#anyway I'm fine and normal

[officialcombaticons]

Also, from that little ask game yesterday, how about Brawl and Blast Off?

I will always happily talk about any of the Combaticons!

Let's do Brawl first

Sexuality Headcanon: He's grey aroace to me. Doesn't often feel attraction, but it can happen and doesn't necessarily need a strong foundation behind it for that initial spark. Gender Headcanon: Like what I said with Swindle, "he/him" gets used for him, so Brawl just goes with it. No actual feelings towards it and does not align himself with any human gender or actually consider himself male. Still thinking about using they/them for all the Combaticons in addition to he/him... A ship I have with said character: Honestly? No idea. I don't think I've ever seen him shipped with someone outside the team or the occasional weird harem situation with the whole team/one other bot.

He doesn't get much love from the fandom. A BROTP I have with said character: The other Combaticons, of course. I can also see him getting along with Bonecrusher! And he, Bonecrusher, and Scavenger can be tread buddies lol A NOTP I have with said character: The other Combaticons and the Protectobots A random headcanon: While Brawl is definitely a loud and sometimes boisterous person, he's actually pretty in tune with the mood of those around him and will subconsciously adjust to fit the situation. If the energy is high, he's loud and maybe even rowdy. If the energy is calmer, so is he. General Opinion over said character: I love him 💚 I love his design in WFC/FOC with the double-barreled tank alt. They gave him some interesting characterization in WFC beyond his usual "strong and dumb" personality. I wish there'd been some more of him FOC.

And now for Blast Off!

Sexuality Headcanon: Aroace. Not interested in any sort of non-platonic relationship. Gender Headcanon: Same as I said above with Brawl A ship I have with said character: None! He's aroace!! A BROTP I have with said character: The other Combaticons. I truly have no idea who else would or could get close to him. A NOTP I have with said character: I dislike any of the Combaticons being paired up with each other, but oh how I absolutely LOATHE Onslaught and Blast Off as a ship. Honestly fuck IDW for putting a spotlight on that, even though my understanding is that it was completely one-sided and ended with forced mind control to try and make the relationship happen against Onslaught's will?????

WHY DOES IT HAVE FANS I DON'T UNDERSTAND (don't explain why, I don't care and don't want to know) A random headcanon: When Blast Off is tipsy or drunk, he's prone to singing. Not loud, bawdy tunes or anything like that. They're mostly old songs that he heard a lot during his dance class days. Several don't have lyrics, and he simply sings the tune of them. General Opinion over said character: To the surprise of no one... I love him!!! I think he's a very interesting addition to the Combaticons. I like how he simultaneously prefers his own company, yet deeply craves connection.

If you give him a non-spacecraft alt, you are wrong and should feel bad 💜

[burstingsunrise]

how does a real live human being look like that? how does one person possess so much golden beauty

it's impossible to believe he's real that's why we need regular evidence of him moving and speaking to remind us he is an actual human being 😭

[wings-of-flying]

the pain of being a fanfic writer is desperately wanting people to interact more with your writing and ultimately never getting more than a few (but very much appreciated) comments every so often. the pain of being a fanfic writer is no one else is quite as insane about your fic as you are. the pain of being a fanfic writer is almost wanting a small little fandom for your fic then feeling guilty because maybe you just don't deserve it and that's why, even though it's because fanfic culture has basically become a tiktok-esque like and scroll situation

[paintedcrows]

*through tears* HER LITTLE POG CHAMP

[egophiliac]

don't think I'm not still obsessing over 7-12

[xxplastic-cubexx]

top five worst people to be around when theyre experiencing road rage

[breadandlottery]

the way he grabs the barrel of the rifle and points it at himself... he just wants them to shoot him so it will be over💔

[evelynpr]

Anime twt so shit they're calling Spy x Family basic heteronormativity and boring as the "correct" stance. Sorry the performative role and war trauma narrative flew over your head, can't be me.

[chalkrub]

so i got through to the top 300 for the pokemon tcg contest. i'm feeling normal about it........feeling very normal and sane. which is why i also drew this in ms paint

[lizardkingeliot]

1x07 // 2x02

[ahollowgrave]

go on, start something.

this outfit is wildly out of character for her but the very nice boy from the train station gave it to her!! .........................brrrrrrrrr cowboy AU go yeehaw...................................

[fairyroses]

He was about to kill you, Lex. Or divulge something you didn't want me to know.

— SMALLVILLE, "Forever" (4.21)

+ bonus from "Arctic" (7.20):

[papa-evershed]

Rob James-Collier as Hutch

The Ritual

[ubtendo]

Ouaw doodles as I'm preparing the style for the next piece

[artfulacrostic]

but here's the thing right? matt KNEW, during that whole fight, deep down. he KNEW, he knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that short of actual divine intervention on foggy's behalf, foggy was dead. imagine how fast he must have understood that with bullseye on the other side of the scope, with nothing to distract him even a little, foggy had no chance. so matt knew it was over the moment he heard the trigger click.

but he couldn't stop himself from hoping, because that's who he is. the whole fight, the whole awful sequence, from one heartbeat to the next, he's not acting like foggy is dead.

foggy's heart is still beating, so there is hope. karen is still keeping the pressure on, so there is hope. the hope gives him the ability to throw every ounce of his flesh after bullseye, to prevent more people from dying if he can; he directs cherry to get people out of the bar, he drives after bullseye with the ferocity of the devil.

but somewhere in his heart, he knows. he knows that foggy is only making it another one or two minutes, and in the absence of the grace to save his best friend, matt will be the hand of divine retribution. he can't save foggy, no matter what he does, and in his heart he knows it. so he forces himself to throw away even the chance to say goodbye, to be at foggy's side as he goes, because if his purpose can't be grace, it WILL be retribution. and the man who killed his best friend will be punished, in this life as well as the next. matt won't miss the chance to make sure of it. he even pulls bullseye back from the ledge. retribution. justice.

and in the moment that the last veneer of hope washes away, as foggy's heart stops, matt's anger overwhelms him. in securing justice by the hand of the law, he's lost the chance to say anything else to foggy, ever again. he's lost the chance to hold his hand as he goes, he's lost his best friend and most important person forever. and for what, for the justice system to put this man, laughing in his face, away again?

why? why? why did dex do it, why is it that matt couldn't stop it, why is there never a physical manifestation of grace, why always only retribution left to be had in the aftermath? and he pushes.

and by some whim of gravity or grace, bullseye hits the ground and continues to breathe. just meters away, foggy lies dead, never to breathe again. matt sits on top of the building, knives piercing him like saint sebastian and so many arrows, and thinks, why? why? but where the grace of God didn't save foggy, it saved matt's soul yet again from the stain of murder. and matt must go on. he tears off his helmet. if justice via the retribution of the devil isn't enough--and it isnt--than the devil can't continue.

after all. foggy never wanted to give him an excuse to let the devil out.

[peliginspeaks]

Thinking about Fallen London as a backdrop for the theme of the horror of the inevitable today. I know it's The Classic Cosmic Horror Thing, but it's really woven through all aspects of Neathy life even as the PC is written powerful and capable: the constant backdrop of breath-holding for the Sixth City, the Masters and the Bazaar as a force higher on the Chain with a plan that cares not who it tramples, a ton of the Destinies aside from the LotN ones, literally anything to do with the Dawn Machine, the Flukes...the thing that changes you irrevocably could be around any corner, could drop at any second. Everything else, every other story told, is either dealing with that or written in its shadow. Sometimes the game lets you deal with it by fighting back, with the message that even though you can't hold a candle to all of it, you can change some of it and that's enough reason to try. Sometimes, the game lets you deal with it by getting drunk off your ass with a dozen rats and stealing a painting or something of the sort. Both are honestly such valid ways of dealing with The Cosmic Horror Of It All, as is just rolling out of bed every day and complaining about the weather, and the spread of each that the game's writing has is I think what's made it stick so hard as one of my favourite pieces of horror media despite only about 20% of it reading like horror.