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cantgetworsethanthistbh · 29 days ago

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pre weirdmageddon (and a little bit of post weirdmageddon) appreciation post for stan and fords relationship since the canon details and nuances are super unappreciated.

two things i really love about this era:

stan isnt as much as a spineless simp the whole fandom (freaks and gens alike) characterizes him to be to be around ford and fords love for stan is actually the most obvious here, like WAY MORE than in literally any other era of their relationship sans childhood stans, in my personal opinion

regarding stan's side on this topic, its hard not to be categorized as a perpetual yearner with no backbone when you spend 30 years trying to bring back your twin even after he abandoned you for 10 years and you come running like a dog the second he calls you with a post card. but after ford says he wants stan to stop using the mystery shack for tourist traps and is effectively kicking stan out, he drops the famous disownment. lots of people think he doesnt mean it, saying it in a fit of anger, but like. here he is, blatantly ignoring ford's call for a family meeting. one he very obviously heard 😭

i still remember when i first watched this episode when it aired in 2015 and thinking how weird it was they went out of their way and animated stan obviously hearing ford's call for a family meeting, rushing santiago (which the urgency would imply he was going to go to the meeting) then just. didn't show up. and ONLY showing up in the end with a joke about money.

stan heard the word family coming from ford's mouth and just excluded himself, uninterested in entertaining the situation thats obviously important to ford. reaaal far cry from the same man who got two words on a post card and came running despite over 10 years of no contact (before he knocks on ford's door, he even says "he's family. he won't bite" something close to that)

that's a soft ball though. thats probably just him being petty, not wanting to give ford any satisfaction or just not wanting to be around ford (anymore). heres something a little more damning though: not wanting to save ford during weirdmageddon.

this was a hell of a high stakes situation, where in universe the people were outright worried about dying or WORSE. dipper solemnly tells stan about how he and ford tried to stop bill on their own, and that this lead to ford getting captured. you would think that stanley pines, famous for punching zombies in the face and climbing barefisted on mountains to save dipper and mabel, for fighting a dinosaur to get waddles back for mabel's owm happiness sake (after he fucked up lmao), for helping save a mutated cow from getting eaten because mabel begged, for getting in trouble in the government to remove soos' birthday from the calendars because it upset soos, for getting eager to punch robbie in the face because he and dipper believed he was mind controlling wendy, would ofc jump on the fucking bridges to save his dear bro from the hands of the demon that literally caused the apocalypse.

but...

and heres the kicker, he even does some victim blaming 😭

and you know what? i cant blame him. all ford ever seems to do is just get into trouble who needs to be saved or for stan to do something to help ford clean up his mess. from the 1980s to probabilitor the annoying, stan is pretty much done feeling like he has a responsibility to save ford after ford's blatant ungratefulness for stan and his efforts to patch things up. hell, in that probabilitor mess, stan even said "let him get a few bites out of fords brains" (mind you, in this situation it actually IS his fault💀)

and the thing is, stan wasn't even always like this. he was being all badass in nwhs with the government agents just so he can run to ford, who we know he was expecting to come out being frail and collapse into stan's arms ("I need to be there when it happens!" <-this is him not even knowing where the kids are, so this is purely for ford). so his cowardice all through out weirdmageddon... thats not inconsistency or just a gag to make him seem so pathetic, oh no baby. thats just stan who stan is. he's not sticking his neck out for anyone outside of this family.

and right now? ford isn't family

and listen, i'm not saying stan doesnt love ford anymore by the way. ofc he does. the way hes acting is because he loves ford so much, and his resentment and bitterness is so god damn potent is because of how ford refuses to return the energy... or at least, from his perspective. (more on that later) but from here on end, stan may say "my brother" here and there, but he clearly doesnt consider it to be true anymore.

sidenote: i acknowledge that ford not appearing in the picture in the weirdmageddon portion is, in a doylist sense, because the main characters are dipper and mabel, and stan is ultimately sacrificing himself to save them not just because they were the ones in immediate danger, but because theyre the center of the show. however, in a watsonian sense, this does carry some HEAVY implications about where stan's thoughts about ford lie, especially since we know how proficient he is in the mindscape since DREAMSCAPERERS, that he can in fact mentally imagine whatever he wants, and actively chose not to involve ford. you either think about it too hard or you don't, but it id what it is. im also just a huge ass overthinker anyway.

also, a post i already made on stan's consistent angry body language that comes out when he's around ford all through out the pre-weirdmageddon era over here. there's also the fact that you never catch stan smiling at ford unless its to mock him, which you cant even say the same for ford, and only approaches/calls ford when theres an emergency, like with mabel's faceless face freaking him out or when theres a narrator voice haunting him. and called him a damgerous know it all to the kids, not ford, so its not just a petty insult— he meant it. because its true.

so that's stan's side, how he proves he's capable of having balls and cutting out someone toxic in his life when he reaches a breaking point... for like a month, but still. a hot take no one will agree with, but i actually do think stan temporarily disowning ford was the healthiest decision he ever made in his life, forced him to work on himself and have goals not related to his brother like run for mayor (even if its to mask his inferiority complex) and try to eat gnomes during the apocalypse. it also just fucking sucks that he has to LIVE with the guy during this😭 divorce is so hard when you have kids.

now what about ford's side? why, even tho ford is so closed off to stan during this, i think this is the era that shows how much he loves stan too?

well, those arent mutually exclusive. if anything, thats why its so obvious. ford is honestly... kinda delusional about their relationship at this point. read about it here by my good friend the internal workings of ford's mind during this era, and lets take a look at how it manifests in his actions too.

we all know about ford immediately jumping to save stan in comix up with an intense determination. its VERY important to note that while the comic is focused on stan and soos' dynamic, ford is the one who is the only person focused on actually saving stan, while literally everyone else was having fun with the art style changes and comic world (where even dipper was easily distracted). give it a reread to see what i mean. in mabeland, dipper was the only one not distracted from the mission of saving mabel depsite the fact the temptations were getting to him too. this is because dipper loved mabel the most, and so does ford with stan. everyone else may understand the lowstakes of the comic mission since stan is trapped, but safe, but stanford over here is fullblown panicking. 😭

its not just that he would want to save stan no matter what, its just he would literally not rest until they get to him. (also comix up is the best for canon protective ford stuff, which is in pre weirdmageddon)

(a similar moment of him saying he'll be away for 3 days but when stan calls hes immediately back. however i do think its more for mabels sake here, it is so cute how ford doesn't like modern phones, but stan still somehow contacted him though.)

and unlike stan, who seems to go all off on wanting to avoid ford as much as he can, ford is the one who seems to be continously making interactions between the two of them. you can see it in how he invited stan to play a game with him and dipper in ddamd (leading to stan blowing up at him), how he asks stan where hes been in stanchurian candidate with a grin, how in journal 3 he mentions constantly approaching stan to talk about x thing or do y thing.

these are pretty one sided interactions, and stan is noticeably NOT nipping at ford's feet for any of these. ford is acting as if this is just natural, because to him... it is.

he and stan may be on bad terms, but that doesnt mean they can't exist under the same roof together and occassionaly cohabitate like they used to, as if what stan said about them not being family doesnt even matter. because of course it doesnt. of course stan doesnt mean it. of course theyre still family. (and unlike stan, "my brother" means something and someone very specific to ford, displaying once again how non-serious ford took stan.) and despite how ford acts, he's very, very used to knowing he has some sort of sway over stan, you can see in how he knows he never even considered the possibility that stan would deny going to gravity falls for him in the 1980s, and even when they were teenagers.

none of this to day ford isnt still resentful towards stan though, like we've all watched the show and read the books, the man's grudge is still super present. but he thinks he's holding a grudge against stan as his brother, as is family, one that he will always have no matter what. i'm saying this with ford as my favorite between them— ford is unfortunately extremely sure of the idea that he doesnt need to put more effort into their relationship and also used to framing the way he treats stan as a favor to stan himself ("prove his worth to me," "giving you a chance to do the first worthwhile thing in your life"). he loves stan despite himself, stan will always love him and clearly will do anything he wants, who cares if theres a bad blood here too?

it blows up in his face right at weirdmageddon too, because it does matter, to stan. theres a lot of hurt on both sides but stan had meant what he said, that he disowned ford. stan gets mad at ford for pretending theyre still friends in ddamd (and only apologizes to dipper later), and stan readily accepts fords condition on leaving the shack as soon as the summer is over because thats what ford sowed. and thats what he sowed at weirdmageddon, for not thanking stan or trying to understand on a fundamental level that stan didnt want peaceful coexisting, he wants his brother back, which ford didn't give so screw him. that's how you got grammar stanley, thats how you got stan refusing to save ford, that's how you got this whole mess.

on a final note, i think that if anything, if ford knew that stan truly meant they were no longer brothers any earlier, that stan really did disown him, it would cut extremely deep. i mean, look at how he reacts to stan calling him a dangerous know it all: something that stan only told the kids but he apparently heard. it booms over the TRUST NO ONE being written in the journal, along with his biggest regrets— falling out with fiddleford and bill tricking him. it hurt enough to make it to his biggest regrets that stan doesn't trust him (something ford also doesnt do with stan!)

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how THAT one measely, but genuine insult from stan clearly hurt him a lot. ford loves stan so much and cares so deeply about what stan thinks about him, and yet is too prideful to make efforts to take it back or fix their relationship where he does believe he's more victim than not. so i suppose, he just reaps.

#stancest #archive #save for later #is there a point to this whole meta? nah #its mostly for myself #because i love them #and this is my fave era #also ive been wanting to write this for months i just only now did it lmao #anyway i also wanted to involve sthe fact stan clearly disliked ford during dont dimension it but eh #they were cute in that #ill make a diff post for it instead lmao

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tanadrin · 1 month ago

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"What I think is crazy/creepy is when individual cells of a multicellular organism mutate to become essentially a free-living organism"

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""is Tasmanian Devil facial tumor disease a chordate and a mammal despite being essentially an infectious microbe?""

Could you talk more about this? It sounds biologically and philosophically interesting but I don't think I completely understand what you mean. What's the argument that the tumor disease could be considered a chodate & mammal?

in cladistics, new members of a clade inherit membership in every clade their progenitor species is a part of. even though the original synapsid is a reptile with some mammal-like anatomical features that evolved in the late carboniferous period, humans are members of the synapsid clade because we descended from that ur-synapsid. birds are dinosaurs because they descend from members of the clade dinosauria. there are good reasons to prefer this cladistic structure in many cases to the traditional "rank" structure of species/genus/family/order/etc, bc even when new members of a clade are genuinely innovative in some ways, they still often bear traits typical of the rest of their clade. no matter how diverse chordates get, they all still have spines, you know? and sometimes members of a clade may lose important features, like flightless birds, but they will still inevitably retain others. a purely feature-based analysis of the ostrich's anatomy might erroneously lead you to conclude they lack the critical bird feature "flight" and therefore are not birds, but this would obscure the (in this case dead obvious) evolutionary relationship, and evolution is so criticial to our undertanding of biology and natural history.

sure, this cladistic perspective leads to some apparently goofy stuff: while land animals are obviously not fish, all tetrapods (which includes snakes!) do descend from members of clades like the osteichthyes (bony fish), so if you are using "fish" as a cladistic classification, then humans are a kind of fish. but the real answer is that lots of classifications of life are simply paraphyletic--"fish" as a category excludes tetrapods, which is fine. you could argue that the colloquial meaning of the term "dinosaur" is paraphyletic and excludes birds, too, bc when people say "the dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago" they obviously aren't talking about chickens, which didn't exist then. this isn't a problem with cladistics, just with the fact that some common words do double duty with more specialized meaning in scientific vocabulary, you know?

but the model of clades where new clades have to be nested entirely within existing clades, genuinely does break down in a couple of places in the history of life. one example would be the emergence of eukaryotes. the eukaryote cell originates in the symbiosis of an anaerobic archaeon from the Heimdallarchaeia taxon with a member of the bacterial clade Rickettsiales. eukaryotes are not usually classified as a kind of archaeon; they are really very, very different from both their archaeal and bacterial progenitors, and two separate clades coming together to produce an offspring that inherits from both is not usually how evolution works.

HeLa cells and transmissible cancers in the wild don't violate the principles of cladistic structure in the same way, but they do raise really awkward questions. they break what are otherwise apparently a lot of one-way ratchets in evolution: single-celled to multicellular, undifferentiated tissues to more differentiated tissues, the preservation of at least some anatomical features in offshoot clades (ostriches don't fly but they still have beaks and feathers and spinal cords! they're still obviously amniotes, you know?). and yet despite being wildly, insanely different from their progenitor species, in a way not even the first eukaryotes were, the genome of these organisms is still very similar. like if you sequenced the genome of TDFTD it would be impossible to escape the conclusion that its closest living relative is the Tasmanian devil, and not some other single-celled pathogen. cladistically, it's a chordate and a mammal, if you grant it the status of organism. (and why shouldn't we? lots of organisms are obligate parasites.)

you could say, ok fine, chordate and mammal and amniote and any other classification implicated in this scenario is paraphyletic. i think that's a little unsatisfying. i think it's more honest to admit that the concept of clades and monophyletic groupings and all that just isn't well-equipped to handle some freaky biological edge cases, this one included. in the same way it's not well-equipped to deal with the emergence of eukaryotes, or whatever is going on with the evolutionary history of viruses/plasmids/retrotransposons. or for that matter the same way these concepts break down in situations of intense horizontal gene transfer, like what was probably the case with the common ancestral community of primitive cells. and much like black holes in astronomy, sometimes the most interesting stuff occurs in those contexts where very useful general models start to break down!

#disclaimer: some studies put the proto-mitochondrion in another part of the alphaproteobacterium group #or have it as a sister group to the alphaproteobacteria #i find the fact that rickettsiales are all cellular endoparasites very suggestive #but i am not a biologist

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scourgeofmyownbrain · 9 months ago

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This took way too fucking long- Everyone, gaze upon the Megatron/Galvatron height chart I made. If someone could get me a cold drink, I would love one, I have been working on this for the better part of a month. 26 separate designs, for one character, across 40 years of history. And I had to exclude a couple, the grand total is like 30 different ones. I left those four out because they were just pallet swaps of a design I already had; It felt redundant to include them.

This guy just can not decide if he's named Megatron or Galvatron sometimes, he just switches between the two names at random. I think in Unicron Trilogy, he switches to Galvatron multiple times, and yes, he does switch back to Megatron before every one.

My brain is kinda broken after finishing this. I worked on this one and the Optimus one at the same time (the optimus one is so much bigger holy shit-) and I've lost the ability to feel pain at this point.

Quick Disclaimer, if any of the images look weird, it's because I had to stitch a few separate images together to create a full body shot of the character.

Links to my Bumblebee Chart and my Optimus Chart. !!NEW!! -> Shockwave, Soundwave, Ratchet, and Ironhide. For future reference, all these charts will be filed under my "Transformers Height Charts" tag and my "aka the adventures of a..." tag. Hopefully, my bumblebee post is acting up and idk if the same issue will happen here.

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Explanations below the cut, I have to justify myself for a few of these.

G1 Beast Wars V1 - ~9 Feet (PMeg. TFWiki, he's so small. Dinosaur Man is so small)

G1 Beast Wars V2 - ~10 Feet (PMeg. TFWiki, This fucker has roller blades. I'm not fucking with you, they gave the T-Rex Roller Blades and he uses them)

G1 Beast Machines V1 - ~12 Feet (PMEG. The Wiki doesn't have any numbers for Beast machines, sadly, but I found an old forum post comparing the heights to the Beast Wars designs, so I win)

G1 Beast Wars V3/Machines V2 - ~13 Feet (PMEG. The TFWiki says this bitch is like 11.5 meters tall, but no, I've done the math, he is not. If he was, Rattrap, a character who is consistently stated to be 1.8 meters tall across multiple sources in multiple languages is actually not that tall. So no, he's about 2 and a bit Rattraps tall, and that translates to about 13 feet. And I'm pretty sure he reverts into this at some point in Beast machines, though correct me if I'm wrong)

G1 Beast Machines V3 - ~16 Feet (PMeg. This design is identical to the Optimal Optimus design so I'm gonna be lazy and use that number. Not like I have many other options.)

Beast Wars 2 - ~16 Feet (Galv. Idk, the wiki had the number and his name is Galvatron, was I supposed to ignore this? Never gonna watch it, but here it is)

Earth Spark - ~16 Feet 2 Inches (Mega. There are no actual numbers for Earth Spark (yet), but I was able to find Bumblebee's height, which I then compared to Optimus's height, and now I can compare Optimus and Megatron.

Yay!- he's so short it's so fucking funny tiny short man universe)

One V1 - ~17 Feet (Mega. I am aware, of the supposed "Canon Heights" listed on the wiki. 32.462 feet, allegedly. But, have you considered A: These numbers are sourced from the Walmart Promotional AR Experience that came out before the movie. B: There are three decimal points, and that number does not convert into a whole number in meters (which is originally what I thought was weird about it). C: The director has said that this movie is both canon to the LA movies and its own separate canon. AND ALSO Meg is taller than Optimus the entire movie but his height is listed as shorter than him on the wiki. They are the same height by the end of the movie, I call BULLSHIT Walmart; these are not actual numbers I will ignore them POST HASTE! Sadly, Megatron has yet to appear in the KCV live-action movies as I make this, but we know Meg and OP are the same height by the end of TFOne, so knock a couple of feet off this one, and we get pre-cog height)

Netflix Cybertron Trilogy - ~18 Feet (PMeg. Slightly confusing, but there are two Megatrons in this universe, but they are two completely separate characters. This is Predacon Megatron, design-wise identical to his V1 Beast Wars counterpart, but he is much taller in this universe. So I did some admittedly deranged comparisons to other characters and I got this height. It's a similar ratio to Prime & Primal's height difference so I'm running with it)

Gen 1 V2 - ~ 18 Feet 6 inches (Galv. So the Wiki failed me on this one, but- and maybe this is backwards thinking, the WFCT Galvatron is this height, at least comparing him to WFCT Megatron, who I've decided is the same height as Gen 1 Megatron, who we actually have a number for- I am aware it's convoluted but it's all I got)

Netflix Cybertron Trilogy - ~18 Feet 6 inches (Galv. Okay so, Galvatron and Megatron are entirely separate beings in this universe, which is a large departure from Gen 1 where they're effectively the same guy, which means I could compare their heights, and this is about the height Galvatron is. And I have decided that the WFCT Megatron is the same height as Gen 1 Megatron because they're nearly identical otherwise, making the assumption that the Galvatrons are the same easy. The amount of hoops I have to jump through sometimes...)

Gen 1 V1 - ~19 Feet (Mega. TFWiki. Hey look, it's the guy that's the foundation of like 5 other character's calculations)

Prime Wars - ~19 Feet (Mega. As I've said before, I have decided that this design is the same height as the Gen 1 design, because they're identical, yes one is 2d, and the other is 3d but I don't care)

Netflix Cybertron Trilogy - ~19 Feet (Mega. You already know what I'm going to say; it's identical to Gen 1. Just try and stop me)

Unicron Trilogy V2&3/ENG&CYB - ~19 Feet (Mega/Galv. He flip-flops so much in this universe, I think Megatron becomes Galvatron 3 separate times. For the uneducated, the Unicron Trilogy has given each of its 3 seasons separate names and 3 separate art styles. These are the designs used in Energon (S2) and Cybertron (S3). The Wiki had Cybertron's numbers but not Energon's, so for my own sanity, I decided the two were the same height. I could have done something in between Cybertron's and Armada's (S1) numbers, but there was a lot of float between the two)

One V2 - 19 Feet 10 Inches (Mega. As I have stated in the previous One entry: I don't trust Walmart, Meg and OP are the same height by the end of the movie, and the KCV LA and One are kinda one universe. Optimus is this height by the end of the movie, therefore so is Megatron. How many times do I have to explain this)

Cyberverse - 21 Feet (Oh sweet, sweet "I don't have to justify or explain my numbers, I have a source". This comes from a screen-shot of this video which has the Cyberverse height chart everyone uses, though the quality of the screen shot is iffy. If anyone has a better one, I would love to see it)

RID 2001 - ~22 Feet (Mega/Galv. TFWiki. Why are there so many Megatrons who become Galvtron at random and look functionally identical to each other why does this keep happening. Also this guy transforms into a hand)

Unicron Trilogy V1 - ~23 Feet (Mega/Galv. TFWiki. I am very tired, we have another functionally identical Megatron Galvatron conversion and I am in pain)

Bayverse V2 - 30 Feet (Mega/Galv. TFWiki, Movies 4 & 5. This time, they're actually identical, and Mr. Bay has once again blessed me with numbers from all of his movies)

Aligned Cont. WF/FOC - ~30 Feet (Mega. TFWiki. Look man, I don't know how he grows nearly five feet between the games and the shows, it's just what the video game info screen said)

Animated - ~31 Feet (Mega. Animated has no actual numbers, but the lovely @phoenix-inanis has provided a frankly astounding resource with their own calculations for the heights of all the TFA characters. Go look at it, it's wonderful -> https://phoenix-inanis.notion.site/TFA-Height-Chart-f6ad2960ca8c4c5b859ee4958723aaa4?pvs=4)

Aligned Cont. TFP V1 - 34 Feet 5 Inches (Mega. Yes, this is from Fandom. But, and I will continue to say this until my lungs give out, this entire universe is just fucking enormous. Look, I believe Bayverse is the most consistent tf universe when it comes to the transformers' models and designs, and if we do some comparisons between characters with similar listed heights (I did it at the end of this post), it's way too close for me not to believe it)

Bayverse V1 - 35 Feet (Mega. TFWiki, Movies 1-3. Look at this bitch, getting his secrets exposed by Mr. Bay. Look at him, he's going to shrink down in the forth movie, gonna get dumped down to 6th place on the podium. Get Shrunk, Idiot)

Aligned Cont. TFP PR V2 - 42 Feet 7 Inches (Mega. Look at this enormous bitch, look at the freak standing there, fuckin enormous n' shit. Wack ass Unicron- Did you know that this is probably the TALLEST base form transformer ever? Excluding any super modes or upgrades or a transforming Cybertronian Base/Spaceship, just default general body size, I'm pretty sure this Megatron is the tallest Regular transformer ever)

Not Pictured: RID 2001 Galvatron Pallet - ~22 Feet (the only thing that was different between the two designs was the colours, if felt redundant to include it), Unicron Trilogy Galvatron Pallet(s) - Armada: ~23 Feet, Energon/Cybertron: ~19 Feet (Again, just the colours changed, otherwise everything else was the same)

I have done it. I have conquered my Everest. I have finished the big two charts. If anyone has any suggestions for which transformer I should aggressively analyze next please tell me I don't know which ones to do next

Here are the different layers separated out into their own pictures, I know it's kinda hard to tell everyone apart when they're all on top of each other.

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scintillyyy · 6 months ago

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do you have recs for janet drake fics, where her characterisation isnt evil abuser cold etc

ooooh this is actually a kind of tall order because the problem is that most fics that still try to be better parent janet drake still usually fall into the trap of "she was a cold business shark! she just loved tim despite it" even though the drakes are shown as a family who 1) generally like spending time together with their son when they're home 2) are shown to be a very huggy and tactile family & janet's main character trait for the little she appears is being a bit emotional and worried about her son because we still live in a world that tries to refrigerator-mother any woman who isn't perfect at parenting and often when writing a woman who's a "good/fierce/badass" role model for her son you see this tendency towards she has to want to step on men with her heels and kill them with her eyeliner and has to be feared and scary because it's hashtag feminist rather than her being the one to teach him things like kindness and empathy. it's like an exaggerated version of a sitcom trope where since the dad of course has to be a dundering buffoon, she has to be the one with the brains. however! outside of my two big janet fics which i know having loving and warm janet bc that's how i write her i have trawled through the janet drake & tim drake tag excluding bad parents jack and janet drake leaving me with like 200odd works that are still like 80% bad parents jack and janet drake to find at least a few gems:

every good gold digger by roseandgold137 - is on the good end of the janet drake parentinf spectrum

and if you’re just as hopeless, i wish you well by magnoliclies - does have a colder, more ruthless type janet but one who clearly loves her son & makes sense within the backstory given that's not evil high societal old money socialite

initial of creation, and / the exponent of earth by silvernaut - more tim and janet's grave but is a coming out fic where he tells her he's gay and robin and doesn't assume she'd be a homophobe about it all

dino nuggets and sprite by hyyyperfixated - has an overall kind and caring janet

time slipped through my fingers by oddny - again more tim + janet's grave but also presumes a positive relationship between the two

the circus by zahri - it helps that z and i have almost the same conceptualization of janet + the drakes but i do always love her take on affectionate but fails a bit janet

bones of a dinosaur, bones of a city by zahri - same reasons as above

shut eye by audreycritter - while this version of the janet-tim mother-child dyad is definitely a bit different from how i perceive it, this is still a good and sympathetic version of janet from a while back when there was definitely nothing but slander going on for her and is a very empathetic look at a reason she could have have struggles + does really well within the confines of the fic's premise

my thanks to ms. monroe by loosingletters - the premise is that jack is way worse than he probably was in canon has the fanon bristol next door neighbors to the waynes upbringing for tim, but manages to capture what janet would do

#scintilly ask tag #refloralisation #janet drake #hopefully i didn't mess up any of the links #anyways the fic for janet and tim is dire sometimes truly #when i say nobody understands heterosexual relationship dynamics like me. i'm only partially kidding.

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cryingatwindermerepeaks · 25 days ago

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The main cgs in the safe and sound au mean so much to me (those who are most often in cg headspace) -

- Nat, who’s last words witj her father were ‘you’re the f*cking useless one’, and now craves more than anything to have a purpose. She needs practical means of helping the kids - carry Lottie even if her back hurts, patching up Mel’s grazed knee, finding snacks Jackie will actually enjoy. Getting to feel useful has such an importance to her that taking care of the little’s fulfils for her.

- then there’s Van - who spent her whole childhood parenting her mother. Smacking her awake for work, hiding bottles of liquor and telling her she already drank them. And most of the time, her mother wasn’t even there. She finds it some therapy to actually be present for the little’s - Mel had another accident last night so Van is taking her to pick out cool dinosaur pull-ups, Mari is scared about Jackie going to hospital overnight so Van got her a kids book explaining what would happen, Shauna’s having big, hard feelings about wilderness baby so Van is helping her sort through her feelings cards to process better. Letting them have the childhood she didn’t, and she knows a lot of them also missed out on.

- then there’s Lottie, who’s parents were never there for her. She never lets the little’s feel alone. Jackie’s been a little down recently so she’s having a movie marathon today with Lottie, Misty felt excluded from rhe group game so Lottie made up a new game just the two of them, Nat is going through a bout of insomnia so Lottie is up with her every night.

- and Tai, of course, who knew she’d never be accepted by her parents and always felt like they needed her to Do Good. So when Jackie is frustrated and rips out her hairbow, Tai is the one to tie her hair up and out of sight, and when Melissa gets a little upset because she coloured all out of the lines Tai says she’s still proud of her for trying, and when Laura Lee tearily confesses that she thinks she’s sinned, Tai is the one who kisses the top of her head and wraps her up in a hug. She just needs them all to know they are perfect as they are.

- Shauna struggles so much with maternal feelings. She sees her friends, family really, who are so small and fragile and she just has to take care of them to fill that hole in her. Mari has an accident and Shauna is the one to help her clean up, Jackie cries and Shauna is bouncing and cooing at her until she’s calm then gives her a bottle, Lottie is a little not fully in her mind and it’s Shauna who holds her till she comes back.

#safe and sound agere au #yellowjackets agere #sfw agere #fandom agere #age regression #yellowjackets age regression

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sakura-gyarugal · 5 months ago

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-Akatsuki randomness but it probably only makes sense to me-

Modern au I guess? Lowkey slander at some points. I love my boys tho- oh and very ooc

When going to brunch, Konan always makes sure to dress up while the rest of the members come in sweatpants and stains on their shirts. Excluding Itachi. He comes with a nice button up.

Kakuzu was definitely in the crypto and nft market not because he believed in it but because seeing all the idiots fall for it gave him an infinity money glitch

Kisame sings into the google microphone and expects the song to pop up. He also searches “song that go oh ohhh ohhh oh”

Sasori asked the group to use tone indicators and Deidara flat out says “slash joking” or “slash genuine”….like in real life

Hidan owns an Instagram account where he flexes in the camera with Russian phonk behind it. It has a stupid amount of flashes that he used from CapCut

Itachi sends inspirational quotes, good morning messages with a bunch of flowers, and stupid minion memes. Konan always hearts react while Deidara and Hidan skull react

Deidara is pretty handy in machinery, math, and chemistry but can’t make himself food without burning it…he’s so bad that he burns food in an airfryer

Already put this in a post like this before but Zetsu’s favorite movie is definitely smile, terrifier series, walrus, and the human centipede

Sasori has a really weak immune system and is constantly sniffling. He carries lysol and hand sanitizer everywhere

Deidara and Hidan quote things from Instagram reels and tiktok that literally no one else gets. A few things they constantly say: the yes king audios, are we deadass? jobs bro, never cook again, are you serious right now? I’m employed? What does this mean? The grandpa screaming at the camera saying “what!!!? oh hell nah!! Oh hell nah!!” They’re literally so insufferable

Orochimaru is an active member on Stan Twitter

Kisame owns Nike tech in every color 😔

Konan takes selfies with the group then blocks out their faces with a black square. Proceeds to mention everyone in the photo.

Yahiko def passed out getting his first piercing while konan and nagato held his hand.

Zetsu just says stuff when the room gets quiet. It’s always weird to. Then the silence gets more awkward.

Nagato cries to those sad dog commercials.

Deidara gets his accounts suspended every month for “hate speech” he simply makes a new account and continues hating.

Hidan definitely pointed to a person wearing a band shirt and said “name five songs”

Kakuzu lives on Facebook marketplace. He buys the stupidest crap too. Like one day he came back with dinosaur statue and put it in display in his living room.

Obito refuses to buy new socks and underwear until it’s nothing but a string left. He’s just walking around with holes in his underwear and socks 😭

Itachi is lowkey lactose intolerant. That doesn’t stop him from eating his favorite desserts

Sasori is allergic to everything. He uses it for his benefit. “Sorry guys can’t come today. The air is very dry therefore I have to stay inside.”

Yahiko used to be so many girls MySpace crushes

Itachi uses the fanciest colognes, hair care, skin care, etc. when the other members come over, they go immediately to his room and starting showering themselves in his expensive stuff 😭

Kisame does not play about his car. No eating, no drinking, and if you park too close to his car he’s going to leave a note on the windshield.

Konan is not motherly toward the group. In fact, she’s the ones that suggest them to do stupid crap. Oh, you think you can make the jump 6ft in the air? Hell yeah. Itachi is the voice of reason in the group.

Zetsu is probably on a stupid carnivore diet and tries to convince the other members to do it with him. Sometimes you see him sitting in the dark eating a stick of butter.

Obito goes on reddit for help. Like…for everything. “Am I the asshole for asking out my female friend for the 100th time after she told me no when she was 13?” “My left arm goes numb. Is that cancer?”

Deidara has the entire group as his close friends story but he posts the most mediocre content ever….like why are you posting your chipotle bowl with a sad song? No cares buddy

Kakuzu has all the members blocked unless he needs something

Sasori believes he’s like Dr house…he is not. He’s more like young Sheldon.

Nagato sucks at keeping secrets and lying. He turns bright red and starts itching making it very obvious

Hidan is banned from public libraries across the country

Itachi does audiobooks.

Kakuzu definitely pirates movies. He also brings full entrees to the movie theaters along with his camera.

Deidara has an instagram where he posts his cat, photos of himself, Hidan, clay projects with the stupidest captions. He always has foreigners in his comments like “?” Or “guys don’t translate the caption” or “what does this mean?”

Sasori and Itachi leave yelp reviews if they hate the service. Itachi will be more easy on it like, “The service wasn’t very great and I found the food to be a little underwhelming but appreciated the atmosphere of the restaurant.” Whereas Sasori is like, “the chicken is fucking disgusting. How hard is it to cook chicken? The owner and his chefs should kill themselves. In fact I hope you die by your uncooked chicken.”

Konan has a deep hatred from booktok yet she reads the books just to see if they’re really that bad

Nagato got a haircut but was too shy to say it looked bad and proceeded to cry in his car

Orochimaru posts freaky trap posts on tiktok with grandmas commenting “😍😍😍”

Obito probably owns a cybertruck

It takes Deidara an hour to be fully coherent after waking up. If you ask him a question he’s either going to grunt, glare at you, or slowly blink

Hidan bought his fur jacket off of depop…or he robbed someone. Who knows.

Kisame wears shirts with stupid quotes on them like “women love me. Fish fear me.”

Hidan was playing candy crush on kakuzu’s phone and had Kakuzu crashing out after Hidan used all of his combo candies

Deidara probably snatched a shirt from a kid because he believes he needs the sonic shirt (that fits like a crop top on him) more than the kid

Konan has those kpop key cards but instead it’s photos of Nagato and Yahiko

Obito likes girl bands. You just see this middle aged guy glowering and in his headphones it’s playing “flip that by loona”

Hidan has a streaming channel where he plays COD but it’s mainly him fighting with his viewers or trying to spread his religion. 5% gameplay 90% of yelling 5% reading his chats.

Kakuzu’s favorite show is the Atlanta housewives and sharktank.

#this was made by an 18 as you can see #there’s so many meme references #in this post #i hope someone understands this #deidara #akatsuki #shitpost #hidan #kakuzu #konan #itachi #sasori

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like-ribbons-in-your-hair · 19 days ago

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i hate the concept of gender because it really hasn't brought anything relatively positive to society. down to actual societal problems and daily life stuff- all of it is caused bc of gender. tell me, why am i getting excluded from certain life experiences because i was born like that? it doesn't really make sense, does it?

gender is a plague in our society, and also by conforming to it you are conforming to european/eurocentric standarts.. which i assume some of you wouldn't want to. "oh but you call yourself a man so arent you doing the same?" yes, yes i am. my identity cannot be simply explained by "man" but society today cannot understand what it means to be something beyond that. these are just made up words with void meaning. it was made for segregation and categorization of humans to stimulate infighting. I do not like gender. I fucking hate gender. Fuck you if you like gender as a concept.

Gender is just incredibly harmful to everyone. Tell me, how many things were you privated from doing because of your gender? How many cars and dinosaurs your child self wanst allowed to have because of your gender? How many dolls and kitchen-setupd were you privated from because of your gender? How has gender shaped your mannerisms? They all shaped and melded you to fit their standarts. They expect you to be a certain way bcause of your gender. You have been stripped and damaged away from what you could have been because of the others. How many beautiful butch lesbians have we lost to gender norms and imposition. How many beautiful twinks and femboys have we lost to that.

#delete later

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astrocloud3 · 6 months ago

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Digimon Headcanons

Haven't really ever written these down but here are some of my random headcanons...

1. The partner digimon grow up alongside their partners, instead of staying the same size while the humans get bigger. The older / more mature a digimon gets, the larger they are- a newly evolved agumon is going to be a bit smaller than an older agumon.

2. (Refer to 1) Gabumon is the largest of all the partner digimon, and full grown, comes up to Yamato's shoulder (excluding their horn). They're not extremely tall, but their body is large / dinosaur-like. Agumon is the same way, but a little shorter. I'd imagine they're both 200 to 250 lbs? Idk.

3. Digimon keep scars from battle. For example, if Piyomon gets an injury as Garudamon, she'll only have the scar when she's Garudamon, not when she devolves to Piyomon.

4. Digimon actually reproduce, although it's not super common. After all, if a digimon gets permanently deleted and doesn't return, then eventually there'll be none left.

5. When a digimon dies, they leave a body behind, and it's only their soul / data that gets reincarnated. But for special cases, like Angemon against Devimon, they disintegrate completely (Angemon used all their data for their final attack against Devimon, and it included destroying the data of their own body). This means that Digimon can eat other digimon.

6. (Relates to 5) During the Chosen's original adventures, their partners would occasionally hunt other digimon in order to get supplies, whether it be furs to keep the kids warm / make clothes or last-resort food if there was nothing to scavenge

7. Mimi gets pretty good at cutting hair. Taichi still won't let her touch his hair, and instead ties it half-up in a ponytail when it gets too long. She and Taichi did braid Yamato's hair in his sleep once (only with Gabumon's permission of course)

8. The Chosen's adventure lasts 5 years- 3 years from the start of their adventure to Vamdemon / where they return to the real world, then once they return to the digital world, they spend 2 years fighting the dark masters. Their bodies grow up during this time to young adulthood, but revert to their 9-13 year old bodies during the Vamdemon arc. When they return to the digital world they are once again young adults. At the end of their adventure, they choose to stay with their digimon and make their lives in the Digital World, much to Gennai's dismay.

9. Yamato has little holes and cuts on his gloves- more so than the other's (wear and tear, etc), and small scars on his fingers from using knives and cooking food for the group. He's a decent cook at the beginning of their adventures, but still needs a bit of practice. He's only 12 at the beginning of their adventure, and over the next 5 years he grows to be a much better cook.

10. Jyou is (naturally) the group's doctor. When the Chosen return to the real world, Jyou makes sure to pack up on medical supplies, and steals his brother's medical college textbooks, anything he might find useful. If there's a book on burns, breaks and injuries, he'll take it. He may or may not have shop lifted a CVS or two. Heck, all these kids pilfer stores in the real world, they get good at sneaking around. Yamato (steals) brings small spice packs in a carry on bag that he can use when cooking fish, any meat the digimon bring back from hunting.

11. Everyone gets their fair share of injuries- Taichi loses a finger or two, Yamato gets slashed across the face (he's lucky he didn't lose an eye, according to Jyou), Sora gets a pretty nasty gash in her leg at one point, Koushirou dislocates his arm, Takeru gets a pretty bad concussion, Hikari gets ill on more than one occasion, Jyou's foot gets impaled (giant thorn? Idk. He has to treat it himself and that's not fun. He walks Sora through doing stitches), and Mimi breaks a couple ribs. Other than these, the occasional scratch or twisted ankle happens every so often.

12. The Chosen have a designated bath and wash day, and all of them spend a day bathing / washing their clothes / fur blankets, etc. Jyou uses this day as a 'checkup' day to make sure no one has any injuries they're hiding (implemented after Koushirou tried to hide a nasty bruise on his ankle. He didn't want to bother anyone about it). When everyone and their partners are bathing, Gabumon sits to the side and watches over everyone / stands guard. May or may not be jealous of the others bathing with their partners, but would rather stay dry. Plus, Yamato is the only person they'll allow to see them without their fur.

Okay that's all I can think of for now, but maybe I'll do another Headcanons post! This was fun and at least I have some written down now.

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new-dinosaurs · 9 months ago

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Gondwanax paraisensis Müller, 2024 (new genus and species)

(Type femur [thigh bone] of Gondwanax paraisensis, from Müller, 2024)

Meaning of name: Gondwanax = Gondwana king [in Greek]; paraisensis = from Paraíso do Sul

Age: Middle–Late Triassic (Ladinian–Carnian)

Where found: Santa Maria Formation, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

How much is known: A right femur (thigh bone), along with several vertebrae and a partial pelvis from the same site. It is unknown whether the other bones belonged to the same individual as the femur.

Notes: Gondwanax was a silesaurid, a group of probably quadrupedal Triassic reptiles that often had adaptations for herbivory (though there is evidence that they also ate insects). Until recently, silesaurids were generally considered to be close relatives of dinosaurs instead of dinosaurs themselves, and I previously excluded them from coverage on this blog. However, multiple recent analyses have suggested that they might in fact be true dinosaurs, specifically early members of Ornithischia ("bird-hipped" dinosaurs), so from here on out I will tentatively include them within this blog's purview. In fact, some of those studies have found that most "silesaurids" may not have formed a unique evolutionary group, but instead a series of lineages with some being more closely related to later ornithischians than others.

Regardless of whether it is a true dinosaur, Gondwanax is one of the oldest known dinosauromorphs (the group containing dinosaurs and their closest relatives). Compared to other dinosauromorphs of similar age, Gondwanax more closely resembles later dinosaurs in having three hip vertebrae (whereas dinosaurs ancestrally appear to have had only two). It is unusual among dinosauromorphs in having a very small fourth trochanter, a attachment point on the femur for muscles that pull the hindlimb backward.

(Schematic skeletal of Gondwanax paraisensis, with preserved bones in orange, from Müller, 2024)

Reference: Müller, R.T. 2024. A new "silesaurid" from the oldest dinosauromorph-bearing beds of South America provides insights into the early evolution of bird-line archosaurs. Gondwana Research advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2024.09.007

#Palaeoblr #Dinosaurs #Gondwanax #Middle Triassic #Late Triassic #South America #Ornithischia #2024 #Extinct

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jellyfish-on-the-staircase · 11 months ago

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Warp Trotters are very suspicious creatures in Honkai Star Rail.

Description :

"An interdimensional creature lost in the stars. Docile in nature. Sweet in taste. Inedible. Spends most of its life feeding and fleeing. Travelers who encounter these creatures see them as good omens."

Trotters are described as "interdimensional creatures" and "trans-latitudinal organisms". They are lost creatures that are always scared and try to flee when facing a fight. They can teleport by murmuring equations related to black holes like the Schwarzschild radius. They can basically move between dimensions.

In the Interstellar Travel (phenomenon) entry, it's stated that only beings that can manipulate the Imaginary Tree's energy such as Aeons or Emanators can travel through space. What the Trotters do is no ordinary feat.

Normal (golden) Warp Trotters have physical, quantum and imaginary weakness.

Don't you think it's weird that Trotters are literally everywhere, even in dreams (Penacony) ? Trotters can travel to the Memory Zone without using a Dreampool. In the Radiant Feldspar, some Trotters have been attracted to the floral scent of the swimming pool.

Even weirder, there is a Trotter in A Child's Dream, a realm created by Mikhail's memories.

In the Where Are You, Mystery Trotter mini-event, Trotters can shapeshift into inanimate objects like vending machines, but they can also disguise themselves as humans and imitate human speech to a certain extent. (Although they don't seem to understand it, the Trotter in the event was just repeating the same things over and over again)

Acheron is an Emanator of Nihility and her technique literally one-shots enemies in the overworld, except Elites and Trotters. Trotters > Acheron

In the Simulated Universe, Trotters have special abilities related to the Abundance, Preservation or Destruction. This could imply that Trotters can become Pathstriders or, since the power of the Aeons stems from Imaginary energy, that they borrow the energy as well.

The Trotter in the Aetherium Wars (Pokemon event) is an unique Aether Spirit with a mind of their own.

If you interact with the Trotter in the Astral Express as Hanu, this shows up :

If Trotters are lost, what are they looking for ? Their home ? What are Trotters ?

My theory is that Trotters are either Leviathans or their descendants. (like how chickens are descendants of dinosaurs)

Leviathans are ancient lifeforms that were in the Galaxy before the Aeons were born. It's possible that they could have Aeon-like abilities. Most of them have been wiped out by the Dusk Wars and their corpses are used by the Antimatter Legion to create Tramplers and the Doomsday Beast. There aren't any known Leviathans except Oroboros who is both an Aeon and a Leviathan.

After the Dusk Wars, the Trotters (the Leviathans' legacy) have been forced to wander across the universe. They are trying to find the Leviathans' homeworld, unaware if it has been destroyed or not.

A controversial theory in the Species of the Galaxy : Wubbaboo readable explains that remnants of the Leviathans became Astral Spirits (Heliobi). It suggests that they could have taken another form.

Trotter are the only enemies (excluding the Trashcans) that drop Stellar Jades when defeated.

"A fleeting gleam", "Catch it before it's gone"

The Oneiric Shard can be exchanged to Stellar Jades. The description coincidentally mentions Leviathans.

In that case, it's easy to make an association between Trotters and Leviathan.

In the Planar Infinity event (where the geniuses mess with the SU), Stephen Lloyd tries to attract Leviathans by using the Shattered Star Bait and ended up attracting Trotters. If the theory is correct, Stephen has unknowingly succeeded.

Note how Leviathans are attracted by an "unique aroma of cosmic dust"

What about Numby ?

Numby is a smart Trotter that can write mails and do actuarial sciences. Could every Trotter do the same ? If not, could Numby be special (like a Trotter King) ? How has Topaz tamed a Trotter if they always try to escape ? Topaz and Numby might be the Xiangling and Guoba of HSR

#honkai star rail #hsr #hsr theory #warp trotter #topaz and numby #numby

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rennythepoo · 10 days ago

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“if you're weird, it's a we thing now.”

in which u pick up things from each other. ♡

Tsukishima x Reader mini drabble alternative to the OG slightly || tags: fluff, established relationship, slightly ooc, banter | a/n at the end + not proofread 😛 || WC: 500+

in your relationship with tsukki, there were a lot of unspoken traditions, even if some were purely coincidental.

like how whenever one of you likes something that is genuinely absurd to the other, somehow it'll grow on the other and they'll like it begrudgingly admitting it to themselves after a few months.

and right now? you really didn't want to admit to yourself that you started liking Labubus of all things- and all because of Tsukishima!

those mini gremlins were haunting your thoughts and plagued your poor little head.

now when you see them, all you think of is Tsukishima and unconsciously that led you to liking them. and you definitely weren't going to admit that for God's sake!??!!!?!

they were hideous, utterly and truly repulsive and chaotic in the worst ways possible!! well, that's what you wanted to think. but apparently you couldn't anymore.

and worst of all? now it'll look like it's you who liked those creatures first!! because it was definitely gonna be hard for people, well maybe excluding Yamaguchi and ofc you, to imagine Tsukishima liking those things naturally.

it all started when you saw three miserable looking Labubu keychains right under his dinosaur collection shelf. you almost immediately asked about them when you had walked into Tsukishima's rooms that day.

he had shrugged and said they reminded him of dinosaurs, and you. truthfully you were quite offended but you let it slide because a part of thought it must've been peak romance in his head.

tho you did try to find the resemblance between a Labubu and a dinosaur, was it the hands? the feet? the eyes..?? the teeth? maybe it was the sharp teeth.

you really didn't want to think of those things, but when you thought of Tsukishima, they tagged along in your thoughts like a train, Tsukishima was the train driver, and the passengers were Labubus, dinosaurs, strawberries and cake and some other nonsense depending on why you even thought of him.

so currently, as Tsukishima was oh, so, comfortably nuzzled in ur neck while you played with his hair, you couldn't help but look up at where he placed the Labubu keychains. noticing there was now a 4th.

without much thought you mumbled, "hey, Tsukki, why do I remind you of a Labubu? I'm really curious." for a moment he didn't respond.

"honestly.. I don't know, they just, do. like how coffee reminds me of you, despite the fact you don't like it much. you remind me of things I like."

silence. you didn't expect his answer to make you feel so fuzzy and warm inside. you let out a giggle and kissed the top of his head. last time you asked, he ragebaited you by saying you looked like a Labubu. which was honestly funny. but you don't wanna encourage his creative insults even more.

you sighed softly "Tsuskki, that's so cute! I feel like I need to confess that whenever you like something I start to like it too, now." he lifted his head to look at you, "...really now? even the Labubu?" you rolled your eyes, "yes, even the Labubu. also can I have one..?"

he laid his head back down to your neck with a small smug smile and a nod at your request.

BONUS: "i really still don't know what's the resemblance between a dinosaur and a Labubu, Tsukki." you said softly, without missing a beat he shrugged and simply said "you." and you decided to be satisfied with that answer. even though he basically called you a dinosaur now.

A/N hhhheyey,,,, shamefully editing ts to say alternative version ok. actually love this tho, like and subscribe if I should make a version where reader is the one who makes Tsukishima like Labubu

#haikyuu tsukishima #tsukishima x reader #tsukishima kei #tsukishima fluff #fluff #my fic #Rens!drabble #x reader #x yn #idk how to tag this #haikyuu

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nightsunecilpse · 5 months ago

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What Happens to Planets after a Collision?

Looking over the characters that have been in a collision, the results may not be the same for everyone. It seems that being in a collision could be interpreted as bad, but it's one thing for sure: it is horrifying and super dangerous. The top contenders for the collision list are Uranus (Caelus), Haumea, and, of course, Proto-Earth and Theia. For Uranus, it might be his collision went unnoticed, and if it didn't, then nobody really cared. Haumea might have survivor's guilt as he isn't willing to talk about it. Lastly, Theia and Proto were a sort of union between two beings that formed both Earth and Luna. So, to speculate, a collision could be an 'umbra'lla term for destruction and creation.

Venus had described collisions as a phoenix: the death and rebirth of a planet. For quite a while, I believed that Earth was Proto-Earth and that Luna was merely a remnant of Theia and Proto. However, this didn’t explain why he couldn’t remember the collision when Mars and Venus assumed he would know about it. It also didn’t clarify why they didn’t mention Theia, even though they felt it was acceptable to talk about the collision. Additionally, it didn't account for why Luna was excluded from the other planets if he was just a recreation of two protoplanets. From the beginning, Earth seemed to be a distinct character separate from Proto and Theia.

At some point, I had to consider that the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs had wiped away a portion of his memory, and that’s why he couldn’t remember the collision. Yet, this still didn’t fit. Earth was unable to recall anything beyond the collision when Earth still knew about the dinosaurs and his dream to sustain life. Strangely enough, characters like Mars and Jupiter seemed to refer to him as the same planet as before. The reason it's weird is that everyone still seemed to associate Earth with Proto when he wasn't him, at the very least not anymore. The biggest anomaly in this equation was where Luna fit in this story. All of it was all-around odd.

It can't be Earth has amnesia after the collision. Exemplifying why that's the case is because if a collision were to cause amnesia, then Uranus wouldn't know how he got rings. Uranus can still even be considered the same ringless "big bang" Uranus. It would also mean if Haumea didn't know about his collision he wouldn't be insecure about his wideness. Making Proto's and Theia's collision something unique.

What was probably expected to happen after a collision is whoever was the dominant planet would still be consciously intact. The impact would technically kill both planets but whoever wins the psychological battle gets to come back as themselves. The moons of Uranus could just be the fragmented mind of the lost planet; they could also be their own beings, separate from both planets. However, this is different for Theia and Proto as they came back as both Earth and Moon.

Also, if this theory turns out to be true, then Luna has a Dark Side of the Moon because after their collision, they couldn't figure out who's the dominant mind. Or Luna couldn't bring himself to accept full control over their body.

In theory, collision is either a battle for the dominant mind or the union of beings becoming one.

#solarballs #solarballs luna #solarballs earth #solarballs theia #solarballs uranus #solarballs haumea #just a theory

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