#and also some theories

[sabrondabrainrot]

Updates people, UPDATES!

Current progress on TSAMS, LAES, EAPS, and MASM Rambles and spoilers ahead! Click if you dare!

I've had a lot of rambly feelings on the last few eps and need to get my thoughts out into the universe.

For TSAMS: "Sun wants to throw a HALLOWEEN party! in VRChat"

WAAAGH I hope Nexus shows up at the party and is all like "Sorry my invite was lost in the mail" or something like that. EHEHEHE

So far I've been really digging the more slice of life-esque eps? I think it's cute to see what everyone is up to day-to-day. Davis makes an incredibly convincing sick sounding person btw.

Moon and Nexus meeting up again to hash it out was funny, it just felt like Moon was like "The kettle calling the pot black" in a sense? I like that he's acknowledging his mistakes and IS making work to move past it but sometimes it's hard to watch because he rebounds a lot.

He repeats mistakes a lot and he makes it about himself a lot? I know he's growing but those kind of eps do tend to waffle around in my opinion.

I really liked the Nexus vs Taurus confrontation ep. It was just really interesting. From the information provided to us as viewers Taurus is supposed to be one of the strongest Astrals and has a history of planet breaking (due to the NSP infection) but Nexus who's just been experimenting with NSP was able to harm Taurus and even escape him semi easily.

Nexus' voice even dropped, was that like NSP puberty? JK JK unless...?

Just random speculation, so like we know Sun's magic teacher came from a planet that blew up or was destroyed and now I'm wondering if it was an Astral situation? I hope Teacher Atlas doesn't turn out to be some kind of mastermind training Sun in magic that can be used to harm Astrals.

Also, Dark Sun asked Ruin "how long" and Ruin randomly picked "7 days" or a week or something like that...and I'm so curious has that happened in lore yet? Was that 7 days supposed to relate to when Dark Sun finally spoke 1-on-1 with Sun? Are we still waiting out that? I'm also extremely excited and interested in the entity that entered Sun's mind. We haven't heard hair nor hide of it but I feel like it's still there? Sun's been acting odd in the eps. Does anyone else notice a shift with him?

Also Freddy showing up to ask Sun about advice on how to managed Francine and Francine mentioning she sees Sun's magic is amazing! His magic color is now hues of yellow?!?! It's cool to know Sun radiates all different kinds of energies now.

For LAES: "Rez's Beast ATTACKS LUNAR!!! in VRChat"

OMGEEE

I love this!!! I like the entire lead up to Lunar being like almost an action hero?!? It's cool he's really coming into his role as like...the chosen one. IDK it's a trope that's fun. Lunar has a big destiny and it's cool to see it's starting to unfold more.

Lunar has been getting an essentially unique and completely unprecedented education from other Astrals. They state over and over his entire situation and existence is way too unique.

I think it's so cool how Taurus gave Lunar an ultimatum, what wasn't cool was using Earth as bait to get him to use his powers more lethally.

Taurus hit Lunar with such a good line "If I had brought anyone else, they'd be dead." It's a FAIR assessment. Lunar's biggest struggle is being selfish imo. He has to learn to see past himself. He's getting much better at it! Taurus just wanted to remind Lunar of that.

It's a very action sensei/teacher trope tbh.

Lunar having to deal with Dazzle's old creepy body is insane. The gurgling sounds are so unsettling and just create a crazy set up.

It's interesting to learn how NSP is point to SP but Taurus was able to make Nexus feel sick with his SP before Nexus anger evolved and his NSP made Taurus sick.

Lunar being injured and everyone showing up to pamper him was great. I feel like them hiding the fact Evelyn's old body is now not only reanimated but also on the loose causing violence and killing people is a bad idea and will bite them in the butts later.

I have a theory the body will approach Evelyn/Dazzle without the others know.

Oh I also saw the next ep where Sun takes the kids shopping. Adored that. when Sun spends time with the kids It's so wonderful. The Halloween shopping episode was hilarious. I think it's so funny how Jack also spends a lot of time with Sun despite being more violent towards him then he should be.

I'm also excited for Earth to get more involved! Let's see her kick some ass!

For EAPS: "Eclipse and Puppet GET EXPOSED! in VRChat"

This entire lead up so far has been great. I like the murder mystery even though it was really obvious. Bringing the dynamic of the detective was a nice surprise. I like that he just figured everything out! The eaps dimension hoppers aren't very good at hiding stuff after all.

At this point everyone in the plex knows they're from another dimension.

I also would like to add I feel horribly for Sun and Moon in EAPS because it feels like they just can't win. First, Eclipse is so unreasonably with Sun and then he set up a situation that would make Puppet uncomfortable. He set up Sun to get yelled at by Puppet and Sun + Moon, they were both sharing at the time, both got berated by Puppet over something so inconsequential.

Sun was rambling about stuff like werewolves and sparkles and it's clear anything would have made him leave or just being like "I'm not magic Eclipse lied" but no, instead we got Puppet blowing up on them and cornering them. We also get no apology.

I don't have much speculation on them. I just kind of look and turn my brain off. I hope Monty (does EAP Monty have a particular nickname?) and Ballora date they seem like they'd make a good couple. I like their mean girl dynamic.

Sometimes EAPS feels like this cheesy soap box of a drama because everyone acts like they're in a telenovella. It's this train wreck I can't look away from. XD

For MASM: "We LOST Gregory in MINECRAFT!"

Not much to add here, I think it's different that Sun in a prior ep got his intelligence souped up and turned into a world needs to be remade villain. I'm also interested over how Moon just randomly turned killer in an ep too.

I like that Moon was genuinely worried about missing Gregory. MASM just has interesting vibes. They also seemed to be kidnapped in a color puzzle ep?

I don't have anything to add other then I like the zany antics it's a great breath of fresh air from the heavy plot stuff with the other main shows. Sun feels like a feral gremlin child but I love him all the more for that.

That is all for the current brainrot report!

[stil-lindigo]

the vulture.

a comic about cycles.

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[bruciemilf]

We truly underestimate how THIRSTY gothamites would be for Batman.

First off: The fact that Gotham citizens haven’t mass migrated to other cities tells me they’re absolute freaks. Yeah, you can get an apartment for 13$/mo, but chances are, Joker’s either gonna be your roommate, or neighbor. Not worth it.

Secondly: He’s big tiddy goth gf personified.

He cannot get any work done because he’s catcalled. Constantly. Sometimes during interrogations.

��You can tell me where Penguin’s next hit is gonna be, or I can smash your fingers.”

“Smash ME!”

Bruce, with the biggest sigh ever to exist: Please go back home, random civilian.

It gets particularly worse after he starts adopting the batkids, because now, not only has he achieved gravity shattering MILF status, he’s so busy with child rearing he sometimes forgets to shave.

Gotham twitter starts going crazy for the #Batbeard, and it gives the batkids severe brain damage. Everytime someone tweets about wanting to ride Bruce’s face, a piece of their soul dies.

[the-lemonaut]

Just wanted to revisit this moment. Still remember going apeshit over it

Toby really went "what if i made a character whose true self is only implied for most of the game and yet still make the players love the hell out of them" and fucking did it

Anyway, please don't repost this to other platforms or subscribe for fanart (I'll probably make like one more DR post and be done with it), thank you 🤝

[egophiliac]

still ruminating over Lost In the Book With Spooky Skeletons Part 1, so here's a selection of some of my favorite little bits! (...some more loosely paraphrased than others) (I just feel like Idia has no room to criticize in general, okay)

anyway, I'm sure we're just going to have a fun time celebrating Halloween and nothing bad is going to happen whatsoever! :)

[plagueislost]

i love being late to trends. my new years resolution is to be late to every trend ever. and you know im serious because im even late to new years.

(theres an inverse version of this by @chamiryokuroi , you should go check it out! i started making this before i saw theirs, but i think its cool that now theres both versions)

[toxic-nugget]

Daan as Nosferatu (2024)

[hinge]

Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co

[nenoname]

It's still interesting that TBoB called more attention to Stan's control over his mindscape (And if you go with the interpretation that the lost pages are partial truths that are heavily influenced by Bill, then he's the one insisting that only someone with training should be able to have that much control over the mind.)

Meanwhile we have a memory!Stan. Someone who apparently knows too much and is rather aware for being a simple memory.

From the Wheel of Shame, we know Bill was able dig up all kinds of dirt on Stan but... that wasn't why he was there in the first place, was it?

Bill couldn't find the code immediately despite a memory of Stan opening the safe being a few hours old at most and decided to have Mabel try find it for him (The original concept of the ep had it far more hidden but this was likely cut because of time constraints)

Ford did experiments on Stan's mind which likely meant using Project Mentem and actually looking around his mindscape, and his only reaction was to comment on his jokes-- despite what little we the audience know being enough to render us sobbing wrecks

(yes I refuse to shut up about this part cos the book's intro is extremely underrated)

Stan was able to replace his memories of Ford with the swingset instead and managed to hide Ford in his Bar Mitzvah memory. And that's not even mentioning the lack of visible Portal and Stan o' War which noticeably show up in Ford's dreamscape (the broken swingset manifesting anyway pains me tho)

He subconsciously has misdirects for his secrets that are both silly and manages to disturb everyone too

And while Bill-as-Soos being bored by the vending machine memory is a joke that's basically the crew's way of going "hey remember the thing way back in the first ep that's going to show up in the next one?" and in-universe appears to be Stan slipping up, it's interesting that they had Stan input the wrong code when it's consistent literally every other time its inputted (especially when it shows up correctly in the very next episode)

It's even possible that the safe code that Bill found could have been a misdirect too but we'll never know since the safe got blown open by dynamite.

Stan was able to buy time by making his mind blank despite being genuinely terrified when Bill enters his mind (to the point that he breaks character and uses his own voice to yell), and could conjure up his living room (in colour opposed to his mind's regular greyscale) to make sure Bill didn't have enough room to flee, slamming the door in his face before the effects of the memory gun kicked in.

(EDIT: Random door analysis here)

And maybe the twins eventually told him that Bill had already been inside his mind after their W3 reunion, but all we know was that his conscious self was left in the dark for ages and wasn't really aware of Bill until Weirdmageddon.

TBoB showing McGucket's dreamscape also brings up the idea of the effects of the memory gun manifesting differently to each person. To Stan's mindscape, the memory wipe manifests as blue flames which immediately brings to mind Bill's powers but it's a far lighter shade (maybe to more closely match the memory gun and its eventual fade to white?)

The end of TBoB and the website poem also firmly reminds us about Stan's connection to fire but there's also the question if Stan himself is actually aware of it...

[lucabyte]

monologue

[palms-upturned]

Frustrates me to no end seeing people say “what’s your alternative to voting blue? Stage a revolution right now? This second? Get real, you’re posting on your computer instead of firebombing walmarts.” I don’t think that you understand what people are actually doing. I know for myself, I’ve been reading more history and theory than I ever have before. I’ve been marching. I’ve been getting involved with labor activism. I’ve been doing strategic research. I’ve tried to archive and share resources. I’ve watched other people do WAY more than I ever have or probably could. I’ve seen people occupy arms manufacturing sites and hold wildcat strikes and disrupt daily life as much as possible. We’ve all seen this happening at unprecedented levels for months now. And most of all, I’ve seen Palestinians telling us, rightfully full of anger, do not ever go back to how things were before. Do not turn away from what’s happening and your own complicity in it.

This is not something that we can vote our way out of. Our state is built on the same violence being inflicted on the people of Palestine. We helped to build Israel. We are still arming it and funding the “war” right now. Even the most half hearted measures from international bodies like the UN to take the bare minimum of a stance against genocide are quashed by the US. As they always have been, our power and resources are used to reinforce imperial and colonial hegemony. That remains the same no matter who is sitting in the Oval Office. And so does our own struggle for liberation. Meaningful change is never, ever going to come from within. We force the change to happen, as we always have.

If you can understand intersectionality, then surely you can understand this: we are not going to free ourselves by sacrificing colonized people. You may vote blue, and for you it could be a matter of life and death. Believe me, as a poor disabled person in a red state who almost killed myself over medical debt, I know the stakes. But I think you have to own the fact that you are empowering perpetrators of genocide and breaking solidarity with colonized people, not even to liberate yourself, but just to bargain with the oppressor for your life. That Palestinians and everyone else who we have harmed are going to be angry and they are more than within their rights. Instead of deflecting by just assuming that no one else is capable of putting their money where their mouth is and actually trying to lay groundwork for change, just do whatever you feel you have to do and sit with the reality of the situation.

Palestine will be free, we will be free, the whole world will someday be free. But for now, this is where we are, and we won’t free ourselves by operating like crabs in a bucket. Get organized, take care of each other, commit to solidarity. Empower yourself and each other rather than the state.

[bluerosefox]

Eldritch Kidnappings

hmmmm a Kon/Danny/Tim idea? Maybe? Depends if anyone wanna ship all three but leaving it open ended (or if Tim is already dating Bernard just make it a Kon/Danny only?). AND a deaged Ellie.

Red Robin and Superboy (the original) were at a JL meeting. It was boring to be honest. Nothing to much was happening besides the normal stuff for all the heroes there. No big crises or world/universe ending danger.

Or at least it was...

Because not soon after a glowing green portal ripped opened and a large eldritch creature stuck its huge head and half of its body out. Every hero there went on high alert and into fighting stances, ready to defend the Watchtower. Once the creature was halfway in the room its eyes snapped opened, glowing near Lazarus Pit green colored but like brighter? neon?, and darted around the room before stopping right on Superboy.

Without warning or words the creature quickly reached out, using at first two arms/hands before more sprang out and swatted away heroes in the room that attacked. It quickly took a hold of Superboy who tired use his strength to get free but found the being stronger than him. Red Robin, in a panic to save his best friend (and crush, shhh maybe) quickly joined in but instead of being swatted away like the others gets snagged by a hand and soon found himself captured as well.

Just as quickly as the creature appeared, it retreated back into the still open portal, dragging the two with and not caring at all of the powers, fists, or shouting being thrown at it.

Then it was gone.

Leaving the JL in a panic.

-x-x-

"-And thats why I need your help! I understand its a lot to ask but please, any help will be welcomed." the eldritch being, or rather Danny Phantom begged as he worriedly glanced at them.

So... It turns out the eldritch being was a young halfa ghost hero named Phantom that needed their help stabilizing his clone/sister/maybe daughter?

She was apparently melting and needed stable DNA when he had rushed her to a ghost doctor and was told. But Danny had no clue how to stabilize a clone and the fruitloop that cloned him the notes were bare bones and frankly terrible. In his desperate need for help Danny had sought out clues/advice from his mentor who basically pointed him to Superboy and Red Robin in his frustrating riddling way.

Superboy's DNA had the stable cloning gene/code they needed. Red Robin was smart enough to help figure out a way to put it Danielle 'Elle' Phantom. (it also helped that he had dabbled into cloning during his... bad year)

So yeah, Danny in his panic to save his clone went full on eldritch monster and opened a portal during their meeting and dragged them to the Far Frozen where Ellie was currently suspended in a ecto healing pod and was now begging for their help, promising them anything if they helped out.

The catch? If they put Superboy's DNA in Ellie she'll de-age to her true age and no longer be a 'pure' clone.

Instead she'll be their (Danny and Conner's) kid.

[lil-gingerbread-queen]

Y'all are going to have to explain to me: if cis men cannot be victims of misogyny, and misandry isn't real, then what was it when my father was bullied by his coworkers for taking his full parental leave to take care of baby me after I was born? What is it when he is mocked by his family because he is the one who cleaned the house and cooked the food? What is it when he is called "a well trained man" and my mother is complimented for that when he always had a love of cooking and cleaning and she had no influence on that?

Because I'm fucking tired of seeing y'all argue that cis men are the only one exempt from misogyny, but also argue that misandry isn't real. I think y'all have forgotten that the patriarchy doesn't love men and harms them deeply, even tho they get privileges. That, actually, there have been women who benefited from the patriarchy, while most people, every gender alike, were suffering. If the patriarchy loved men, they wouldn't bash them the moment they are being themselves and happy.

[quixoticprince]

*In the voice of someone who's only media experience is jjba*: Wow, getting a lot of jjba vibes from tf2

Amidst the chaos and disappointments that encompassed my last two months, I had a fun connection about two of my favorite brain rot comics - you got an immortal(ish) with a harsh backstory who spirals into obsessive hatred that ends in the stealing of their obsession's bodies and subsequently haunt those family lines and those adjacent to them for generations - and I liken the Zeppelis, who shares the Joestar's generational curse by Dio/immortal creatures in general, to the Conaghers who I also see as helpers to the Mann line Its a really cool angle to look at Engie in, who since I was 14 was my least favorite character lol, this really elevated him for me

And so if the Manns are like the Joestars, that means like, Olivia Man is the equivalent of Joseph lol which is very funny to me

[getoutofmytardis]

drew these many moons ago in a frenzy. figured i’d fix them up at some point. did not get round to that lol. maybe one day! in the mean time behold my beloved ghosts<3

[nyehilismwriting]

Project Hadea: Bonus Hub

Since it's been more than a year since I had an active Patreon, and I think the statute of limitations there has probably expired, I'm making the bonus content from there publicly available. This hub contains 20+ bonus snippets, both sfw and nsfw, written over 2022-2023. As always, this content is 18+ only, and may contain spoilers (or the suggestion of spoilers) for the main game :-) enjoy!

[egophiliac]

crossing my fingers and wishing upon every star that chapter 10 finally brings us the tweel cards 🤞🤞

[hinge]

Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co