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it’s necessary to fight back against adult content bans obviously because it leads to queer bans, but also, you cannot forget that we must fight back against these bans because adults have the right to make and enjoy adult content. no credit card company has the right to censor what we look at. yes, this includes the “problematic kinks” and stuff you think is gross and bad. just as we deserve to be openly queer online, we deserve to enjoy adult content without fear of total censorship, and it’s absurd how few places there are to do that online nowadays

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Cyper: Master Cyclonis x Piper and why I think it's the best ship in Storm Hawks, everyone else is sleeping on it.

They match each other's personalities and interests

There is plenty of evidence in the show that they do have something going on.

Sheer missed opportunity.

Let's start with the basics.

Reason 1: Both Piper and Cyclonis are competitive intellectuals with similar obsessions in crystals and learning, Piper leans towards binging Atlases and Encyclopedias, she is a savant with Crystals but has limited book knowledge regarding them. Cyclonis is a genius. She is extremely inventive. Always innovating new ways to use crystals. Piper often marvels at Cyclonis’ inventions. Cyclonis respects Pipers sheer determination in learning Crysrals with barely a hint of a formal education. They compete to see who is the stronger Mage. And when Piper developed her own abilities, their rivalry deepened.

Interestingly enough, Piper has a dark streak. She's not averse to hypnotizing people if it makes things easier for her. Also, who the hell just casually has paralyzing crystals on their person? I rest my case, they both have darkness in them.

Ahem,

Reason 2: They canonically care about each other. It’s shown less from Piper’s side as they tend to have only short interactions save for the first time they meet. Storyboards had all but confirmed that Cyclonis is the one who concocted the storm that seperated Piper from her team. Which leads me to believe she might have also just been following them, invisibly most likely. She saves Piper as “Lark” and spends the rest of the day with Piper in disguise, chatting her up. They seemed to immediately hit it off in terms of shared interests.

Piper trusted her enough to take Lark onto the Condor and essentially give her a tour. When they get to Piper’s room, that’s when Cyclonis’ curiosity becomes a possible infatuation. She realizes Piper is not only someone versed with Crystals, but gifted. She admits she is actually lonely, and starts fumbling her cover, being overly defensive of her cloaker. Piper begins to suspect that Lark isn’t all that she seems, or perhaps did so earlier. Once they are flying, Cy’s impatience starts showing. And Piper’s suspicions are strengthened, only confirmed once Lark tries to keep her from telling the rest of the hawks about what they’d found.

This is where things get interesting.

Cyclonis changed her plan, I think she originally always planned to eliminate Piper. Once she’d established how important Piper was. But she instead takes a wild left turn and asks Piper to join her. Not serve her. Join her. As an equal. That’s huge. She’s essentially a dictator offering to cut her power in half for someone she just met.

That all but screams crush to me. Not to mention she laments her status’ isolation as she says “like you’d ever ask me to hang out” because her status and alignment makes the friendship she enjoyed all day impossible under normal circumstances.

Anyway, they scuffle, showing off their talents and apparently their knowledge of the other, getting to the moment that formed the bedrock of this ship for me.

The Oblivion Crystal

As an assassination tool, which Cyclonis intended it to be, it’s probably perfect. It instantly sends people to “oblivion” or whatever. Essentially the same as deleting them from existence. The sole condition being…you have to not care about who you are using it on.

That’s it, and for someone eliminating an enemy? It’s arguably perfect. No chance of killing allies. But Cyclonis was so desperate for connection and enamored with Piper that it didn’t work, (which btw, Piper knew it wouldn’t work since she does actually know Cyclonis).

Piper became important to her in a day. That’s how much they connected. She warps away, and we are robbed from seeing how this affected her afterwards, even though we do see how it affected Piper.

Piper is despondent, clearly she missed her “girlfriend” as she calls her later. Obviously not used in a romantic sense but it gives implications none the less.

Anywho, throughout the rest of the series, Cyclonis consistently, does not take the time to finish her off, often “saving her for last”. She seems to enjoy teasing Piper and Piper always takes the chance to do so back. Even during dire circumstances like the ending.

Anyway, that’s the “evidence” I have.

Reason 3: Missed opportunities and wasted potential. This is all the stuff I am trying to convey in my fic and my other works. The show feels like it’s almost avoiding the obvious full-length narrative that could have been told about these two.

Their shared interests, powers, and apparent destiny.

If the “binding” was actually a part of the lore from the get go. It would have been really cool to see Piper slowly discover her own nature. And what it means that she and Cyclonis are the only ones with these gifts. The show has so much missing lore that you can fill books with what we don’t know. (I literally have and so have many others). Their rivalry and the Lark deception should have been more prevalent and extended. Imagine how much better it would have been if the lie had gone on long enough for Cylonis to become conflicted. If she had more time to get even more deeply attached to Piper. Especially once Piper discovered her powers. (Restraining myself from mentioning my “Piper is a lost princess” theory).

Like, C’mon. Cyclonis desperately needed so much more screen time. If half of it was her in disguise it would recontextualize every single interaction Piper and “Lark” had throughout the whole series. If I could rewrite the whole show (an idea I play with constantly) then I would do that. It would also make the reveal more meaningful.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

ADDENDUM: I don’t know why but I always forget to mention the Icing scene from the wrestling warrior episode.

Piper is sneaking around while they are in Cyclonia and stealing the Master’s notes. Very opportunistic of her. She gets close to being caught and Aerrow goes to find her. They almost manage to get back to the group before being caught but they get crashed into by a snack cart with cake.

Piper gets back up with icing on her cheek, then Cyclonis WIPES IT OFF HER FACE AND SUCKS IT OFF HER FINGER! She even hums and smiles in approval the flavor before saying “Not bad, except for the sour Storm Hawks aftertaste…” like GIRL, what in the sapphic nonsense was that!?

Then Cyclonis captures them but specifically chose to keep Piper by her side (didn’t have her checked for crystals and only had 2 guards for her) while saying she’ll save Piper for last when watching Junko going nuts on Aerrow.

Then, they wrestle for seemingly no reason. Like, aren’t they mages? Isn’t Piper armed? Nope, guess it’s time to fight hand to hand and trade verbal barbs. Seriously, these two are so obvious.

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This post is about Disney, Elio and the truth.

Elio is already being labeled a disappointment at the box office and I don’t think it’s the movie’s fault.

Elio came out so fast, by the time people have heard of it, “the box office” has already cast its opinion on its apparent success. I’ll watch this movie later because it seems fun. But it’s Disney who is setting this up to fail. Not us. They just want to point to this movie and complain we don’t like original content so they can excuse pushing out garbage remake slop. Or worse, revisionist movies like the Lilo & Stitch that basically abandon the central themes of the original for what’s essentially propaganda.

Disney has been, and always will be, the main culprit as to why. Beloved fan classics fail. Look to Treasure Planet. They’ve done this before.

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I just watched this movie and it stole all of my heart!

-Not a single bad song

-Lovable and complex characters

-Excellent dynamics

-Hilarious and perfect animation

K-pop demon hunters 💜🩵💖✨🎶👹

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Remember, when the nazis come, they will not look like the Nazis they showed us in school, they will look like the nazis we saw on the news.

They will wear badges.

They will hold batons.

They will say one thing and do another.

They will demand respect and obedience and give none in return.

So do not give them a fucking inch.

SHIELD • YOUR • NEIGHBORS

Those of you in Los Angeles-- remember our city's entire foundation is built on the diversity of our population. Just like any other city, without it's citizens, we are nothing.

Fuck corporations, governments and tyrants.

Protect your neighbors at all costs.

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God why am I already shipping nightreign characters?

The Recluse and Duchess (Weekly Sketch Poll Winner)

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This is a funny manga comic I found on Reddit

“Human Crashlanded on a Furry Planet”

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Fucking brilliant

😭🍍

commissions open :)

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Omg eeeeeeeee💕💕💕💕💕🥰🥰🥰

Them 💜🧡 (really happy with this one)

commissions open :)

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Hehe, nerd

My daily contribution to this fandom

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Eeeeeeek! I love it! 🥰

If Master Cyclonis is so evil then why is she so damn cute!

commissions open :) pls I'm poor

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Subject 106/Raven yaoi

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Yo! Me and the illustrious @wary-taru did another collab! They did the art. I did the writing. Feel free to check it out! Highly recommend commissioning them!

Sleepy time 💕✨💤

Commissions open :)

My friends fic based on this piece 'Cuddle Her' by @voltsparrow

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Crystal Theory: The Binding, The One, and Everything

Alright everyone, the time has finally come to step onto the slippery slope and delve into the depths of uncertainty and various interpretations. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Today we’re gonna break down the Crystals and everything connected to them. We’ll even talk about the Medulla Crystal, by the way.

Crawling through the tag, I see you guys like to tell each other scary stories, like the Medulla Crystal is made of - get this! - actual BRAIN. Talk about nightmare fuel! >:D

Also, while lurking on a foreign website, I stumbled upon a really interesting take that the Aerrow and Piper duo were destined to be, like, the messiahs in our favorite show (hey there, I know you’re reading this >:D).

But to me, there’s something missing in all of this, like we’re seeing everything but still missing something super important. And now we’re gonna try to figure out what exactly that important thing could have eluded us. Let’s go.

Review of Hints

So, if you’ve been paying attention to the show, you’re probably aware of all the basics, such as, for example, that crystals can possibly be manufactured (episode “The Masked Masher”). But that’s not enough, we need new information. Let’s try to extract it from the hints that Mr. Asaph Fipke so kindly provided us. Let’s review them.

Our first stop is the episode “The Black Gorge”. Let’s remember the plot: our heroes decided to fly over the Black Gorge, but “something” sucked the energy out of their crystals and they fell down. But Piper found a solution:

She launched the Condor using this crystal, since the Black Gorge doesn’t affect it for some reason. Let’s remember this, it’ll come in handy.

Our next stop is the episode “Storm Warning”. Again, let’s remember the plot: the heroes stole a box of Leech Crystals, which steal energy, from the Cyclonians, and they discharged the Condor’s crystals. However, Piper again saved the situation by telling Stork to get rid of the crystals.

As we can see, as soon as Stork put the crystals in the isolator, the energy miraculously fully restored, and the Condor was able to take off. Let’s remember this and move on.

Our next stop is in the episode “The Lesson”. Let’s carefully watch what Arygyn will do now:

Let’s not get stuck on it, let’s remember it and move on.

Now let’s take a closer look at the episode “Five Days”. This time, there’s not much to comment on, it’s enough just to see it once:

Someone sees a glimmer of kindness in our beloved Master Cyclonis in this scene, while others quite reasonably ask: “who made that picture?” For us, it’s important that a photo can be stored in a crystal. Let’s remember this.

Our last stop is in the episode “The Key”. In this episode, we are introduced to the Binding.

We won’t dwell on them too much, just note that the abilities transferred through them are very reminiscent of the properties of some crystals. Let’s remember this and move on to the next step.

Fundamental Principle of How Crystals Work

So, let’s write down what we learned:

The Black Gorge somehow absorbs the energy of crystals, but does not affect the Solaris Crystal

If you drain the energy from crystals, and then remove the absorber, the energy of the crystals is immediately restored

Arygyn can turn off a crystal

Photos can be stored in crystals

Some abilities transmitted through Binding resemble the abilities of crystals

The inputs have been received. Now we can try to interpret them. I propose to do this with the following three postulates:

Postulate One: Information Can Be Stored in Crystals

This postulate is probably obvious, but its significance is far from obvious. For now, let’s focus on the fact that, in addition to photos, it should be possible to store, for example, a control program for a Suit of Untold Vengeance in a crystal.

Judging by the fact that the Medulla Crystal affects the user, we can assume that it is controlled using a neuro-interface, and the Medulla Crystal acts as a kind of “intermediary.” But that’s not important to us. Let’s move on to the next postulate:

Postulate Two: All Crystals, Without Exception, are Energy Receivers

Even the Solaris Crystal. It may sound crazy, but this assumption is fully consistent with what we see. If crystals receive energy from somewhere outside, then the miraculous restoration of energy after Stork hid the box in the isolator requires no explanation, and turning off in the Black Gorge can be compared to losing signal on a cell phone when you are outside the coverage area. However, the Solaris Crystal is still incomprehensible, as is the scene with Arygyn, so let’s move on to the final postulate:

Postulate Three: Binding is a Channel Through Which Crystals Receive Energy

So, the last postulate is quite straightforward. The scene with Arygyn should now become a little clearer, but the Solaris Crystal still requires explanation. Apparently, crystals are constantly and continuously in Binding, otherwise they would have turned off in the Black Gorge once and for all, as Arygyn seems to have done. However, in this case, we will have to assume that the analogy with cellular communication is not entirely correct, and in the “poor coverage area” the Binding simply weaken, but do not disappear completely. Weakening, they cannot provide the Condor’s take-off and the operation of the main systems, but are still able to maintain the Solaris Crystal in working order. The function of the Solaris Crystal is to accumulate solar energy; to store it, it uses the energy received from Binding. Most likely, there is not enough energy in one crystal to lift the Condor into the air, so the following explanation suggests itself: with the help of the energy accumulated by the Solaris Crystal, you can “strengthen” the weakened Binding. Apparently, this is exactly what Piper meant; in any case, this seems like a plausible explanation.

Binding and Information

According to the third postulate, this technique should be perceived as a temporary transformation of the user into a crystal. How exactly such a transformation occurs, I, unfortunately or fortunately, do not want to and will not explain, so let’s immediately move on to “unique” crystals, for example, this one:

According to the first postulate, to make this artifact, we need to record a “spell” - let’s call it that so as not to drown in the wilderness - of transforming an object into cheese in the crystal. This example is indicative, but other “unusual” crystals work in a similar way. We won’t dwell on them, let’s move on to the next point.

Source of energy

So, we assumed that crystals receive energy from somewhere outside. This entails the assumption that somewhere on Atmos there must be a source of energy for all crystals without exception. Drawing an analogy with cellular communication and, in principle, with radio waves, it is quite logical to assume that the source of all crystalline energy should resemble the TV towers and antennas familiar to us. Following this logic, the purpose of this structure becomes quite transparent:

Somewhere at this moment, an image of an incredibly advanced civilization may arise in your head, possibly reaching or very close to type 1 on the Kardashev scale, which built this transmitter to meet its energy needs. However, despite the fact that this conclusion seems logical, there are no explicit indications in the canon that this is the source of energy. With the same probability, it may be, for example, the core of the planet, and then the image of an incredibly advanced civilization will have to be seriously revised, and the purpose of this structure will remain a mystery. But whatever the source turns out to be in the end, our assumption leads us to a problem that we will now try to solve.

The One

In the episode “Origins”, this character claims that Piper is “the One”. The meaning of his words remains very, very vague to this day, but now we can try to assume what is behind them. First, you should ask an important question: since we assume that all crystalline energy is transmitted through Binding, then why are crystals needed at all on Atmos? You can just train “crystal mages” who will use Binding with the energy source, and no one will know grief. And so it turns out that this statement fits very conveniently into the picture of the world that we have just outlined. Thanks to it, we can assume that not just anyone is able to use Binding directly with the energy source, which is why they need crystals in order to be able to use this energy at all. Thus, I propose the following interpretation of these words: Piper is the primary crystal mage, that is, able to use Binding directly with the energy source. Master Cyclonis, in this case, will be a secondary crystal mage, that is, able to use Binding with crystals already connected to the source, but not directly to it. I believe this explanation is exhaustive, so we can move on to the final part of this analysis.

Piper’s Illness

Well, the moment has come to try to jump above our heads and stretch the facts to make our interpretations work on Atmos. Based on the third postulate, her illness can be explained as follows: Binding themselves are harmful to health, and their constant use will inevitably lead the user to such an outcome. However, Piper did not use Binding for 6 weeks and still got sick, and Cyclonis uses it like there’s no tomorrow and nothing happens to her from this. It is impossible to explain this just like that; we need a new entity. In order not to be completely unfounded, let’s try to derive it from these scenes:

We see that as soon as this aura covered Piper, she immediately felt better, and that Cyclonis clearly knows something that Piper doesn’t know (and doesn’t want to tell us). In order not to go beyond the third postulate, we will have to assume that secondary crystal mages, passing crystalline energy through themselves, cannot fully control it. Even after interrupting Binding, a residual charge remains in them, which, if not removed, will sooner or later bring any crystal mage to this state. Thus, I assume that Cyclonis, unlike Piper, knew that deactivation was needed to work with Binding. And in our case, Leech Crystals can act as deactivators. As for Piper’s healing, in that case we will have to assume that at this moment she used Binding directly with the energy source, thereby removing the residual charge. It sounds very doubtful, but there seems to be no better option…

So, I don’t think I’ve forgotten anything. If you’ve read this far and haven’t died of boredom, then congratulations. I do not claim to be the ultimate truth, just thoughts out loud.

Thank you all for your attention, bye.

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Love them

What? Hedgehog yuri on my page?? 🤯🤯

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I have written a ShenWolf fic on a whim and now am addicted to writing them more.

Reincarnation Chapter 1

This fic takes place right after the ending of Kung fu Panda 2.

Shen finds himself alive when he shouldn't be. Both he and his savior now have to contend with abandoning their previous lives and starting over again.

Aka: I want the wolf and his overly dramatic peacock powerbottom ex-boyfriend to retire together as husband and "wife".

Enjoy!

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OMG! THANK YOU!!!

H-Hi there, Master Cyclonis. I would humbly ask about your thoughts on the Storm Hawk Piper. As well as your feelings about what happened with the Oblivion crystal. Your highness.

“Piper is an exceptional crystal mage. I studied years to learn the techniques I know now, yet she’s able to teach herself everything without a single book.”

She grimaces at the mention of the oblivion crystal incident, subtly glaring and looking away. “…All you’ll get out of me is that it was a drastic action that I didn’t consider the consequences of, back then…”