#yeah fuck modern dragon ball

[kedsandtubesocks]

this high of you & me

Lucien Flores x F!Reader

summary: Lucien Flores is your weed dealer and you think that’s about it

warnings/tags: 18+ MDNI. dealer!Lucien AU, drug use and discussion, shotgunning, sweet giggly moments, mentions of unspecified age gap (reader’s age is not mentioned but Lucien is older) reader and Lucien under the influence but he’s still a consent king, one use of ‘good girl,’ light making out

word count: 1.4k

a/n: I wrote this in a possessed fever after that clip & I know this might not reflect his personality once the movie comes out but I just had to I’m sorry, thank you to @lowlights & @tightjeansjavi for letting me scream about this and if you decide to read this - know I’m thanking you a million times

His house is an eclectic mess.

There’s a framed photo of Gustav Klmit’s ‘The Kiss’ beside a black light poster of a tiger. His awful leather black couch screams of a bachelor refusing to grow up.

“All I have to drink is bad tap water, ginger ale, or a mini grey goose sample.” Lucien yells from his kitchen.

“Uh, the ginger ale is fine.” You answer back.

This is the first time you’ve ever been alone with him.

Normally you’ve only experienced him with your best friend and his boyfriend. They’re the ones, through a friend of a friend, who introduced you to Lucien.

That’s how he became your dealer.

Now as you try to seem busy, you scan the book shelves in his living room.

There are many things that catch your eye -

The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo, a very abstract but suggestively sexual mini sculpture of two beings entangled in a type of wave like motion, a clear quartz crystal and a cute elephant figurine.

The man known as Lucien Flores is no short close to a chaotic puff of smoke you think you’re never meant to catch.

Behind you, you hear him rearranging things on his coffee table.

“You gonna joint me, or not?”

His pun makes you snort.

On the glass coffee table sits your drink among a cluttered collection of things.

“You asked for the usual right?” He mutters preparing everything like someone out a check out counter.

“Yeah, but I can go after you give me the- ”

“No, no it’s all good.” He reassures quickly, cutting you off. “I got nothing planned and company is always nice.”

He packages up the weed in the typical baggies he uses. This time they're holographic blue, almost matching his charming but strange vibes in a strange way.

“What happened to the dragon ball z themed bags you had?” You ask jokingly.

“Ran out.” He pouts and you grin.

After separating and packing up everything, he moves to start grinding the weed. Then with a click on his remote his stereo flows to life.

Frank Ocean’s ‘Pink + White’ begins playing and illuminates the room.

Small talk comes. Lucien asks about how work is going, any new shows you’ve gotten into.

He’s charming, like a bizzare off highway tourist attraction you can’t seem to leave.

“No need to sit on the floor. Come on. Spots open right here.” Lucien grins patting the couch beside him.

“Your couch is a pain, hate how it sticks to me.” You reply with a scrunch up face.

“Maybe I want you to keep sticking to it?” He offers light and you roll your eyes.

Being a notorious flirt, you try not to fall under his sweet words spell.

You’re about to make a quip back until you see him yank out a fuzzy blanket and spread it across the couch.

“What a gentleman.” You dryly smirk and Lucien shrugs.

But you rise up to sit besides him, close but not comfortably so.

“How much extra is this gonna cost me hm?” You muse watching him pack the bowl.

“Don’t you know the old saying, pretty babes don’t pay?” Lucien remarks so effortlessly.

Your throat gets a bit dry and you’re thankful for the ginger ale wetting your lips.

The lovely glass pipe, swirled with so many unique colors like the silk button up shirts Lucien wears, is handed to you.

“You first.” Lucien grins.

He even lights it for you, a modern day chivalrous knight in his own fucked up unique way.

The first inhale is always a favorite of yours. The smoke fills you, tickles your senses. But you can’t help but cough a bit.

“That’s the good stuff, huh baby?”

The phrasing and how smug his voice purrs out is dangerous.

“It’s one of the new strands I’ve been wanting to try. S’called ‘girl scout cookie.’ Pretty sweet name huh? But kinda makes me wish I could eat some right about now, ya know.” Lucien rambles as you hand the pipe back to him.

You at least appreciate how talkative and alluring he is. Between passing the pipe back and forth to him, you’re pulled into discussions about aliens, music and then, YouTube videos.

“No,” you giggle. “You gotta see this one.”

“If it’s another sad cat video I’m gonna cry and kick you out.” He pouts and you’re overcome with the urge to lean forward and kiss the furrow in between his brows.

You can’t deny how handsome he is. Like, ridiculously so. You know he’s older but there’s a youthfulness to him that’s reassuring. Like his spirit will always stay free. But you know that also seems dangerous after hearing about the list of exes he had from your best friend’s friend.

So very cautiously you tread into this new territory, whatever it is.

You lean closer, hold your phone up and show him your favorite go to funny video.

You can’t even stop the giggles. You wanna blame the weed, but it’s so hard not to laugh even without it. You’re overcome with glee and lean against Lucien’s shoulder. His shoulders shake and you hear the most adorable twinkling giggle.

He’s laughing.

“See!” You urge. “Told you it’s funny!”

“It’s not that! It’s you! You’re making me laugh.” He wheezes out and your heart flutters.

“Then I’ll stop laughing so you can stop laughing and watch!” You reply back determined.

So pressing your lips together, you rewind the video. You and him stay silent. Or you try to. Your lips twitch so terrible wanting to break.

Then Lucien’s shoulders shake again. In seconds you’re both busting out laughing. Your poor phone is forgotten.

This time he howls with an infectious joy and you feel it in your gut, in your bones.

“You weren’t supposed to laugh!” You chide him through the giggles.

“You weren’t either!” He cackles.

You realize you’re practically draped against him, and Lucien even fully leans back into you.

The smoke, the drug, coats everything in a smokey soft haze and with the high creeping its way into your mind, a molteness seeps into you

Lucien smells so good too, clean, cozy, but also like a cologne you wish you could pinpoint.

“Thanks, it’s dolce and gabbana.” Lucien replies.

Your face ignites in flames realizing you must have spoken your thoughts out loud.

You’re about to scramble out from this mess when you peer up and find Lucien staring. His earth soil eyes, softly dusted with a rosy color, hazily watch you.

“Y’smell good too.” He mumbles back.

“Thanks, it’s my fabric softener.” You tell him.

Lucien busts out laughing, a bright firework of a thing and you once again get caught up in how wildly warm he is.

Shaking his head he shifts to grab the pipe.

But his hand slides to rest against your thigh, like it’s a small way of saying don’t move, don’t leave.

And you don’t.

“You wanna try something fun?” He offers.

“Sure.” You don’t know what you might have just agreed too.

Lucien maneuvers, slides his large warm hand to your face and your heart stops. He tilts your head towards him and his thumb softly rubs against you.

“You trust me?”

The soft lull of Frank Ocean continues playing in the background softening this world around you.

You don’t even know if this man has a middle name or not, but you know him enough, or mainly, find yourself wanting to melt more into him.

So you nod quietly.

“Good girl, just keep your mouth open.”

That line takes your breath away.

You have an idea of what’s coming, but even with that, you crumble.

Lucien inhales from the pipe, filling his mouth with smoke. In a blur he moves. It’s like you blink and he’s all around you.

His hand on your face, his body pressed up flush against you and then, his face slowly moving towards you.

With his lips open, he breathes the smoke into your waiting mouth and your eyes shut in bliss. His lips graze against yours, a tease.

You inhale on instinct. Yet your hands move on their own, possessed, to run against his warm broad chest.

Once the smoke is in your mouth and you hold it in, allowing this mixture of the smoke and him to consume you. You also don’t miss the way Lucien himself breathes out.

Then before you can close your mouth, he lets his tongue gently swipe at your top lip, a kitten-like lick.

But it’s divine.

When a soft whine escapes you, Lucien effortlessly dives in to kiss you, cradling your face and steals your breath away again.

Making out with your dealer could probably be one of the dumbest decisions ever. But he’s a unique high of his own, one making you so dizzy, but you think you don't want it to end just yet.

So you melt into this smoke and into him.

And it’s otherworldly bliss.

[cat-mermaid]

on the topic of Sakamoto Days getting an anime, i wanted to talk about how this manga is a perfect example of a phenomena in shonen manga

so years ago i remember reading a discussion about how a lot of popular manga in shonen jump have started out as gag manga but then evolved into a serious and violent series (think dragon ball, that shit was goofy af in the start), and how in modern times its an actual legit strategy by the editors of manga authors to have them deliberately start their new series off as silly, slapstick and non-violent as possible in order to get into shonen jump, which is meant for kids (specifically boys) ages 10 - 18

the idea is that if you start off your comic grim and violent you're going to:

#1, not get picked up by jump in the first place because of how un-kid-friendly it is

#2, probably going to have that shit end up in one of the other more adult oriented weekly manga magazines and you don't want that because you wanna be in fuckkin ✨JUMP✨ baby, thats the hot ticket!

so theres been this trend of authors "sneaking" a much more grown up series into jump by doing the first year or so as silly low stakes goofy shit, hoping it gets popular enough, then sloooowly frog boiling the readers into accepting more intense and violent shit untill you're 3 years in and the current manga chapters are almost allmost unrecognizable from chapter fucking one

this brings us to Sakamoto days

i first checked it out becuas i saw an image of a chubby old man on the cover of a manga and started reading because i'll give anything a look if it promises me a protagonist that ain't a generic japanese highschooler

and it was great! it was fun! the opening gets you fucking hooked right away:

that shit is adorable, endearing and i eat it up with a spoon

and the whole thing starts out pretty by the numbers for this sorta manga. His wife gave him a "no killing" ultimatum while they were dating and he said sure babe no probs🥰 So throughout the start of the story they really hammer it in with the NO WE DO NOT KILL WE WILL FIND ANOTHER WAY thing

then theres lots of silly characters, they find some girl who seems to exist solely for the purpose of checking the "cute sassy girl who argues" box and so on. Also the whole "has a family" thing? Pretty much becomes totally irrelevant. They make it seem like its gonna be a huge part of the story, but his wife and kid might as well not exist. my cynical ass can't help but feel that the author threw them in to help get the story published because anything in Japan that has "pro family, pro having kids" content in it aimed it the young people is gonna shoot to the top of the list. The wife/kid/sassy girl got dropped from having any bearing on the plot as soon as the author's editor was sure they weren't "needed" to keep up the wholesomeness scheme anymore

AND YEAH i have to address this, they do that thing a lot of manga and anime do with fat characters that magically lose weight really fast then slap it back on overnight, again and AGAIN-

-with no health repercussions wat so ever and i hate that cus yoyo dieting BAD but fuck they do it anyways cos haha fat people funny but also EW WE NEED TO KNOW THEY CAN BECOME HOT OR I DON'T CARE WAT THEY DO EW😒

so when i first started reading SD i stumbled up its "pilot chapter". A lot of manga like Attack on Titan or Dungeon Meshi have one of these, a short self contained chapter that gets sent around and pitched to various publishers. Just like a tv show, there might be characters or situations that never appear in the main story, or the whole tone might be completely different right?

so i read this chapter:

and while i was reading it i was like HOLY SHIT THEY'RE ACTUALLY KILLING PEOPLE!!!!! HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO VIOLENT AND AWESOME!!! because at the time the main manga was still silly and all about pacifism right? and i remember thinking dang i wish the manga had been like this instead of this stupid kiddy crap

well i gots mys wish cos it turns out that that pilot? That was wat the author intended from the start. And they pulled the old "Shonen Jump Frog Boil switch-a-roo" on us because holy shit is Sakamoto Days a bloodbath now!

[randomthefox]

I am seriously tired of the "all fantastical/magical elements need a convoluted pseudo-scientific explanation " trend going on in fiction , especially when it comes to media adaptations. The MCU used to be a big offender in its early days (they eventually ditched this somewhat later on as later movies were allowed to feature actual Magic and not pseudoscience). The Archie Sonic comics were huge offenders: they made up bullshit SciFi explainations for why anthros exist with humans, why the chaos emeralds exist (they were created from the radiation of bombs created and dropped in earth by racist aliens I shit you not), why some animals talk awhile others don't and why Knuckles has super strength and spikes on his fists(he was microwaved as a baby by his racist father.) the list goes on

Yeah honestly it really just speaks to a lack of imagination and more importantly CYNICISM of modern writers.

Like whatever fucking happened to WHIMSY? The kind of whimsy that would lead to saying a spider got hit with a beam of radiation and then bit a guy which gave him super powers?

Nobody can just have fucking fun anymore, it's so fucking annoying. All these alcoholic fat male writers with daddy issues and candy hair colored fat female writers with chips on their shoulders, churning out slop that all just amounts to "everything is capitalism which is stupid and bad" and who want to make the audience just as miserable as they are.

The fucking movies don't even want to bother with having the seven chaos emeralds as a plot critical element anymore. Oh the seven emeralds are in the movies sure. But not as individual items. They're just a single maguffin in seven parts. Because god knows the idea of having a Sonic movie that's based around trying to find seven dragon balls scattered all over the world is an idea that would make these fuckboy hollywood writers puke.

[thestargayzingheroine]

My Adventures With Superman - A Rambling Set Of Thoughts

Okay, I know I don't USUALLY make posts like this and I especially hate getting cynical and nitpicky about these sorts of things because I just don't wanna contribute to all the negativity on the internet... But this is something I just couldn't shake.

So last night I watched the first season of My Adventures With Superman and... I have a lot of mixed feelings about to be brutally honest which is a shame because I know SO many people really loved this show.

Spoilers for season 1 obviously

For the most this show is great and it has a good foundation for Superman and gets him and his relationship with Lois so right. I love how Clark is this big, soft himbo twink dork who really reminds me of Adora from She-Ra and Lois is this fun tomboy who falls head over heels for him. And to be honest, all of their moments were genuinely the highlight of the show for me. SERIOUSLY ITS LIKE CLARK AND LOIS BUT MADE FOR SAPPHICS LIKE ME AND I ADORE THEM

I love the art style and animation too and really does put a very fresh new aesthetic on DC stuff. Sure, it's a bit too much like She-Ra and Voltron in places, but for DC, it's a really good breath of fresh air. Seriously, look at the designs of Deathstroke and Livewire!

But sadly, that's not all the show is and this is where I have to sadly talk about my negatives with it.

Sooooo… this show was written a lot of the same people who wrote She-Ra and it seems to be a big fan of various anime things too, especially Dragon Ball Z and Neon Genesis Evangelion.

To that end, the show has basically... turned Superman into a mixture of Adora and Goku, not just in terms of personality traits and in Adora's case, her relationship with Catra (Seriously, if Clark was a woman and blonde, I would swear she and Lois would just be Catradora)

This sadly does apply to how this show portrays the Kryptonians, who are implied to MOSTLY be a race of evil conquerors who tried to attack Earth only for Krypton to be destroyed. This is VERY similar to how the First One's were depicted in She-Ra, as well as how the Saiyans were in Dragon Ball Z. One could also argue that their attack on Earth is a weird mashup of the movie Arrival and the Second Impact from Evangelion but that's me getting very nitpicky.

So naturally, we have Adora and Goku's traits being applied to Superman. And…. those traits don't really work for Superman, at all. Now I should be clear, it seems to be that Jor-El and Lara were actually like rebels fighting the evil Kryptonians (which is ironically Mara's whole deal... you seeing the She-Ra pattern here yet?) but like... I don't like this idea at all. Poor Clark even has a fucking breakdown later on and thinks he's actually some evil weapon meant to conquer Earth AGAIN just like Adora from She-Ra being used as a weapon by the First One's. And I just feel bad for him because he's trying to be the good decent Superman we all love... but he's getting dragged into this plot that pretty much breaks him... and I don't really like it.

And then there's a whole subplot about Lois meeting alternate versions of herself and discovering alternate versions of Superman who are evil (which is bizarrely how Kryptonite is introduced in this show) which.... yeah I don't like that plot either. Nor am I the fan of Task Force X pulling the whole "the Government is treating clark as hostile because they think he's an evil alien" plot which I have gotten kinda tired of seeing in a lot of modern Superhero media. It's either Superheroes being hated or hunted by the government or being made to work for them.

And you know where this all probably came from for this show in particular? Fucking Zack Synder and Man of Steel. It's kind of ironic because a lot of this show feels like its in response to the Synderverse, like it feels obligated to comment on how people see Superman now because of those crappy movies, something that I know James Gunn is probably gonna do as well with his superman movie basically a live action version of Superman vs the Elite.

And just…. no, none of this shit is really necessary nor is it a good idea. Because it kinda takes away some bits of Superman that I like. I know the show isn't done yet but… I can already make a good guess of where it's going to go. And where it's going… idk if I'm gonna like a whole lot.

It is clearly a show wanting to be different from all that has been done before with Superman…. but by being different for the sake of it, it's doing a lot of stuff I just don't like.

I just want there to be a day when we get a Superman thing that doesn't have to justify the man's own existence and role in a story because some objectivist edgelord made a bad movie with him in it eleven years ago.

So yeah, by turning Superman into more or less mostly Adora from She-Ra... I think they might have messed him a bit in my eyes. I hope season 2, whenever that comes out hopefully pushes things in a more hopeful direction and I could genuinely call this a good adaption of Superman. Because there is so much potential with just from the relationship of Clark and Lois alone that tells me that these creators just GET how Superman's character is.

So yeah, I hope that long rambling thought made sense.

[tempting-andromeda]

Heeeyyy can you please do a modern hc with dating Paytah? 😌

I LOVE PAYTAH

GAH I LOVE THis

Paytah headcanons

I know this mother fucker pines

He bullies Eagle flies for his romance

Has to wait for the right moment to talk to you

You guys could even be friends and he has to wait to figure out what to do

Most of him flirting is him being shoved towards you and it just snowballs from there

Forgets to tell people that y’all are dating

Like he isn’t hiding it

He’ll kiss your cheek and hold you close

But he won’t update his Facebook status for all the aunties to see

His hand gets clammy when he holds yours so he makes you trade hands whenever he has to wipe his palms off

You will have to get used to Eagle flies third wheeling

He doesn’t count it as third wheeling and sometimes you realize you’re…the third wheel

Can fall asleep anywhere

Throws his head back and he’s snoring

Cannot keep his arms to himself

Not even in a he’s always touching

His arms are never by his side

It’s over the back of the couch or behind his head

Got his car later in life but it somehow has everything in it

Like his trunk is always full

Always has one of those good blankets tho

Has the thickest Rez accent

I know it would be so hot

Sends you pictures of him accidentally flash banging himself to send you a picture

You can’t leave shit out around him

He’s playing with your clothes, your makeup, etc

He likes his baggy pants with a tighter shirt combo

Is a regular victim to Rez dogs (THOSE FUCKERS ARE SCARY IDK HOW YALL ARE ACTING LIKE THEYRE DOCILE)

However he does have a few favorites

Likes to feed them like pigeons and then gets yelled at by the uncles to stop

Has learned to start barking back

Eagle flies calls him a furry because of it

Makes memes of situations a bit too fast

I feel like he’d be into anime. Like one piece, dragon ball, Naruto. Any anime that went on for way too fucking long. Yeah he likes that.

Regular at any function the Rez holds

Works at the Rez convenience store

[ultraericthered]

FORMS OF DEMIGRA

These are all of Demon God Demigra’s different looks from Dragon Ball Xenoverse and Dragon Ball Heroes. Demigra only had two forms in his debut appearance in Xenoverse, and that second form was a letdown to say the least. One thing the Heroes continuity was good for was expanding on Demigra and giving him other forms, with his Transcended Form and Dark King Form(s) being far more Final Boss-worthy than the Beast Form.

Yeah, I know that last one is actually Mechikabura's ultimate form, not Demigra's, but it fucking should've gone to Demigra, dammit!

ADDITIONALLY, imagine if we were to work Syn/Omega Shenron back into a modern DB continuity but he's evil because he's been influenced by Demigra, thus making him part-demon? His design bears some striking features in common with Demigra after all:

[maxwell-grant]

thoughts on Tekken8 so far ?

Not too many, I have mostly mixed feelings on Tekken stuff but:

Okay this rules, this is a killer fucking idea for a fighting game story mode. I was actually just thinking the other day about how a lot of modern fighting games with big story modes can't really integrate the tournament structure into the story, so it's either not there or it becomes a schrodinger's tournament. But here there's no mistaking it, there is a King of Iron Fist tournament being held and fighters the world over are invited to join with their lives and with the lives of their ENTIRE COUNTRIES riding on the line. This rules, this fucking rules, I'm pissed Street Fighter didn't do this first because this is the most M.Bison idea that is also a way better plot than anything M.Bison ever did, fuck yeah.

I've heard this described as Tekken doing the Cell Games and having never watched Dragon Ball I'll have to take their word for it.

Don't care about Jin, never have really, but I am at least marginally curious as to how they'll square "Jin you are the light and hope of this world you are the hero of everything you must save us all" and "you totally fucking killed millions of people for no reason with that WW3 stunt dude". Love that Kazuya throws this in his face like, you weak little shit, you think you're putting me down? You think YOU have some kind of body count? Well it's just gonna keep growing watch this *BWOOOOOM

Tekken has spent a loooot of games running in a loooot of circles around the Mishima bloodline drama so this game promising to blow things out of proportion, with Heihachi dead (so far) and Kazuya cutting loose and the entire world seriously on the line, well okay that has my interest.

Gotta be honest folks, up until now I actually hated Azucena. Decent design, Peruvian representation is extremely rare and I was super on board for that, really liked for a beat how her fighting style's meant to abuse Tekken's 3D space with a lot of dodging and swaying... but then the character started talking and, oh great, she only talks about food, she's a gimmick character that only talks about her gimmick, here comes the next annoying latin-american stereotype that the gringos just find sooo charming and sexy and funny, here comes the next El Fuerte/Laura/Zarina, and all my interest died.

And then the latest story trailer revealed that she's happily teaming up with the G Corporation (and by extension Kazuya, you know, the guy currently raining fire and murder on the entire planet) because they make for "better brand optics for my coffee" and, huh. Well. Turns out she's a total piece of shit! The "beloved for her innocent personality" thing was a dead giveaway looking at it now. Turns out she's a business major cracking winks and poses while tanks and soldiers steamroll the land and people around her. You hear a lot of stories growing up here about plantation owners being cutthroat ghouls and I must admit, it's pretty great seeing that as the twist on a typically obnoxious Disney inclusivity cartoon person, feels very topical. Maybe it is just a rehash of Lucky Chloe's twist but Lucky Chloe wasn't that inspired to begin with where as this feels a bit more thought out. I expect to be ultimately dissappointed but it sure got me almost kinda liking her a bit.

Big year for evil women in fighting games.

Feels like Tekken was just bound to have a Nick Fury at some point with other fighting games elevating characters to that position, but it is pretty weird that this a thing, right? I guess when they're going more into world-threatening stakes and characters teaming up being treated like an Avengers gathering you kinda need a Nick Fury or several to glue that nonsense together. Anyway, Victor's pretty cool. Kinda shocked that he's the first French character in Tekken apparently.

It's not easy to make me like espionage-themed characters in fighting games but he's got enough style to him that I appreciate. He's just Vincent Cassel if he was a John Wick guy with a weird Final Fantasy sword but that's not like a bad combo by any means, really just seems like Harada really wanted to put a guy he likes from da movies in there. It's the Kojima impulse but hey, if it works and the voice acting isn't terrible (like a certain other studio, seriously how do you manage to get such lackluster material out of J.K Simmons doing Omni-Man), I'm cool with it.

I'm not too sure what to think of Reina? I feel like that's gonna be entirely dependant on her role in the game, because the other two are fairly throwaway characters where as her they seem to be putting a lot of stock in. I kinda like her design although I appreciate it better in fan art that lets her actually emote and look mean, the in-game face is just way too dull for what she's doing. I like the ego she's got and that she can back it up, that she's this new mystery newcomer with potential arriving to shake up the scene. I think a lot about her would be very generic and forgettable if it wasn't backed up by her mean punk personality and power, which I really appreciate. She kinda feels like if Asuka wasn't a joke. I'm just curious as to what her actual role is gonna be, and while I don't think she's gonna be a full blown villain the way Kazuya is, I'm gonna be pretty dissappointed if she just immediately slides into being a hanger-on hero. So I'm just waiting for more on her with cautious optimism.

I hope Heihachi never comes back because A: it's just wrong to have him without Unsho Ishizuka to voice him, and B: I hope they never ruin the humor of "Yeah he's dead dead but he has at least 20 bastard children all over the world and at least one of them is gunning for the throne so if you thought he was done causing problems or that the Mishima Bloodline would end with Jin, lmao"

[howtowhumpyourhiccup]

Mother's Comfort

Summary: Written for Day 23 of Augusnippets 2024. Set in a Modern AU, Sci-fi AU. Mind Full AU. “She’s my mother! She loves me!” Hiccup snapped at Astrid, but is there a kernel of truth?

Warnings: Child Abuse, Medical Trauma, Medical Experimentation

Rating: Mature

Dead Dove: No

Words: 444

Prompts: Wiping Away Tears, Gentle Touch

Fandom: How to Train Your Dragon

Characters: Hiccup, Valka

Pairing: /

Author's Notes: Getting needles in your neck fucking sucks. So obviously, I had to do it to Hiccup.

Enjoy!

-XOXOX-

“You know I love you, right?” Valka asks as she stands by Hiccup’s side.

He lies on a hard bed in a sterile room, trying not to look at the tray next to him as a doctor he still doesn’t know the name of checks its contents one last time. It’s another set of those enhancing drugs his mother refuses to elaborate on. They come in the form of injections and in the next five weeks, he gets one in each. They are extremely painful and he always leaves with a migraine. They go in the back of his neck.

“Hiccup?” Valka seeks the validation that he hears her.

“Yeah,” he simply replies, though his eyes betray doubt.

“I do, son. I’m doing this for your sake, too. In the near future, you’ll be able to do things that I can’t. I just want you to reach your full potential,” Valka places a hand on her teenager’s shoulder.

He’s not sure he wants to reach his full potential if getting there keeps putting him through the wringer. It’s not just the migraines, it’s the weeks of sickness as his body is forced to change to accomodate small and foreign pieces of metal.

The doctor, face hidden by a mask, comes with the injection and tells Hiccup to roll onto his side, back facing her. With fear in his heart, he does as he’s told.

“You promised I could talk to my dad after this one,” he reminds Valka and she nods.

“Of course, son.”

His hair is still short, grown only an inch or two since it was shaved for his last surgery many weeks ago. A wet cotton ball disinfects the back of his neck and it’s cold. Hiccup startles at the sensation and his mother offers him a hand to hold. He takes it without question.

Hiccup holds his breath when he’s told to relax and a second later the needle pierces his flesh. It stings for sure, but then the doctor pushes the shady drugs into his system and there the burning comes. It spreads up his neck, muscles tense up, he can feel his face starting to hurt, the migraine is coming.

As well as the tears.

“Ssh,” Valka hushes him before he can even think to sob. He looks up at her, vision blurring as the burning grows worse. He gasps for air, trembling, he’s told to stay still.

“You’re so brave,” she tells him as she leans in and wipes his tears away with her thumb.

“I love you so much, you’re so brave,” she repeats and Hiccup clings to those declarations like his life depends on them.

[zoeyrabbit]

DBZ KakaVege AO3 (Kakarot x Vegeta) Stories - Constantly Updating List.

My own AO3 account, @ RaditzsLittleNerd. I'm working on one story, I bookmarks stories and I may write more stories in the future as well! (Slow updates.)

__BDSM__

Rose created by schloprecetacle

Son Goku/Vegeta, Son Goku, Goku Black, Vegeta (Dragon Ball), kakavege week

Warnings - Rough Sex, BDSM themes, Explicit Sexual Content, Violent Sex, Face Slapping, Choking

Summary

Goku indulges Vegeta's fantasy about their newest enemy. Kakavege Week Prompt #9: Goku Black.

Language: English  Words: 1,664  Chapters: 1/1  Collections: 2  Comments: 20  Kudos: 395  Bookmarks: 51  Hits: 5901

Wild created by schloprecetacle

Son Goku/Vegeta, Uke Goku, Super Saiyan Sex

Warning - Graphic Depictions Of Violence, BDSM, Spanking

Summary

Vegeta sees something wild inside Goku and decides to give him what he craves. Graphic sex, violence and some BDSM themes. Kakavege Week Prompt #15: Uke Goku.

Series

Part 1 of Wild

Language: English  Words: 3,660  Chapters: 1/1  Collections: 2  Comments: 20  Kudos: 445  Bookmarks: 69  Hits: 9024

Topped created by Yammy_kooki

Bulma Briefs/Vegeta, Bulma Briefs, Vegeta (Dragon Ball), i just wanted bulma to call vegetas ass a boy pussy, heres a 8k+ fic on good kink practice, and vegeta discovering his kink kjasdk

Warning - Pegging, Anal Fingering, Sex Toys, Feminization, Kink Discovery, Kink Negotiation, anal prep, Blow Jobs, Dom/sub Undertones, Lingerie, Rimming, Cunnilingus, Dry Orgasm

Summary

Vegeta baulked. His face flushed. "You...what?!" Bulma blushed as well, struggling to maintain her usual haughty, confident front. "I want to try pegging you. It's when I wear a fake cock -a strap-on- and fuck your-" "I know what pegging is!" Vegeta felt like he could faint. "Why would you want to do that?!"

Language: English Words: 13,463 Chapters: 2/2 Comments: 43 Kudos: 64  Bookmarks: 22  Hits: 628

Non-Professional created by Yammy_kooki

Son Goku/Vegeta (Dragon Ball), Son Goku (Dragon Ball), Vegeta (Dragon Ball), Raditz (Dragon Ball), Turles (Dragon Ball), Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Saiyans Still Have Tails, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Other Ships Not Mentioned in Tags, Flirting, Surprising Amount of Fluff, Smart Son Goku (Dragon Ball)

Warning - BDSM, Dom/sub, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Kink Exploration, Kink Discovery, Collars, Master/Pet, Rope Bondage, Cock Warming, Rough Sex, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Sex Toys, Orgasm Delay/Denial, Multiple Orgasms, Temperature Play, Exhibitionism, Anal Fingering, Masturbation, Urethral Play, Whipping

Summary

Vegeta keeps getting dumped because of his boring sex life. To help him out, Raditz gives him the phone number of a...Saiyan sex consultant?! Join Vegeta as he discovers his kinks and try(and fail) to not fall in love with said consultant.

Language: English Words: 40,961 Chapters: 8/8 Comments: 71 Kudos: 207  Bookmarks: 31  Hits: 3786

Feel You In My Bones created by TeamDamon

Son Goku/Vegeta (Dragon Ball), Bulma Briefs/Vegeta, Chi-Chi/Son Goku (Dragon Ball), Vegeta (Dragon Ball), Son Goku (Dragon Ball), Bulma Briefs, Bulma is a good bro, the best wife really, she’s just lookin out for her veggie, idk how else to tag this, Goku is a himbo, Vegeta is a tad sexually frustrated but he doesn’t know it, Bulma has a solution, Bottom Vegeta (Dragon Ball), Bottom Son Goku (Dragon Ball), Top Son Goku (Dragon Ball), veggie’s a power bottom tho really, there’s some consensual punching/fighting when things start heating up, don’t know how to tag that but yeah it’s there, mildly drunk veggie, bribery of smol children, this story has officially gotten away from me and will prob be 388282 chapters, RIP me, its all consensual, thats right my dudes, they’re switching

Warning - Explicit Sexual Content, Choking, Voyeurism, Face Slapping, Bondage, some light BDSM happening, ki cuffs, Safewords, Spanking, Cave sex, Butt Plugs, Tail Sex

Summary

“I will not, nor will I ever, fuck Kakarot.” “Fine,” Bulma shrugged, reaching over to grab her sleep mask from her nightstand. “Don’t. It was just a suggestion, not a command.” Vegeta crossed his arms and stared angrily at the back of her head as she turned off the light and laid down, her back to him as she let out a long yawn. “Besides,” she muttered casually, “I figured Goku would be the one doing the fucking anyway.” Vegeta’s jaw dropped. — Aka where Bulma knows what her husband needs and makes sure that he gets it. Formerly titled “Just Wanna Taste It”.

Language: English Words: 62,042 Chapters: 9/9 Collections: 3 Comments: 197  Kudos: 1428  Bookmarks: 314  Hits: 26394

__HEAT__

Side Effects created by cosmicmewtwo

Son Goku/Vegeta (Dragon Ball), Son Goku, Vegeta (Dragon Ball), Sex Pollen, Weird Alien Physiology, kakavege week prompt: Poison, ... this is a godless amalgamation of every trope I said I'd never write, .......and we're never speaking of it again

Warning - Mating Cycles/In Heat, Mating Bites, irresponsible handling of questionable pharmaceuticals

Summary

Vegeta accidentally exposes himself to a strange chemical in Bulma's lab.

Language: English Words: 4,779 Chapters: 1/1 Collections: 2 Comments: 21 Kudos: 952 Bookmarks: 128 Hits: 8454

Kuvusa created by orphan_account

Son Goku/Vegeta (Dragon Ball), Top Vegeta (Dragon Ball), Bottom Son Goku (Dragon Ball), Hyperbolic Time Chamber | The Room of Spirit and Time, Saiyan Biology, Saiyan Instincts, Hurt/Comfort, Romance, I am a ridiculous sappy sap, Warning: too much sweetness teeth will rot, Can’t write smut without love it’s how I roll

Warning - Mating Cycles/In Heat, Anal Sex, Tail Sex, Self-Lubrication, Double Penetration in One Hole, Multiple Orgasms

Summary

Every Saiyan went through it, their version of puberty. It usually occurred around the age of sixteen, sometimes fifteen, very occasionally fourteen, and it wasn’t a big deal. One day of self-care—in all senses of the word—and a Saiyan was over it the next day. Vegeta went through it himself and was fine. Goku, though, had his tail cut off too early. Vegeta found this out first hand, a year into training inside the Room of Spirit and Time.

Language: English Words: 7,967 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 37 Kudos: 401 Bookmarks: 78 Hits: 5095

__Romantic/Comfort Sex__

Take Care created by orphan_account

Son Goku/Vegeta (Dragon Ball), Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Top Son Goku (Dragon Ball), Bottom Vegeta (Dragon Ball)

Warning - Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Rimming, Blood and Injury

Summary

Goku knew when Vegeta wasn’t okay, and he knew what to do when that happened.

Language: English Words: 2,051 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 7 Kudos: 154  Bookmarks: 29  Hits: 2224

22 Years, 5 Months, 20 Days created by zuzallove

Son Goku/Vegeta, Kakarot. Vegeta, Bulma Briefs, King Vegeta (Dragon Ball), Bardock (Dragon Ball), Son Goku (Dragon Ball), Raditz (Dragon Ball), Freeza | Frieza, Freeza's Army | Frieza's Army, Nappa (Dragon Ball), Saiyan Culture, kakavege, Saiyan AU, Planet Vegeta, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Goku is smart, Vegeta is emotionally constipated, Eventual Happy Ending, One Shot, Canon-Typical Violence, h/c, Mating Bond

Warning - Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Mpreg, Anal Sex, Tail Sex, Mating Bites, Smut, Explicit Language

Summary

Kakarot is Vegeta's assigned sparring partner when they are 4 and 6 years-old. Vegeta absolutely hates him. But as the years go by, Bardock's brat seems to be the only one who can hold Vegeta's attention for more than a minute. He hates him, but he can't live without him. Only two problems with that: there's a war on, and Vegeta has to mate whomever his father picks out for him. Saiyan!AU.

Language: English Words: 19,026 Chapters: 1/1 Collections: 1 Comments: 99 Kudos: 1551 Bookmarks: 284 Hits: 15957

Unfinished Business created by Vakaara

Son Goku/Vegeta (Dragon Ball), Room of Spirit and Time, bad memories, sort of skirting hurt comfort, baths and awkwardness, Vegeta has Issues, Goku is actually pretty clueless sometimes, Canon Typical Violence, Nightmares, a lot of tension, I just wanted to write about these two interacting more when they were still ‘enemies’, like a lot, Pre-Slash, more or less

Warning - Major Character Death, Masturbation, Dirty Dreams, canon present character death

Summary

What if Vegeta and Goku had taken a day or a year to train in the Room of Spirit and Time, before fighting Cell?

Series

Part 1 of Under My Skin

Language: English Words: 14,719 Chapters: 8/8 Comments: 52 Kudos: 280 Bookmarks: 40 Hits: 3663

__True Love (No Smut)__

Love is Blind created by TrishML

Son Goku/Vegeta (Dragon Ball), Son Goku, Vegeta, Angst, Old Age, True Love, Sad

Warning - Death

Summary

Goku and Vegeta grow old together...

Language: English Words: 2,022 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 17 Kudos: 60 Bookmarks: 6 Hits: 459

__THREESOMES / ORGY__

The Proportion created by GoldenMama

Bulma Briefs/Vegeta, Son Goku/Vegeta (Dragon Ball), Bulma Briefs/Son Goku/Vegeta, Bulma Briefs/Son Goku, Bulma Briefs, Vegeta (Dragon Ball), Son Goku (Dragon Ball),

Warning - Explicit Sexual Content, Birthday Sex, Threesome - F/M/M, Sexual Fantasy, Tail Sex, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Voyeurism, Exhibitionism, Light Bondage, Roleplay

Summary

The Saiyans have their tails back, and Bulma’s questions are relentless. She asks the boys to enlighten her (for the sake of science, of course). Will they satisfy more than just her thirst for knowledge?

Series

Part 1 of No I in Threesome

Language: English Words: 10,154 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 17 Kudos: 86 Bookmarks: 28 Hits: 2314

Sensation created by gutterbunnyx

Chi-Chi/Son Goku (Dragon Ball), Son Goku/Vegeta (Dragon Ball), Bulma Briefs & Son Goku, Bulma Briefs & Chi-Chi, Bulma Briefs/Chi-Chi, Chi-Chi/Son Goku/Vegeta (Dragon Ball), Son Goku, Chi-Chi (Dragon Ball), Vegeta (Dragon Ball), Trunks Briefs, Bulma Briefs, Lingerie, Minor Original Character(s), Bottom Son Goku (Dragon Ball), Men Crying, Mommy Chi-Chi, Lipstick, Bulma and Chi-Chi totally do it offscreen, Bulma likes to watch, Bathing, Shopping

Warning - Public Humiliation, Crossdressing, Nipple Play, Humiliation Dirty Talk, Feminization, Breast Fucking, Rough Sex, Rough Oral Sex, Breeding, Unsafe Sex, Goku in lingerie, Aftercare

Summary

Goku indulges in a guilty pleasure.

Language: English Words: 9,279 Chapters: 6/6 Collections: 1 Comments: 32 Kudos: 148 Bookmarks: 12 Hits: 2848

__DARK CONTENT__

Sex Addicts Anonymous created by herpb4uderp

Son Goku/Vegeta (Dragon Ball), Chi-Chi (Dragon Ball), Human AU, no powers, Alternate Universe - No Powers, sex addicts anon, Addicts Anonymous, Compulsive sexual behavior, mature thematic content, Adult Language, adult topics, Angst, Denial, psychopathy at its finest, Interventions, Psychosis, did i already say bad coping mechanisms?, Bad coping mechanisms, the worst, unconventional forms of rehab, Psychological Thriller, Psychological Drama, S L O W B U R N

Warning - Graphic Violence, Manipulation, Withdrawal, Cravings, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Dark, psychotic character

Summary

Vegeta did not show up here because he needed "help." He showed up because he knew it would be... easy. But help often finds us in the ways we least expect it. And sometimes it even finds us in the ways... we wish it didn't.

Language: English Words: 53,365 Chapters: 21/21 Comments: 312 Kudos: 317 Bookmarks: 51 Hits: 5485

Liminal Spaces created by Iced_Sympathy

Son Goku/Vegeta (Dragon Ball), Son Goku (Dragon Ball), Vegeta (Dragon Ball), Hyperbolic Time Chamber | The Room of Spirit and Time, Infidelity, Naive Son Goku (Dragon Ball), Canon Compliant, Dubious Consent, Porn With Plot

Warning - Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con, Sexual Violence, Dark, Sadism, Masochism, Bloodlust, Edging, Prostate Milking, Somnophilia, Marathon Sex, Breathplay

Summary

To prepare for the Tournament of Destroyers, Vegeta and Goku spend three years in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber training. Vegeta suggests exploiting the Saiyan ability to recover stronger after being beaten to near-death. It was supposed to keep them focused, but instead Vegeta is forced to confront the not-so-friendly feelings he has for his rival. [Hiatus until my Death Note kick calms down]

Language: English Words: 22,818 Chapters: 8/15 Comments: 158 Kudos: 208 Bookmarks: 33 Hits: 4006

Home Alone created by schlopreceptacle

Son Goku/Vegeta, Raditz/Son Goku, Raditz/Son Goku/Vegeta,

Warning - Masturbation, Mpreg, Sibling Incest, Sexual Fantasy

Summary

A pregnant and horny Vegeta gets some alone time to explore a deep, dark fantasy. Kakavege Week Prompt #30: Mpreg. Content warning for graphic sexual content and brief incest.

Language: English Words: 1,199 Chapters: 1/1 Collections: 1 Comments: 14 Kudos: 231 Bookmarks: 26 Hits: 4701

[no1ryomafan]

<watches random video <dude complains about how modern anime names are too basic cause they only use real Japanese names and don’t make up stuff like how dragon ball does it <only mentions shonen/popular stuff

Yeah now I see why im irked by normie anime fans cause he would fucking weep seeing the name “Ryoma Nagare” from a 70s show

[hells-greatestdad]

11, 20, 21, 29,

would you be interested into playing with doubles?

As I understand the question, this means... other Lucifers? I mean. I could. I haven't so far.

One hurdle to this is I get really bad duplicate anxiety. I may like someone's interpretation of Lucifer (regardless if it matches my own or not), and I may even take notes, cuz there's definitely food for thought to be had.

But even if I really really like someone's take on him, I end up playing the comparison game and it honestly takes a toll. So it's pretty rare that I even follow another Lucifer.

what’s a ship you don’t want to roleplay at all with this muse? (except Bad Illegal And Gross Stuff, of course)

I mean, I can't really think of a no-no off the top of my head.

I am rather attached to my headcanon that he is exclusively heterosexual. Not because I'm homophobic (like no, I'm demi-homoromantic myself, the one person I've ever had romantic feelings for is a woman), but.... everyone else ships him with other men, so I just wanna be different.

what do you think of your muse’s popular fandom ship?

Pretty sure that's radioapple....

I started out mildly liking it tbh. Not to the degree of shipping it, but then I think cuz I'm on the aromantic spectrum that I don't actually ship things without a deeper motivation?

In all honesty, fandom attitude surrounding that has turned me off to radioapple. And I hate that, cuz it makes me feel like I'm being kinda mean. But.... yeah.

what are your honest thought about your muse’s canon?

I mean.... canon hasn't done anything to piss me off yet. I don't have any issues with his canon.

This ain't a Dragon Ball Super situation where they made a fucking cash grab show that ignores established shit from 30 years ago and makes the main character a mere shadow of his former glory while flandarizing the absolute shit out of him.

At least.... not yet. And hopefully never.

....whew. I think my bitterness towards modern Dragon Ball content came out a bit there.

[dbzebra]

I don't have any specific questions to ask so just rant about anything about DB/Z/GT/S that you constantly think about

Well I pretty much think about alot of DB constantly but lately whats been on my mind, outside stupid shit the fandom says, is that my tinfoil hat theory about DBS.

Now this isnt saying anything bad about Super despite my negative feelings on it, just something I noticed.

Something is absoultely going wrong behind the scenes in modern Dragon Ball's production. For one, the manga stuff is nowhere in sight merchandise wise. You'd think Bandai would have pushed out a dozen figures of SSJ Purple Vegeta and Black Freeza by now but nope. Nothing. Not even in the games like Dokkan or Legends. For reference, UI Goku got announced in Dokkan not even 24 hours after the episode aired.

Secondly, the horrible marketing for DBSSH makes me think they almost wanted it to fail. I know there was that leak that pushed back the release date, but the complete and utter lack of promo material leading up to the movie was wild. This is the same series that has episode titles like "Transformed at Last" so theyve never shyed away from spoilers. even DBS Broly showed soooooo much in the promos, there was TONS of merch everywhere. For Superhero? we had the same ~minute of footage from first teaser up until launch iirc. little to no merch. Theres been a few Gohan Blanco figures, but like, barely anything for Piccolo, 1 or 2 for the Gammas, nothing for Gotenks, 1 little figure for Trunks and Goten, ((and apparently one big Goten model coming soon but the movies been out for over a year by the time that drops))

Thirdly, the manga. Again, my feelings aside, its just strange. After the most recent big arc, they took like 3 months off, only to come back for a slice of life arc about Trunks (Goten was marketed but he was barely there, it was really just Trunks and I'll die on that hill), and then just retell the movie we just saw. They took 3 months off for ANOTHER retelling? What makes thigns even more weird is that the manga skipped right over the Broly movie. it was like "yeah this happened" and thats it. So??? EOZ is still clearly going to be the end to me, so I think theyre gearing up for one big final battle against Freeza but theres just so many strange decisions made these past 2 years.

And dont forget the "DBS 2 confirmed" leaks that run rampant on twitter. People keep saying their 'inside source' are telling them its coming, and then it doesnt come. Back when the movie was coming out, it was July confirmed! Then August. September, October, Novemeber, December, January, etc. and the story changed constantly, its honestly fucking hilarious and the longer it goes the funnier it is every time it doesnt get announced

TLDR modern Dragon Ball is a fucking mess production wise and has been literally since day one

[snugglyporos]

One example of a LitRPG that doesn't do the things you described is the Arcane Ascension series by Andrew Rowe. Absolutely fantastic set of stories and the author does a brilliant of integrating the more 'game mechanic' parts in a natural way.

// Okay so doing some research, I can tell you that I am probably never going to read that or enjoy it, based on what the author says about his own work. BUT. The author does have some very good writing essays, and these are very well put, so I'm going to link them here really quickly.

Essay 1 Essay 2

Most importantly, he has a chart in essay 2 which I think is helpful:

In almost every case, I fall on the side of fairness; Because basically everything in the Uniqueness category annoys me. To me, those are the ingredients of a very dull story.

With one major exception: the focus on character goals.

See, I think it's very bad to make your story about the setting. You want to write a sourcebook for your world, go ahead, but that's not your main story. Lord of the Rings is not the Silmarillion. (Also, if you can sit down and read the Silmarillion then you are possibly a masochist because while it's interesting it's extremely boring).

That's not to say that your world doesn't need worldbuilding. But worldbuilding is not why you're writing a story.

Harry Potter's first like four books are a good example of why magic just doing things is perfectly fine, and it's last three books are a great example of why making the story about the world is very bad. Lore Olympus' first like, half where it's a normal romance novel is a perfect example of why character focus works, and the train wreck of a last half is a great example of why world focus does not.

I would probably argue that Diskworld is a great example of why you can just do anything and it really doesn't matter, because it's the characters that matter. The worldbuilding for Diskworld is intentionally nuts and nonsensical, and that's perfectly fine because the characters make the story.

I tend to fall into the category of absurdist when it comes to everything except writing. I find the Dragon Ball idea that 'fuck it, just keep getting stronger until the literal gods bow to you' is boring as hell. The idea that there are hard limits on people's abilities, that these are decided genetically, and that no one seems to care at all is really stupid to me. To me there's no difference between 'a human can't beat a sayian' and 'an orc is naturally evil.' But it also dovetails with a lot of sports manga beginning with 'japanese people are shit at sports, actually.' (That's not me saying that, everything from Blue Lock to Haikyuu starts with 'actually japanese people are meek and short and weak and we can't beat foreigners' and to someone outside the culture that's weird as hell.)

To put it another way, and I hate giving Rowling credit, because she wrong the most milquetoast child fantasy story ever, imagine if when the concept of purebloods was introduced and the reaction was not 'there's actually no difference, they're just bigoted shits' but instead was 'yeah they're just naturally better than everyone else, bloodlines are super important and if you're not one you're doomed to mediocrity.'

This is, incidentally, why outside of folklore and historical fantasy I really hate the concept of the chosen one. Like, King Arthur gets two special magic swords and now everyone is just like 'yep he's going to save the realm now!'

That makes sense as folklore and myth. It makes less sense as narrative if you're trying to tell a story in the modern method.

[rrcraft-and-lore]

You know what's wild is that the level of microclimates and diversity of ecosystem and terrain in India means you can set a high seas pirate series, a western, and so much more in that one subcontinent whether you do it sff or not.

Western?

Thar desert, or do you want???

Or how about Ladakh? You want scenes out of Longmire? Modern westerns?

You want regions mirroring the American midwest and west? India's got them from the Himalayas down. Yes...I have ideas for them.

Mumbai, formerly Bombay, was (is) a mash of 7 islands I don't think

people in the west realize slowly kinda just merged with time and construction and linking them all. There are fascinating maps of the evolution of the islands from the time of Portuguese colonization, to the British, to today.

Islands archipelago? India can do it off the coast - easily. - especially for fictional applications. The climate/temps and space - you can do it.

This was prompted by a discussion (ongoing) with my gf on her road trip that...covered stuff about India's geography, some mythology which turned into stuff that was used in Western media from South Asian culture which turned into (adhd convo) westeros (I know) then I gave her the whole history from Fire and Blood (this convo is 3 hours and still ongoing).

Which got into magic styles in that series vs. hard, which got into that talk and a discussion of Dragon Ball / z - inconsistences within a universe, power levels, or not, new transformations - and the reality of - fun trumps everything else and this whole adhd ass convo turned quite literally into, adults are silly, kids are wise.

Kids telling stories? And then a dragon appeared.

Adult: plot hole, why, where how? Internal logic ( we say as we watch animes that break their own rules and no one cares cuz FUN.

Some IPs just go: FUCK YOU, FUCK THE RULES, FUCK THE LOGIC. And they still sell, work, break the rules and the internet.

Why? Fun.

Back to kids. That's who we are grown up. Kids remember what this is about. FUN. It's just fun. We tell them with art no, this way, or that but okay what's the PURPOSE OF IT? THE POINT for the kid. Fun.

Did they achieve that?

Yes. When Robotrax the grimdark robo cyborg necro dragon (don't ask, Idk, kid rules) showed up with fire laser beams, Drokthar the destroyer with his talking light up hello kitty head stuck on a darth vader inspired baseball (lightsaber looking) bat showed up and smacked the dragon into orbit for an intergalactic home run, yeah, kevin the kid had a fuckin' blast with his story. We live in a world where the most successful IP now is possibly a manga/anime about a rubber boy (not really but presented as such) pirate who is a shonen trope/archetype in a world with piracy, magic, high tech, and more. One Piece has sold what north of 500 million copies now? It's a serialized piece of brilliant fiction that's been ongoing for 20 years plus.

It has a wild array of things going on (i never got past luffy beating crocodile so I'm not the guy to ask past that point - I always fall off there idky in rewatches - not a critique).

A serialized story that on its own established premise and structure theoretically never ends so long as it keeps to the adventure and growth aspects presented.

Detective Conan? Don't even ask me how long that's been going on.

Dragon Ball the franchise? It has revolutionized anime and storytelling - led to the explosion of Shonen and a 90s boom of successive content bridging the gap into the west on late night Toonami (I'm old now...)

Dragon Ball had an internal logic, it's broken it over the franchises, GT - no non canon, power gaps, techniques, new forms and you know what? It works. DBZ fucking breaks the internet with events.

Then we have a whole culture here of fanfiction and web serials which smack and kick ass and they break a lot of the rules or understandings at times. A lot of them are straight up fan service - and they work. Anime does that too.

And all of that comes back to and can be reduced to fun.

Someone does it, ew, not like that.

It blows up.

Oh, i guess there are no rules. Someone does something else - no not like that. Repeat.

Or a temporary fear, backlash, and reversion - shying away from the new thing. People do both.

It's just weird after that whole convo and we just got to, it's all down to fun. That's it. How you convince people to swallow your brand of fun?

That's another thing. But it's wild out there (in art - making it, selling it, and what works - cuz there really isn't one way) in a good way. Oh, we have serialized audio drama/podcasts only too.

Remember weekly radio plays and dramas in that style? Superman was a radio play - comics! Ah, comics, doing everything under the sun including themselves (that makes sense if you read comics).

They'll do everyone else too. Characters crossovers, cloned characters, characters who are just reskins of others, multiverse, timeline redone, w.e. All of it. Idk how I got here on twitter, but the same (adhd) happened on phone.

Now we're discussing how the fuck this happens for authors and...I kinda want to say to her adhd...because rabbit holes. I...did this with languages along the silk road, references to them and Vedic cultural stuff in Tales of Tremaine - Buddhist ones and fell down more research holes. Like Ari's candle and flame meditative exercise is inspired by an actual South Asian meditative exercise I've talked about - candle/flame gazing - trataka.

The folds and mental visualization techniques come from a lot of South Asian practices. Every author I know rabbit holes tons of crap they like and then find out how to winkle a lot...or some of it into their books.

I do it with comparative myths, beats and more.

And this led back to Game of Thrones - GRRM's family trees, and the worldbuilding through Fire and Blood and then what he loved about the real world inspirations from cultures and more. Which then...led to me explaining

the Baratheon family tree all the way back to Orys Baratheon...which I'm so glad my gf...actually likes me nerding about.

And that family trees and heraldry are just what GRRM rabbitholes and nerds about...and voila.

Which...goes back to fun. And omfg adhd is a rabbit hole and there's no fucking way this post shows up on facebook...while Im writing this now...about this whole thing cuz..it be like that.

This was clipped I guess from bluesky...shared on fb...then my timeline there to...here

But...wow this would have saved me time. This. What he said.

Smh after I wrote this thread.

Wait...2:29 am...?!!!?!

What were you doing at two fuckin am???

Answer: learning Aramaic...?

[caxyanalysis]

American Born Chinese is probably the WORST media related to Sun Wukong that I have ever had the misfortune of seeing.

They portray Wukong as just...a kinda strong guy? He's a martial artist, and is losing out to his son consistently despite his son actively avoiding learning and training as much as possible.

They also make it clear that this version of Wukong is nothing without his staff, which is bullshit given the staff is only ONE thing that makes him special. The dang thing weighs so much he's supposed to be the only one capable of using it, and his mastery over it is unparalleled.

See, in the original myth the staff is literally just his weapon. Like, yeah it's special, sure, it weighs way too much and it can stretch or shrink as much as he wants it to, but it's still JUST his weapon. It's not the source of his power, it's not like Mjolnir where picking it up grants you his abilities (LOOKING AT YOU, LEGO MONKIE KID), it's literally JUST a super-heavy magical staff.

Wukong, by himself, IS the big threat. He's capable of creating as many clones of himself as his body has hairs, and each clone is equal in power to him. He's able to leap from one end of the universe to the other. He can see through any illusion. He can, single-handedly, defeat the entire army of Heaven. No demon can defeat him. He is, ENTIRELY BY HIMSELF WITH NO MAGIC WEAPON, a powerhouse that cannot be beaten by any except the Buddha.

But this godawful show fails to do him justice in any way. He's just a guy who looks KIND OF like a monkey, not actually a monkey. He's not powerful in his own right, he's just stronger than most humans and has access to some magic. His weapon is everything, it's the source of his real power and it's the only way he'll stand a chance against the looming threat of the Bull King.

Like, I've seen a LOT of Journey to the West adaptations. I've seen a LOT of "Monkey King" related movies, shows, books, etc.

DRAGON BALL was more faithful to the original as an adaptation than this show.

Hell, DRAGON BALL SUPER is a more faithful adaptation of Sun Wukong's story than this show!

Like, I get it, you can't make a lore-accurate Wukong because modern western audiences will be bored to tears watching someone who's only growth is emotional/mental and none of the physical threats will be any risk to-

OH WAIT.

NO.

BECAUSE ONE PUNCH MAN IS EXACTLY THAT.

BEN 10 IS EXACTLY THAT.

DRAGON BALL IS EXACTLY THAT.

DANNY PHANTOM IS EXACTLY THAT.

AND THEY WERE ALL ADORED. LOVED. MASSIVE INFLUENCES. MADE TONS OF MONEY AND STILL DO TO THIS DAY.

Like seriously! I promise your bottom line will not suffer just because you follow the fucking source material when making your adaptations!

Are you seriously this awful at making media?

Oh who am I kidding, it's Disney, of fucking course they're this awful at making media...

On another note the fact the show force-feeds you "MC is Asian! Look they're Asian! Did we mention they're Asian? By the way they're Asian! Oh, everyone knows they're Asian! Isn't that noteworthy, THEY'RE ASIAN BTW" is absolutely infuriating. Like, yes, I am 100% aware that some Asian individuals do go through exactly the same social shit Jin goes through in this.

But COME. THE FUCK. ON.

We don't need an ENTIRE EPISODE to establish that he's Asian and that sets him apart in this white-washed school. Five minutes. They could have cut EVERY OTHER bit of "He's Asian, did you know?" out of this first episode and JUST left in the scene of the principal forcing him to let Wei-Chen shadow him and it would have been enough. That ONE scene was enough to establish the bullshit people around him.

Instead we get half an episode that is just "Jim Wang?" "It's pronounced 'J-in W-on-g' actually" and "What could go Wong!?" and "omg that's probably insensitive, what if it's appropriation, omg did you know he's Asian", and the other half of the episode is this fucking GARBAGE rendition that I can barely even call "Sun Wukong" at this point, because HE HAS FUCKING NONE OF THE THINGS THAT MAKE THE MONKEY KING THE MONKEY KING.

GAH.

Fuck Disney.

[thescrapbookingscientist]

Biweekly Media Roundup

- Trigun (Anime) - The Trigun fandom is the only reason I still go on Twitter, it’s been pretty insane there.

- Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe (Anime) - This was a pretty cool little series, it was nice to see the batshit world of Jojo again, and I quite like this story style of “Fucked up modern day folk tales but Rohan Kishibe is there”. Anime has trouble pulling off good horror but the ideas here are pretty solid, if nothing else the uniqueness of them was a nice treat. 

- Alien Stage (Webseries) - Animatics and original web animations set to music are some of my favorite things, so I was deleted to find this little queer sci-fi musical death game series. The animation and world design is lovely, I love the storytelling through visuals, and the songs have been really solid so far-Ruler of My Heart being a notable earworm. I’m looking forward to the next installment, which judging by the match up will be heartbreaking.

- Tengoku Daimakyou (Anime) - Not much I feel like saying for now, but still enjoying the what the hell is happening ess of it all.

- Dr, Stone (Anime) - May or may not rewatch the whole series in between the new episodes. I shouldn’t, as I’m pretty busy, but also it gives me seratonin and I need more of Senku’s enthusiastic science shenanigans. 

- Monster High (Cartoon) - Watching the Monster Doll Show, it’s definitely targeted towards a far younger crowd than me but I’m enjoying it for what it is, the character designs are very cute and I like how emotionally intelligent the characters are even if it means that conflicts get resolved way to quickly for any realistic stakes. I’ll save most of my thoughts for when I finish it but my opinion is positive overall. 

- The Greatest Estate Developer (Webcomic) - Honestly just copy and paste what I said about Doctor Stone here but replace Senku with LLoyd and science with engineering, I just really like seeing wholesome stories about people using technical knowledge to improve the lives of everyone around them.

- Crazy Ex Girlfriend (TV) - I have no idea how I hadn’t watched this yet given how much I love musicals and how often I’ve listened to songs that are literally from it, but yeah, I’m finally watching this musical series. I’m liking it more than I expected, I had kind of thought I would like around half the songs and be unimpressed with the rest of the show at large, but it’s been consistently funny, endearing, and most the songs are actually bangers. I wouldn’t say I adore any of the characters, but their more likable than I thought-I’m glad to be here.

- The S Classes That I Raised (Webcomic) - I’m starting to get where the shippers are coming from with how fruity this is getting, which I’m on board with. I also feel bad about how much I like Riette as I don’t typically like characters who are mean to their siblings but her personality, design, and dragon-shifting make her so fun, I hope she joins the cast and flirts with Moon. And goes to family therapy with her brother. 

Listening to: All Alien Stage songs, Various Crazy Ex Girlfriend songs including Hello Nice To Meet You and I Hate Everything But You, Jet Lag by Simple Plan, Nothing is Going Right by Meiyo, All This And Heaven You Too by Florence + The Machine, All Too Well cover by Jake Scott, That’s All by Genesis, The Dismemberment Song by Blue Kid, Eat Your Young and All Things End by Hozier, Wrecking Ball by Mother Mother, Anthropology by Akward Marina.