#<- only a valid source when its funny

[getting-spooky-on-a-friday-night]

*Radford, bumping into shit while looking for his glasses* *the glasses are right next to Kevin* Kevin: Should...should we help him? Rick:...No. Let him figure this out.

[alexiroflife]

"phobia"

i literally can't stop writing for this mf, flufffff :(

satoru gojo x reader

Synopsis: you are an incredibly talented sorcerer, but your deadly fear of spiders tends to interfere with your daily life every now and then. it doesn't help when you happen to encounter a curse that looks just like one

to sum it up: satoru is always there for you to kill a spider when you need him to

WC: 2,764

Warning(s): arachnophobia, icky spiders

The burden of a Jujutsu Sorcerer was taxing beyond comprehension, which of course was why it paid so well.

Sorcerers were expected to give their lives each day within the battlefield, watching as their comrades and the people they were expected to protect die left and right at the hands of the morbid amalgamations of human beings’ worst possible fears, anxieties, doubts, and other nasty negative emotions.

To be a sorcerer was to sacrifice oneself, to accept death before it inevitably took its toll on those around you, and then eventually, on you yourself. This was why sorcerers were expected and trained to be strong, fierce, and with perhaps a few screws loose in their heads to allow them to plow full force into danger with no fears and no regrets. 

Sorcerers were meant to be fearless.

And in many ways, you truly were. You were a first grade sorcerer, more than capable of handling yourself in the face of adversity. You were proficient, quick on your feet, merciless when you had to be, and above all, you were confident in your abilities, which was just as important of a trait to have as a sorcerer as courageousness. 

You were a proud woman, content that you could put your skills to good use by aiding those who were weak and helpless, by saving as many lives as you could alongside your colleagues at Jujutsu Tech. 

You were a damn good sorcerer too, only, there remained a small matter that often seemed to creep up on you at the worst of times. Something you had tried desperately to overcome through years of training, therapy, private meetings with Yaga, and more. Something that had been clinging to you since the very moment you were born, and something you were still somehow unable to completely escape well into your twenty-sixth year of life. 

And that was your deathly fear of spiders.

You admitted that it was silly, that to have made it this far within the world of sorcery after having encountered more horrors than most people could imagine, a little fear of spiders was completely absurd. You knew it didn’t make any sense, that this fear of yours was beneath you, but that didn’t stop you from shrieking horribly and seeking shelter each time you saw a spider crawling along the wall of your apartment. 

You knew that you should have had more patience with yourself, for there was no way of conquering a fear if you refused to acknowledge it as valid, but come on. You were a grade 1 sorcerer for god’s sake, a professor at Jujutsu High teaching students to cast their fears aside to focus their emotions and energies into properly honing in on their techniques, yet you still couldn’t get over being squeamish any time you saw those little demons hurdling their way over the earth. 

In your mind, they were far worse than curses, a source of terror that must have been executed. 

Nevertheless, you kept your fears to yourself for the sake of your occupation and reputation. The only person who knew anything about this vulnerability of yours was your boyfriend, Satoru, and even he found it funny at times to tease you about such a small thing in a world plagued by monsters and curse-users. He had seen you slice open a curse all the way down the middle of its body with a blank face, blood spattering in all directions, but spiders were what got you. 

While he poked fun, he still harbored an understanding that beneath the hardened exterior sorcerers were forced to put up, you were all born of flesh and blood just as any other living being on this planet. 

Satoru was quick to rush to your apartment whenever you called him screaming, standing atop your bed and jumping up and down on your cushions in fear upon catching sight of one of those nasty things. He would throw your door open, catch you in your rather comical position, and hold back a fit of laughter upon seeing you.

“SATORU, SHUT UP AND JUST KILL IT! PLEASE!”

“Calm down, pretty, it’s not gonna hurt you,” he would say, a sickening smirk gracing his gorgeous features. “You’ve faced much worse things than this.”

“I don’t care!” you’d sob. “Just kill it please!”

And once he was finished picking on you, he’d hurry to your aid, approaching the bug in the corner and flicking his finger, rendering the creature dead. 

Then afterwards, he’d always hold out his arms for you to jump down into them once you determined it was safe, cooing into your ear as you threw your arms and legs around him, his hand holding your head. 

“You were so brave, baby. Good job, you got through it.”

It was humbling, to say the least, for the strongest to witness you in such a weak state, but despite Satoru’s teasing, he still took you very seriously. He didn’t diminish your strengths or your worths because of a simple fear. Hell, he had fears that he had buried deep within his gut that only you could drag out of him, and that was okay. Satoru poked fun, but he never judged his precious girl for feeling. 

After all, he enjoyed the fact that you were comfortable enough to let him see you in such a light after long days of having to be strong, just like him. He liked that he could help you with this one thing, even if it meant teleporting into your room at two in the morning on a work day. As long as he was taking care of you, he didn’t care less what you needed. When you needed him, he would be at your aid within a heartbeat. 

And in this moment, you really, really did need him.

Yaga had sent you on a quick solo mission to eradicate a few low grade curses at a nearby summer camp facility while most of the other sorcerers were busy with training or on leave for other missions. It was a quick and easy task for you, granted that your grade was much higher than those of the curses you would be exorcizing.

Only, what Yaga failed to inform you, and likely did not know or care about, was that one of these particular curses was unlike the rest. While you easily winded through the three other creatures, the very last one at the end of the corridor caught you by surprise. 

Your face was hardened as you whipped your head around, sensing the presence of the last curse within the space. Once your eyes landed on the source of the cursed energy, however, your face dropped and your eyes shrank in terror.

There before you cowered a three foot tall dark purple curse which took an arachnoid shape, with an array of beady red eyes atop its head and eight hair legs digging into the wood of the floorboards. Your heart dropped and your mouth ran dry, your body freezing in its tracks. You couldn’t move, you couldn’t think, you couldn’t do anything. Of all the first grade curses you had come across in your lifetime, this grade 3 creature would be the very first thing that stood between you and seeing the light of day.

The curse hissed, chattering its chelicerae-like mouth as its legs tapped restlessly against the floor, sending a horrid shiver up your spine. You were stronger than this, braver than this, you knew you were, but your legs had gone to jelly and your heart was pounding in your ears. Perhaps if you had been given a warning ahead of time. you would have been able to approach this threat differently, but instead, much to your shame, you took off in the opposite direction once your legs willed you to move. 

You could hear it crawling after you down the hall, screeching out nonsensical sounds as it rounded the corner to follow you. You were quick to duck into the first room you saw, slamming the door shut behind you and pressing your back against the surface. You searched the room in a panic, which you discovered to be a dorm, and ran to take cover in a closet in the corner.

You trembled, sinking down to the bottom of the platform as heavy, panicked breaths wracked your body. This was pathetic. This was humiliating. You were better than this, but god, this fear, those damned spiders would always get the best of you, despite how hard you tried to help it. 

You were trembling, squeezing your eyes shut as whimpers spilled from your quivering lips. That thing was so big, bigger than any spider you had encountered, and while you understood it was a curse, it looked far too real. 

You didn’t know what to do. You had to finish this mission, and the principal wouldn’t accept a sorry excuse about you being too afraid to exorcize a curse because it looked like a spider for an answer as to why you would come running back to the school. It sounded ridiculous! Especially for someone with your skill. 

You could hear the creature running up and down the halls erratically, its gross legs clicking against the walls. You pressed your lips together tightly, wrapping your arms around yourself. You wanted this to stop.

Hesitantly, you reached into the pocket of your uniform to shakily pull out your phone. You breathed out heavily, on the verge of a panic attack, trembling fingers dialing your boyfriend’s number with his. You lifted the phone to your ear and listened to it ring.

Then it clicked.

“Hello? Baby?” Satoru’s comforting voice spoke into the phone, a sigh of relief escaping you. “What’s up? You done with that little mission yet?”

“S-Satoru?” you whispered, voice trembling harshly. Immediately, the sorcerer on the other line knew something was off.

“(Y/n)? What’s wrong?” his tone dropped with urgency. “What happened? Are you okay?”

You pursed your lips again, muffling a pathetic sob that was prepared to break past your mouth. You scrunched your eyes closed, the confined space doing very little to ease your nerves. Satoru could only hear the choked whines that left you, and he was on his feet, captured with instant worry. 

“Baby, talk to me. I need to know you’re okay. Tell me what happened. Where are you?”

“T-The…” you stammered, struggling to get it out.

“Deep breaths, pretty. Breathe.”

You gulped, knocking your head back against the wood, taking a moment to release a few sharp breaths. “The camp,” you managed to whimper. 

“You’re still there?” he asked, almost incredulously. “Did something happen? Were the curses higher grades than you were told? I’m on my way right now.”

“No, i-it’s,” you shook, pressing your phone to your forehead. “It’s- a s-spider…”

There was a pause as Satoru processed what you were saying. “A spider?” he repeated. “What do you mean?”

“The last curse,” you exhaled. “It’s a spider, Toru, it looks like a damn big ass spider,” you rambled. “I’m so scared, I'm sorry, please come help me.”

“Oh, baby,” he sighed. “I’m coming, don’t worry. Stay where you are, I’ll find you.”

You nodded rapidly, scrunching your face as tears pricked your eyes. “M-kay.”

You tucked your phone away and within exactly two seconds, you heard a whooshing sound from outside, followed by the screech of the curse. You heard its legs clatter along the walls once more before another tormented, animalistic cry, and then there was nothing. 

You waited silently, hugging your knees to your chest as footsteps ascended. “(Y/n)?!” you heard Satoru’s voice through the walls, and your shoulders slumped with alleviation. You heard the door to the room open and you slowly reached up to the closet door handle, creaking it open to peer outside.

There, you saw your boyfriend standing in the doorway, gaze finally landing on you beneath his blindfold. The moment he saw you, he dropped his arms, pained by the sight of you curled up in hiding out of fear. “(Y/n),” his gentle voice breathed out as he stepped further into the room, extending his arms in that same manner he always did when comforting you.

The second you saw the motion, you were breaking. The reality of your weakness came crashing down on you, and your lips wobbled as you climbed out of the closet and fell into his warm embrace. You shook against him, embarrassed, petrified. You were the partner of the strongest sorcerer of the modern age, and this was what you were. Powerless at the will of a low grade curse.

“It’s alright, baby, I’m here. Please don’t cry, pretty. It’s okay, I got you,” he murmured against your temple, pressing his soft lips to it then to the crown of your head as you buried your face in his chest. 

“Satoru,” you sniffled into him, clinging to the fabric of his black suit as he wrapped you into his warmth.

“Shh, it’s okay. It’s okay.” 

“I-Is it gone?”

“Yeah, baby. I got rid of it. It’s all gone, don’t worry,” he whispered. He hated seeing you like this. Normally when you faced spiders, the interaction was far more lighthearted. You would screech, sure, but you had always recovered fairly quickly after he had killed one. Granted, you had never encountered a spider as big as the one that you just saw, but Satoru was aching upon  witnessing how rattled you were by this thing. “You got the rest of them, baby. You did so good, you know that? My strong girl.”

He was so loving with his praise as he eased you down from your high, rubbing your hair and pressing his palm to your waist, letting you know that you were safe with him. 

“M’sorry,” you mumbled into him and he looked down, pulling away slightly to hear you better and to get a look at your face. He tilted your chin up so that you could look at him, your eyes glossy and your brows pinched.

“What are you sorry for, pretty?” he asked you genuinely, heart clenching as he smoothed his thumb over your flushed cheek. 

“Cause,” you sniffed again. “I should’ve been able to handle this. It’s so stupid. I dragged you here to get rid of something so small.”

“Hey,” he said with firm tenderness, holding your cheek so that your eyes stayed on his. “Don’t do that.”

“B-But, I should be able to-”

“Stop. I won’t listen to you beat on yourself for being afraid,” he shook his head. “You’re so strong, (Y/n). You always have been, but we all have our weaknesses and there’s nothing wrong with that.”

“Says you,” you muttered, guilt catching your eyes. “You’re the strongest.”

“And you know better than anyone that that’s just a title,” Satoru said earnestly. “Yes there’s truth to it, but none of that takes away from the things that keep me up at night. Just like your grade doesn’t take away your fears.”

He traced the curve of your jaw softly, lifting his free hand to remove his blindfold and tuck it into his pocket. You watched as his white hair fell over his face and his sapphire eyes washed over you, displaying his loving, concerned, understanding gaze. 

“But that doesn’t mean we’re not strong. It’s okay to be scared as long as you know I’m here to help you, and as long as I know you’re here to help me.”

You could feel a lump building in your throat as he gazed at you and he curled his brows, jutting out his bottom lip slightly. 

“Don’t look at me like that, princess, you’ll make me cry,” he said, catching your face in both of his large palms as your hands moved to delicately hold his wrists. “C’mere, baby,” he whispered, drawing your forehead to his lips. The sorcerer then kissed the bridge of your nose and the edge of your brow before letting you fall back into him, wrapping your arms tightly around his torso as he held you close.

You melted into him and closed your eyes. “Love you, Satoru,” you murmured into him.

He kissed your head again, resting his cheek atop you. “I love you, too, (Y/n). Let’s get you home and all cleaned up, yeah?”

You nodded against him, thankful to the universe that the man you loved made being vulnerable feel like a gentle, welcoming, consuming form of unconditional love. 

But, fuck, did you hate spiders.

[octosan]

Had some rambling thoughts about Emmrich and his questline,

It's funny, aside from Solas with his exclusive "is he an asshole or is he a victim?" interpretations in the endgame, I think Emmrich is another example of where they jammed two conflicting characterizations of the story into each other and just let one win out depending on which decision the player made so that each option looks Valid and Good and relatively consequence-free.

like, Emmrich becoming a Lich should have just been a bad thing, right?

Not in the sense that I think the game itself should have pointed at the player and gone "you picked the wrong option", but as a logical extension of Emmrich's arc, was it not a bad thing?

I remember at one point writing that Emmrich becoming a lich didn't do anything to conquer his fear of death even though him letting go of Manfred is supposed to be him finally coming to terms with him parting from people, and how that was bad. But I think I missed the point

I think (especially when you look at the concept art around Emmrich,) the original point was supposed to be that becoming a Lich was Emmrich giving in to his fear of death, ironically dooming himself to an immortality where he is surrounded by death, starting with Manfred's death. That losing people to death, like his parents, is the real source of the fear that he was grappling with, but he does not understand this and grasps it only as a fear of his own end. That it is, actually, on the player to understand that and counsel him wisely. It's an ironic tragedy, a very classic story of someone meeting their fate on the road to avoid it. And that's why it makes sense that he's still not over Manfred, why he's afraid of losing a romanced Rook, why he apparently mourns Manfred still (something I missed.)

But the narrative wasn't really built around this? You understand what his fear of death is about immediately and then the choice to be a lich was presented in most of the dialogue as like, "neato! he conquered his fear of death because he won't ever die! yeah Manfred is dead now but at least we honored his sacrifice and let him rest :)" no one has a problem with what he did, no one calls him out on it, no one but Spite even really cares that Manfred is gone even though Emmrich could have saved him, it's just Cool that he's a lich now. The liches are heroic and so Emmrich's desire to join them is heroic, his fear of death is not what motivates him to make some eldritch monstrosity of himself, it is preventing him from achieving this noble goal to help the dead forever, and leaving Manfred behind is a noble sacrifice that will prevent him from becoming a tyrant lich who just resurrects people at will.

I think the idea of "don't resurrect someone who died just because you miss them, you have to let the dead rest" is a completely separate idea that, in this specific situation, doesn't mesh well with "you shouldn't screw over your loved ones just to preserve your own life, and you should treasure your time with people while you have it," but they interjected both morals and just let them respectively theme the lich and human routes, as if I'm not supposed to think about the bittersweet poignancy of the human ending, where Emmrich proudly watches Manfred grow and achieve, while everyone is high-fiving him over being a skelly man in the lich ending. Or for me to look at the human ending as heartwarming after they already said Emmrich was disturbing Manfred's well-deserved rest and giving up an opportunity to do a lot of good by doing this, and that no one really cared that he was "dead".

(Also, like, as a spirit, Manfred's "rest" was him being sent back into the Fade, which we can now understand to be a spirit prison that Manfred specifically possessed that body to escape, so u know.)

I do believe Emmrich becoming a Lich is at its core meant as a selfish/cowardly act to preserve himself at the cost of someone he treated like his own child, because that was the motivation they gave him from conception. Concept Emmrich was turning himself into a lich to become immortal. In the game, he specifically sought out the liches because he was afraid of death. This is the case even if they interject dialogue later making it seem like he's trying to do this for the sake of the "dead" and it's really important and him resurrecting Manfred would be selfish of him. I don't mind Emmrich saying these things, but I feel like they needed to be lies he was telling himself, something that is not backed up by other Mourn Watchers, or by Rook not being given the option to call him on it, or by the liches having a morally stringent screening process that he passes with flying colors and stuff like that, with the entire narrative just taking the things he says for granted. Maybe the liches should just not be heroic at all, actually. And like if we're going to have it be a plot point that there have been powerful, immortal liches. In Thedas. All this time. They needed to not give a shit about Thedas to at least help me with my suspension of disbelief.

Am I making any sense here, like there's two different reasons Emmrich wants to be a lich and how his fear of death is interacting with it and they don't feed into each other very well imo.

And like, the way he is now this character, who was written to deal with a fear of death, has nothing actually helpful to say about coping with a fear of death, imo. The routes' messaging is either "You don't need to fear death because you can just Not Die" or "You don't need to fear your loved ones dying because you can just Bring Them Back" instead of "Death of some kind is inevitable, so cherish the life you still have instead of spending it in fear."

Idk how psychiatrically sound it would have been. There were apparently people who struggle with Thanatophobia who were helped by Emmrich's character, but like, just talking narratives.

[hotheadedhero]

i am absolutely in love with your writing style and i see requests are open hehehehe

perhaps a rise!donnie with a gn reader that is “high intelligence low wisdom”? like, theyre smart and all and can understand a lot of his work, but they next moment they do something absolutely idiotic?

anyway thanks for considering <3

AN: If I've got the right idea then oh, ohoho, I think I can do this. Kinda describes me as a person 😅 And thank you!! I'm glad you enjoy the spoils of my crazy brain <3

A Dichotomy in Donnie's Dearest

Donatello x Reader

Donatello has a field day with you. Finding another entity as smart as him is unfounded but you're an enigma altogether. You're not necessarily the next Einstein, but your ability to fathom even half of the stuff that comes out of his mouth is impressive. Some nights, you'll both have conversations about biomechanics, nuclear chemistry, or anything that weasels its way into the mix. It isn't uncommon for you two to stay up until the break of dawn when you get caught up in such exchanges. In fact, your propensity for science drew him towards you in the first place. You make quite a pair, like how a covalent bond is a formation of electrons shared between two atoms.

Although, he supposes that if that is the attractive force in this analogy, your disposition for thick-witted conduct is the repulsive force. The difference between your divine intellect and your misshapen ability to function in society is an astounding, if not worrying prospect. It's as though you completely forgot yourself and he can only speculate how.

Initially, he chalked it up to a faulty memory: forgetting to switch the socket on when you plug your laptop in, not realising your phone is in your hand whilst it's 'lost', completely losing your train of thought mid-conversation. Standard, everyday predicaments that aren't unfounded amongst the greater world.

That assumption was quickly abandoned when he took closer note of some things that come out of your mouth - certain "theories" of yours that he hopes are funny thoughts and nothing more.

"Do you reckon tissues get their name from the fact that when we sneeze, we say, a-tissue?" you ask him.

You can't be serious, surely. Perhaps it was merely a bad attempt at a pun. If so, he'll have to limit your spending time with his oh-so-dear brother, Leonardo. It's bad enough having one person galivanting around thinking they're funny, let alone two.

He can't even begin to form a base for what you've just asked him, and instead replies so, "Life is too short for me to answer such questions."

It doesn't end there. He wishes he could say it does but it doesn't.

"I just figured out why a peanut is called a peanut!" The unparalleled excitement in your voice is enough to shock him out of his mortal body but the content source of your jovial commotion is mind-boggling and not in a good way. When he does nothing other than stare, you continue, "They're like peas in a pod but the nut version!"

"A dazzling deduction, my love," he remarks tiredly, wondering how you're the same person he discusses string theory with. "The limits of your knowledge truly know no bounds."

He's just glad Aristotle isn't around to see this side of humanity. It isn't limited to what you say, either. Worst of all, it's the things you do. Such as, when you try to eat something despite the fact it's just come out of the oven. Bonus 'dumb-dumb' points if you try to take food out of the oven without gloves. To put it simply, he doesn't trust you in the kitchen - a caution further validated when you rubbed your eyes after cutting jalapeno peppers once. You have been effectively banned.

He's lost count of how many times you've elbowed your own hip whilst rolling over in bed, or the many instances you've attempted to pull a push door and vice versa. That isn't even taking into account the countless times you have visited the lair without waterproof clothing, despite how long you've been coming down. Let's just say that the already long list is seemingly never-ending.

His frequent sighs of annoyance never offend you. If anything, it makes you laugh that much more when he appears physically pained by your antics. It's as though you enjoy his suffering. From your perspective, there's no harm in the odd hiccup here and there. You're merely enjoying life for what it is and know when to have a giggle at yourself.

Donnie believes himself to be a prodigy and he is! He can solve most if not all conundrums thrust his way but you - you - are the one he can't figure out. Yet, no matter how many times you engage in these idiotic behaviours, he still loves you. Besides, thinking any less of you would be a stupefying case of hypocrisy if he weren't to acknowledge his own blunders. Granted, his mistakes are often in the name of science but you are truly a match made in imbecilically astute Elysium.

AN: Btw, the things about the tissues, peanuts, and elbowing hips? Real stuff from me. Idk how I function

[cleolinda]

Weekend links, March 2, 2025

Silent Hill 2 update: If you sneak over to my Patreon, you can watch the first commentary video already (I'll be replacing it with an updated version). I’m still working on the timestamp writeup (links, sources, etc.) and, uh, that updated version with some corrections at the end. I’ve also been formatting the writeup for Tumblr and, uhhh.... it’s like four posts. It’s honestly just embarrassing. But I know what the carving on the church door you might not even notice says, I know why all the oscillating fans are turquoise blue, I’ve found a thematically relevant Goya painting hidden in a shop you don’t even have to enter, and now we all have to suffer for it. 

The second video’s been recorded but isn’t uploaded anywhere, and I’ve finished taking notes for the writeup. I’m taking so long that I might honestly just clip out a few excerpts and put them on my YouTube channel (I have a YouTube channel) (in theory).

(Yes, watching other people play video games IS a valid way to enjoy them, and it’s how I got into playing in the first place.)

Meanwhile: I just wanted to address the idea that medication obscures your real personality, and I ended up writing a memoir.

Reblogs of interest

It was a bad week for celebrity deaths: Roberta Flack ("Killing Me Softly"), after two years diagnosed with ALS; Michelle Trachtenberg (Buffy, Gossip Girl), after a prior liver transplant; and then, under circumstances that still haven’t been explained, Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa.

Now, it’s important to know about the political protests happening in the U.S. (and I hope people run HARD with “Impeach President Musk” for maximum in-fighting), but it was “Vermont insults” that gave me the most joy.

"NASA released the clearest pictures yet of our neighbours in the solar system"

What Queen Nefertiti may have looked like in real life, improved

Microsoft is shutting down Skype

Joann Fabrics is going out of business (+ online alternatives)

“YOU FREAKS CRASHED THE DASHCON SITE AND THEN SOLD OUT THE TICKETS IN UNDER 30 MINUTES” (“I need you all to understand this is a post from February 22, 2025”)

“Help your local library; get books out even if you know you can’t read them all!”

Ursula K. LeGuin: “As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation”

This full-series retrospective of Animorphs, however brief, is so unhinged that I went and legally downloaded the entire set of books. 

“Good night to only the team names at the Seattle women’s hockey club” (personal favorite: Rink Pony Club)

Sometimes I wonder what the Victorians would think of “naked” dresses. Anyway, I really like Elie Saab

All they know is charleston, shake cocktail, eat hot chip & lie

“stop what you’re doing right now and look at archaic period terracotta fox scratching its head”

“The bath house duck spirits from Spirited Away, taking a dip in this lava lamp”

Tumblr: Where “Pelican Childcare” is inherently funny

Crow Time: Business bird

Gorgeous Dominique Ramsey art with a Langston Hughes quote

Grocery cats (“but then you scroll down and it’s like oh, there’s a team of cats ringing up that lady’s tea and jam”)

Look this bunny in the eyes and you will understand why I tagged this “become ungovernable”

“where is that cat with the kind and reassuring face”

Paint me like one of your French bears

Hi. 1 quastion

Video

LOTR film fandom has been going strong for 20+ years and we’re not gonna stop now (re: Pippin’s song in Return of the King)

Zelenogorsk is sand bathing

The sacred texts

Periodic reblog: this massive catalogue of parody lyric tweets

“The neurodivergent urge to do this,” or: the origin of a very popular reaction pic

Personal tags of the week

Wet Beast Wednesday is worth a look, plus the newest Beneficent Chain Post (happiness will come to you. “When You Least Expect It. Probably Late March”).

[evilmafuyu666]

does anyone else feel like regretevator has a problem with tonal mismatch, or am i just getting upset over nothing ?

i feel like the best example of this is the way they handle mark and wallter's divorce. they keep jumping between "haha funny i miss my wife tails mark is sad and cringe" and "this was a deeply traumatic event for both of them and was the culmination of unaddressed problems in both of their lives". obviously i enjoy a good Divorce Joek here and there but it gets to a point where i genuinely can't tell if the writers want us to take it seriously or not. it feels like they're pointing at mark, somebody who is suffering immensely not just because of his divorce, but because of his own trauma related to trying to free himself from a hivemind and form his own identity, and going "lmao get a load of this fucking bozo", when he has plenty of potential for funny interactions that don't revolve around that topic. remember when mark had interactions that weren't about his divorce? i remember. that was nice.

infected and melanie are also good examples. pre-release, melanie was a source of constant jokes along the lines of "MELANIE IS DEAD LOL" and "MELANIE IS NEVER GETTING ADDED TO THE GAME LOL", and it got to a point where it started to. not be funny? and felt more like they were intentionally taunting people who liked her and wanted her to be a real npc. obviously now we know that they'd been working on her the whole time and the jokes were only meant to lead people astray, but her release caused a whole new problem by depicting her as somebody with crippling ptsd and anxiety as a result of what folly did to her, while still adding tons of stickers that make jokes about her being decapitated. like i said, a few japes here and there would be fine, but we've just ended up in another situation where the event that they're joking about is depicted as something very bleak and horrific in-universe, which makes all of the jokes about it feel in poor taste.

aside from wallmark, infected is probably the next worst offender here. they can NOT decide if they want his illness to be treated like a gag or as something genuinely horrifying. it's funny at first when you see the interactions involving people going "ew you're yucky" and him going "n4h m4n 1m n0t yucky -_- l0l mudk1p5", but then you delve deeper into what's really happening with him and. JESUS CHRIST? he's not just some ucky yucky guy, he is somebody whose psyche is rotting away as the result of a parasitic infection that caused him to lose his sense of identity, and if we take the floppies into consideration, is leaving him at risk of eviction and is causing him to scream in agony in his sleep. when you consider all of that, it makes the fact that he seems to be one of the designated comedic relief characters really uncomfortable. he's also a victim of the same jokes they made about melanie pre-release, yeucc and makos both saying things like "KASPER IS DEAD LOL" as a joke like it doesn't have horrific implications in-universe. not to mention everything with poptart, any pet owner can tell you that the idea of their pet being eaten alive and killed is a HORRIFYING THOUGHT, and yet there are dozens of stickers depicting unpleasant either eating poptart, or about to eat poptart. this complaint definitely leans more into the "i am a sensitive weenie baby when it comes to animal death", but i can't imagine i'm the only one who feels this way.

i'm not even gonna get into everything between him and lampert. "skaterlight queerbaiting is dangerously close to no longer being a joke and becoming a valid complaint" could be its own post at this point.

this could all just be the result of autistic empathy cringe, but as regretevator leans more into serious storytelling, i feel like this is becoming more and more of an issue. i have no idea what's supposed to be taken at face value and what's supposed to be taken as a joke, and what are supposed disturbing and upsetting events in the characters' lives are having their narrative weight taken away by the writers treating them like a funny gag, which only serves to annoy the fans of those characters who are invested in their stories without the sense of ironic detachment that the devs seem to have. i think it's possible for regretevator to have a balance of haha funnies and serious writing, but what it's got going on right now? this ain't it chief.

this probably reads like those rants 2010s cartoon reviewers would go on about how modern spongebob is too mean to squidward, but who give a fuck.

[glitzreyasblog]

Hi girl! Well i want to manifest high grades in my exams but sometimes when i pass the exam and then the teachers returns my papers i find them bad...and then i give up persisting, how do i fix that? It Also a problem with changing my past grades, it just the 3d circumstances triggers me and that would make me think that it impossible to change my grades. I Hope you see my Ask and thank you 💗

hey, anon, thanks for asking ! ♡

first, nothing is impossible. the truth is everything is available to you and everything is possible. so even if you don’t always believe everything is possible, know that the truth is that every possibility is at your fingertips.

I understand that the 3D can be triggering, I mean, of course it is! if it’s in your face 24/7 how could it not annoy you? but at the end of the day, as long as you realize that the 3D and it’s circumstances literally mean nothing and can’t do anything to impact your manifestations— you’re good.

also, the 3D is neverrrr a source of confirmation or validation. don’t look to it and take whatever it says as the last word. it’s not in the 3D, so what? keep going. There’s no such thing as giving up since you’re always manifesting, giving up simply means persisting in the assumption you don’t want.

the 3D always look at you for validation anyways. everything in the 3D comes from you because the 3D is you, there’s no separation! so don’t believe that the 3D can create on its own or that whatever happens in the 3D is set in stone. keep doing your thing and the 3D has no choice but to follow— that is a guarantee.

I really recommend reading these posts by @etherealkissed88 , as soon as I saw your ask, her posts popped into my head:

indifference towards the 3D

applying the law while experiencing the 3D

(I rlly recommend her blog too! it’s been incredibly helpful for me and allowed me to find success in my loa journey 🫶)

don’t look at your grades in the 3D and take that as a sign that “it didn’t work”. don’t take anything that happens in the 3D as a sign of anything. the 3D literally means nothing, so don’t let it stop you. the only one who can change your reality is you, so dont give up just because the insignificant 3D shows you something.

ps, it’s perfectly okay to have doubts. lots of people manifest even with doubts, anxiety, negative thoughts, etc. once you’ve decided that you have it, it’s done. nothing can take that away from you. so do whatever you want, interact with the 3D, while knowing you already made the decision that it’s yours.

and remember, the 3D can only change once there is a change in self.

aside from my advice, I’d also like to share my experience, because I used to be in a similar situation. I depended on the 3D for confirmation so much it’s not even funny. I’m proud to say that now my mindset is completely different and i couldn’t care that much about the 3D if I tried. what helped me the most was learning and understanding the significance of imagination. learning the importance of imagination and self was what changed the game for me. I was able to give myself everything I wanted in my imagination, I was able to fulfill and change self with ease and I had never felt more free doing so. It also made me a million times more sure in my decision that I had what I wanted. because why would I care about the 3D and what it was showing me if i had everything i wanted in the 4D— the real reality. so, if your 3D grades are bothering you then simply have fun in the 4D! what do you desire aside from the grades? Is it the satisfaction of achieving such high marks? Is it the pride you’ll have in yourself once you get the top score? Is it relief you want to feel? Do you want to impress your peers? Or is it academic validation you want? Whatever it is, give it to yourself within. and don’t just do that for the sake of change in the 3D, for the sake of getting something, do it because you’ll feel how you want to feel. do it because you’ll feel confident in the assumption you have high marks.

give yourself something to fall in love with in imagination.

another ps (I swear I’m almost done just stay with me😭😭) it’s also worth mentioning that you as the outer man can do absolutely nothing to change the outer world, nor should you strive to. the only way to change the 3D is to change self, change imagination. to create a new assumption which then turns into a new identity.

at the end of the day, it all comes back to the inner world. a change in the 3D can only be created by a change in the 4D. so you either make the change or get stuck in the cycle that is putting the 3D on a pedestal. the choice is yours.

[cdsillylilyposting]

People are to willing to legitimize

Oh boy let's see what she means by legitimize

The whole point of lolcow culture is to ruin people's lives for fun.

No the plan is to extract the funny from it.

So when you come out trying to Critique target is a terrible person but - you've already given it to much legitimacy by treating it as a trustworthy source of information

You don't become immune to criticism because people don't like you

People made careers out of turning Christine Chandler's life into a real world Truman show,

Just call her Chris-chan? Also no people interacted with her videos she herself was putting online, her own website and uploads. Also how does this theory track with Yandev, Nikocado, etc who just did weird things with little to no prompting?

With her every action scrutinized and documented to a degree that serial killers subjected too.

Again she made videos consistently of herself by herself

Without that stalking, without the way people sought to push her to do something to keep the entertainment going, without people actively conspiring to drive her insane, she would not have been noteworthy enough for any of the things she done to be worth remembering.

I'll agree some of the stuff she did was prompted by other people's bullying and prompting, she still did bizarre things in her day to day without it but she still filmed and explained her odd acts and lest we forget nobody made her SA her mother! Just like nobody made Yandev be a pedophile there is no excuse of: "The meaning internet people made me!"

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Hell, without all that, it's unlikely she would have ever done most of the shit she's done.

Provably wrong

Its only the very fascist harassment that made her actions probable or noteworthy in the first place.

So to try and condem lolcow culture, while judging the target based on information only avaliable BECAUSE of lolcow culture is completely fucking backwards. Furthermore it's how they recruit.

I can't keep restating facts... uh chrischan made video herself! So, quite literally what your trying to do here condem the culture with info avaliable because of it, this argument eats itself, christ.

Every single mother fucker who rots on kiwi farms started from the premise that "kiwi farms is terrible, but they've got it right this time about [minor e-celeb you are way too obsessed with] and their hook are in you. Because your on the site reading a thread on the person you hate, and since your there you might as well read a few more

Never used Kiwi farms myself, don't plan to, you have a plenty of stupid harmful and wrong takes regularly avaliable. You keep shifting the argument as you finish each paragraph, a goldfish would be more focused than you

And now they have their hooks in you, You're a nazi

Nazis, Hooks, Kiwis, scary stuff girl. I wasn't aware Kiwi farms acting like Frostmourne or is it more like the One Ring?

Multiple times in the past someone has come to be about someone supposedly being predatory and linked to Kiwi farms thread going "i know is awful but..."

Holy fuck this post is so long... does that mean the people who dm you are all Arthas?

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No if it comes from Channer (channel?) trash, it is automatically a lie. They do not care about the things they pretend to care about.

Joon the king, sai, Ant, etc vague post, Journalists cover stories girlie, they can be as invested as they want personally and can push a narrative if they are inclined but the mark of a good journalist is presenting a story as unbiased as possible, I am not saying Kiwi farms writers are unbiased or journalists.

They care only about ruining the lives of trans, mentally ill and neruodivergent people for their own entertainment. Truth, Lies, it doesn't matter to them. Both are equally valid for their goals.

Lily seems to want to push the narrative that there are absolute sources of information... dangerous and vaguely authoritarian. There is such a thing as GETTING A SECOND OPINION!

If you were abused by someone and you went to Kiwi farms to give testimony: no you weren't. you're a liar, and you know you're a liar. You wouldn't be there if you weren't.

Not letting "These people who claim victim hood are 100% lying, and don't you doubt me when I tell you that" slide here

Lolcow culture should be inadmissible the court of public opinion.

Glad you added the court of public opinion, thought you were posting this as you got shoved into a cop car

So long as that continues to not be the case the harassment the stalking would only get worse.

Do stupid things win stupid prizes

And you can't buffer your criticism of it by agreeing with them.

The dumbest take she's made, its not weird that when someone accuses you of in decending order Rape, Grooming, and Incest Fetishism that agreeing to it would and SHOULD make the situation worse for the RAPIST

That POST WAS TO FUCKING LONG OH MY FUCKING GOD!

[thhouseofblack]

I'm not sure I understand why odysseus' mother would suggest a concubine for odysseus when any child that would come as a result would be illegitimate and wouldn't be the heir.

I suppose if ody has no legitimate children at all he'd be the heir but even then their are other children that would take priority (any nephews or second cousins for example)

okay let's talk about this in two simple points (my reasoning behind why i came up with this particular plot point)

first! in terms of nephews and second cousins - we get explicit evidence in the Odyssey (from none other than Telemachus himself) that there are none.

"Zeus made our line a line of only sons. Arcesius had only one son, Laertes, and Laertes had only one son, Odysseus, and I am Odysseus’ only son. He fathered me, he left me behind at home, and from me he got no joy."

What this is intended to imply is that the heirs to the throne have now dwindled down to the grandchildren of Laertes by Odysseus and Ctimene.

Just to give context, Cephalus (father of Arcesius) is awarded Cephallenia (by Amphitryon of Mycenae, who is actually Penelope's first cousin once removed by way of her Grandmother Gorgophone) after a successful expeidition and thus becomes its King. And so through this his descendants hold power over Ithaca and the Cephallenians.

Arcesius is the son that inherits this (there is a source that says he has a brother who was a King of Phocis - Cephalus' origins - but he doesn't really matter here because Ithaca is a focus on Arcesius' line). Arcesius has Laertes and Laertes has Ctimene and Odysseus, the latter who then has Telemachus.

Odysseus doesn't have direct first cousins and second cousins on the paternal side (because we have no information on this Canes apart from this singular piece of information that he was the son of Cephalus and he married someone). His other paternal cousins are too far removed from the scene in Ithaca - and would be through the line of Cepahlus' siblings anyway (this is funny because if this was a valid line to go down, you could actually make a case for many different characters of the time period - Sthenelus of Argos for example, who is Odysseus' second cousin once removed through his Maternal Grandfather Phylacus, who is brother to Cephalus. Pylades too, again through the Maternal line).

This doesn't work exactly because the kingdom was a reward for Cephalus, not his father.

Anyway, my point being that the royal line of Ithaca has now dwindled down to Ctimene and Odysseus.

But given we have no evidence of Ctimene having any children, the only heir to the throne at present would be through this line of Odysseus. (There's also giving the throne to any child of Ctimene would be putting Eurylochus' line on the throne, not Laertes' - this society follows the patriline, even if they used a woman's claim to boost their claim to the throne, it's fundamentally the father's lineage.)

Hence, the stress and importance of Odysseus having a child, specifically a son, to continue his father's line. There's a lot of emphasis on father-son relations in greek mythology, though I digress there.

This then leads me to my second point! illegitimacy is not as serious as serious a concern in this "time period" as compared to later on - like Classical Athens which I'm assuming is where you're drawing from.

Ajax the Greater, for example, has a son with his "war bride" (his slave from a city he raided near Troy during the war) who eventually goes on to become his Grandfather Telamon's heir in the absence of a legitimate heir. Because Ajax the Greater is dead, and his half-brother Teucer (who is illegitimate too) has been exiled by Telamon. Greater Ajax's son becomes heir despite his mother's status and foreign blood because he is his father's son and Telamon needs an heir.

In a similar vein, there are many a case throughout greek mythology of illegitimate heirs taking the throne, and becoming King. Odysseus having an illegitimate son with a noblewoman from his own kingdom, would still make that child the heir because his father and grandfather have no other heirs to dispute this claim - unless Odysseus and Penelope have a son.

Hence, Laertes and Anticleia's push for Odysseus to take a concubine, it's so that he has a son to continue his line! It is not an uncommon practice for a man to take a concubine at the time (Priam and his whole harem for example), it's just that Odysseus doesn't want to - all he wants and needs is Penelope.

ALSO! I do have the whole scene of this luncheon between Penelope, Odysseus, his parents, Ctimene and Eurylochus (bro is a bystander) written out! I think that will add more onto it! I'll post it when I'm done with A Hand With No Lines!

[werewolf-biter]

Vexen Character Analysis Week Day 4-Weapon Names

For this one I wanted to look at the names of his shields in Days. His shields are named for thing relating to either the cold, science and for a few of them both. I’ll look at both the English and Japanese names as some of them have different names depending on the language. I’ll also look at the name of his personal accessory.

Tester Zero- Considering all that came up when I looked this up was a 70s mecha anime I’m going to say this name was picked just to sound vaguely science-y while also making it clear this is his basic weapon.

Product One- Same with this one as well. It’s the shield he gets from the first gear you get so it has a name which fits with that role.

Deep Freeze/Refrigerator - Both of these are names that relate to the cold. I always find it so funny that one of his weapons is named refrigerator of all things.

Cryolite Shield- Cryolite is a rare mostly white mineral that is mainly found in Greenland. Cryo is also a prefix that means cold. This one uses the cold theming in a really neat way.

False Theory- This one refers to the idea of falsifiability, which deals with how a theory should be able to be proven false. It also may refer to the idea of a null hypothesis or the idea that a hypothesis isn’t true due to there being no statistical significance. This name is interesting as it conveys the ideas of a theory that has been proven wrong, which draws some parallels with the research done by the apprentices.

Glacier- Glaciers are massive dense body of ice that slowly move and create landforms in their wake. Another one that’s just meant to keep with the cold theme.

Absolute Zero- zero Kelvin is the coldest possible temperature . At that point all motion stops and only a small amount of energy is left. A fitting name for a weapon wielded by a cryokinetic scientist.

Gunz-This shield takes its name from a glacial period. There’s another two that continue this theme.

Mindel- Another glacial period one. Interestingly all the glacial periods referenced are also the names of tributaries of the Danube.

Snowslide- This name evokes images of rushing avalanches and fierce blizzards. This suits his fighting style in CoM pretty well, less so in KH2 and Days though.

Iceberg- an iceberg is a large chunk of ice floating in a body of water. They also tend to be connected to the idea of things existing under the surface. I would imagine it was picked for cold theming, but it also works in the context of darkness existing within the realm of light.

Inquisition/Researcher- This two are both science related terms. Researcher is a word that generally means the same thing as scientist. Inquisition can mean a few things, but in this case it is referring to scientific curiosity. Unchecked curiosity was what started Even fall to darkness, which makes this a particularly interesting choice of name.

Scrutiny/Experiment- An experiment is a research method used to establish causation between independent and dependent variables. Scrutiny is part of the scientific norm of organized skepticism or the idea that research should be properly analyzed before being accepted. This is the reason that studies are peer-reviewed.

Empiricism/Closed Tool- So I don’t know what a closed tool is and all looking it brought me to was the idea of closed source. I don’t think that’s what they were going for, but it does work nicely with the secrecy that the Organization and its members tends to practice Empiricism refers to the empirical method, the standard that scientific research holds it self as a means of establishing validity in its results.

Edification/Laboratory -Laboratories are places where research is conducted. Edification is the act of trying to improve one’s self intellectually, morally or spiritually. Like with inquisition this can connected with his fall to darkness, which saw him perusing knowledge without little regard for the hurt it may cause.

Contrivance - In this context this is likely referring to a finding that came down to confounding factors instead of what was being researched. It can also refer to data being manipulated to get a wanted result. From what has been seen, it seems like quite a bit of the research down by both the apprentices and the Organization was of this nature.

Würm- This is the last of the shields named for glacial periods. Glacial periods are intervals of colder weather during ice ages.

Subzero- A temperature below 0. Analysis one that was done to fit the ice theming.

Cold Blood- A phrase used to describe someone who does cruel acts in a callous and detached manner. Interestingly this doesn’t actually fit Vexen all that well, as he is ironically quite hot-blooded, cold-blooded is more a term I’d use to describe characters like Xemnas, Marluxia and Saïx. Likely picked for both cold theming and to give the image of someone conducting unethical research in a clinical way.

Diamond Shield-This comes from the meteorological phenomenon know as diamond dust which sees the creation of clouds of tiny ice crystals. Square has used this as the name for a variety of things, most famously Shiva’s signature attack, but also as the name for one of Vexen’s sleights and his Limit Break in Days.

Aegis- An aegis is an object of protection. The term comes from Greek mythology we’re it was used for a divinely blessed object that has depicted as a cloak, a shield or a breastplate. This one is unique as it doesn’t follow the theming of the rest of his weapons and instead comes from the weapon he wields. Protection in relation to him goes beyond just his shield, as Even was Ienzo’s main guardian, a job he seemed to take to heart as a Somebody.

Frozen Pride- This name actually predates Days as it came from KH2FM. This is why it doesn’t completely follow the naming scheme. The name comes from a combination of Vexen element and his extremely haughty nature. It may also reflect how despite his pride, he doesn’t really get that much respect from some of the other Org members.

Pot Lid- It’s a pot lid and was likely picked as a silly type of shield as this is a gag weapon.

Snowman- The other gag weapons. It’s a small shield with a little snowman on it. What’s interesting is that its description says it reflects the user personality, which leads to the question of what the weapon could mean. Maybe it refers to him creating Replicas, maybe it’s just because he controls ice, or maybe it’s meant to harken back to happy winter memories as a Somebody, who knows.

Ice Breaker/Smiles of Ice and Snow This is his personal accessory that gives complete resistance to being frozen. The English name is just a quip reflecting his ice powers, but the Japanese name is far more interesting. It fascinates me because it has seemingly happy connotations that evoke the image of a pleasant cozy winter. If it had been Smile of Ice it would have given the image of cold sadistic glee, but the addition of snow gives a sweeter softer feeling. Like Aegis and Snowman it seems to harken back to his role as Ienzo’s guardian.

Looking at these as a whole there are some things to note. Most of the ice related one seem to have been picked mainly for the purpose of theming and do not give a lot to work with. The science related ones on the other hand show something of a pattern, particularly with the English names. Most of them are connected to curiosity and the concept of falsifiability. Their names seem to come from the qualities that lead to him becoming a Nobody, a ravenous urge to find more knowledge and less than stellar research methods. They reflect has absolute worst qualities as a researcher. In contrast to that, the ones the connected to protection reflect has best quality when he was a Somebody, the care he once had for others. It leads to the names evoking of feeling of things that have been lost and sins of the past.

Day 1 <3 Day 2 <3 Day 3 <3 Day 5 <3 Day 6 <3

Day 7 <3 Bonus

[randomthefox]

I don’t understand the concept of headcanons. What purpose do these miscellaneous facts serve as part of the greater narrative? In the case of video games, how do they facilitate gameplay? “Sonic is claustrophobic.” Okay? Why? What purpose does it serve? Not only is it factually wrong because we see Sonic explore tight, inclosed spaces all of the time; it also doesn’t have any purpose in the story or in gameplay. Imagine how difficult it would be to explore with Sonic if he stubbornly refused to enter certain inclosed spaces. It’s not even funny. At least saying Sonic doesn’t like Strawberry Shortcake is kind of funny.

Headcanon is SUPPOSED to mean something that you've thought of in your head that COULD be canon because there is supporting evidence within the canon that lends credence to it and there's nothing within canon that outright contradicts it.

Unfortunately people are using this word that already exists and means that specific thing, and instead they're using that word to refer to "I just blatantly made this shit up based on fucking nothing, canon be damned."

So, it's very frustrating, because they'll say that for example, your "Sonic is claustrophobic" example. And I'll ask them "what are you basing that on?" Because AS A HEADCANON it SHOULD have SUPPORTING EVIDENCE. Or I'll say "umm, no he's not" and I will point to the SEVERAL game levels that exist of Sonic being in small confined enclosed spaces and being totally fucking fine. And they'll respond by shitting their pants and crying and flailing and saying that I'm bullying them.

It all pretty much goes back to that "media is a toybox" mentality. That "you don't actually need to engage with the source material to be a fan" mentality, of fandom being a community that people want to be a part of because they want a community not because they're actually fans of the thing the community is devoted to. That "Persona 5 fan who has never played Persona 5" mentality. Where they genuinely and earnest and sincerely believe that you're allowed to just make shit up and literally pull headcanons out of your ass unironically, and they just need to be accepted by everyone and you're not allowed to challenge or refute them. Because ultimately they just aren't actually fans.

If your "headcanon" is predicated on REJECTING the actual canon of the thing in question, then it's not a headcanon. And you're not a fan. Just make an OC.

In my opinion for something to be valid as a headcanon, then it needs to A: not be CONTRADICTED by the actual canon source material, and B: needs to have AT LEAST ONE piece of supporting evidence that you can use to argue in its validity. "I just think it'd be cool" is not supporting evidence. For example I think it would be an interesting idea if Amy knew Tails' real name was Miles and occasionally referred to him that way, whereas newer characters like Blaze would not be aware that that is his real name. This would make sense to me because Tails and Amy were both introduced into the series relatively close to each other, in Sonic 2 and Sonic CD which was supposed to just be a Sega CD port of Sonic 2 before feature creep got out of control, so her knowing about his real name would stand to reason by that idea. So I could imagine something funny like Amy calling out "Miles can you come help me with something?" and Blaze being like "who tf is Miles?" and being really confused when Tails walks over to help Amy.

The "Tails and Amy were introduced around the same time" is my supporting evidence. And there hasn't ever been a scene in the games where Amy was surprised to learn Tails' name is actually Miles. Therefore, it is an idea about the CANON of the series which originates from inside my HEAD. It is a HEADCANON. If there was ever a scene where Tails explains "actually my name is Miles Prower" and Amy heard him say that and said "oh I didn't realize that, I thought your name was Tails I did not know it was Miles" then I would say WELP lol.

Actually an example of that actually happened recently. I liked the idea of Omega having a flicky inside him as his power core. To me it made sense, the other E series robots like Beta and Gamma all had flickies, and we had never been given any information about Omega having another power source or seen him get destroyed. So to me I was like okay there's nothing saying he COULDN'T have a Flicky, and it'd make sense if he did have one. Then Shadow Generations happened =P whoopsie daisy, bye bye to that headcanon.

And that's the critical sticking point, I think. Is to these fucking people who are just MAKING SHIT UP and calling it a "headcanon", if something in the actual canon of the series directly looked at the camera and said "SONIC IS NOT CLAUSTROPHOBIC" they would reject it. They would say "lol fuck you" and just keep insisting on their headcanon. They would THROW OUT the ACTUAL CANON of the series and cling to their "headcanon" instead. At that point, it's not a headcanon anymore. It's a delusion.

These people are DELUSIONAL and they're just calling their delusions "headcanons." And they're fucking annoying. Even moreso because they hate being called out lol. You just know one of those types of people is going to see this post and their knee jerk response is going to wanna be to reblog or reply to this by saying "UMM IT'S JUST A FICTIONAL STORY BRO, IT'S NOT THAT SERIOUS, STOP TAKING IT SO SERIOUSLY PEOPLE ARE JUST HAVING FUN LOLOL" because again like I said, they're not actually fans. They're parasites.

[lazulisocinfodump]

what would dis sonny have to do to REALLY get under FC's skin in a similar fashion to how she gets under his?

Infodump incoming. Sorry Voy, you know the risks of asking me anything about my OC's XD

Anyways, to answer your question? Hmmmm. Apart from even insinuating he'd so much as contact Aria? Or, ignoring her and refusing to play ball?

It’s kinda difficult to say because at this point FC does not respect diss!Sonny’s opinions, so there is little he could say to her that would actually bother her. Plus shes very confident in herself as a person, compared to Sonny’s more fragile ego (which is something she finds kinda pathetic about him and its one of the reasons she picks on him). The only things she respects about him is his intelligence and potential, and she’s truthfully really frustrated and annoyed by how (in her eyes) he has squandered both.

I think honestly the only thing that would really genuinely tick her off to the point where she starts actually threatening him is if he managed to succeed in killing someone. She currently does not believe he is capable of doing so (oh she knows he wants to, he just can’t rn). That and if he so much as hints he knows about Aria's existence.

I do remember that alt!FC (Goblin) got pretty mad when Shrimp zip-bombed their PC. But that was less about the pc being wreaked and more being blindsided in a way that wounded her pride (along with knowing Sec was in danger). But the thing is, with Dis-Sonny… if he did something like that (as long as Sec was not involved) I think she'd be weirdly delighted? Mad sure, but in a strange way she'd feel giddily validated that she got him to show her what he can actually do. She wants to fight him.

Really, thats the thing. Sonny is already under her skin. He already makes her really mad. She just shows it differently than Sonny does. In fact, Imma link to what I think was Arlee at her angriest, which was when she was in abandonware: https://www.tumblr.com/indigitalembrace/753038057961406464/heeeeeeeyyyyyyyyy-shrimpy-3-what-the-heck-is?source=share

The highly playful yet personal disrespectful tone of her trolling and insults towards Sonny is her manifestation of anger and annoyance. Like, if she wasn’t mad, she would have stopped poking the bear by now and moved on to investigating other mysterious of the various dissonance characters/ chat members out of curiosity. Maybe returned every now and then for lols or info scouting but thats it.

Sonny makes FC mad because she can see what he could have been. Man could have saved the world but he chooses to try and enslave it. And He talks so big, but Sam has been running rings around him. Sam is way cooler than him. He does not have the right to such a stupidly large ego.

And his ego is so fragile, too. Like he did all these horrible things to people and he couldn’t even do that right. Like she doesn’t want him to hurt anyone but she also is so, so, so annoyed that he is all talk (in her eyes). Like if hes gonna be evil he could at least be awesome about it. And good or evil he could be so, so awesome. But instead he’s a pathetic dime a dozen angry man on the internet. She sees his potential and she is so mad he wastes it.

And, truthfully, she hates how much he reminds her of the worst parts of herself. But she at least eventually, finally accepted her reality slap to the face. Sonny has been digitized by his own creations and become almost powerless and he still doesn’t learn!? That’s so dumb! And at least even before her Big Screw Up, she still valued people’s lives. Sonny clearly does not.

(and it just feels so good, to know someone is worse than you have ever been, to feel like you can judge them, to feel higher up by being able to look down on another. To point and say ‘look! I’m not the worst, I’m better than someone! I’m not complete trash because here is someone like me but clearly worse!)

Also FC finds Sonny’s over the top angry reactions so, so funny. She’s a troll at heart.

[horizon-verizon]

I don’t think Rhaenyra went into this war with “I’m fighting the patriarchy” in mind, but that’s what she’s inadvertently doing nevertheless. She’s not feminist in the sense that she fights for women’s rights and liberation, but in a medieval setting and male dominated culture her very decision to fight for her throne is a subversive action. I think it’s pretty ridiculous to expect Rhaenyra to be a perfect figurehead of modern feminism because that’s not conceivable in her world. Her usurpation and her goal to fight for her claim is enough.

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Yes, and as I mentioned it's misleading purposefully (often) and its rationale is forced: if Rhaenyra is not a feminist, nothing of what she does really should matter to feminists or feminism or to study how/why women behave to gain more power; all that matters is that she plunged the whole country into war for her greed, ambition, and that she was part of the ruling class and had a dragon that enabled her to continue her Targaryen mad colonizer trip in the long installments of Targaryen madness and evil; everyone hated her, so all this must be true; why we care about feminism when it was never about or really centered on how women are collectively and generationally disempowered or abused when Targ power/survival OR human survival doesn't even depend on women having power and being treated as humans, flaws and all; the Targs were never "normal", so it's futile to really think about how they, too, have been affected by systematic and personal abuses, one of them sexism; women have to be feminist for anyone to care about anything that, somehow, mostly or only and disproportionately ever seems to bring them the most harm...funny that...

If Rhaenyra is not a "perfect" figurehead--aka, if she doesn't conform to some sort of ideal of femininity or womanhood (it's an attempt at such)--then she can only ever be in the wrong once she does something against any aspect of the status quo, even if it is just for herself or those closest to her. It's giving very Victorian-distillment of Goddess-Mother, Mother-is-Bastion-of-Respectability, and is thus "perfect". To be a valid (or valid enough) "human", the woman must be unreal and inhumanly Good. Very Angel in the House. (poem itself)

Ironic, bec only with feminism do you have people make remarks about how feminists/feminism is not valid of it doesn't consider the rights of male sex abuse victims in the way they don't scrutinize anti-racists don't necessarily advocate for poor white victims or white European immigrants' own experiences under the economic-racial system of the United States. Which is reflective of this idea that a woman is not a person until she considers how her actions will affect everyone else around her and to not position herself as an individual but more a perennial "source" and "well" to benefit others (until death or burnout or obscurity).

Because what if a woman like Rhaenyra (not exactly altruistic, ranging from completely self absorbed to just "average" self concerned human being) did somehow win "properly" against whatever aspect, institution, etc. of patriarchy? Women/people could learn from her tactics, journey, methods of acquiring certain resources, etc. We can't exactly have that, now can we if we want to preserve the status quo?

[themattress]

The Black Moon Saga

It really do be like:

The Black Moon Saga is peak Sailor Moon, no matter the medium.

The original manga and Crystal's are virtually identical, and the quality of Naoka Takeuchi's writing compared to the Dark Kingdom arc is such an upgrade it's not even funny. Not only is the plot more compelling, the heroes more developed, and the villains more interesting, but my most major complaint from how the final third of the previous arc went down is fixed: Usagi's feelings toward Mamoru becoming obsessive and unhealthy while the narrative doesn't acknowledge it. This time, it's a huge point of the narrative: Usagi and Mamoru may be pre-destined True Love, but that doesn't mean they are True Love so long as Usagi puts all her self-worth on being validated by Mamoru and is threatened by Mamoru attaching himself to anything else, even their own future daughter. So Usagi must learn to have self-love and belief in herself, as that's the only way she can truly love and believe in Mamoru the way he does for her. When she ends up facing Black Lady who boasts of Mamoru belonging to her and her alone, the fact that she is essentially facing her past self is directly pointed out.

The 90s anime diverges more heavily from the source material than the previous Dark Kingdom arc did, which sets a precedent that lasts the remainder of the 90s anime's whole run that gets increasingly bad. However, in this case, it still manages to work equally well to its manga counterpart. Yes, there are some weak points (Chibiusa's character exaggeration, the mind-bogglingly stupid Usagi/Mamoru break-up plot, the infamous dinosaur filler episode where the Sailor Senshi battle a volcano, a totally wasted set of episodes with Esmeraude operating on Earth, and an unconvincing last-minute redemption for Prince Demande), but not only are the strongest points from the manga arc still retained but there are even some improvements (the Four Spectre Sisters being fleshed out as characters, Rubeus being axed off first instead of Esmeraude, Sailor Mars, Mercury and Jupiter staying around instead of being locked in a dungeon for half the arc, Chibiusa's character development and resolution being more sensible, and the final battle occuring in the present day rather than the future).

And in every version of the arc, the Black Moon Clan are such excellent villains. Their position as a cult selling out their humanity to overthrow a system based purely on petty personal grievances while manipulated by a monster who doesn't actually give a crap about them and sees them only as pawns to help him satiate his lust for power is more relevant today than it was back then. They're dark and terrifying, but also pathetic and tragic. While I like all of the Sailor Moon villain groups, this one was never topped. It was the perfect foe.

[biolizardboils]

so heads up! im popping a LOT of Prime Season 3 posts into the queue--they'll start coming out one week from now, on January 22nd! if you can see this post and haven't watched it yet, here's some tags to block: #prime spoilers, #sonic prime spoilers, #sonic prime s3 spoilers, #sonic prime season 3 spoilers.

got all that? great! here's my final unorganized little rambles about the show:

shoutout to Rusty Rose's Birdie, who only appears in the very first and very last eps for some reason 😭 her speech about it not being her power source came outta nowhere too, but i loved the message behind it

when everyone arrives at the Grim, just before the ep ends, Nine starts breathing heavily and it. instantly reminded me of Movie!Tails when the bar was calling them freaks. fuck. its a nice reminder of where Nine's coming from

speaking of Nine his poses getting more unhinged over time!! hell yeah

i love that the final fight(s) felt like a kid smashing 3 different Lego sets together, real Robot Pirate Island shit

i laughed a little too hard when the Grim's dome started closing in cus Nine's citadel-thing already reminded me of a thing that happened in Fortnite once, but hell naw they had to add The Storm too sdfghj

METAL BIG DESTROYED ME LJKHGFDV im SO glad i wasnt spoiled about it!!! a while in i started finding it creepy instead of funny, which is an added bonus

i was spoiled about the Advance flashback and its clashing sprites though. the utter whiplash of seeing that without warning mightve made me choke on my hot cheeto puffs. someone's already remade it btw, check it out

i fistpumped at the small reprise of "me beauty" gfhjk ill miss you so much Dread

we're four years into the 2020's and Sonic has nearly died an agonizingly slow death 3 times in 3 different continuities! and dare i say it was delicious every time >:)

unless Word of God says otherwise I'm gonna assume that the giant shadow at the end was The Return Of Metal Big lpoihgfds

So... Twitter, huh? My spoiler filters there had some leaks, and I saw some discussion out of context that... actually made me kinda scared to finish the show. But then I did, and had fun with it just like the other two seasons, and I remembered that Twitter gets high-strung about things that don't matter so much, and that giving it sway over how much I enjoy things is silly lol.

Yes, I think the last season could've been paced differently so it wasn't 5 episodes of the same Final Boss Fight. Yes, I think the writing switches jarringly between gearing for a young new audience and for a seasoned old one. Yes, I think the 2D flashbacks look and move worse than what fans constantly make for free. Yes, I think the final episode doesn't do nearly as much housekeeping as it should (does the Shatterverse still exist or not??). Yes, I think declaring the show is canon to the games or whatever they said probably wasn't the best idea. And yes, I think Black Rose should've had a shoulder-parrot!Birdie to match the other Amys. All valid critiques! All sensible things to think when you've been around the Sonic bush!

But I swear to god, people on Twitter act like these things spoil the whole package. Where's the nuance? Why does every opinion there become an absolute worth tearing others down for? Is it the character limit? I bet it's the character limit.

There's so much I love about this show that were infeasible for the Sonic brand just 3-4 years ago. Externalizing the characters' facets to explore them in-depth. Said exploration spanning multiple episodes instead of being one-and-done. The sheer amount of genuine Sonadow food (and I don't actively do shipping, so me adding it here should hold a lot of weight). The snappy, playful, yet blistering fight scenes that, dare I say, feel like a successful TV-budget Spider-Verse. It was all so much fun!

But I guess stuff like Green Hill being the gang's "home" is a big deal-breaker?? Like?? I thought that was silly too, but not worth ratio'ing people with Mickey Mouse Clubhouse over? Get well soon, I guess??

Rambling over, shout-out to the entire country of Canada for giving me the most fun I've had with a Sonic show since X! I'm gonna go figure out how to address all this as The End lol

[ko-existing]

You seem to be into art. I'm really worried about AI taking over the art world and all culture. What do you think about AI and art? Am I just being paranoid? I try to support as many makers and artists as possible. Basically all my clothes are up-cycled or sourced by individuals. I only buy direct from artists and makers whenever I can. I'm just so freaked out by our lives being taken over by optimized AI. It just feels so apocalyptic right now! I HATE all these techbro CEOs

Also, I found your profile in a search about art/clothes. The other stuff I have no idea. Like LOA and non duality? No concepts? It seems interesting so I'll be reading more about it today. Seems like it might help with my current fear driven perspectives actually, but I'm not very into spiritual woowoo stuff. So, we'll see.

I totally get why it feels overwhelming — AI is everywhere right now, and a lot of the tech world can feel cold and optimized to the point of absurdity. But honestly, I’m not really worried. Whatever happens, happens. It’s already here, it’s both smart and dumb at the same time, and trying to control or resist it mentally just ends up draining you. If keeping your distance helps, then do that. It’s valid to feel uneasy — but driving yourself mad over it doesn’t do you any favors either. I'm indifferent. Everything has its good and bad aspects.

Personally, I find AI useful in some ways and absolutely useless in others. What’s funny to me is how phone companies or random gadgets — like that orange Rabbit thing, the “Friend” necklace, or the AI pins — advertise AI like it’s this magic feature, when half the time it barely works or just complicates things. It’s the same pitch in every ad: “AI will help you with X!” Yeah… we get it. Doesn’t mean I want it.

I see it more as a trend like NFTs or Crypto Currencies that’ll level out over time. And even if it doesn’t — it can take my closet if it wants to. I still buy mostly secondhand, though if I really need something I’ll buy from a bigger brand too. It’s a balance.

Also — I’m not a LOA account or any kind of account, really. I just post whatever comes up. So don’t worry too much about fitting what I say into a system. Feel free to read what resonates and leave the rest.😄