#bitposts

[bitplayer8147]

please remember who was there first

[bitnopa]

fagmaxxing i made for orf on bsky

[bitplayer8147]

Junior is 3 kinds of lovable villains in 1. The "evil cuz damaged", love to hate, or it's the aesthetic.

On the love to hate part, he's so cartoonishly evil that he invokes those classic "golden age Disney villains" but he can swear.

On the damaged part, his scene with his dad in the second act allows people to attach more character to him. (Another example would be Max Jagerman with the scene where he talks about his dad at the Waylon House)

Finally, he's a bit of an offshoot of the "epic suave villain", but more cartoony. By that, I mean he fits a lot of the Tumblr Sexyman criteria that fandom loves so much (Evil skinny white boy, might have trauma, all black aesthetic, ect).

There's a reason why he was on the Starcanwreckedpulp tumblr sexyman polls. This, I believe is the main reason why he's popular.

February is overlooked for a few other reasons.

1. She's a woman. Sadly, male characters tend to get more popularity than female ones do. This also seeps into a few of the other factors.

2. Her characterization as a dunce (paired with her being a woman) makes her less appealing.

Most women characters who get popular, especially in this fandom, is being a badass, being suave and sassy, or being capable. Miss Holloway, Rose Stratford, Lenore, Tatiana Slohzno, are just a few examples.

Women characters who are less capable (like February) are seen as less likable, less interesting, and anti-feminist or sexist.

When men are dunces on the other hand, he gets woobified by fandom.

This seems to be why people tend to prefer himbos over bimbos (the oversexualization and leaning into of old fashioned stereotypes of the bimbo archetype compared to the "soft boy" aesthetic of the himbo archetype), and a reason why February is less popular than Junior.

3. She's given shallow characterization.

At least with Junior, he's given a few scenes that allow for a semblance of depth (the call with his dad).

The only scene February gets that deepens her character further than a walking stereotype is the realization scene where she figures out that GLEE is evil. It's fleeting, and just barely shows that "she's smart in her own way".

She also gets lines that make her more materialistic and further how stereotypical her character is.

She has potential for good characterization, but she gets as much depth as Specs and Krayonder even though she's supposed to be a secondary protagonist.

4. Her arc sucks

In the show, we have 3 other "women" characters, and all of them have some sort of arc that changes them or their perception in some way.

Bugette learns to let go, Taz learns that Up can be tough as well as caring, Megagirl learns to love humanity and her love interest, Tootsie Noodles.

What does February have? Megagirl's arc done worse.

Her conflict stems from her hating of bugs, her reason being "I'm a girl".

Megagirl's hatred for humans came from old scars of the past robot wars, as well as her own enslavement by the GLEE.

While their conflicts both get solved with the "power of love", due to the context behind their original prejudice, Megagirl's eventual growth feels more meaningful.

I love all of the starship cast but I feel like February is very overlooked as a character. I’m not going to immediately say ‘it’s because of sexism!’ Because it most likely isn’t. I’m just curious as to why a character like junior who doesn’t get nearly as much screentime is so much more popular than February, who is not only hilarious but a main character. This is purely curiosity by the way, I love junior too.

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[bitmeddler]

Lycanthropic Myopic

Fic by Bitmeddler

Art by @foxglovecove

Contribution to the Newmann Hallozine: Weird K-Science

Story and art now on Ao3!

Fandom/Pairing: Pacific Rim / Newmann (Newt Geiszler x Hermann Gottlieb) 

Story Summary: When Newt keeps taking unexplained monthly work trips despite extensive PPDC budget cuts, Hermann begins to investigate. But things are not as they appear and he uncovers a shocking truth about his colleague beyond his wildest imaginings.

Tags: Alternate Universe - Werewolf, AU within Canon Universe, Werewolf Turning, Transformation, Jealousy, Pining, Misunderstandings, Bit of mystery, Bit of spooky, Humor, Fluff, Pre-Relationship, Pre-Slash, Visual fic, Illustrated fic, Fic/art collab

[dandalilynn]

Clips and Snips

As I'm almost done with Chapter 13, I've come to remember that I haven't posted any sillies. Let's fix that.

One of these snippets is in the next chapter, and one was a bit I had to cut out. I'll let you guess which is which.

[bitnopa]

more information in the other reblogs, but I will just highlight specifically to employ strategic voting based on your voting region! every region (even bumfuck nowhere districts) have a wikipedia page and you can see previous voting tendencies.

liberal / bloc are usually the strategic option, with NDP currently standing no chance to gain any ground. not a wise choice unless you're in an NDP stronghold (hence check your riding). if you're in a green stronghold, green party's a great choice but otherwise they're unlikely to gain any seat

I know most people don't care about anything unless it has to do with the U.S. but can we please start talking about the Canadian election.

Please don't vote for Poilievre. He's basically the Canadian Trump and plans to put in place laws that harm trans youth, and lots of other shit.

Please vote istg this is the only way anything will get better. Poilievre has been kissing millionaires and billionaires asses. He'll make life even harder, and he loves Trump.

Reblogs are appreciated, especially if you aren't Canadian.

[bitplayer8147]

if i had a nickel for every star trek gay ship that got canonized decades after the show ended, i would have two nickels and i will cherish those nickels for eternity

[bitnopa]

who was gonna tell me that stuart little's dad was dr. house

is this where he harvests the mouse bites??????????????

[bitmeddler]

This is very specific, but could you write a newmann one-shot that takes place just after operation pitfall and newt has to spend the night in the medbay just to make sure that he's ok after the kaiju drift, so hermann goes to spend some time with him?

Hi lovely anon! What a treat to get this prompt! I have to be totally honest here, I've never really done a prompt fill before, except for holiday exchanges. I've tweaked a few elements, but hope I've done your ask justice and that you enjoy it.

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You know those moments in life that completely alter your entire existence? One of those things that when it happens, it creates a clear ‘before’ and ‘after?’ Those ‘nothing will ever be the same after this’ moments?

Yeah. This was one of those.

You'd think after everything, after six postdocs at MIT, after giant alien monsters busted out of an extra-dimensional hole in the ocean, after studying said aliens and pioneering (and yeah, some would say perfecting) the totally new and very, very punk rock field of xenobiology— you'd think one of those things would've been that profoundly life-changing moment for me.

Or hell, even something in the 24 hours before it happened. Like closing the breach. Cancelling the apocalypse. Nearly getting either a) shot by gangsters b) crushed to death in a bunker, c) killed by a mob in aforementioned bunker, or d) eaten by a kaiju. 

Or even something more personal. You know, like drifting with my long time lab partner sort of frenemy turned begrudging colleague. Seeing the raw, unaltered data of every single one of his memories and letting him see mine.

I mean, you might even figure it would’ve been something after all that. Like our first kiss which led to, uh… a lot of other firsts. Or the morning-after cuddles the next day. Or our first anniversary. Moving in together. Our wedding! Honeymoon! First pet! I could go on…

You'd really think it'd be one of those moments.

But it wasn't.

This is what went down: one second, we were all in LOCCENT as the war clock stopped. Raleigh and Mako— those crazy kids— actually pulled it off and saved the world. Well, with a little help from their friendly neighborhood K-Scientists who totally Bletchley Park-ed the hell outta the hivemind code. Anyway, I’ll never forget the cheer that went up. I remember looking out over the swarm of people, then suddenly he was there, inching closer to me with the dorkiest little smile on his face. So I threw my arm around him for a proper bro hug.

The music started up not long after that and people were dancing, crying, kissing, laughing, drinking, yelling… just, you know, living. Finally, for the first time in over a decade, living like there might actually be a tomorrow. 

Then the heroes of the hour showed up after getting picked up from their floaty, escape pod thingies by about twenty helicopters. They started weaving through the crowd to make their way over to the control deck and I was about to give them both the first bump of the century…

And the next thing I knew, I was waking up in a hospital bed.

I sat bolt upright. Which was a mistake. My head felt like a literal hive of angry bees. Every muscle in my body was screaming at me. I couldn’t find my damn glasses. I felt like shit. I probably looked like shit too, I could feel the dirt, dried blood and god-knows-what-other-gunk crusted into my skin and hair. 

“You passed out,” a voice said next to me and I jumped so far out of my bed I nearly wound up on the floor. 

“Jesus fucking christ, dude,” I said, clutching a hand to my chest, feeling my heart going like a jackhammer. “You scared the hell outta me.”

Hermann was sitting by my bedside in a scuffed-up plastic chair that warped a bit every time he shifted position. He was wearing the same sweater as before, so I was guessing (hoping) not too much time had passed. He kinda looked like crap too, honestly, but definitely nowhere near as bad as me.

He arched an unimpressed eyebrow— maybe at my general state or maybe my “cussing,” as he puts it. Probably both if I had to guess. He blatantly ignored my reaction and answered a question I hadn’t actually asked. “You’re in the med bay.”

“Yeah, man, I’d worked that much out already,” I said, maybe a little harsher than I meant to. The other eyebrow went up. Oops. 

“Uh…” I tried to course-correct. “I mean, like, thanks, uh… for, um. Bringing me here? I guess? I don’t actually remember.”

He crossed his arms over his chest. “Oh, I can't take credit for that. Ranger Becket scooped you up in his arms and carried you here.”

“Wow… not sure whether to giggle and blush or, like… die of humiliation,” I said, as Hermann very exaggeratedly rolled his eyes at me. “Soooooo… how long have I been out?”

“About three days.”

“Three days?!?!?!” I yelled, my voice pitching up in that screechy way it does sometimes.

Hermann winced slightly, then nodded. “They’ve been running tests while you slept. Your stats are surprisingly good, all things considered. Although I'm sure they will want to keep you under observation for a while yet. Come to think of it, I should let the doctor know you’re awake...”

“Wait, wait, wait,” I said. “What about you? You’re, uh, you’re still wearing the same clothes you were when we, um…” I could feel my cheeks heating up. “When we, you know… drifted. Did they run tests on you too?”

“Indeed,” he said dryly. “But I had the advantage of not passing out in LOCCENT. They discharged me within the day.”

Meaning that he hadn’t gone back to his room since they let him go. Meaning also that he’d stayed here by my sorry-ass comatose self for two fricking days. 

We were both silent then. Over the whir of the aircon and the beeping of the medical doo-hickeys I was hooked up to, off in the distance, I could hear the echoing thump-thump-thump of bass and an occasional cacophony of woooooos. The ‘Dome practically vibrated with it.

“You've been missing the party of the century, dude,” I said. 

He shook his head and his lip twitched up in that funny little way it does sometimes. The way that makes me forget every damn time that breathing is an important thing that I should definitely keep doing.

Then he said, “I am right where I need to be,” as if his words in that moment didn't just squeeze every last bit of oxygen out of my lungs.

What happened next was… I mean, honestly? I was tired. I was so fucking exhausted and it had been a day. It had been a week. A year. A decade. Christ.

I couldn't help it. It just bubbled up. I'm almost 100% sure it started as a laugh. That was the intent anyway. I felt myself shaking and the sound… yeah, it definitely started as a laugh. But then the next thing I knew, the shaking kept up and then tears started coming and they just wouldn't stop. 

And then… the thing that happened next was the big moment. The one that changed absolutely everything.

He hesitated for just a brief second. And then he just… he took my hand. Just took it and held it in his. Didn't make eye contact either. But he spoke. He didn't look at me, but he said:

“I'm here, Newton. I’m here.”

Then he squeezed my hand so, so gently.

“I always have been.”

[bitnopa]

no question? i actually think there's an unaddressed subtlety to this debate

Top ten vanity plates ever spotted….no question

[dandalilynn]

YWtF Bonus

Fun fact: I have a word document for every four chapters that I keep for future reference and to keep copies. And on the bottom of the main document I write in, I have an extra snippets section.

There is where future jokes, references, or scenes are written. They range from quick plans on what to write later in more detail, to parts of the story that are already written and waiting for the appropriate chapter to appear. Only here may I post them randomly, if I think it's not too spoilery and/or it's funny enough.

For example: Here's part of a bit I don't think I'll post in any future chapter, but I think is funny enough to post here.

[bitplayer8147]

just watched vhsccs and just

this show might have the best music out of all starkid shows ive seen

it's so good

i know why people said to rent it last christmas

watch it now while it's still on yt

[bitnopa]

i actually think old man marley demonstrates where this is most satisfying - when all of the suspicious elements DO culminate in them having an effect on the plot.

he's built up to be important but that doesn't just fizzle out - he's just important in an unexpected way.

‘twist villain’ is always good of course but i’m such a sucker for ‘twist hero’. specifically as in they write a character to be as suspicious and unnerving as possible without really actually doing anything wrong yet but you just KNOW something is wrong but then surprise. they’re fine actually. all the alleged wrongdoings were either lies harmless or taken out of context. it’s even better if the suspicious aspects of their personality don’t go away after the reveal that they’re a good guy. they just act and look and talk like that for fun. they’re just a little silly

[bitnopa]

[bitmeddler]

And they did science.

Then made out and got married.

Then did more science.

(A Newmann Haiku)

[thatsnohorker]

just saw that nick said the new sonic movie is lore accurate and now i'm even More excited to watch it