hey, remember being 18 years old and playing mass effect for the first time and it's got this like intense aura of being very small and very insignificant in a very big, very empty galaxy? remember playing mass effect for the first time and everything all of this is so new and mysterious, and it's 2am and you're sitting in a dark room in the light from your tv and you're playing through feros for the first time and you feel that this is someting very old and very ancient and you are somewhere you shouldn't be and you don't know what's going to happen or where you're going but you keep on. there's a tingling in your stomach and you're playing mass effect for the first time. the thorian is a milennia old sentient plant being. the rachni queen is old and telepathic and a hive mind and in pain. sovereign is an ancient machine that has not been built but is, and has always been, and this is something so alien and so unlike and beyond anything your human mind can comprehend, and this is something unexplainable and huge and as uncaring and indifferent as the empty galaxy around you. you're playing mass effect for the first time and you're walking on the surface of an almost completely empty planet with nothing but your two companions silently walking beside you and everything is so huge and empty and silent and you're so small and insignificant and it's so beautiful and so scary and you feel like you are on a rollercoaster about to drop down. you are playing mass effect for the first time and you're playing the mission on the moon and you stop and just look up at earth visible in the sky. you know this. this is home. you are playing mass effect for the first time, and the galaxy is so big, and you are so tiny, and everything is about to change for you.
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Honestly Ben 10 is probably one of the most based science fiction series out there by sheer virtue of it having the balls to showcase any alien concept it wanted to no matter how ridiculous, and whenever someone is like “there’s no way in Hell that could ever be scientifically feasible”, it dared to look them in the eyes and go “Yeah, well, this is a world where magic and superpowered mutants also exist. What are you gonna do? Cry about it? You grown ass adult who’s expecting scientific feasibility out of a cartoon meant to sell toys to preteen boys that has lore so inconsistent it’s almost impossible to tell what’s canon and what’s non-canon? LMAO loser.”
I mean OS had it all- obviously aliens but not only that, at minimum 10 of them; mutants in daily life across at least America, no doubt in other places too; magic, albeit one without a system beyond ‘there’s a spellbook and some charms’. The shift to purely alien in AF makes the wonderful nonsense sci-fi stuff into frustrating logic trees of ‘how does xenobiology get this powerful’ which I had definitely fallen into. Ben 10 is unabashedly science fantasy, so why not go the full fantasy and bring back mutants and magic, haha!
Admittedly a good implementation of magic in a series tends to follow a magic system, which I’m not especially great at coming up with, especially in comparison to speculative biology which come with pre-established rules. But hey, I don’t exactly expect it to be fleshed out, at least not as well as the alien aspect of Ben 10; even then, there’s only so much fleshed out, it’s to tease us into making lore for it lmao-
To be fair though, Ben 10 itself had to whack itself on the cheek in order to be reminded of its magic and especially mutant parts, which unfortunately in the latter case was central to major retcons so…
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it is Scarecrow appreciation time + SAR resentment
Look at him! My copper colored, 4-armed, strong, helpful bf! I love how he, unlike Robot, still has his scarlet eye even though hes friends with the Robinsons. And he didnt change his form either. I love the color on him too ejdhhedhd
...wait a minute THATS NOT SCARECROW HOLD ON THATS SAR THAT SONUVAB****
I'm so glad he dies at the end because MAN DOES HE DESERVE IT
This smug mf. Unfeeling funny looking tin man hope you get squashed and turn into rust in Hell you evil creature deteriorate into dust you simpleton.
"I will set you free" bro what this is why I'm glad Robot came after your flat looking b**** arse. Ugly looking metal chair I wanna fold you and then yeet you into the sun and I will watch happily as you explode into particles and melt coming out looking like a plastic surgery gone wrong
If ur fav character is SAR that alone is a red flag
look at him! look at Scarecrow!
Mf I said LOOK
He just wanna say sup
I would look into his eye everyday every moment frrrrr so sparkly I wanna hug him AND HE CAN BE A HEATER MY MAN IS THE DELUXE PACKAGE AND MOREEE
I would look like a ant next to him but it's fine I'll be the skinny gf and he can be the buff gf ❤
wait what no he didnt get his neck snapped he still alive tf you mean 🤨
*rages in denial*
credits to creator, I couldn't find them 😭
But whoever you are, lemme kiss YOU for making this master piece
Robot is a male wife shut up idc what you say
Ok I'm done ranting about Lost In Space (or am I buahahaha)
Oh and if u havent watched it (how tf u did not watch it is concerning) you def should it's such a wonderful show
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OOO for the mini playlist ask game: how would you feel about us sending a ship name? mine is hirael :]c
I'd love to do it for ship names too ^.^ I love hirael as a ship name also it flows so smoothly :~) This playlist ended up with soft nostalgic "end of summer" vibes <3
H | Hanare, Banare - Fullkawa Honpo ft. Buzzpanda
I | If I Were - Vashi Bunyan (also linking same but different since they flow into one another)
R | River Low | Shugo Tokumaru (this one I personally consider to be more middle of summer than end but also I'm the only person who cares about this distinction </3)
A | A Gift from the Sky | Dido ( I linked this one for a music meme on my main too but u have to understand. I just like it a lot.)
E | Empty | Livetune ft. Yanagi Nagi (I actually have this song linked in my carrd... it's been on my mind again lately)
L | Lost and Found (Band Remaster Ver.) ft. Hatsune Miku + Mami + Perio
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