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if you haven't yet succumbed to the rockstar!eddie/bodyguard!steve brainrot that has taken over my life on twt. welcome

this is a scene from flight risk by @sayesayes which is EVERYTHING i wanted from this au so i've got more art to go with it on the way !!!! this one is for a chapter that isn't out quite yet as a little teaser so yeah UHHHH go read it

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What’s better than this? Just guys bein dudes

[ID: art of Eddie and Steve from stranger things. They’re kneeling on a duvet, pressed thigh to chest and sharing a kiss. Steve looks serene and Eddie is wryly flipping off the viewer. Steve is shirtless and wearing green gym shorts. Eddie is in boxers and Steve’s yellow sweater. End ID]

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help

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#relatable

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Steddie learning the dirty dancing lift

i might went a little ham over this

bonus:

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I just needed to visualize it for gods sake

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his hugs seem so comforting and safe like you'd forget all your problems and worries while you're in his arms and just feel... at ease.

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Donovan Desmond

As the reader, we know very little about Donovan Desmond.

We know that he is the Chairman of the National Unity Party of Ostania, making him a dangerous threat to peace if he plans to use his position to reignite the war. Unfortunately, due to his reclusive and secretive nature, it’s unclear where he currently stands on the efforts for peace, thus explaining why it’s necessary for W.I.S.E. to send in one of their top spies to acquire this information.

But so far, we have yet to be introduced to the main antagonist of this story. Yes, we’ve been getting by on the Villain of the Week formula since day one, be it acts of domestic terrorism or a simple hurdle at Eden Academy. We also have the slow burn relationship of Loid and Yor, as well as if/when they will figure out each other’s secret lives. But there is one big piece to this story missing, and it belongs to Anya.

Anya has extraordinary abilities that came about through human experimentation. The narrator said she was “created by accident” by an unknown organization operating under the pursuit of world peace, and gave her the code name “Test Subject 007”. Somehow, she escaped the facility and was placed in an orphanage.

As the reader, this is all the information we have on Anya’s origins. It’s been insinuated that she has repressed most of her memories from before she arrived at the orphanage, including that of her birth mother. She may not even remember her actual age, everyone mentions that she’s very small for a six year old. But she remembers the scientists, and their cruel and unfeeling treatment of her. Now that she has been adopted by Loid and has learned of his mission, she is trying to use her powers to bring about world peace. One of the only other small clues we have been given of her previous life is that she is well versed in “classical language”. A fact that even Loid thinks is strange, since it’s borderline a dead language and isn’t something an average child would have learned before starting school.

But how does Donovan Desmond fit into all of this?

I noticed something strange: while Anya knows the primary mission is to get Loid into Donovan’s social circle, she doesn’t actually know who Donovan is. She knows Damian, and she knows that Donovan is a very important man who controls the future of their country. But she’s never actually seen him in real life, just a distorted version of him from Loid’s mind-play.

Anya missed out on the only other time she could have met Donovan because she fell asleep and was taken home by Becky and her guardian before Donovan arrived. Giving Loid a chance to introduce himself to Donovan when he came looking for Anya.

So how does Donovan Desmond connect to Anya Forger?

What if the human experimentation lab Anya grew up in wasn’t your average crime operation? What if it was secretly funded and run by members of the government, sort of in a Stranger Things and Black Widow fashion? Anya remembers the scientist tell her she needed to strengthen her abilities for the sake of world peace. But one man’s world peace is another man’s genocide.

My theory: Donovan Desmond has zero interest in creating a peace between Ostania and Westalis. In fact, he believes that Westalis is inferior to Ostania and wants to wipe it off the map. It’s been made clear that he has no interest in empathizing with other people, even his own children. So he started and funded these labs in an effort to create super soldiers to fight in the war and to infiltrate Westalis, but Anya was the first and only child to produce inhuman abilities. Even with Donovan’s reclusive nature, if he was the brains behind the operation, he would’ve made occasional visits to the lab to observe its progress. Meaning Anya would have most likely met him in the past before she escaped the lab.

I believe we’re building up to the big reveal when Anya and Donovan finally meet, that they will remember each other from their shared past. Making it clear to Donovan that not only has Anya been living right under his nose this whole time, but Loid isn’t who he claims to be, since he told Donovan he is Anya’s biological father. This would jeopardize Operation Strix and put W.I.S.E. at risk of being revealed. Donovan may even believe that Loid knows Anya can read minds, and was using her to infiltrate his household through his own son. Either way, Anya’s life will be in danger. No way would Donovan let Anya roam freely, he would want to get her back. And by extension, he would need to get rid of her fake parents.

Donovan is more dangerous than he appears to be, and has the power to throw the country into war again. This will inevitably boil over into an all out battle between W.I.S.E. and Donovan Desmond for the future of these two countries.

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I think the delay isn’t due to any one thing. In truth, I believe that the reason they were able to turn out RWBY on such a fast, regular schedule was, unfortunately, due to the crunch. As in, RT compelling it’s animation staff to work extremely long hours, each with a heavy workload, to complete every season of RWBY. The company has admitted to using these harsh practices in the past. And with the pandemic, they made it clear that the animation department was given every accommodation it needed to keep producing work at a comfortable pace. But that also means that this more relaxed pace isn’t going to put out episodes as quickly. Especially since the department was going through a change of leadership and infrastructure just before the pandemic began. It was probably a very difficult transition. RWBY vol. 8 was a bit slow coming out too, vol. 9 is just an extension of this. Is it ideal? No. But is it in the best interest of all the staff members working on the show? Absolutely.

TL/DR: The delay isn’t a conspiracy, it’s just about doing what’s best for the employees working on the show. That includes the work happening at a slower yet more practical pace so no one has to undergo a work crunch.

so it's not a new delay with different reason, it's the same bigger delay that happened a long time ago. gotcha.

...what's it about though? 👀

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Sonic The Hedgehog 3: Fan Cast

(I’m tired, I’ve got a broken finger, and I’m delirious from pain killers. So I’m taking no criticism.)

Amy Rose- Diane Guerrero (Vocal Chameleon)

Shadow The Hedgehog- Jason Griffith (The OG)

Maria Robotnik- Lulu Wilson (Come on, look at her.)

Rouge The Bat- Zoe Saldaña (😍😍😍)

Gerald Robotnik- Willem Dafoe (He’s something of a scientist himself)

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Too rageful to be eloquent right now so the words of others will have to suffice for the moment.

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This is monstrous. What she is proposing is a literal crime against humanity.

No exaggeration. No hyperbole. One of the justices of the Supreme Court is proposing that the country should violate human rights en masse.

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I 100% agree. Before the Sonic Boom era, Knuckles was never depicted as being stupid.

Was he especially gullible and tricked into doing work for the bad guys on more than one occasion? Yes. But what the bad guys consider gullible, the audience is supposed to see that despite being the last of his species and tasked with a job no child should have to do alone, Knuckles still believes in the best in people. He has a big heart and goes out of his way to try and help people in need.

And here, Knuckles is just a kid in a foreign world doing his best to reclaim what he believed belonged to his ancestors. But of course, the first person he takes a leap of faith to trust is a maniac hell bent on galactic domination, that’s not his fault. Knuckles has been raised to believe that Sonic was his ultimate foe, training his whole life to fight him for the Master Emerald. And at the end when Knuckles is at his lowest point and just so emotionally lost, Sonic is there to pick him up.

There was just so much growth in this movie, it literally brought tears to my eyes.

Sonic movie 2 Knuckles is my new favorite character because the movie actually goes out of its way to show that he's not stupid. Every "dumb" decision he makes, you can clearly see the context of.

Did Eggman trick him into working for him? It wasn't just a simple trick- Knuckles already had serious motivation to go after Sonic, Eggman's interference was just coincidental and in his eyes mutually beneficial.

"Oh, those are stairs"- the way the shot is filmed has us in the audience totally convinced that Eggman's betrayal will come early, so it makes total sense for Knuckles to assume the same thing.

"I have smashed tiny magic Sonic"- so Knuckles is watching and learning from Jim Carrey Eggman, who is exceptionally poor at communicating expectations, and he sees Eggman begin trying to pound this image of Sonic and not be successful. You can see Knuckles watching and trying to figure out the best solution, and with the evidence given, with Eggman's sincere attempts at trying to quash the model, it makes total sense for him to smash it himself.

I also greatly appreciates that the movie foreshadows Knuckles' redemption from the very beginning. They could have easily done a last minute "you saved my life now I'm honor bound to help you" bit, but they take the time to show that something about Sonic is really forcing Knuckles to think about his position throughout the entire movie. There's so much care and intent put into Knuckles' characterization and motivation. The movie is so much more intelligent than a sequel to the sonic movie had any right to be.