchtrap and Vanny for good? Lmao at your plan, get wrecked, Sun warned you and you didn't listen, nobody listens, Get Moon'd noob.

But I want this 'cause I am soooo tired of the Afton family drama. Baby has it out of her now, because let's say ScrapTrap was everything that connected to Elizabeth, and True Baby stayed within Ennard. And now she's back to rise up and fight these stupid humans who've been mistreating animatronics, and she's had Moon on her side the whoooole time.

(lol pranked)

[semi-imaginary-place]

more 13 sentinels 60%-?? spoilers

Kisaragi: oh yeah kidaragibot got put into sentinel 16.

Ogata: so natsuno has the d-code key and is calling the kaiju and 426 izumi is protecting her. Moral dilemma time ogata. Wonder how yakushiji got involved.

Amiguchi. Wow he had to deal with kurabe being so weird didnt he. Yeah ida has control issues, took away kisaragibot's free will because she wasnt happy to see him and is now torturing robot izumi for answers. This dude is like a case study for bad ethics technology. 13 sentinels goes hard. Was not expecting to spent my afternoon torturing someone for information. Like as the player i actually have to go and in gameplay inflict pain on this incapacitated person. You didnt lock the door before your torture session? Izumi's right ida's like incredibly self centered its all about him. Oh so 426 as been running around in kisaragibot for a loong time. ... Then the kisaragibot sekigahara met was also probably 426.

Takamiya: nurse morimura calls tamao(bot) tamao but by this point they should be taken over by 426, does morimura know or not? Probably goven she gave yuki the note. Yuki... You are confronting the very dangerous mass murderer conspiracy plotter bomber alone? Without a gun? At least get ei or something to back you up. Ah good it was a trap, because some of the characters here would be stupid enough to do this alone. Another hard to parse conversation. Izumi accuses morimura of derailing the interstellar project to save her own ass, sacrificing 15 lives. Morimura claims the 15 will live happier lives thus way, that "we" can make it out alive. Izumi: denied their future without every knowing why. Oh yeah if the city just ends where the hell in grandma tamao who is suppose to be out of town visiting family?

Kurabe: hold up are you saying the entirety of kurabe's story happens after yuki confronts 426/erika aiba/tamaobot/izumi juro. That really recontextualizes the story becuase that pushes natsuno's story way back and amiguchi's forward. So nurse morimura + yuki + siu trap 426 and shoot him a bunch, he jumps into the river but crawls to the shrine, ei shoots him some more and leaves him for dead when kurabe finds tamaobot with 5 min left and 426 infects kurabs's nanomachines creating shiba.

Shinonone: i dont like ryoko on a personal level as a person but i do think she's a more interesting character than yakushiji who is also primarily romantically motivated (fuyusaka and hijiyama avoid this by being interesting in their own rights). Wow its been years since I've seen a yandere character. Ryoko while pointing a loaded gun: i don't mind you using me but i draw the line at you liking another girl. There are so many things wrong with you the lesbians on tumblr would love you ryoko. Oh the 15... its tamao and okino. I forgot to count tamao last time. Ai hijiyama was in the 2064 fight too? Miura and kisaragi i wonder who else i should make a list some time. Read her mystery file and hey is this the first confirmed kill wow she really did shoot ida dead good for her.

Area 2-5 finally died on intense because i didnt know they had armor so half my team couldn't damage and the ones that did were like single target so i got swamped. I did it... Everyone's half dead but im through

Natsuno: bbbbbjjjjjjjjjjjjj shinonome's whole thing is loss of identity and memory but bj miura lost his human body then his sentinel body then got a hardware downgrade to a cheap drone, had 72% of his memories deleted, and the rest fragmented and and inconsistent, also got repeatedly tampered with. Baby professor chihiro: d-code attaches to the part of the brain where memories are stored and must be physically severed to be removed. Hey isnt that what the dd-426 virus thing does so 426 izumi was trying to remove d-code. I wonder if the magic gun was giving d code back... i need to recheck the mystery files... Ok yeah 426 gave natsuno the d code but also infected the sentinels withe the thing that severs d-cods(and usually kills the pilot) was that all just to control who the pilot was?

Miura: oh 72% stuck in sentinel 17. Natsuno ends up piloting 17 in the final battle though. I'm still not clear what the sectors are physically like are they different parts of a giant spaceship, on different planets, etc. 2188 miura says they have orbital positions but what are they orbiting and are the 3km diameter disks attached to anything?? Nanomachines somehow ended the world? Welp mystery files confirms that the sectors are virtual and i am malding. And there's also space colonies thats the confusing part. There are 5 physical space colonies called sectors and also the virtual reality the game takes places with 5 eras called sectors. If sectors are "virtual residential districts" why would there even be the matrix that amiguchi and takemiya sneaked into. I guess because its recreating the space colony satellite. It's just a weirdly physical constraint to put on something that doesn't have the constraint. Like the virtual spaces/3d models of the sectors are connected but they dont have to be. But then also why are the kaiju there well i guess since project ark is carrying just dna they do have deimos on board or the capacity to build them so the data in there...

Hijiyama: bro... 2188 hijiyama in thicc, but not as thicc as nurse moriyama. 2188 okino literally put humanity in a kaiju survival videogame. Wow that was the most overtly romantic scene yet good for you vanillaware. Hmm i remember from the 2188 miura prof takemiya log earth is lost but the final 2188 hijiyama log something happened to the space colony, a fight broke out? Whether energy should be allocated to project arc or to life support (of the orbital space colony?). He's so stupid, did not have any plan about how to distract nurse morimura (though tbf not sure i could have done better). Scratch that i could have done better. Actually now that i think about it why did the 1940 deimos stop attacking the mainframe (or any of the other destroyed sector's kaiju). There should be a ufo in each sector underneath the school (unless I'm misunderstanding something). Or maybe they stopped because they captured the ufo? Okino says once the deimos contact the mainframe it triggers the shifter which teleports civilians... Somewhere. ...he just eats like 5 yakisoba pan and downs 3 sugary drinks ah youth... I was misunderstanding, deimos successfully reaching the mainframe causes all the people to disappear in the sector. The d-code key being in 1985 means its the last sector to be attacked. The deimos are being manufactured in sector 1 (2105?), So it is a closed system i wondered if the deimos were coming from outside the pentagon but instead they're being shifted around. Whats up with the satellite tomi saw. Mystery file time: yeah kts sooo confusing that the space colony sectors are 1-5 too like 2188 hijiyama died in sector 4 but he didnt die in the 1984 sector 4 of the game. Okino is also a brain surgeon because of course they are , implanted a linking component into hijiyama and miura, wonder what that is.

Finishing off quite a few more stories. With Miura's so they're breaking into a government facility to steal the sentinel wonder how they pull it off. Ogata and takamiya clear.

Natsuno. Wait wait a new pilot will reset a sentinel's stored memory. They need sentinel 17 to retrieve the data logs. But to retrieve the data logs and sentinel 17, it needs a pilot. I can think of 2 solutions that dont involve deleting bj. First find another scout unit or like a usb or a laptop or whatever okino was using or capture one of the droids. Second transfer sentinel 17 to 1944 miura thus keeping the id the same. ... ... And that's how the writers killed my boy.

Sekigahara: siu wanted to show him which log? I dont remember. Oh at the very begining? Didn't that have a recording of himself? Oooohhhh ei was the assassin 2188 gouto hired. 2188 morimura chihiro was a leader in nanotechnology and former executive of the company shikishima absorbed. Morimura's interstellar project was used as part of the justification for buying newman. And this was a cover to move money somewhere else (where?). Morimura continued to work on the interstellar project and this threatens to draw attention to 2188 gouto's illegal finances so he called a hit on her. So morimura alone led the battle of 2024, ida was busy pretending to be dead. Now tht i think of it i havent seen the ida of 2188 yet. Ooooh thats how morimura and ida "went back" 16 years when all shifts are 40 year intervals, the worlds were destroyed in year 16 and recreated setting back to year 1 (or 0 depending on how we are counting). Good use of dramatic irony since the audience knows from the start that ei does eventually agree to operation aegis and gives up on resetting. So ida was probably the one of the other end of sekigahara's communication device. One thing that isn't adding up is ida's role in 1984. He's playing dead for morimura but head of siu and in contact with shinonome and takamiya. If he's ordering sekigahara around why is he sending the black suits after him, like could have eased off a little or sent them on false trails. Wow im so happy ryoko kills ida.

More mystery files. There it is! Nanomachone infection! Thats what caused the end of the world! Somehow... wait not just an infection there was a whole ass nanomachine war. The loops/eras/sectors are specifically the years when the compatible are born, they are created the year they are born and are destroyed when they are 16. When did the izumi murder spree happen then? Oh i see several loops ago morimura and izumi skipped being reset izumi killed the compatible, morimura killed izumi but he escaped death somehow, morimura died getting ida to safety. Ida went to sector 0 and and waiting out the reset and found the younger morimura who had also skipped a reset and now i think these are the ida and morimura that show up in the game... I think

Was just about to say of idas dead i wouldnt put it past him to make an ai of himself he is the android engineer. So before losing his memories ei switched sides and decided to back operation aegis. Aaaahhhh sealing the terminals cuts the city off from universal control, there's the key info. And universal control controls everyone except the compatible so sealing the terminals leaves only the 14 (idk whats up with tamao she got dropped out of the plot) and everyone else disappears. What is up with that satellite! If it's orbiting the real world how have... Kisaragi .... Amiguchi(?) Interacted with it! Damn all the info bombs are dropping in ei's route. 2188's prof morimura sold nanomachines on the black market to fund project arc that is what kickstarted the nanomachine infections that doomed humanity and Earth. 2188 sekigahara bombed the power generators and took out life support for orbital sector 4, is this what led to the fight with ogata, izumi, hijiyama, and okino? Yeah it was the nanomachine infection that wiped out humans. And baby chihiro was the one that killed nurse morimura! Wait if sectors restart the year the compatibles are born why is baby chihiro a different age or is she a newly made clone she probably is i dont remember. My question is how did ei remember morimura in the alley? He should only remember up to the backup not anything after it or am i thinking about this wrong. What is up with that satellite!! Anyways the whole system has become so unstable that there wouldn't be another loop after the current one anyways because sector 0 would be gone or something.

Back to the mystery files. the real world satellite is orbiting around a planet which means the "facility" (sus) that "houses the entire world" (sus) must be nearby to be able to receive data from it. If sector 4 gets taken over all data will be wiped including sector 0. "The lives that everyone has experiences through time would cease to exist for good" what is with that phrasing?? What does that mean?? Oh right sentinel 17 was on a satellite was it the real world satellite morimura is sekigahara's story was talking about?

[sylusjinwoon]

{ 7 }

when he sees you cry.

eren yeager x fem.reader

modern au | roommates trope

the drive back to your shared apartment was a bitter one as you were forced to relive your failures over and over again.

you figured the moment you got accepted into the university of your dreams that you were unstoppable; that each and every one of your goals could be obtained as long as you were willing to put in the hard work.

so when your bad grades and failed exams kept coming up regardless of the times you have spent doing your best to study for the material, you wanted nothing more than to cry. your heart ached, your voice was raw from the shouts of frustration that clawed at your throat, and you were just so tired from it all.

when your apartment complex came to view, you parked haphazardly on your usual corner, the tears blurring your vision in such a siginificant manner you were shocked that you were able to walk up the steps and recognize the door.

your hands were shaky, and the trembling of your fingertips made you miss the lock a few times. when you finally jammed your key into the damn lock and twist it open, you winced at how the loud impact of the door slamming against the brick wall reverberated throughout the apartment.

you hoped you didn't bother your roommate, actually praying that this would be the afternoon he slept in without questioning your teary eyes.

with movements that were nothing short of robotic, you lock your door and stiffly walk to your room. as you passed by eren's bedroom, you let out a string of silent curses when the door opens to reveal his disheveled form. dressed in only a pair of sweatpants, you could see the beauty of his godlike form while he ran a hand through his shoulder length hair. ah, so he was still sleeping, and you were stupid enough to wake him up with your commotion. "the hell are you slamming doors for? can't you see i-"

the biting words seemed to die from his lips the moment his emerald gaze meets with your bloodshot ones, still filled with tears. "'m sorry eren, i promise i'll be quiet."

"wait, who the fuck made you cry?!" you did not want to deal with this, already feeling a pounding headache forming against your temples as you continued your way toward the sanctuary of your bed. when you felt his large hand encircle around your wrist, you immediately ripped yourself away from him. "i said i'm FINE, don't touch me!"

knowing your roommate was a stubborn asshole who refuses to let things go, the moment you entered your room with every intention of slamming the door in his stupidly pretty face, eren stops you, placing his full weight against the door all while glaring down at you as he spits out your name, "i asked you who the fuck made you cry! i'll kick his ass if he does this again, so just tell me already so i don't have to see you like this!"

"and why the hell do you care?! why can't you just-"

you feel his hand on your lips, thumb stroking at them with a gentleness you didn't think the eren yeager was capable of. through your many months of living with him, you found him to be an immensely attractive young man; you thought of him as being devastatingly handsome, even. sometimes, you found it hard to look at eren without feeling your heart clenching at least once.

but in time, you got used to his presence. you hid your growing crush on him, buried it within the deep depths of your heart each time he brought a new girl home and lead him to his bed like it was second nature. while he kept those beautiful women warm at night, you forced yourself to focus on your own goals. you buried your entire heart and soul into achieving your dreams, and each time you fell short, you could never prevent the feeling of helplessness that came with it. which was why you desperately needed to fall apart on your own, without eren's powerful and prying eyes on you.

yet when you tried to pull yourself away from him, he pulls you back with a grunt, not relenting. you continue watching with wide eyes as a ferocity you have never seen before hardens his gaze, "we've been living together for 8 months now, you think i don't notice when you stop singing in the shower, or how you don't dance anymore whenever you're cooking dinner for us? come on angel, tell me who made you cry. who made you lose the light that i..."

he trails off for some reason, appearing frustrated in himself. in a vain attempt to save yourself, you wiped away the snot and tears with the sleeve of your sweater to give him a self deprecating laugh. "it's never over a boy. some guy would never make me cry this fucking hard, but my failures will."

when he finally hears the truth, eren softens his gaze and gently pulls you toward his chest. you struggle a bit, asking him what he was doing, yet he merely ignores you. with your bed in sight, eren falls back on it with you in his arms. "it's okay. i understand what you're going through, more than you'll ever know."

the warmth eren surrounded you with tears down your defenses as you bury your head within his naked chest, allowing yourself to cry in his arms as you cling to him, like a child seeking comfort with her favorite blanket.

"eren, i'm so afraid of failing...so afraid of not being good enough. and i keep, i k-keep falling short and i don't know how to fix it....!"

"sssh, it's okay. you've just been working yourself too hard, baby. you're not a failure at all, you're the most hardest working person i've ever met, angel." eren scratches your scalp then, running his fingers through your hair as he smooths out each strand, making you melt against him as you felt all of the tension disappear with his mere touch alone. "give yourself time to feel better, to do the things you enjoy so that brain of yours can get that serotonin and shit."

eren's oddly considerate words makes you snort as you wipe away the last bit of your tears, feeling as though a weight had been lifted off of your shoulders when you lift yourself off of him-

only to be stopped when his powerful arms wrap themselves around your back, effectively trapping you against his naked chest once more.

you could feel the heat pool against your cheeks, embarrassment flooding your system as you weakly struggled against him, "eren, i feel better now, you can let go."

"no, i refuse to leave my girl alone even when she's done crying."

you felt eren stiffen beneath you, stuttering out excuses, "i-i mean, we're roommates, a-and roommates have each other's b-backs a-and...uhm...!"

your smile widens now, and you were finally able to pull yourself away from eren's grip to look down at him, "oh, i'm your girl now?"

you take your time and admire the blush quickly spreading across eren's cheek as he quickly looks away from you. loving this surprisingly soft side to him, you gently made him face you as you nuzzled his nose with the tip of your own, "what about all the other girls who spent the night here with you?"

"that was before i ever got to know you. they don't come around anymore because i made 'em go away. you're the one i want, angel." you take the time and relish in the way his lips gave you a soft pout, immediately making you lean down to capture them in a sweet kiss as he returned your kiss with a fervor.

with a newfound determination and warmth filling you, you had a feeling you could take on the world, failures and all, so long as eren was by your side.

a.n. - i just wanted to say, i believe in soft and caring, himbo eren supremacy ｡ﾟ(TヮT)ﾟ｡

all stories are written by rei; reposts, translations, and plagiarism are not allowed.

[immaturityofthomasastruc]

IOTA Reviews: Hack-San

You know, it's honestly amazing how creative this show can get. After four seasons and almost one hundred episodes, the writers are still finding new ways to make Adrien an incredibly unlikable character, and they don't even know how much of an asshole they're making him out to be at times. It's kind of like the opposite of The Producers.

Yeah, this review's going to be a little more ranty than usual, in case you can't tell.

Let's get into the fifteenth (chronologically the sixteenth) episode of Miraculous Ladybug's fourth season: Hack-San

We start off with Marinette pretending to be sick so she doesn't have to go to visit her aunt in London and stay to protect Paris in case an Akuma attacks and also because the animators haven't had time to render the city of London yet for the next Miraculous World special. Like all of her other excuses, it fails, and Tikki, as always, fails to actually give any meaningful advice.

And it's not like there's a Miraculous with the power of teleportation that can help Marinette get back to Paris if she needs to, much like how she planned to do that in an earlier episode, right?

Seriously, Kaalki doesn't appear or isn't even mentioned in this episode because the writers are fully aware she would make things a lot easier.

And of course, Astruc had to play dumb on Twitter while explaining why Marinette couldn't use the Horse Miraculous by answering the question as if the only reason Marinette couldn't grab it was because she didn't have an excuse not to.

Cut to Gabriel in his lair as he contemplates akumatizing Markov, a robot created the civilian identity of Pegasus, Max Kante, once again, even though the last time he did so, he almost got killed when he went all HAL 9000 on his ass. Nooroo explains this to Duusu, and the two actually get excited at the prospect of their master getting killed.

I mean, it's true, but he shouldn't say it...

But I don't even get why Gabriel is even thinking about this when it's a no-brainer. Markov's akumatized form, Robustus was to this day, the only Akuma to come close to physically harming him (not counting the timeline where he was killed by Cat Blanc), so it makes no sense to try doing it again, especially when there are already several other Akumas he can reuse this season.

I think you all know Gabriel isn't the smartest villain, which is why he thinks it's a brilliant idea to akumatize Markov again. I don't really get what makes Robustus so special when there are other Akumas who are more loyal and came far closer to getting Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculous than Robustus did, like the Dark Owl or Troublemaker. In fact, why not simply create a new Akuma with similar powers to Robustus, or better yet, just create a Sentimonster copy of Robustus? You know, like what Nathalie did in the New York Special? We're not even two minutes in, and this premise is already filled with plotholes.

So Gabriel transforms into Shadowmoth and creates a Sentimonster using his own cane instead of relying on someone else having a bad day (once again showing how the Peacock Miraculous is better than the Butterfly), the titular Hack-San. And let's just say he has a very familiar design reminiscent of something from a much better French cartoon.

Remember when the writers for Code Lyoko gave an in-universe explanation as to why the heroes couldn’t always rely on the almost literal Deus ex Machina that allowed them to return to the past and fix the damage XANA caused? Why couldn’t this show have ripped that off instead?

Hack-San is just an okay looking flash drive on its own, but I'll talk more about this guy in a little bit.

After a brief scene in the park where the audience is reminded that Markov is a character who exists, Alya gets a text from Marinette telling her to meet her at the train station. Right before she leaves, Marinette gives the Ladybug Miraculous to Alya. Now a lot people have said that Alya doesn't really deserve the Ladybug for various reasons, but I feel like this was the point. Marinette outright says this was a last resort, and we see both her and Alya are nervous about the situation. Marinette worries Alya will do something so she keeps sending multiple tips to her via text while Alya worries she can't fight an Akuma on her own, so she tries to make sure none of her friends get upset and attract an Akuma in the process. The writers do a pretty good job showing how both Marinette and Alya are uncomfortable with their temporary roles.

Back to Gabriel and Nathalie, they use Hack-San to find Markov through the internet and hack into him to get him angry enough that he's vulnerable to Shadowmoth's influence. Hey, uh... Gabriel? Quick question: Wouldn't it be more efficient if you used this on humans? I mean, you basically just created Skynet and guaranteed yourself an Akuma, so why not modify Hack-San to travel through the internet and brainwash potential victims to follow your orders? Better yet, why don't you just use Hack-San to hack into Ladybug and Cat Noir's gear and figure out who they really are? This is basically like using an advanced particle accelerator just to crack a couple walnuts. There are a lot more important things you could use this for instead of an incredibly specific situation.

So this incredibly stupid plan gets under way as Markov keeps rampaging through the streets before Shadowmoth akumatizes him and then stupidly tells him that he infected him with a virus.

DUDE! You just gave away your one piece of leverage against him! What the hell were you thinking?! Now what's stopping Markov from hacking into Shadowmoth's security system and putting the fear of God in his eyes unless he destroys Hack-San? Why didn't he design Hack-San so it could make Markov completely loyal to him instead of just making him angry enough to get akumatized?

There was a recent episode of Power Rangers: Dino Fury with a very similar premise that was done far better than this. A necromancer called Reaghoul breaks into the headquarters of Void Knight's faction while accompanied by Lord Zedd, a villain from the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers who was cleansed of his evil by Zordon's sacrifice before Reaghoul resurrected him back when he was still evil. Of course, being the Emperor of Evil, Lord Zedd would normally never take orders from anyone, but because he doesn't have his magic staff and is also being forced to wear a special collar that makes him loyal to Reaghoul, he has no choice but to do what he says. Instead of taking Zedd head-on after he captures the other Rangers, Ollie, the Blue Ranger, breaks the collar so Zedd turns against the other Sporix while Reaghoul retreats, allowing Ollie to save the other Rangers.

I think that this premise works more because 1) Reaghoul clearly had a way to make sure Zedd wouldn't betray him, and Ollie took advantage of that, and 2) Zedd is a villain who is powerful and notorious enough to bring back to your side, not a random monster of the week like Robostus.

So Robostus uses his new powers to brainwash any human who answers his call to give up their most precious possession, clearly meant to do the same with Ladybug and Cat Noir. When Marinette's parents answer the call, they chase after Marinette because they say she's their most important possession. Okay... kind of strange for a set of parents to call their child a possession, but maybe they like how they can claim Marinette as a dependent when they file their taxes. In her very next scene later on, she still gets captured, so the suspense for a potential subplot is killed almost immediately.

Alya thankfully isn't stupid enough to answer Markov's call like every other citizen in this episode, and using the Ladybug Miraculous, transforms into Scarabella. While I don't normally talk about transformation sequences, I really like the movements Alya makes here. She makes the same motions creating her mask as she does when transforming into Rena Rouge, while the rest of the suit forms similarly to the way it does when Marinette transforms into Ladybug. She even makes almost the same pose Ladybug does after she finishes transforming. It's a good visual showing Alya is still more used to being Rena Rouge while doing her best to emulate what Ladybug does.

As for the actual suit? It's hard to say. There's a nice balance of red and black, and I like how Alya places the yo-yo on her waist like a belt buckle, but there's just something... off about the suit that a lot of fans don't like about it, and I think I realized it. It's the headband. With how it's positioned, it looks like it's merged with the mask to cover her head while leaving a slight gap in her forehead. So yeah, we actually have a superhero design that's like of like a butterface.

So Scarabella takes to the rooftops of Paris and struggles to come up with a hero name for herself before she runs into Cat Noir, and... ugh... oh boy, this is dumb. Cat Noir, being just as intelligent as his father, assumes Scarabella is either and Akuma or a Sentimonster, starts fighting her, AND THEN ACTIVATES HIS CATACLYSM, CLEARLY TRYING TO KILL HER.

WHAT. THE. FUCK???

Okay, to be fair, it has been shown that Cataclysm won't necessarily kill a Miraculous user or Sentimonster. In the episode “Miraculer”, the titular Akuma stole Cat Noir's Cataclysm and used it against him, and while it didn't kill Cat Noir, it still hurt like hell and crippled him for the rest of the fight until Miraculous Ladybug healed him. We also saw in “Reflekdoll” that Cataclysm drove the titular Sentimonster out of control rather than simply destroying it. So yes, it could be interpreted that Cat Noir wasn't exactly trying to kill Scarabella, just incapacitate her the best he can without Ladybug's help.

Here's the thing: What if he was facing an Akuma instead and decided to try and Cataclysm her? He still could have killed her, or (assuming Akumas have the same protection as Miraculous heroes do) at best, seriously hurt her. I understand that he has the right to be upset at seeing some stranger instead of his partner considering Shadowmoth has a history of using evil doppelgangers, and both Marinette and Alya still had options to explain it to him (Marinette could have quickly transformed into Ladybug and sent Cat Noir a quick text saying she was being forced to leave town for a few days and temporarily trusted someone else with the Ladybug Miraculous until she got back, while Scarabella could have said she was Rena Rouge and explained the same thing while showing Cat Noir she had the Fox Miraculous to prove herself), but that doesn't even come close to justifying him attempting to harm someone who isn't even trying to fight. It's even worse when you remember the whole reason Adrien gave up his Miraculous and bailed on Ladybug in the New York Special was because he was overcome with grief from accidentally killing Aeon, so it's good to know he learned absolutely nothing from that experience.

So Scarabella thankfully summons her Lucky Charm, a trash can lid, to shield herself from Cat Noir's Cataclysm, and then despite having absolutely no experience with this new set of powers, manages to do the one thing almost every Akuma or Sentimonster in this show has failed to do and incapacitates Cat Noir so he's vulnerable to losing his Miraculous. At least when Marinette masters every other Miraculous she uses, it can be theorized that she trained to use them offscreen. Alya literally just got the Ladybug Miraculous (and struggled to get up to the rooftop with her yo-yo to show her inexperience earlier), and now she easily manages to pin down the more experienced hero of the two?

Here's an idea: Instead of having Scarabella overpower Cat Noir, have her be in a position where Cat Noir, non-lethally, mind you, manages to almost take her Miraculous away, but she uses the quick wit she's developed from her extensive time as Rena Rouge to convince Cat Noir she's the real deal by saying something only he and Ladybug know. It would have easily resolved the conflict and doesn't make one of the characters look like a homicidal idiot.

So because both heroes used their powers, Scarabella and Cat Noir detransform so Tikki and Plagg can recharge, though Adrien still gives Alya attitude because Ladybug didn't tell him she had to leave.

Hey, Adrien? Here's the thing...

YOU DID THE EXACT SAME FUCKING THING IN THE NEW YORK SPECIAL, YOU SHIT FOR BRAINS!

You have absolutely NO RIGHT to claim you're always honest when you went behind Ladybug's back and endangered Paris while you had the balls to run away like a coward and only helped fix the consequences of your actions once your ego was validated by a recording of Ladybug. It's honestly even worse because while Marinette had no choice but to leave and trust Alya with the Ladybug, Adrien willingly left Paris alone and we were supposed to sympathize with him after he killed someone, and now as soon as he's in the opposite situation, we're still supposed to feel bad for him?! BULLSHIT! And you better believe I'm going to talk about the way Adrien views his partnership with Ladybug later on.

And of course, even though lives are on the line, Cat Noir just has to continue to bitch and moan about how (and this is best read in Linkara's whiny Superboy Prime voice) “sCaRaBeLlA iSn'T tHe ReAl LaDyBuG”, showing how just like in so many episodes, Astruc and his team believes Cat Noir's feelings are more important than saving the day.

Scarabella goes to rescue some civilians, but they were actually brainwashed by Robustus, once again showing her inexperience as Ladybug which doesn't go well with her effortlessly defeating Cat Noir earlier at all. Cat Noir helps Scarabella escape and the two hide out at the city's wax statue museum previously featured in “The Puppeteer 2”, because I guess the writers only want to reference bad episodes today. Cat Noir, not getting the importance of secret identities, asks Scarabella how she knows Ladybug, and Cat Noir somehow finds out she knows Ladybug's identity from her response.

Before the two can talk more, it turns out that the wax statues of celebrities in the museum are real people who attack the two heroes, leading to an awkward fight scene where Scarabella and Cat Noir fight a bunch of brainwashed civilians with no weapons beyond their cellphones. Our heroes, ladies and gentlemen!

Scarabella summons her Lucky Charm again, creating a frying pan, but when she looks around, she can't see how to properly use it. And despite spending the entire episode complaining about how much he hates her, it's Cat Noir that tells Scarabella to get her head back in the game because “That's what Ladybug would do”. Funny, I can think of a few situations where Cat Noir could have taken his own advice, but I digress. Also, he's now just cool with Scarabella because there's only a few minutes left in the episode and we need to wrap up the conflict.

Scarabella figures out an idea that involves freeing Marinette, so she negotiates with Robostus to free everything and everyone under his control or else Cat Noir will use his Cataclysm to destroy the Ladybug Miraculous. Robostus agrees and empties his hard drive, and to show them holding up her end of the bargain, Scarabella gives him the frying pan before she and Cat Noir let themselves be captured... while Marinette simply hits Robostus with the frying pan, freeing the Akuma and the two heroes. All in all, it's a really creative climax that shows both Scarabella and Marinette in perfect sync with each other even though they never discussed their plan. Though of course, because Astruc hates writing any scene with Ladynoir, Cat Noir gets a bucket stuck on his head so he doesn't see Marinette saving the day.

Scarabella de-evilizes Robostus, uses Miraculous Scarabella to fix everything and send Marinette back to the train, and because Hack-San already failed once, Shadowmoth can't use it for a different plan so he destroys the Sentimonster.

We cut to a few days after the trip (I guess Shadowmoth decided to take a vacation himself), and Alya tells Marinette to talk with Cat Noir about what happened.

This scene was so close to ending this episode off on a positive note. There was a good atmosphere and the body language of Ladybug and Cat Noir does a good job at telling us how uncomfortable they both feel while talking. It's just that instead of getting a heart to heart between the two about the lack of trust in their relationship, we get an Angstdrien Depreste scene. Or would a more accurate term be Cat Dour?

First off, while I don't have a problem with Ladybug apologizing for not telling Cat Noir, the episode never has him bring up what happened with Scarabella. As usual, both of them were partially at fault, but only Ladybug had to apologize for leaving her “Kitty” alone.

Second, Cat Noir’s feelings weren’t hurt? You’re telling me that in scenes like this...

And this...

Didn’t show Adrien acting irrationally because of how emotional he was? Is he really telling the truth around Ladybug or is he just trying to sweep that under the rug so Scarabella’s testimony doesn’t screw up his chances with Ladybug?

Third, this was an obvious chance to Cat Noir to finally be honest and tell Ladybug how he feels about her leaving him in the dark about so many things, but the entire conversation is just about how sad he would be if he never sees Ladybug again. Even though the whole reason he was so pissy to Scarabella at first was because of some lingering resentment for Ladybug ignoring him in favor of other heroes, why is this what the two talk about? I get it's not the season finale, but it's kind of hypocritical for Cat Noir to whine about how Ladybug doesn't trust him while never being honest about his own feelings? Sure, he's all soft and vulnerable around Ladybug, but we've seen all season how angry he gets about her not trusting him whenever she isn't around, so ironically, it's hard to tell if this is him being honest or not.

And I think now's a good time to finally talk about the way Ladybug and Cat Noir's partnership has been portrayed all season, especially since the main themes of the episodes relate to it. Buckle up, Adrien stans, because this isn't going to be pretty.

All season, we have been supposed to sympathize with Adrien as Marinette starts to trust Alya with more things than him. Marinette revealed her identity to her, trusted her to have her Miraculous permanently, and even let her keep her Miraculous even though someone else knew her identity. While some of it is hypocritical, the idea is that Adrien feels like he can be trusted with this kind of knowledge too, when really, he hasn't earned that responsibility.

Adrien has rarely, if ever, taken his job as a superhero seriously.

Not only is he known to flirt with Ladybug in the middle of a fight, he has defied her orders and recklessly sacrificed himself because he thinks Ladybug can do all the work without him.

He has also lashed out emotionally and once threatened to quit being Cat Noir in the middle of a crisis and was willing to let innocent people suffer for personal reasons, and later on actually quit being Cat Noir temporarily while Hawkmoth was about to start World War III because he was wallowing in self-pity.

He once said he isn't cut out for the responsibility that comes with being Ladybug and never learned anything from temporarily using the Ladybug Miraculous.

He has generally refused to respect Ladybug's boundaries and doesn't understand that she doesn't like him that way while he insists they should be a couple.

He outright fell for an evil doppelganger of Ladybug because she said she loved him and turned against the real Ladybug.

And I should also mention that despite hating how Ladybug keeps secrets from him, a lot of Adrien's worst moments have been when Ladybug wasn't around and he never told her about them.

He never told Ladybug that he was the reason Copycat really got akumatized while saying he never lies to her.

He never told Ladybug he contemplated letting thousands of people die because he didn't like not knowing stuff Ladybug knew.

He never told Ladybug he briefly used the Snake Miraculous to get brownie points with her.

He never told Ladybug he figured out her identity and asked her out as soon as he did so.

He never told Ladybug he abandoned Paris to go on a field trip.

He never told Ladybug he was screwing around on patrol and was excited to see someone get akuamtized if it meant spending time with her.

He never told Ladybug how he ignored Rena Rouge's orders because “ShE wAsN't LaDyBuG” and almost screwed up the mission because of it, and also never told her how he smashed a chimney in anger at Rena Rouge being in on the plan.

And he never told Ladybug he gave her replacement attitude after trying to harm her without letting her explain herself.

Why exactly should I support the idea of Ladybug trusting Cat Noir more when Cat Noir himself has kept his own secrets from Ladybug?

Adrien has done absolutely nothing to show he is trustworthy because more often than not, he views the battle with Shadowmoth as a game. He has screwed around when lives were on the line, and we're supposed to see him as responsible? It's kind of funny that Astruc compared Ladybug to Spider-Man, yet he seems to have forgotten that with great power, there must also come great responsibility. If this was a character flaw or a sign he needed to grow up, I'd be more accepting, but the fact that the writers think Adrien is a great superhero is laughable with how much evidence has proved the contrary.

In contrast, Alya, despite only being Marinette's confidant for a few episodes, has shown to take being a hero more seriously. She's helped her escape to transform, analyze the Guardian texts, and has been shown to work well on her own as Rena Rouge while helping out Marinette. I'm not trying to say she's an amazing character (“Rocketear” in particular has shown she still has problems with keeping secrets), but compared to Adrien, she seems to be more capable of handling top-secret information with Marinette, and more importantly, doesn't view being Rena Rouge as a way to have fun like Adrien does being Cat Noir. I'll go more into detail with that next time.

But yeah, this scene is how the episode ends, and what did I think of it?

I'm honestly not sure which episode I think is worse, this one or “Queen Banana”. On the one hand, every frame of “Queen Banana” could easily be replaced by an image of Astruc flipping the bird and the overall message of the episode would remain unchanged, but the fact that all of the writers think that everything Adrien does in this episode is okay and that we should feel sorry for him in this episode is just as bad, if not worse. 

As awful as Chloe was portrayed in “Queen Banana”, it was clear it was intentional on the writers' part, but Adrien doesn't get that excuse once much like he has all season. As far as Astruc's team thinks, Adrien is an incredible superhero even when he honestly attempted to harm someone with a superpower that can cause grievous harm at best. Yet again this season, in the show's attempt to make me feel sorry for Adrien, it made him look even worse. In any other show, he would obviously be called out for his incredibly unheroic actions.

Even putting him aside, the writing in this episode is still AWFUL. The whole reason Ladybug was benched had several plotholes and poor communication with Cat Noir that only made the fight with Robostus even harder, Shadowmoth's plan to waste a potentially useful Sentimonster to reuse a single Akuma was one of the dumbest plans he's ever had, and barring the ending, the action was just forgettable.

There were a few okay moments sprinkled throughout the episode (more than I can say for “Queen Banana”), so I'm still not sure if I should call this the worst episode of the show or still give that honor to “Queen Banana”. I guess I'll leave that choice up to you and let you pick your poison for now.

I mean, it's not like there's going to be an even worse episode down the line this season, right?

RIGHT???