#i know its a reference i just also wanted to be funny

[interclover]

The Stars: BFDIA's favourite characters (/s)

Tumblr you'll have to excuse me but I'm in a big yapping mode today. Once I start writing, I can't stop. Anyway.

On the note of bfdia analysis, today, I want to talk about another set of characters that I keep rotating in my mind at high-speeds (/pos): The Stars.

When I first watched BFDIA 15, I thought they were a funny team. However, the more I thought about them, the more patterns I noticed. This lineup wasn't a coincidence: all of them are the underdogs of the competition.

All of them have faced mistreatment, oppression, and were belittled by the rest of the contestants due to their personalities. Pin, seeking to voice up her concern for her teammates' wellbeing and, most importantly, herself, was constantly shut down. Book was treated as inferior all the time in Freesmart, a behaviour she did not recognise and mistook for friendship. And then, we have Nickel, who spent the entire competition being left behind and alone because nobody liked him.

Whether they like it or not, none of them fit in. And they deal with it in entirely opposite ways.

Firstly, let's focus on Pin -- the most radical example. After regaining her mobility and senses, she swore to make everyone who had wronged her (ie: the entire cast) get a taste of their own medicine. She wanted them to see how bad she was suffering because of their actions. So, she couldn't keep up her facade of complicity any longer. She began tearing down her relationships and dreams, all in pursuit of power. A power that, if she were to win it, would show the rest that, despite everything, she's just as capable of winning -- if not more -- as they are. That would show them how wrong they were. On the other hand, if everything went astray, she'd at least try to take everyone down with her (wink wink reference to oomfs).

Secondly, there's Book. While Book and Nickel are both pretty passive when it comes to facing this issue, I'm choosing to focus on Book first (you'll see why later). When it comes to BFDIA (well, I think it can be also applied to BFB), Book is Pin's polar opposite. They're foils to each other: instead of showing the world its wrongs, Book is dedicated to show it kindness, time and time again. No matter how bad it gets, she will always do the right thing, since that's how she believes things will get better -- not only for her, but for her friends as well. For example, she gives out advice to Tennis Ball in BFDIA 21 because she doesn't want him or Needle getting the lower end of the stick. She just wants everyone to get along, in order to stop injustices -- such as what happened to Pin -- from taking place again.

It is well-known that Pin and Book are opposite sides of the spectrum, alike yet different. But there's one part of the equation often overlooked, and I'm here to cast some light on it:

Nickel.

He is also ostracised by the cast, even though it's usually played for comedic effect. However, that doesn't take away the seriousness of the issue: it's implied that he feels bad about it. After all, why does he latch onto TB like a puppy? (Bear with me here, since I'm beginning to speculate more, as we don't know much about his true character.) Anyway, I think that's because he doesn't want to be alone anymore. In spite of making useful contributions to his team (see: BFDIA 6 - 9), he still is cast aside! So, his only way to deal with this loneliness is to try to make up for his lack of usefulness. That could explain his personality change from pre to post-revival BFDIA, going from a pessimistic to a happy-go-lucky outlook in life, which could finally make him likeable to others. Usefulness is further remarked in his relationship with TB: he is always looking for a way to please him, so as to not make him leave his side (which is. Heartbreaking). Therefore, we can say that he deals with mistreatment by trying to prove the cast wrong, without resorting to violence. Now that I think about it, it's kind of a mix between Book and Pin's behaviours.

Taking all of this into account, they have SO MUCH potential for interesting interactions, especially in IDFB. It's a shame that they don't interact much (as a trio) in later seasons, because they KNOW!!! THEY COULD UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER!!!! they know what it's like to be messed around and tossed aside all the time. And yet, they have overcome those situations, partly because they got the opportunity to turn over a new leaf and meet new people. New people that actually cared for them, and valued them for who they really are.

On a side note, if Pin is the heroic leader and Book is the heroic protector, may I suggest making Nickel the heroic companion? He's always ready to give it all out for his teammates. Consequently, he is quite mad when his efforts go unnoticed or when something's unfair. For example, in his elimination, he recognises Pillow as the threat. Why is he getting out, if Pillow was the one who caused the team's downfall?

TLDR; Pin, Book and Nickel should be a friend group in uhhh bfdi season 6 🔥🔥🔥 Book is the friend both Pin and Nickel need. I love these silly guys. Also I hope I made you, the reader, reflect more on (some of) these characters -- especially Nickel. I think he's full of potential. As I've mentioned before, we don't know his change of heart, so there's still a lot of his character left for spectulation. Hopefully, IDFB is able to explore his character further.

[infiniity-survivor-choco]

Oh I'm gonna have fun with your bullshit, newgen.

"The pseudo intellectualism is hilarious. And you really put way too much effort into this post."

What effort was needed in pointing out your hypocrisy? then your next claim. "Pseudo intellectualism" to the ignorami intellect looks like pseudo because they can't grasp it in the first place, you default back to a buzzword because you can't weasel yourself out with arguments.

"It's funny how you point out my supposed lack of reading comprehension when I replying to a post full of grammar errors. Now they could very well not be a native English speaker but its funny that you want to point out a lacking skill in english with those two examples to choose from."

Outstanding! Deflection and Projective identification in one go, more likely than you think!

"I replying" is not a proper sentence

"a lacking skill in English." Is also not a proper sentence.

This isn't about grammar, it's about reading comprehension, however thank you for providing solid proof of lacking what was correctly pointed out to you, and now the very thing you criticized.

"Your argument loses all credibility when you're only doing it to be pedantic. "

Person in question, popping up on a post from a pro endo blog (the person making the post, making you pedantic and projecting again) to be inflammatory, gets scorched, then calls people talking back to them pedantic for calling them out on belittling people, cute!

"The only error in my comprehension is that I purposefully assumed that they were referring to emotional care because Im under the impression they're just little kid based on the lack of informed speaking on the larger implications and consequences of diagnosis on your opportunities in society."

You purposely, as stated, misinterpreted an argument to best attack it, you also default back to having horrendous grammatical skills, which you felt so inclined to bash const for, fun fact! I'm also not an English native speaker, yet, I write better than you do - while not assuming people are children for their lexicon, outstanding isn't it? No. I'm afraid you've made multiple errors thus far, also. Yet again another mistake. " They're just little kid based" (?)

"It's really funny how people and tumblr-"

You're on Tumblr.

" talk like they know what another person's intelligence or relevent skill level is at. Its even funnier how uneducated people use the "you dont know anything" dialog set more than anyone else.

Self descriptive, you made baseless assumptions about another person and the lens get flipped your way, and then start being insecure and fumbling, who mentioned pseudo intellectualism? ah, that's right, you did.

"Summing my entire argument up to being "heated over somebody else's brain" is purposefully minimizing and disingenuous. "

You encroached into someone's post knowing the content went against your beliefs and you threw a tantrum, while also being disingenuous in your arguments - please see. "I purposely misinterpreted" on your fourth paragraph, not to mention the assumptions of. "If that were true your employers-" you threw at Const earlier, conclusion? Getting healed over someone else's brain.

"If you care so much, you would have read my profile and the entire thread, endo/willow/whatever genics are valid plurals. But they arent systems. And they need to stop using terminology that isnt theirs."

If I care, or didn't, I'd do what I would do feel inclined to without your input about the quantity, see, that tactic doesn't work with me. "If you cared you'd have *insert flawed logic for your convenience* you do not get to tell anybody how to label themselves, you can agree or disagree, but you have no power over it, also the fact your response had, at the end of the day, been to another traumagenic system like const.

"If they dont want to claim dissociative disorders they cant claim our labels and terms. And if they are misinformed and spread that misinformation to other valuable minors the educated individuals need to speak out. "

Considering everything pointed out beforehand, whoever these. "Educated people" would be labeled as - per your purview, of course, don't have much to offer if you're anything to go by.

"Im not the most knowledgeable"

That's pretty apparent.

"m just who's here and who's agitated. Regardless, you could be arguing with a fucking psychology major next and youd still be on your shit"

Aw, there we go! Is the temper tantrum over? whose the first one who said someone needed a nap? c'mon, you know you need it. No. Sorry. I'm far more knowledgeable in the field of psychology than you are, you tried assuming my stance because I chose to call out your excuses to undermine somebody else's experiences, while pointing out your many argumentative fallings, there's the door, don't trip on the way out!

if you're pro contradictory labels but anti endo what the fuck are you doing bro

[smileymoth]

Hello! I absolutely love your art so much! Its so cute and just smol. So i basically saw your entire art on tumblr and i notice a little something, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it but im just curious, why havent you drawn tubbo yet? Its just super unusual to me to see an artist not draw tubbo even as a blob or smol cat. Again nothing wrong, just merely curious! Love the art, thank you for the tommyinnit and slimecicle+schlatt content, i barely see any cute drawings of them

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY FALSE AND SLANDER! I'VE DRAWN TUBBO *counts on fingers* 5 TIMES!

First time was a doodle to figure out how to draw him: source: .sai2 file titled "tubbo and barry" in the 2024>artworks>08august2024 folder

Second time was in my sketchbook when i was doodling pepega brigade source: trust me bro

The third time I drew him was posted 6th of August: source: link

Fourth time: I posted my doodle I did of them that I cant find the post of but the photo is taken on the 18th october.

Fifth time was for inktober day 20, posted october 21 source: link

[goozeghost]

ART pestering MB with riddles

(based on an actual conversation between my best friend and I)

[bumblingbabooshka]

The Pon Farr. T'Pring, let him eat you. [Patreon | Commissions]

[clumsypuppy]

i like him

[kerizaret]

When life revives your old hyperfixation, you make a crossover au with your new one. I don't make the rules

Full pages as bonus

[scificrows]

Okay, my brain refuses to think about anything other than Murderbot, so I looked at every use of the word "friend[s]" in TMBD and... created some pie charts. Normal human activities.

Some Thoughts™ I had while putting this together (under the cut):

In All Systems Red, Murderbot notes that the PresAux crew are all close friends (twice! and goes on to explain their internal relationships which I think is very cute). This is pretty much the only use of 'friends' in ASR, except for when Murderbot says that SecUnits can't be friends with each other.

It seems that this may be one of the first times Murderbot has ever really been around a group of friends before? Murderbot notes that this is not the norm for its contracts and admits that the fact that they are all friends and the way they interact with each other make it actually enjoy that contract (before!!!! the hostile attack, so it already enjoys this contract before they start seeing it as a person etc ghghhhh). [Inference: Friendship seems enjoyable.]

The first character that calls Murderbot its friend is ART in Artificial Condition. Murderbot immediately refutes this (and then goes on to call ART its friend to its clients for the rest of the book). [Inference: Maybe ART is Murderbot's friend. And maybe that is... agreeable]

Rogue Protocol has more than twice as many instances of the word 'friend' as any of the other novellas. Why? Miki. Friendship and its implications for non-humans are a central theme because Miki is friends with everyone. Murderbot initially scoffs at the notion that Miki and Miki's humans are friends. At the end of the book, after witnessing how desperately Don Abene tried to stop Miki from trying to save them, and her grief after its death, Murderbot has to admit that she had in fact been Miki's friend. [Inference: Humans can be friends with bots and can sincerely care about them]

In Exit Strategy, Murderbot tentatively uses the word "friends" for its humans for the first time (several times actually). It questions whether it can actually call them its friends or not and later realizes that it had been afraid what admitting that the humans are its friends would do to it. At the end of the book, Mensah tells Murderbot the PresAux crew are its friends, which is the first time a human has directly said that to it (at least on-page). [Inference: Humans can and want to be Murderbot's friends]

In Network Effect, Murderbot seems to be more habituated to the word 'friend', confidently calling ART and Ratthi its friends, like it is no longer just trying the concept on unsure if it fits. There are many instances in which other characters refer to MB as ART's friend or the other way around and Murderbot's humans refer to Murderbot as their friend several times. Generally, there seems to be less hesitancy, because yes, all of them are Murderbot's friends, why wouldn't they be. [Inference: SecUnits can have friends. This SecUnit has friends. They care about it a lot.]

Conclusion: The Murderbot Diaries tell the story of a construct that does not seem to consider the possibility of friendship for itself and is fine with that - until it accidentally starts caring a little too much and suddenly more and more people annex it as a friend (ew) to the point where it can no longer deny that this is happening and has to begrudgingly admit that yes, it has friends now and maybe that is actually not a bad thing.

[meamiki]

5% of a color headcanon.... two versions since b&w emphasizes the dagger more i think but i still like the warm tones ASFSADA

i am not biased towards rainbow daggers whatsoever i promise (lie)

((also friend is streaming now and im there too!! bit more info linked here, its rated mature tho))

[quibbs126]

While I was dealing with my headache, this thought came back to my head and I finally went and drew the comic to go with it

I admit, not very good drawings, but it’s poorly drawn comics for a reason, and you get the gist of it

For reference, I had this thought once of basically taking the Lil Petey thing from Dogman (because it was inspired by clips from the new movie that I still haven’t seen but want to), but making it Megatron/D-16

Featuring g1 Megatron’s design because g1 Megatron is absolutely the guy to do this, silly schemes like this are his bread and butter. He’s even made clones before, just not of himself (at least as far as I’ve seen). And they also work as intended, but for the sake of the joke

Though honestly I really like the idea of Megatron having a clone that’s his pre-war D-16 self, and the drama that can come with it from self reflection on who he is now. And potentially Optimus’ reaction to discovering this. I kind of don’t want to just leave at this silly comic

But where it directly goes from here, I’m not sure. Maybe Megatron kicks him out and Optimus finds him, and decides to take him back with him even if this is a tiny Megatron, because it’s not Megatron Megatron, just a younger version of him, and the regular is still causing problems

D-16 meanwhile isn’t really sure what’s going on, he’s just happy to be here. He does not have the life experience of Megatron to make him violent and evil, he’s just a little guy

Maybe Megatron gets him back and he and Optimus end up with a joint custody situation of D-16 here, like how I think it is with Lil Petey in Dogman (I haven’t actually read the series so I’m not sure on the details of the situation)

I don’t know, but I like this idea regardless of it being ripped straight from Dogman, let me have this. Or if anyone else wants to explore the idea, feel free, I don’t mind

[a-milgram-sideblog-396]

I was gonna make predictions about song of the prisoners but the only one I really have is that Kazui’s song is either called “Heart” (Half + Cat) or an even more obvious term for a submissive gay man

[keirientez]

band au rahhhhhhhhhhh

[r0semultiverse]

Happy 4/13, here's the Deltritan or Satyr Equivalent to Dragon Ball for their species and civilization.

[1-nexomon-a-day]

2/2/25 - Brumenie

[fvckw4d]

The concept of queerbaiting annoys me. I was told that it refers to a work of fiction pretending to cater to a queer audience but then pulling back from it to avoid alienating homophobes, which is an incredibly specific thing. But a lot of people seem to think that it instead means "any time there's any gay subtex, metaphor, or ambiguity" or "whenever something from 1995-2012 was being a normal amount of homophobic for the era."

[kamimint]

How I'm feeling so far #tbh