#I’m probably forgetting something

[decent0distraction]

Hi! You may know me as the person who does all of those Our Flag Means Death AUs, theories, and posts that either ruin your day, make you laugh, or both. Mostly both.

But I have something else for you.

My take on family!Sanders Sides - based off of the whole family roles the Sides gave themselves in the Five Years video.

To refresh your memory, Patton labeled himself as the dad, Logan as the mom, Roman as the son (the hotshot), Virgil as the (gay, emo) cousin, Janus as the (sassy) aunt (who talks shit about everyone), and Remus as the (fresh out of jail) uncle.

BUT

This AU of mine is… messed up.

Ok ok ok SO

We begin with Janus Duke, who has just moved back to the town of Sanders Bay, a lovely seaside community.

Janus has spent the last 10 years raising their son (Janus uses they/them pronouns bc I said so), moving from place to place for reasons that Virgil doesn’t know about yet that we’ll get into later. Stay with me.

Virgil is 16 and on his first day at Sanders Bay Secondary Academy (what a name, huh?), his dad, Remus, is getting out of jail.

When Virgil was about 6, Janus and Remus had decided to walk from their house into town to pick up their son from the babysitter. They were about halfway there when someone attacked Janus, cutting his face (resulting in scars on one side of his mouth, eye, and cheek, resembling a snake like face). Remus reacted violently towards the person who just hurt his spouse, the cops are called, and it’s made out to look like Remus had hurt Janus, who was unconscious.

When Janus finally came to, they were in a hospital, being told that their husband had been arrested and arranged.

Cut to present day, Virgil’s first day is met with a slight complication when an idiot threatre-jock hybrid accidentally knocks into him, causing him to hit his head.

Roman Hart insists that Virgil allow him to escort him to the nurse, who just so happens to be his dad, Patton Hart.

Roman’s other dad is their home room and history teacher, Logan Hart.

By the end of the school day, Roman and Virgil are sort of friends. But when Roman asks Virgil if they’d want to hang out or something, Virgil explains that he has to get home because his dad is finally home.

Roman just assumes that Virgil’s dad is in the military. He doesn’t even actually get to ask, because Virgil is too busy running out to Janus’s car.

Everything is going fine for a little while. Virgil studies with Roman after school, or they go to the mall, eventually going to Roman’s house.

The Harts are the nicest people in town, and Patton simply adores having Virgil around.

Janus, one day, is waiting with Remus in the school pick up lane for Virgil. The two of them are having a nice, causal conversation that is interrupted by Janus seeing their son talking to them.

“Oh, my God!” Janus slammed his foot on the break and put the car in park. “It’s them! It’s them!”

Remus looked to see their son standing with another boy, while the boy’s parents talked to Virgil.

They were Patton and Logan Hart, two people the Duke parents were happy to never see again.

When Patton put his hand on Virgil’s shoulder, Janus struggled to rush out of the car. Remus followed.

“Virgil!”

The anxious teen turned to watch his mom run to him and pull him away from the Harts.

“Are you okay? Did they hurt you?”

Virgil was beyond confused. “What? No! I’m fine. What are you-“ He stopped when Remus started to approach.

“Dad? Dad, I don’t know what’s happening, but nothing happened. Dad!”

But the man ignored his son in favor of getting in Logan’s face. “You’d do right by you and your family to stay the fuck away from mine.”

Logan didn’t even flinch. “And it would be correct for you to avoid threatening my family.”

Virgil was ready to try to defuse the situation before Janus began to have a panic attack. “Mom?”

Remus is then distracted by his spouse needing his help. He gets his little family in the car and they get home, where the parents sit down and finally tell Virgil the truth.

The truth is, Patton Hart and Janus Duke were friends. When they were 20, and Janus had a child and Patton didn’t, he got upset. And when he saw baby Virgil, he decided that he needed that child.

He acted like everything was fine. He offered to babysit Virgil so the new parents could have some time to themselves. He paid for Janus to be attacked, for Remus to be framed.

But when Janus woke up, he called Patton, screaming, begging. He knew Patton had the baby.

And Patton knew that if he kept Virgil, everything could be traced back to him eventually.

So he returned Virgil, acting like he was just watching the child for his friend.

But Janus moved away, moving from place to place so that they couldn’t be found.

Janus was so desperate to have their husband and their son’s father back that they believed Patton and Logan had moved on.

But to see that man anywhere their baby, Janus couldn’t handle it.

Virgil knows the truth now. How can anything be the same?

Before they can try to figure it out, the doorbell rings.

Janus flinches and Virgil is still busy hugging his Mom to bother with the door.

“I got it,” Remus tells them, answering the door to a man in all black and sunglasses.

“Look, whatever you’re selling, we’re not interested. Try the neighbors across the street. A lot of packages. Maybe they like sunglasses, or whatever you’re situation is-“

“-I’m not selling anything, sir. I’m looking for Remus Duke.”

Turns out, this guy isn’t a salesman. He’s Detective Remy Dormir (idk, I got the name from a human!AU fanart), hired by Roman Hart to find his birth family. (He arranged for this a year before the Dukes moved back to Sanders Bay)

This eventually leads to the discovery that Remus Duke’s father, Romulus King, got a woman pregnant before his passing. By this time, his son Remus had moved far away and changed his name, never successful at pleasing the man.

So yeah, Roman and Remus are half brothers. Which means Virgil’s only friend in Sanders Bay is his half uncle, since Virgil is the biological son of Janus and Remus Duke.

Yeah, there’s no romance between Roman and Virgil. Sorry to disappoint you Roman/Virgil shippers. There’s nothing wrong with that ship, it just doesn’t work for this AU.

That’s all I have so far. If I find that I missed something, I’ll add it later.

[inkyrainstorms]

Chapter 3 - Dear Diary, I have a Plan! … Concepts. I have Concepts of a Plan

Editing things is so fun and also never ending. I thought I was done editing? WRONG. Rewrite that paragraph, you can do better, I believe in you, says my brain.

And that’s the last of the chapters already on Tumblr being cross posted on Ao3! The actual new chapter is coming on Friday :) I’m so ready guys you don’t even know

@aroace-get-out-of-my-face @empressofsamoyeds @pinefamilycatsau @pleasantartisanhottea @littlelilliana15 the last time I’m @-ing you guys to things you have already seen. We’re on to new horizons!! I say! Joyfully!!!

[quibbs126]

I think at this point my brain has been tricked into believing that Megatron is supposed to be a secondary, generally good-aligned protagonist, or at least a more neutral character, instead of, you know, the main villain of the franchise

I blame TF One, Earthspark, probably a bit of MTMTE with all the fanart I see, probably myself for my AU where Megs is the secondary protagonist, and too much megop fanfiction, of which is usually set in the first two aforementioned series

[ihavevisions]

I don’t think people explore Yong nearly as enough as they should because if I was a twelve-year-old boy who finally found an adult who didn’t see me as a complete failure and actually wanted to help me accomplish my goals and then he invited me to travel with him to complete his thesis and I accepted it only to be caught up in the wildest betrayal plot this world has ever seen I’d crash tf out

[whosthere54]

Hear me out combining two of my biggest hyperfixations and making a Fable Storm-Chasing AU

[milolunde]

We all know Timmy is Wanda’s mama’s boy but we need to keep in mind he’s still Cosmo’s kid too and that Cosmo would love him just as vehemently as Wanda

[panthermouthh]

A podcaster I listen to just spent an episode describing what his neurodivergent burnout is like for him, and it’s the first time someone’s experience has actually really resonated with me. It affirming and concerning lol

[krashlite]

Some color+BG practice featuring Ren and Martyn (who totally aren't cryptid coded here noooooo shhh)

2nd version under the cut!

[justanisabelakinnie]

Things I want to see in LoliRock season 3

Auriana leading a song for once, the way Talia did in Celebrate and Iris did in literally every song.

Evil versions of Carissa and Lyna.

More of Princess Izira and Prince Jodan!

Praxina having Flashbacks to Mephisto and wishing that she had been nicer to him while he was still alive and showed how much she loved him, and maybe even trying to bring Mephisto back to life.

Praxina being more powerful than Gramorr ever was.

More of Banes. Is he secretly the ringleader? Is the mask he gave Praxina evil? Please, I need to know!!!

Auriana missing Mephisto a lot and realizing that she secretly had a crush on him all this time but was too afraid to act on it because they were on opposing sides in the war and she was using all of those other boys to fill the void in her hea—*gets slapped back into reality*

A fight between Izira and Praxina, with Izira winning to make up for her horrendous loss against Gramorr.

Izira using her Medallion(or honestly even just the medallion showing up at all would be good).

The Shanila forms of the other princesses(including Izira) and Praxina.

Talia being a lesbian and getting paired up with Ly—*gets slapped back to reality once again*

Mephisto coming back to life, having amnesia, and siding with the Lolirock girls, and getting paired up with Auriana.

Iris and Nathaniel being a happy couple!

Nathaniel figuring out the Princesses’ secret identities…and being okay with it, even supporting and covering for them during missions.

More of Taylor(the clumsy ring bearer in Dancing Shoes).

Carissa and Lyna helping Iris, Talia, and Auriana with songs.

Izira coming to Earth and bonding with Talia. Even helping them with songs.

Same for Jodan and Auriana.

More Lev being good.

Missy being revealed to be a secret Ephedian. My hc is that she’s either from Lev’s kingdom(hence her yellow eyes) or Borealis(since she looks Asian).

More Doug being an annoying paparazzi hound.

More Auriana with her hair out. More Aunt Ellen and her backstory as an Ephedian.

Actually, more of Ephedia in general.

Talia learning to let loose, and be more carefree and less serious.

For that cute little Sailor Moon girl, and the three orphans, and the little Black girl in the ticket episode, to make a reappearance.

More LoliRock in general.

[jupitersflytrap]

i think someone needs to put rtd in a cupboard for a bit and let someone else have a turn

[ciderjacks]

I like your post about chilchucks marriage a lot!! I just wanted to give my personal opinion on how I see it.

Even tho chilchuck is mature enough to admit when he's wrong, I would say that he's not very good at telling people just how much he cares about them. Even if he does work and acts of service that prove his love, he still routinely fails to verbally or physically show love to others. So personally I wouldn't blame his wife for leaving, to her it was probably : my husband gets hurt -> he's never home to help me with 3 kids -> he never tells me he loves me and doesn't hold me -> this isn't a good fit for either of us.

I also think we as the reader have the advantage of knowing the person chilchuck has grown to be post divorce, we have very little insight into how he was before he was blindsided. And I would assume being left alone had a big impact on who he is now and that he probably changed quite a bit in that time, he grew because he had to become his new self on his own, and that new self had to be someone who would serve his needs post divorce and learn from his mistakes.

that makes sense, I think especially his difficulty expressing his care through normal ways is probably a part of it. (though I wanna correct that like based on the troll excerpt and other material we see w them, it seems like he was there to raise the kids. Marcille’ s vision of him not being around often was based on the fact that she’s only known him after he had nothing tethering him down anymore, and thought his kids were way younger than they were)

The thing is she definitely knows he loves her, and given their relationship, almost certainly is very familiar and not too bothered by The Way He Is. The way I see it, it’s more like:

life with best friend turned husband going great -> our kids move out -> he starts taking more jobs, leaving longer, and is always coming back in a horrible state -> these days I worry if he’ll make it back, and he’s cagey about what he’s even doing -> his habit of being very closed off is quickly going from endearing to frustrating -> the meeting his coworkers only made me more uneasy (could be because his coworkers were sleazy, or because she felt like they knew him better than she did) -> things have changed -> you know what? Fine. I’ll leave, that’ll snap him out of it for sure.

[quibbs126]

Oh no, I’m realizing I’m starting to get a bit tired of seeing TF One megop/dpax stuff

It’s not that it’s bad or anything, but I’m coming to the realization that they tend to be the same few genres of images and comics. I’m trying to figure out how specifically to word what I mean, but it’s not coming to mind at the moment. But they sort of evoke the same ideas and feelings I think

Technically you could say this is true of other varieties of megop as well, but usually when we see those, they’ve already been fighting for a long period of time, so you’ve got their current dynamic and long time of being apart to work with, as well as their origins. With TF One, the breakup just started, so the timeline and dynamic that comes with it is significantly more condensed and limited. If that makes sense

I’m also not criticizing people who make their dpax/megop stuff like this, honestly I probably would too if I drew them more. It’s kind of just a product of the movie being an origin story and the dynamics only now shifting between the two. There’s a very clear way to do content about them in this movie

It’s just that I’ve noticed this, and now it makes me a bit more disinterested in this version of megop, at least for now. Makes me want to seek out other variations a bit more

[luna-the-cretar]

Ok so I know many artists (myself included) love to give characters manicured painted nails bc Yeah. But i wanna go into headcanons for LoA characters with Fucked Up Nails/Claws bc I want to

Torbek’s claws are incredibly fucked up. From a mixture of nail biting habits (that totally isn’t just me projecting), to Torbek accidentally damaging them over time via working with his hands a lot, and the torture he endured in the Feywild. Honestly, it’s a miracle he still has them.

Gideon has very short very stubby nails. Partly because he’s used to working with his hands—from doing farm work to stealing to working with machinery. His nails just kinda started becoming stubs that refuse to grow and they’re kinda split in some parts (and incredibly dirty, no matter how many times Kremy tries to clean them)

Frost was declawed when he first joined the Psionic Order, because they deemed him “too dangerous” otherwise.

Skrimm’s claws are very dirty and very split and some of them are even broken. He doesn’t seem to mind though. Also. He’s a nail biter.

Yorgrim also has short stubby nails for similar reasons as Gideon

Pre-Metamorphosis, Marius didn’t care too much about his nails. He tried to keep them clipped short if possible, and handled it whenever they broke, but other than that he wasn’t too bothered with the length or cleanliness of his nails (especially since he wore gauntlets all the time anyway). That being said, though, Post-Metamorphosis Marius manicures and paints his nails as well as Lethica.

Briggsy’s claws are broken and yellowed, and some are far shorter and duller than they really should be, but hey. That’s just part of being an undead pirate.

Pre-Metamorphosis Jericho had no nails (or indents of nails), since his hands were made of wood and metal. Post-Metamorphosis Jericho has talons, and they are very sharp and can do a good bit of damage if necessary. Tho his strumming talons are a bit duller.

Jornir does not care about nail care. So they are also very dirty and sometimes broken (tho they usually end up getting healed during battle)

Shepherd has short nails, for a tiefling. This is mostly because of, again, working with his hands a lot on the farm, hunting, and probably helping the Doc with mechanics. I mean, he does try to make sure they’re relatively clean and kept, but he’s not too big about nail care other than that.

Sarnax has very sharp dirty claws.

Kana also has short nails, though they are very clean and kept. She just likes to keep them short.

Does Barnabos even have nails??? Idk, but if he does, some of his fingers no longer have them, and the ones that do are very short, very damaged, and are very dirty.

Gricko, like Skrimm, does not care about his claws much, except he does make sure they’re rounded at the end to avoid accidentally hurting Hootsie whenever he gives her scritches.

[no1ryomafan]

Never occurred to me until randomly how funny it is that both getter and mazinger have had meta takes in manga form written by different authors then their original and yet they have a different reaction to mecha fans universally, ZERO is liked a lot despite being edgy cause it tells a nice message and portrays the mazinger cast how they usually are with some slight differences where as Devo completely changes how the getter cast is with the designs + portrayals, the story gets needlessly complicated yet at the very end wants to tie to the original manga in a way that doesn’t work, so it ends up being very divisive by fans.

Though of course this is just my basic understanding of them both as I haven’t read either and apart of me IS tempted to read to not only see it my opinion is the same or the opposite- but I’ve been told I wouldn’t be able to stomach ZERO cause it gets uncomfortable to read at points despite being considered the better story. (I may read devo out of morbid curiosity at some point either way tho but idk when)

[dooxliss]

Could I get one of your famous Ranking of Kings artists for the facial expressions game...Boji 5A please? hehe 🤭

send a character and expression!

i’ve found my calling

[allegedscreenlooker]

Late in 2014, Rooster Teeth was acquired by Fullscreen. Between that and the rapid expansion of projects, it was getting tough to remember everything we did. In early 2015, I put together this “family tree” to help the fans keep track of it all.