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A Team Chaotix Special for the Sonic Big Bang! Featuring my art for @mintenby's work, "Just Winging It"

Also, shoutout to @noah-slasher for also making an art piece too. Go check 'em out!

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Here is my piece done for @pixelated-perfectionist's fic "Rustbucket Brigade," which you can read on Ao3 here! @carelessapples was the other artist on this fic with me, be sure to go check out their work.

This piece was done as part of the 2025 @sthbigbang

And an additional piece that I started working on before shifting over to my other idea ^^

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Sonic Big Bang 2025!

for the fun fic by @mintenby! Be sure to check out the other piece for this fic by @alydacat!!

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Hey gamers

Guess who was in StH Big Bang again?

To the surprise of absolutely nobody, I wrote about the Chaotix again! I just love them too much not to! So, I happily present Just Winging It!!

And, of course, a huge shoutout to the lovely artists who made GORGEOUS pieces for this work, @alydacat and @noah-slasher! It was such an honor to work with both of them!! Please check out their pieces and give them some love! (Still going feral over them as I post...)

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I'm so here for the Donkey Kong adoptive dad arc

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Screenshot of Sonic the Hedgehog 30th Anniversary Special: Seasons of Chaos

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i had a thought of "do people not know what AUs are anymore?" and then i remembered nobody explains fandom stuff to new people anymore so it is entirely plausible people genuinely don't know what AUs are and nobody has explained it to them, so for today's lucky 10,000:

"AU" stands for "Alternate Universe" or "Alternative Universe" (same difference) and is basically any thought scenario for a fandom that isn't canon and can't fit within the canon universe. If it takes place in the canon universe but something is notably different, that is typically what's known as a "Canon divergent AU," because it diverges from canon.

an AU can be absolutely anything. There's a couple of widespread pan-fandom au scenarios that often get thrown around, like coffee shop aus, genderbend aus, hanahaki aus (hanahaki is a whole thing in itself i'd recommend researching on your own), etc. One you might hear sometimes is "crossover AU" which is when you have characters from one fandom interacting with characters from another.

You can have as many aus as you want. They can be whatever you want and you can do whatever you want in them. It's a sandbox for you to play around in and explore how things would be different or how the characters would act in those circumstances or environments. Maybe they have different relationships with each other. Maybe they behave slightly differently. Or you can just say "Okay, [x] is true. How did they get here? How would things have to be different for this to occur?" which can also be fun.

If you are ever confused about why people ship something that seems completely out of the blue or doesn't make sense to you in the canon setting, there's a good chance they like it in an AU setting! Not everything everybody is interacting with is necessarily the canon! Not everybody wants things to exist in canon and just want to explore playing dolls in a different sandbox and that's okay. And their sandbox might look a lot different than yours, and that's also okay. You have the freedom to make your sandbox whatever you please. Do whatever you want forever. Get funky with it. AUs are fun.

Okay that's my schpeal. everybody go have fun and play nice now.

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Reblog to give prev the power to write their fanfiction

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Visit Norway!

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this is about procrastinating. or executive dysfunction. i think

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you know a joke that never EVER gets old is when a character says smth like “I will NOT go to [place] and that is FINAL” and then it cuts to them in that place I eat that shit up every single time

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please bro beat the shit out of me I need it for enrichment

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bro thought he was safe from the headcanon beam WRONG

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for $1 name your favourite fictional lesbian. and no "straight female character popularly fanonized as a lesbian" or "this male character is a lesbian to me" allowed

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if you ever find yourself thinking “wow I scraped the bottom of the barrel with my energy with that and came out okay!” that’s the devil talking. you did not come out okay. you borrowed energy from the future. you will repay it if you don’t rest and replenish the borrowed energy first.