#I could go on but im merciful

[tired-beholding-bitch]

wish I were normal about The Magnus Archives but unfortunately I'm gay and mentally ill and in love with Jonathan Sims

[thebrainrotsreal]

EVIL MARK, EVIL MARK, EVIL MARK!!! I want to be coherent about this season but please picture me foaming at the mouth and running on the walls. S2 being what if Mark's just like his Dad? Insanity. I love this show. Anyways, AU where an Evil!Mark tries to make Our!Mark worse, and Our!Mark tries to make the other better. Something something confronting your idea of the worst version of oneself. Plus, tweaked black and yellow costume because I saw it and immediately went murder hornet lookin' ass and knew I had to draw it. Evil ass Mark. Horrible. I think he should be dragged kicking and screaming into redemption.

[puppyeared]

fuck it. plaguesona

[soldier-poet-king]

Like. I know I should not be peeved that a FAMILY DEATH is probably going to mean I can't go on my long weekend roadtrip with my uni friends (funeral is likely to be on Friday, when we were scheduled to leave) like that is THE MOST petty of me ik. But also....fuck I was gonna have a fun time long weekend with friends for the first time since BEFORE covid....

I should absolutely be more upset abt death maybe but we ALL knew this was coming except for his mother, and he had suffered for so long, and we were not emotionally close, though ofc big immigrant families very attached at the hip

[formulafics]

[brainworms-all-night-long]

Okay so uh, my brain is usually incapable of thinking abt fluff for some reason but after reading and later thinking a bit about @000marie198 's idea of shatterverse variants of Tails just being chaotic siblings I blacked out and hour later this apeared on my phone screen-

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× Nine is the Sonic of the squad when Sonic's not around, as in pestering Tails and his two associates to take apropreate breaks and abide by their bedtimes, while also making sure that no forbidden substances such as coffee or energy drinks exist in the workshop's premises

+Tails specifically is extremely annoyed by this, yet fascinated and jealous at the same time, because how can you just?? Put everything down and go to bed???? Not even letting the thought of pulling an all-nighter pass your mind????

+But make no mistake Nine is still the most moraly corrupt of the quatro so he will absolutely be the little demon on Tails's shoulder approving of every single highly deadly invention or upgrade Tails thinks of.

× Thanks to the constant exposure to technology, tools and observing Tails' gadget making, Mangey has become a master disassembler and an uncompromisable threat to everything that's not welded together or a solid slab of matierial in the first place. If he puts his mind to it and no one disturbs him, he will take apart anything you put in his little hands. Tails finds that pretty usefull safety testing. (But also potentially dangerous and annoying when you try to type in your keyboard but all of the buttons are torn out and placed in a pile right next to it like damn ok, oh shit the dawer is aflling apart ah fuck-)

+One night, Mangey discovered a stray screwdriver and the residens of the workshop were for a suprise morning when they rather quickly found out every single hinge on all of the visible doors was undone. (yes even the fridge, Nine nearly got killed by the heavy doors falling on him)

× They sometimes play chess and while Sails prided himself by saying he already knows the rules and game perfectly, without a fail, he always ends up loosing to Nine who only makes sure to rub it in his face. This applies to most table and card games.

+Mangey was trying to eat the chess pieces at first but after observing a feew games and having the rules explained he is actually pretty good at the game??? (He doesn't really know what he's doing either and sometimes a piece or two gets lost to the stomach acids when the others aren't looking but oh well, Sails can always carve out another one)

+Honestly Tails shouldn't have been expecting to have a regular table game with any of the people he knows, especially himself.

× And what ego and pride Sails looses to Nine in board and card games, he gets back in the quite frequent sparing maches he initiates. Because boi is he salty about always loosing, and will he put all that salt on his blade and swing it at Nine all day and any day he sees the edgelord isn't visibly busy or in a bad mood (latter of is suprisingly and plesantly not as often as it once used to be)

+And Nine has tried to pick up a sword multiple times but it's just doesn't mesh well at all with the fighting style he preferred and was used to with his mechanical tails, which only got in the way. He will admit swords are cool and they're even cooler when someone skilled swings them, but he will eat a Chao alive before looking Sails straight in the face and telling him that.

× Something something rock paper scissors becomes a bit of an inside joke to the quatro after Mangey shows a literal rock when they were using this very professional deciding method on "who will clean up the workshop's mess after Tails' rather ambitious last project."

+Sails and Nine protested that it should be Tails alone since he caused the whole mess in the first place, why is he dragging them into this when all they've been doing is braking swords outside and they dutifully clened that mess up each time, but than Tails hit them with the "well I'm the one and only reason any of you exist here rn and also provide a roof over your heads so you go by my rules" anyway Nine lost the rock paper scissors and he absolutely made sure everyone knew he was pissed about it.

+They use rock papers scissors to also decide who gets to spent the most time with sonic and rocks are thrown when results are not exactly favorable. (No one gets seriously hurt I promise)

[adorablegorilla]

You say Mandragora is still alive as Copium. *I* say it because I believe it would be genuinely unsatisfying and bad writing for her role in the story to end in such an anti-climax. We are not the same.

[gjdraws]

(On S5 and the tragedy of Daniel LaRusso)

As @variousqueerthings and I were talking about, Cobra Kai is written by hardcore Johnny fanboys. This is not inherently a bad thing (me, I'm looking at me I'm the Johnny fan). 

But yeah, it means we've seen some iffy Daniel writing. We've seen Daniel written as: petty (the rent raising), jumping to conclusions (the miyagi do trashing being Johnny's brainchild), hurtful (lookin at you Robby) but the one thing his character has always been constant about is: violence is a last resort. 

The thing that struck me most about this season was how this show, ostensibly drawn from roots of No Be There, has finally taken that dreaded U turn to glorifying No Mercy.

Because isn't that what they did with Daniel? A boy - who defeated not one but three examples of Might is Right, and two of No Mercy - that boy, caving to those philosophies? After Chozen even taught him a Miyagi Do pressure point method of "take away the ability to wage war"?

I've read analyses of Daniel's fight against Silver which paint using the Quicksilver method in a slightly better light. And they make for a good read. But.

But. 

TKK3 was about Terry forcing Daniel to do violence. In the club, in the AVT match. "From the moment I met you, I've been making you do things you don't want to do." And then the writers made Daniel do it again. 

If Johnny's themes are about breaking out of the cycle of violence/no mercy, Daniel's themes are pacifism and finding a better way.

The trouble is, the writers took pacifism to be "back down from a fight", and in a schoolyard bully taunt sort of way (yes i see the irony). Which is so tragically oversimplified. Richard Kamen managed to show us what it is in one line, where Daniel asks Mr. Miyagi "You could've killed him, couldn't you?" And Mr. Miyagi said yes. 

Mr. Miyagi's pacifism came from having seen the long lasting evil violence inflicts, and the Might is Right being inherently useless in the end. This is a man who survived the war, and the internment camps. He knows violence and its hurts.

The thing is, pacifism means more than "I dont want to fight you". It means, "I can fight you. But I choose not to, because it will gain us both nothing". Again, Mr. Miyagi karate chopping the head of a bottle, so that the racists would understand that fighting would gain them nothing. 

But our writers ignored that and took Daniel - horribly wronged (not once, but twice) Daniel. A Daniel who'd struggled for four seasons to live up to Mr. Miyagi's ideals because he believed in them. They took that Daniel and had him win against Silver in a beatdown. Not even using the "take away the ability to wage war" method in S3, no he took the thing he hated most about himself in TKK3. And he enacted violence using the way Terry had taught him ("I've been making you do things you don't want to, Danny boy).

So who really won? I know who lost. The man who said "no passion before principle", "Before revenge, dig two graves". The man who hated the idea of "No Mercy". 

It's one thing to show Daniel winning against Silver, God knows Silver needed comeuppance. But to take the karate kid, the boy who forgave Johnny Lawrence (the telling absence of Billy's touchstone for that character "You're alright, LaRusso!"). The boy who honked Chozen's nose, and gained a valuable friend and ally decades later for it. To take that boy and have him hurt Silver (in the way Silver taught him to hurt people) and feel only vindication... That was the poorest, cheapest way to show Daniel win. 

They misunderstood and laughed at Mr. Miyagi's "defense only" karate until the only way to show Daniel as strong and righteous and victorious was to use the way of the fist. And if that isn't tragic I don't know what is. 

Guess all the No Mercy merch makes more sense now, so sorry Mr. Kamen :/

[waywardsalt]

i made this a few months ago for a discord and i figured i might as well share it here too

[alonetogether]

sunshine riptide has the best and most personal-to-pete-specifically lyrics off of mania (and mania is stuffed FULL with banger lyrics) but so many of yall write it off cause its the most clear departure genre-wise from past fall out boy

[bokatan]

abatina, belladonna, forget-me-not, oak for all 3

[ botanical headcanons ] @fuzzydreamin

abatina: is there anything in life your muse has changed their mind about over time(due to becoming more educated on the topic, certain experiences, etc), or that they would change their mind about under certain circumstances?

Reed: so many things. He had a neutral, borderline negative view of the government & military to begin with and that definitely changes postwar as he learns more about the things going on behind the scenes. He also starts off with a somewhat poor opinion of mutants and synths(thinks of them like wasteland creatures, not human or human-adjacent) but he drops that pretty quickly once he starts going out on his own without BOS influence. Even his opinion of the BOS changes over time, he starts off thinking of them as a sort of postwar extension of the military he’s familiar with and ultimately ends up thinking they’re a cult that’s long past being redirected and now just needs to be destroyed.

Mercy: also changes her mind on so many things. Prewar I’d say her political/social views are more left leaning but moderate, while her postwar(and specifically post-NV) views are far left and anti-authoritarian. She doesn’t really trust organized factions as a whole anymore due to various experiences over the years- even ones that she overall agreed with, like the Followers, had issues with her past ties to the Enclave that prevented her from maintaining connections with them.

Delta: Not anything major that they know of. Their opinions on the Railroad and the Brotherhood do change a bit, but not in any huge way that really does anything- they’re more skeptical of the direction the Railroad’s going in, and they’re a little bit more sympathetic towards the people in the BOS(not the faction as a whole, but the individuals that were raised in it or joined to get into a stable environment)

belladonna: how does your muse respond to silence? do they take comfort in soundlessness, or seek to fill the void with noise?

Reed: hates silence, genuinely can't stand it, and will do the absolute most to avoid it. It's not really a conscious thing for him but he will try to fill it, whether it's a radio playing in the background, or him talking aimlessly, or a turret set up on the roof, or even static from a TV or ham radio left on. Silence just sets off his anxiety in a bad way and he gets really agitated by it.

Mercy: Doesn't really mind silence, but she prefers having some sort of background noise. One of the (smaller) reasons she chooses to live up near Salem is due to how close the house is to the coast- she likes the constant noise from the water.

Delta: They don't particularly like silence just because it's usually not actually silent - a lot of postwar things that use electricity make some sort of noise that they think is annoying. They're fine with silence when there's no buzzing from lights or anything, but otherwise they're going to leave a radio or something on.

forget-me-not: has your muse ever forgotten something that is or was important to them? are they afraid of forgetting things like that?

Reed: He hasn't really forgotten anything major(going off his perception of things rather than real dates, he's not even in his 30's yet- he hasn't had much time to actually forget anything), but that does play into his bigger fears surrounding becoming a ghoul and the potential of turning feral. He's terrified of losing control over himself and potentially forgetting people, and he's terrified of hurting those people if he doesn't recognize them or anything along those lines.

Mercy: hate to say it but she absolutely has forgotten a lot about Reed by the time they run into each other again. Like doesn’t recognize him immediately even though he looks basically identical to how she’d remember him kind of forgotten. She’s not really afraid of forgetting things like that, it happens, but it is still kind of a weird feeling- especially in that scenario where he hasn’t really forgotten anything, because their lives together were so much more recent to him. I think she’s probably forgotten a fair amount of details about her life in the Enclave as well, and some things about her past family after that too.

Delta: They haven't really forgotten anything important naturally, but they've been through at least one memory wipe and they're currently working with <10 years of memories. They don't have any memories of their life prior to returning to the Commonwealth the most recent time(or at least memories that they're 100% sure are real), but they know they were in the Capital Wasteland at some point due to some random items they've found in their personal belongings.

oak: who would your muse consider the strongest person they know?

Reed: It’s a solid tie between Preston & Mercy, closely followed by Glory, Ingram, & Delta.

Mercy: Lily for sure, along with Christine, Veronica, Raul, & Delta.

Delta: Glory, along with Chase & Mercy.

[happyendingsong]

tjpw in philly .

[yo9urt]

horrible things have happened in ball dur's gait 3

[citrusbunnies]

can like one person message @benevolentwarfare bc i didnt see the age in bio thing til i was looking through my likes and wondering why i couldnt access some stuff i wanted to read and now idk how to get them to unblock me so sorry dude im an idiot but ive got it in my bio now and i wanna read TvT

[beeapocalypse]

dont say this enough but i truly appreciate all of you. thank you for every moment shared

[thisplaceisdeathwithwalls]

I love collecting cds <3