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“ shes fed off of countless hosts and now cannot remember her true form “

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Reject Mileven, embrace Whopper

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Y’ever just remember how awesome Hopper is as much as he was kinda nuts in season 3?

It is important to me that you feel safe. That you and your family feel safe.

aka “Hopper being a better dad to this family than their actual dad since the beginning”

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Reblog if you love Mileven💜

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So, funny thing, my little sister likes to play my old copy of Kirby Planet Robobot, and more specifically, the MetaKnightmare Returns Mode. Meta Knight’s her favorite (I actually plan on getting her a plushie of him for Christmas lol). I just got asked if she could play it and when I handed the 3DS to her she somehow channeled an Exorcist voice and went “Now I have the power of META KNIGHT!” lol.

Alright, pointless shitpost about my personal life: check.

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Little thing I saw at Target lol. My little sister loved it 💙

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Tears came to Magolor's eyes as he once again failed to detect the unmistakable energy signature of his friend. King Dedede, Meta Knight, and Bandana Waddle Dee had all but given up hope completely as the rioters grew more and more violent outside.

They were all doomed. They were going to break in and kill Magolor and everyone else, and Kirby would never come home. He'd failed.

"Ohhh Maaaaggieee!" A familiar peppy voice said from behind him. Magolor startled, then turned to see Pinkie Pie standing there, smiling like she hadn't just warped into the plane out of nowhere. It still made Magolor's head hurt thinking about how in the hell she did it with no Magic.

"What is it, Pinkie?" He sighed dejectedly. "I found him, Maggie! I found Kirby!"

Magolor froze. Then, he turned and held her face in his hands tightly as he looked seriously into her eyes, trying to ignore her muffled attempts at speaking with her scrunched-up cheeks.

"What?" He demanded, trying not to get his hopes up.

Was there hope, after all?

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jesus h christ, it’s been years. aren’t by*ers tired of trying to make will into a knockoff of el, yet? they want him to have her powers. they think mike’s love confession to el was really to will in disguise. they tried to make hop’s heart to heart to el and mike about by*er and now they want the 3 inch rule to be about by*er too. like if you love a character/ship so much why do you feel the need to constantly try and take things from another ship/character? i’m so tired.

I feel like you didn't even scratch the surface with some of those examples tbh because I've seen some insane takes like, "Mike actually only loves her because she helped find Will", and "I think El would be happier if she let Mike go" and like... my dude... where do you think he’s going??? He's got £3.50, a dream and a road map, and it always leads him right to her. He's tied to that girl like a goddamn safety harness. If the past four seasons have proven anything, it's that he's not going anywhere — if anything, he's following her anywhere.

But the grossest by far is when they make out that El needs to be independent *gags* as if women have to be alone to be their own person, and that she shouldn't be in a romantic relationship until she's properly healed from her trauma; but then they'll turn around and claim Will has it worse — as if there's some sort of scale for measuring childhood trauma — and that he should be with Mike... whom they loathe because he *checks notes* is a bad friend for *double-checks* ah, yes, wanting to love his girlfriend who has been through said trauma, added onto the fact she wants to be with him because he makes her happy, and she deserves to be on the receving end of all of that care and attention.

All of this while, as you said, projecting every single thing about El that makes her an interesting, unique female heroine (her powers, her experiences, her growth, the maturing romance with her boyfriend, the complex relationship with her adopted father, literally whole storylines & scenes) onto a still-as-of-yet underdeveloped male character, who cares for her himself. From what we do know about Will, he doesn't like to be defined or babied by others, and yet his stans do it on the daily. .

You can't advocate for a well-written storyline for Will and then in the same breath copy-paste another character's whole biography onto him; not when he still needs fleshing out in the first place. Not when he needs to define himself. And what do they do it for? Representation that wouldn't even be good representation because it would come out of left field, confuse the larger audience, and wreck at least 3 relationships that have been set up since the first season in the process. That's not good writing. That's not groundbreaking. And not doing it is definitely not queer-baiting.

That said, it's kind of hilarious to me that people will call Mike & El's relationship 'toxic' or 'boring' and then just... want it transplanted onto their ship? Because it means the problem isn't in fact that they're any of those things or that Mike & El simply don't work as a couple; it's that the relationship is hetero and therefore considered less than. Which is an absurd take given there's no dynamic quite like it in media; she's an atypical, neurodivergent superhero with a 'straight man' boyfriend who serves as her primary caregiver, a role typically filled by a female character. There's nothing boring about that, or about the drama they have to endure — if anything, that's groundbreaking.

The key problems in this fandom seem to be that everyone is either too immature/unwilling to self-reflect and realize that their views have been skewed by being chronically online/too much time spent engaging in discourse, and now their grasp on what the main plot of the show was in the first place is just completely gone — It's about love overcoming interdimensional creatures, you guys. I promise you the characters aren't secretly wanting to kiss everyone in a 1-meter radius much as you think they are — and then, you know, just plain old internalised misogyny when women get in the way of non-canon mlm ships. Which isn't limited to this particular sub-fandom, or even the ST fandom in general. It's the oldest story in the book: get rid of the girl if she stands in the way of *checks smudged handwriting* yep, that was it, a headcanon.

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"You try and act tough, but I know, deep down, you're not as bad as you want people to think you are."

"Ah, shut up, Max. Don't give me that bullshit. You don't know shit about me, got it?"

"You're doing it again. Trying to seem tough."

"I'm tougher than anything you've ever seen, shitbird."

Max shrugged. "Maybe physically, but you care. I know you do."

"Don't get the wrong idea, got it? I only look out for you because I have to."

"Is that why you broke that boy's nose almost completely unprovoked? Neil wasn't around to force you into that."

"..."

Max sighed. "You may be a dick, but you're not a bad person. You have people you care about, just like anybody else. And while you might be a dick, while you might make me hate you sometimes, I... care about you, too."

Billy growled, but on the inside, something long iced-over...

Began to feel warm.

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I've read that Kirby's gender is ambiguous in Japanese. Is this true?

Short answer: Yes

Longer answer: Yes, but there are some misconceptions about it.

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Mostly notably I see a lot of English-speaking fans claim that only gender neutral pronouns are used for Kirby in Japanese. This is both untrue and betrays a lack of knowledge about how this language works.

There are actually instances of Kirby being referred to with かれ/kare, which basically translates to “he/him”:

I think it’s important to point this out, because people arguing in bad faith might see this as “proof” that he’s not gender neutral, when in fact someone can be both gender neutral and use masculine pronouns at the same time.

Adding to that, Kirby’s overall speaking style (he speaks in early manuals and the current novel series) leans towards masculine as well.

You’ll also find that some manga adaptations do seem to just portray him as male.

So while his gender is officially ambiguous, the idea of portraying him as masculine-leaning isn’t something invented by the English localization like some claim.

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Another claim I often hear is that he was deliberately made gender neutral so he’d have an universal appeal, but I’ve never seen a source for that anywhere.

However, Kirby’s gender being ambiguous/neutral is still very much an official fact about him.

I’m not gonna list every single mention of this, but one notable source is the 20th Anniversary Kirby of the Stars Pupupu Taizen, where Kirby’s profile on page 15 lists his gender as “Unknown”:

On the official Kirby twitter account you will also occasionally see things that allude to this.

Like Kirby being portrayed as participating in making sweets on Valentine’s Day, which is typically considered an activity only for girls, while characters who are considered male are specifically not joining in:

In turn, Kirby was also portrayed as joining during White Day, which is considered the “boy equivalent” of this:

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And less notable perhaps, but Kirby merchandise has no qualms whatsoever about using Kirby for marketing products that are more traditionally feminine either:

I know this is a more minor example, but it shows that HAL is chill about Kirby being portrayed in both feminine-leaning and masculine-leaning ways.

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But yeah, bottom line: Kirby’s gender is officially ambiguous/neutral. And while instances of masculine language being used for him exist in Japanese as well, this isn’t mutually exclusive to his gender being ambiguous/neutral.

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(Sakurai also is said to have talked a bit more about Kirby’s gender being neutral during one of the Kirby 25th Anniversary Orchestra Concerts, but since I only have second-hand reports of them, I can’t know for certain what he said.

However, several independent reports seem to match on this topic, so it seems he really did talk about it.)

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Amber bubbles drifted up past his face. Will blinked sluggishly, still hardly even aware of his surroundings. Dimly, he registered feeling naked, save for his boxers, and he felt countless things attached to him. Vision still barely back online, he weakly moved his arms, seeing countless electrodes attached to his skin, with quite a few needles secured there, as well.

Looking down, he saw the same on his torso and legs; it seemed like only the general… area… where his boxers sat was left untouched. Curiously, he didn’t panic at his unfamiliar surroundings. He couldn’t even feel all the needles. In fact, he was starting to feel even more numb. From the spots where the needles rested, he felt coolness begin to emanate; feeling similar to the few times he’d ever had to have an IV. He was starting to feel quite relaxed. Tired, in fact.

A blink, and he had returned to oblivion.

<Subject re-anesthetization complete. Proceeding.>

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Oh my goodness yes.

I know I’ve been posting a lot of gijinkas lately so here’s some silly now

Teaching him how to drive 🤭🤭🥹🥹🥹🥹

ALMOST FORGOT!

Reference pictures hehaheeheheh

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Will let a small smile show. “Meat’s no good, but is there anything specific you think you’d want?”

“Hmm… peaches!” Susie decided. Will smiled as he rummaged around, eventually finding a can of Del Monte sliced peaches. “One can of peaches, coming right up!” Will said, though he made sure to keep his voice down.

He handed the can to Susie, who accepted it with what Will had come to recognize as a smile of her own. “Yippee! Thank you!”

Will couldn’t help it as the brightest smile he’d probably had on his face since he’d come to this awful place bloomed brightly from ear to ear.

“You’re welcome.”

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The doctor will see you now!

Bro think he a licensed doctor-

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Anyways I’m making more doodles of him later and there’s nothing you can do to stop me.

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As a child, Susie was involved in a Mother Computer experiment and went missing. In one version of events, the young girl found herself in Another Dimension. However, being the victim of such an advanced tool of space-time travel, the possibilities of where she may have ended up are—quite literally—endless. In an exploration of one of these many possibilities, Susie finds herself somewhere else. Somewhere… darker, with only a mysterious boy—one who is also lost—to keep her company.

Or: Will becomes a big brother.

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Meta Knight breaks his hand at Merry Magoland.

(slight blood warning towards the end. Nothing extreme, though.)

I hc that Meta Knight trained himself to swordfight with his non-dominant hand (being the left), so he is still able to help during the main four’s journey.

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I was gonna add shading, but I’m super tired and I wanna get this out now.

Good night <3

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YES! I’ve always loved the idea of Dedede as the Team Dad! Especially during Crystal Shards!

hugs !!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!