#Deep Fusion

[shisasan]

LXST CXNTURY - DEEP FUSION

[pencildragons]

bro i LOVE indigenous fusion music i love it when indigenous people take traditional practices and language and apply them in new cool ways i love the slow decay and decolonisation of the modern music industry

[cappuccinoandglitter]

This thing gonna be a whole ass series

DS911: Far Beyond The Stars (15599 words) by Wolf Chapters: 7/7 Fandom: 9-1-1 (TV), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Evan "Buck" Buckley/Tommy Kinard Characters: Evan "Buck" Buckley, Tommy Kinard, Julian Bashir, Original Characters, Miscellaneous Star Trek Characters, Odo (Star Trek), Benjamin Sisko, Jadzia Dax, Miles O'Brien, Maddie Buckley, Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV) Additional Tags: Bajoran Tommy Kinard, Trans Tommy Kinard, Trans Mpreg | Trans Male Pregnancy, Alternate Universe - Not Firefighters (9-1-1 TV), Medical Inaccuracies, so many medical inaccuracies, Slow Burn Series: Part 1 of Deep Space 9-1-1 Summary: The Star Trek AU nobody asked for. Tommy's a Bajoran returning to the homeworld after the end of the Cardassian occupation (DS9 season 1). Buck is a Starfleet officer who just got dumped by his pregnant girlfriend. Things escalate from there. Bunch of sci fi bullshit happens. Trust me, I'm a trekkie.

[stormyrainyday]

how vengeful gasher subverts the beach episode: a study on tetsuya watarigani

for mayblade day 8 - beach

i mentioned earlier today that because of ATLA the words 'beach episode' deal unfathomable psychic damage to me, and it got me thinking. ATLA's "the beach" is iconic for being a subversion of the typical beach episode, a trope which usually entails a bunch of characters from a show getting together in a low-stakes, kinda fanservice-y self-contained plot. they get together on a bright summer day and small shenanigans ensue, and by the end of it they all grow and get a little closer as friends.

beyblade definitely does have an episode like this: metal masters' "we meet again! wang hu zhong". team ggg train on the beach, get into mild conflict, meet with old friends, and come out of the experience smiling and having bonded as friends. we even get the characters dressed up for the occasion

do you know, however, what other episode takes place on the beach? episode 5 of metal fusion: vengeful gasher

if you are like me, vengeful gasher won't even really register as a beach episode to you at all. sure it takes place on a beach, but it is so far removed from what a beach episode typically entails that it's hard to call it one. i'm going to argue, however, that this is what makes the episode compelling to study in this lens.

(for the purposes of this analysis i'll be talking about the second half of the episode as the beginning half is more what i consider necessary setup for the meat of it. so when i say vengeful gasher, i am, for the most part, talking about gingka and tetsuya meeting on the beach onwards)

the most obvious difference in the two screenshots is the time of day. a beach episode usually takes place in a bright, sunny day, and that makes sense; that is when it's a good time to go to the beach. furthermore, the sun and light often symbolizes energy and life, as well as happiness. good, fun things happen in the daytime, and that makes it a good setting for a feel-good episode.

in contrast, the main part of vengeful gasher takes place at night time, a time that is usually more somber, reflective, or even sinister depending on the genre. this also makes sense: gingka is not here to have fun. he's here to confront a guy who's been going around the city and intentionally damaging beys (something that is shown to be pretty devastating to the blader, especially later in the season during the reiji fight).

The beach is deserted of all other people as well; it't quiet, and much more serious. Though tetsuya is a minor gag villain, at this moment the audience doesn't know this. He has hurt kenta's friends, he's kidnapped madoka, and he's expressed serious desire for confrontation. The stakes of this fight are, for this point of the season, incredibly high. This is a far cry from the frivolous conflicts that typically characterize beach episodes.

It is over the course of the remainder of the episode that we learn tetsuya's character is antithetical to what our characters believe about beyblade. tetsuya is a liar and a cheat, and not above using petty trickery to get his way. his goal of fighting isn't to win battles or form rivalries; all he wants is the opportunity to damage other peoples' beyblades. this point will be important in a second so hold on to it.

the episode then comes to tetsuya's Traumatic Backstory™️, where we learn that once he was upstanding and had someone for whom he deeply cared for, but due to a betrayal, he has now given up on others entirely and only engages with them as a means to deploy his petty tricks. he has no desire to engage with gingka's lessons about friendship and solidarity

this is well and good, and pretty normal villain stuff. tetsuya is then defeated and madoka returned (by benkei-- we'll get to him in a moment). they explain that gingka won because his friends were there for him, and for a second he truly seems to be taking it in. he's then offered an olive branch. madoka forgives him and tells him not to scratch beys any longer. she even offers to repair mad gasher, so long as he apologizes to the people who's beys he damaged.

of course, tetsuya being tetsuya, and this episode being an anti-beach episode, basically spits in the face of the peace offering. he runs away, unconvinced.

as stated earlier, beach episodes usually resolve with the group of friends having had fun and feeling closer to each other after whatever minor challenges occurred during their time there. people had fun, and the episode wraps up nicely in a self-contained story.

the power of friendship isn't entirely absent from this episode but it is at play in varying degrees

madoka, kenta, gingka, and kenta's friends certainly are closer after the experience. they are our conventional protagonists, so the conventional beach episode trope works on them

similarly, benkei is an antagonist, but he walks away from this episode conflicted about the nature of his relationship to gingka and his friends. he doesn't know why he helped madoka, and contemplates at the sea alone after the fact. he is a villain character that gets converted later, and the normal beach narrative magic works on him too.

tetsuya, on the other hand, outright rejects the concept of friendship. he stands by his revenge and reappears later hell-bent on causing problems for everyone, whether it be setting traps in the survival battle, telling sob stories during battle bladers, or pretending to be friends to make main characters let their guards down. the key thing about tetsuya is that by now, we understand that he is a joke character. his tactics are slimy and he has no real strength as a blader and relies on dirty, if comical, tricks to get his way. thus he subverts the typical narrative that would be at play in this style of episode

tetsuya's tricks in episodes going forward all rely on the similar tactic of subverting expectations. the most obvious example is when he told the crowd at a match that he had to win for his dear sick friend, taka, and moved them so deeply that his opponent forfeited the match (the punchline was then revealed that take was a crab).

all of this to say: tetsuya is a gag villain that relies on playing with expectations, and his introductory episode shows this in his actions (we expect a normal bey battle, and we get pulled into increasingly ridiculous ways to cheat). however, the way the episode takes a common trope-- the beach episode-- and turns it on its head is also representative of tetsuya as a character, and thus serves as more or less as an excellent way to show what to expect from him going forward, even if the symbolism isn't immediately obvious when watching.

it's also fun to note how it's a pretty unserious trope they chose to subvert for one of their most unserious villains. i thought that was a neat touch.

a few other things i thought were interesting but didn't know how to fit into the essay below the cut

no one had a good time in this beach episode: tetsuya lost, kenta is angry at his friends' beys being broken, madoka got kidnapped and put in a sand pit, and benkei is conflicted emotionally at the end of all the events. this is extremely typical of an encounter with tetsuya going forward

this episode bears some surface level resemblance to the ATLA beach episode: it also takes place at night, has minor villain(s) of the series recount the traumas that turned them into the people they are today, and EVERYONE crashes out-- no one has a good time. however, despite also being a subversion of the trope, the ATLA episode is very, very serious tonally and serves an entirely different function to its own plot than vengeful gasher.

tetsuya gets covered in mud in the final round against gingka. oftentimes in literature, a character getting submerged/covered in water symbolizes a pivotal turning point in their development (as water often symbolizes baptism or rebirth). however, tetsuya is covered in mud-- in other words, dirty water-- which could symbolize how the opportunity for the change of heart was there, but he is too jaded and corrupted to embrace it

similarly, the fact that madoka simply has to turn gasher upside down to reveal the smiling face in the scratches represents that the potential to change is in tetsuya and has been all along. he, however, is making the active choice to reject it.

also on the topic of being covered in water: tetsuya's major change of character from a selfless guy to one driven entirely by revenge takes place after he is thrown in the snow, and it starts to snow around him. by the time he confronts taraba and echizen though, it has stopped snowing, meaning his change of character is complete

tetsuya taking on crabs as his representative animal reveals insight on his character too. just as crabs have a hard shell and pincers to protect their soft abdomens, tetsuya keeps his own demeanor, well, crabby and snaps at anyone who attempts to genuinely connect with him. he is still a vulnerable person, and he believes the only way to protect himself from getting hurt again is to prevent exposing that vulnerability ever again.

thanks for reading! if you noticed more please talk to me about it please i love tetsuya he's unironically one of my top 5 favorite characters in this series please he's so fucking funny i need more love for him

[pistachi0art]

This is what a hyperfixation does to a mf when there’s no new content you have to make your own

[helluvatrek]

Kinger as Captain Sisko👌👌👌

(Kinda rushed through this one☝️🤓)

[dragonfly756]

Post makeover photoshoot with ART and secunint 😁

Bonus! tiny iris and peri playing blocks in the feed

[maiadluffy]

When Legolas is doing dragon ball fusion with Aragorn 😁

[catluniscia]

Lanturn duskull fusion

Of Course the Lanturn Duskull fusion was gonna look like a bloody deep sea creature angler fish...I LOVE IT! Look at this creepy little spooky guy so cute and creepy and so fun to draw them in the deep ocean, just looking for a nice meal.

[doppelneer]

Yet Another Route Specific Form

I can't help the way I develop stories in my mind is akin to a choose your own adventure game or a twist a plot book. (Anybody out there know what I mean by twist a plot books btw? 👀)

How did this happen?

Potential idea of what- was both Neer and Reen got violently ripped to peices by something while trying to keep a specific passed out crew member safe from it... Basically, both were on the verge of whatever is the spirit version of death is, and somehow what was left of both of them merged together because of both of their wills desperately wanted to protect that crew member from whatever attacked.

Didn't even notice what happened to themself(s) initially

BUT NOW THEY ARE JUST PERMANENTLY LIKE THAT FOR THE ROUTE.

Existential Crisis Ensues...

Also these drawings are over a month old I had just discovered I never posted them even though I thought I did!!!!! ToT

I need to improve my organizational skills

[chloepleasestopdying]

I really do love crossovers so so much. I love sticking characters in situations that they clearly were never be in and the best way to do that is to stick them in universes they should have never interacted with. Plus I get to think about two whole fandoms at once??? I love it.



[cappuccinoandglitter]

DS911 #5: Tommy, Pondering his Orb

DS911: Tommy, Pondering His Orb (2980 words) by Wolf Chapters: 1/? Fandom: 9-1-1 (TV), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Evan "Buck" Buckley/Tommy Kinard Characters: Evan "Buck" Buckley, Tommy Kinard, Vilix'pran (Star Trek), Miscellaneous Star Trek Characters, Original Characters, Jadzia Dax, Benjamin Sisko, Julian Bashir, Winn Adami, Bareil Antos, Odo (Star Trek) Additional Tags: Trans Tommy Kinard, Bajoran Tommy Kinard, Trans Mpreg | Trans Male Pregnancy, Trans Male Character Series: Part 5 of Deep Space 9-1-1 Summary: Tommy's trip to Bajor was supposed to be an opportunity to connect to his lost faith, instead he gets a lot more than he bargained for.

[katiekatdragon27]

Guys, there is a severe lack of Sodascent content on this site and it irks me greatly. These are super self-indulgent lol.

Meet Dusty and Lucile Hansen-Euler. Lucy is a molotov cocktail and Dusty is a sand candle (like that one product that was shoved in my face for two weeks straight on Insta) They are 10 and 15 respectively, and they are a girl and demiboy.

Lucy is an excitable tomboy with a ton of explosive energy and a proactive mindset. She's always in everyone's business (if they let her) and is constantly egging on dangerous stuff. Half of the time she is the one doing said dangerous stunts. Her self-preservation is pretty low, but once she begins forming alcohol in her body instead of juice, she becomes more cautious. She still has a very unhealthy and worrying interest in fire.

Dusty, on the other hand, is a grumpy dude who's full of cringy preteen angst and a rebellious mindset. He's the guy to post stuff like "It's not a phase, Mom" and "The shadows are the only things that truly understand me" and other edgy quotes like that. He's also that kid that hates that his parents love him cuz he's a "how can I relate to these edgy characters when my family is so nice????" person. Also, his wick is burnt since I think that all candles have the ability to light up when feeling strong emotions (for him, usually anger).

Bryce is doing his darndest to be present in his kids' lives (parent issues) but tends to over-worry about them and comes off as strict as a result. Amelia is more laid back and calm of the two and is more inclined to trust her kids' decisions (good childhood), but she is the scarier of the two when she's mad.

(The dust bag above is my brother's character)^^

Take a wiiiiiiiild guess who's kids are the first two 💀

They'll get their own post eventually, I just have to finish their refs.

The ref sheet w/out shading and the sketch are below:

Have a good day bros 👍

[starry-eyer]

the chariots that race across the black wall of volantis is definitely a reference to helios driving his chariot across the night sky, right?

i doubt that this is that important of a detail, but we know Dany will eventually visit Old Volantis, and Dany is our own little moon goddess with dragons to boot… so maybe we’ll see the Qartheen moon and sun myth play out again in some form.

maybe when Dany lands in Volantis the mountains will finally blow in the wind like leaves… aka volcanic eruption *ka boom* and it just so happens that Volantis is named… well… that. LOL

the Qartheen myth has always struck me as an ancient memory of the Long Night, so i wouldn’t be surprised if the second time the myth plays out leads to the beginning of the second Long Night (volcanic winter yk)

and just to be clear, i don’t think Dany will be the cause of the volcanic eruption. i think she’ll be chasing one of her dragons that was stolen by Euron (who will be the one to set off a massive eruption), and will wander close to the ‘sun’ aka the Black Walls, and as that’s happening the eruption will occur due to whatever sorcery Euron performs at Oldtown.

and we’ll likely see something play out on the Westerosi side at their own Wall. it’ll probably heavily parallel whatever is going on at Volantis, and i expect Jon to finally get his butt up (if he’s not already up). also, i think the invasion of the Others will be quite slow especially since a lot of firey magical battles will be ongoing in the south and the Wall will likely ? still be standing and intact. the Others will probably wait until Winter fully sets in as they’d have the advantage, which is good for our heroes bc they desperately neeeed the extra time.

[helluvatrek]

Ragatha as Kira☝️🤓

(Another one of those tadc as ds9 crossover things)

[eisenbrave]

Saiyan God, Lunar, Liù'ěr Míhóu