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[operationlove]

Amy be nice… Metal is just displaying that mute robot rizz…

Is that a yes or a no?

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I think I can figure out why but I just want to see you explain I/Me/Myself

🎵Song #6 I/Me/Myself by Will Wood 🎵[Full playlist]

Smile so widely. It's kinda wild that spotify was the one who recommended me this song as I was making the playlist. Like, I did specifically want the F/F flavor of Metamy for this story and they just knew LMAO. Trans girl Metal HC my beloved, though I can never be consistent with the pronouns but I usually default to using He/Him or It/Its for Metal in my own writing.

So far, Metal got it's ass beat, fell in love, and now needs to get repaired. It's in this state that the identity questions pop up, being the Real Sonic, Gender™ thoughts and also doing something about the big fat crush it's got on that darn Pink Hedgehog. I'm sure this will go well and without a hitch!!! (Don't look at the playlist length, don't worry about the 29 songs left, literally don't worry about it)

This song is rated Explicit; references dysphoria/body image issues/eating disorder LYRICAL BREAK DOWN BELOW 👇

I've been feeling lightheaded Since I lost enough weight to fit back in my skin Flower petals and feathers tether me to the ground (Pound for pound) Take my tea with formaldehyde for my Feminine side since the day that I died While I whittle my bones until I'm brittle Am I pretty now?

Since this is for a robot I am taking this very literal, as in Metal is a state of being repaired that is literally missing part of himself until it's been reattatched, fit back into "his skin" and that he literally did "die" when he got defeated in battle and all banged up. But this is also very much about body image issues/dysphoria as well

For some reason I find myself Lost in what you think of me And too confused to choose who I should be And now you've got me thinking

YEA? You are worried about what the cute pink hedgehog thinks of you? For SOME reason... if only we knew why... couldn't be because of the massive crush you have on her. Also that's funny that Metal would think he has a choice, he's Sonic! There shouldn't be anything to be confused about🙄(laugh track)

I wish I could be a girl, and that way You'd wish I could be your girlfriend, boyfriend Am I pretty enough to lie to? I wish I could be a girl, and that way You'd wish I could be your girlfriend, boyfriend

Speaking as a lesbian... a girl boyfriend is such a gender. I'd fight to hell and back for butch lesbian he/him Metal Sonic. Also, caring about your appearance to appease your crush, and also also; perhaps being a Girl Sonic doesn't invalidate the mission of being the real Sonic if being Girl Sonic is actually an improvement to whatever that faker loser copy thinks he is doing. (Transman Sonic is also real and true btw)

Just little old me in a big, big world Little old me in a big world I wish I were a girl

The "little old me" part makes a perfect call back to song #2 Puppet boy with it's lyrics "Little problems little minds / Little points of view / Little things like you." like that song is a perfect theme for Metal Sonic. My poor little robot, I'll fight everyone for you Metal get behind me girl.

I've been feeling lighthearted Since I gained enough weight back to cover my bones I get dressed up in shadows one leg at a time (We're so alike) But if the shoe fits, then I won't try it on You'll be walking out early, but the show must go on No, I know that I'm wrong But I love how you're on my side when I cross that line

AGAIN with the cover his bones/skeleton with literal machine parts LMAO. Though he's not happy with how he looks (dressed up in shadows), something aint right... you should try HRT girl that might help. Except it's hard to override the programming that no He is Sonic so like, why even bother? That's not important, gotta keep focus on the mission replace Sonic as the true version. Even if Amy or Eggman or whoever would be totally supportive of Metals new gender. Better to not think about it... 🙃

It's been a point of contention between myself and this Body that they stuck me in The privilege of being born to be a man

^Like the previous part, but so much louder HELP. Not even robots can be free from being assigned a gender at their creation, wtf... hell on earth.

Eating your prosthetic, meet your anesthetic criteria Pathetic seeing you become acetic Say my name like a slur, but I've been called worse And I've heard it all before, no this isn't a first

AGGHHH- this makes me insane. The fact that Metal Sonic, doesn't even have his own name, it is just Sonic but with the "Metal" prefix just to hammer home that he's a robot. And like, everyone (me included) just shortens it to Metal, never Sonic, to rub it in that we all think that it's the faker that is the original and not him. Pain, agony, suffering even.

Let me be the void you fill with Taxidermy fingerprints, taxonomize our differences I am quantum physics My witness brings me into existence

These ones also drives me insane (affectionate), it just goes hard as hell with the robot existentialism. Again, a robot- but what's the difference? Eggman is unfortunately enough of a genius to bring his creations to life and this sure gives us a lot of existential dread. Fucking hell, man.

I wish I could be a girl, and that way You'd wish I could be your girlfriend, boyfriend Am I pretty enough to love back? No not yet I wish I could be a girl, and really I'd prefer it if you would use I, Me, Myself Am I pretty enough, am I pretty enough To fucking die

PUNCHES THE WALL- NO BABY GIRL, YOU ARE PRETTY I PROMISE!!! It's going to be okay!!! Never kill yourself!!!! Auughh, falls to the floor. Also omg title drop- another banger for the identity crisis crowd. Like I said before, pronouns? Hard. Why make me pick ones when what is important is that that's totally Sonic the (metal) hedgehog and who cares about the rest?? WHO CARES?? Haha, amirite ladies? Don't fucking worry about it.

Little old me in a big world Well I would give you my whole world Little old me in a big world I wish

Woah, okay girl- that's kinda gay, damn 🤨😳

All identities are equally invalid Don't you think that there's a chance that you could live without it (repeated)

WELL? COULD YOU??? Sure would save you a whole lot of trouble if you could throw out the whole "being the real Sonic" identity war, but nothing in life ever comes easy now, does it? I do like that this part fading out is very whispery, like some part of him knows this at the back of his mind but just can not accept that as an option at all right now. We just suffer instead!!! Yahoo, yay, yippee!!!!

[rxttenfish]

I’m asking around for opinions, Moss x Glitch for the poor?

Shipping meme.

i've already mentioned my feelings before about the PCs in that i don't really know what to make of them and don't feel a ton for them regardless, and i think glitch might be one of the worst in this regard. they are... mischievous? they like pranks, but that's going back to them just being mischievous. they're clever, but again, see the previous. they're not ill-natured, but this is still not particularly giving me much, and while i'm the one most likely to play as glitch (and prefer it, tbh, as it matches my general Everything) i'm also not compelled by them in a character sense in any way, especially when what they do have occupies some of my least favorite character archetypes.

moss, in comparison, is the same dramatic, nosy, deeply curious and interested in other people character as i mentioned before, with the same aspects of not wanting themselves to be the focus of what they do, but having the gossip itself be its own self-evident goal and ends. moss stays in the background while being deeply interested in other people's drama, and this is how they prefer it, seeming to live through other people in this way.

so i feel... more like i'm grasping at straws on how to mesh these two together or how it might happen.

i feel like glitch's pranks and mischief would certainly give moss something to talk about and to really spin into something big, and they might match with glitch in the sense that glitch also prefers the chaos they spread to be its own ends, not maliciously, but as something to aspire to. there could certainly be a in-the-background solidarity to them both, perhaps two dramatic bitches finding each other. but i cannot go much further exactly and don't know what else to say. there might be some tag-team duo dynamics going on as well, glitch acting as inciting incident giving moss something to spin into something big, but i'm less certain about how that would work out with their personalities, as this is very active and something that they would both be doing, something which might inadvertently end up centering themselves further in others' eyes, even been seen as malicious when not intended.

basically i just! think it's a ship! it could certainly work, but i don't know what to say for how it could work or what that'd even mean for either of them.

[silvers-starrway]

No pressure or mean intention, but are you going to continue your rare pair month sketches?

Yes I do plan to! I'm not accepting any more requests but there's at least a dozen still in my inbox hehe.

Maybe next year during pride month I'll do the same thing, OR if I have the energy for it in February I'll do them more consistently again/take more requests :]

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bi glitch pride icon

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[swearyshera]

Time for some asks!

@sonofrose Listening to Entrapta is always a good idea. No matter what.

@blahpanblah Well spotted! It settles on a greyish-blue by the next episode.

Yes, but not everyone can understand it!

I'm not going to caption every Melog frame with "Meow". But, aside from us, Catra's the only one who can understand what Melog is saying.

Thanks! I've used this blog to develop a bit of a style and it's been so much fun taking it from "the show but with added fuck" to whatever mess this is now.

[operationlove]

SAGE NOO! AI VOICE COPYING IS BAD AND WRONG!

It's okay if she does it though! 😄👍

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Not on the playlist or even on Spotify but A Step Away from Xenoblade 3 for good Angsty Metamy song

I put this ask in my draft to "remind myself" to listen to this song and well, guess what happened. Anyway, 1 and a half week later I finally did listen to it. IT'S VERY GOOD, VERY ANGSTY, I LOVE THAT

fav part of the lyrics:

I knew my faults, but I pretended I didn't know I fear I'm not the kind of man you know I see you smile pretending еverything is all right But that made me feel morе in misery

Wow!! I love pain, misery, agony even. I love you break up era, at least that's what I'm reading this song as. Then again, some of the lyrics sounds like one of them is dead and I am reminded that robots probably "live" longer than mobians as long as they have the right tools and shit and now I can make myself even more miserable with evil thoughts in my head. We love to see it 🫶🥲

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I know there’s some good Metamy juice in it so I’m gonna ask an explanation for Love Like you please.

🎵Song #35 Love Like You by Rebecca Sugar 🎵[Full playlist]

YEAAAA! We're at the end so what's more fitting than to have a literal end credit song to wrap everything up with? This one is specifically from Volume 2 which is different, it has this longer intro which I love the build up for and though not all the verses but the ones that are there are the most important so it's still perfect lyrically. I also mentioned this in the prev post but I also just really wanted this song bc of how it sounds musically. I have my playlists on repeat and this song flows very well back into Song #1 Digital Love which was epic, the ride never ends baby!!!

SO! Before we end the story there has been a time skip from the prev song #34 Too Long, that's the only way that song makes sense to me, as things seem to finally look bright again. Overcoming the strings and wires, if not fully then at least enough to feel like Metal is at the place he wants to be, which would then be with Amy. This song is sweet but it's not like a "I'm 100% fine and everything is okay now" way, the past hasn't been magically erased and there is still work to do after all. But at least it's hopeful! Though I love my drama, angst, divorce and bittersweet endings I decided to go with something more positive here... I can't help it that I am a true hopeless romantic at heart 🩷🥹

LYRICAL BREAK DOWN BELOW 👇

I just want to push again on the build of this song, I LOVE THE AMBIENCE, THE VIBE. The slow build up is so tasty, literally half of the song is just instrumentals until the lyrics finally kicks in 1,5 minute in after this building crescendo it's awesome. Also the dolphin cries in the bg are so funny, I love you whoever mixed this, that's so epic.

I always thought I might be bad Now I'm sure that it's true 'Cause I think you're so good And I'm nothing like you

I like that the first lines are already like a sledgehammer to my heart. Like OOOOKAY BESTIEEEE, yea you kind of did do all that horrible shit as part of the villain team and being a pawn for Eggman and almost ending the whole world as Metal Overlord or whatever- BUT COME ON, IT'S OKAY BABY GIRL DON'T BE SO HARD ON YOURSELF. It's totally okay to commit all those crimes because you looked cool while doing it, just look at Neo's highlights they slay 💅 (I'M JOKING, MAYBE)

Also comparing yourself to Amy Rose is just asking yourself to lose tbh. She is a beacon of pure love and hope, stubbornly and fiercely so, she's so awesome. No one does it like her. I wouldn't say they have nothing in common, but from Metal's view there might be little to nothing (because you're gay and putting your crush on a pedestal, girl...) The only way to fix this; time to learn some compassion!!! Download it, google is free 💾

Look at you go I just adore you I wish that I knew What makes you think I'm so special

CRYING, PUNCHING THE WALL, CRIES MORE 😭😭 Amy is so stubborn of course she wouldn't be the first one to give up on someone. Metal has tried and failed and tried and failed- and yet here she is! Still by his side!! I don't think he could ever really figure out exactly why she would do that, but it certainly means the world to have someone who refuses to give up on you. Eggman is also stubborn, but the "love" he gives feels very conditional and well- artificial? Compared to what she would be able to give.

I also think that any previous jealousy or doubt that Amy was just dating Metal Sonic because she couldn't have the Real Sonic (eluded to most heavily in #8 Washing Machine Heart: "I know who you pretend I am / Do mi ti / Why not me?") have been wiped away at this point. Spending enough time with Metal it's clear they are two different people who are both worthy of love in their own way for being who they are 💙

If I could begin to do Something that does right by you I would do about anything I would even learn how to love

There is something about Amy specifically befriending robots that is just really cute to me, starting all the way back with Gamma. Girl has a heart so big she can turn the machines into people capable of love. She has the power of love and incredible violence with her hammer on her side. Iconic, tbh 🙂‍↕️

"I can fix him" actually succeeds in fixing him. LMAO, nah its not that simple. I think Metamy could easily slip into that trope, but I would argue that here it's more that it's more about inspiring someone to be better. Like the lyrics say that about making better choices and taking action, instead of someone else fixing their messes and forgiving every single wrong doing that would actually make them not have to change their previous behavior at all.

When I see the way you look Shaken by how long it took

HEY, THERE IS THE THING I TALKED ABOUT BEFORE so I'll just keep it brief! A callback to Tomorrow Comes Today as well as Too Long, the two songs before this. Which also!! Makes the timeskip thing also makes the most sense. ...How long is the timeskip? Shit, idk, however long I need it to be 🤷 I'm open for suggestions lmao, but leaving it up in the air is fun so anyone can decide on how old the robot yuri should be. It ages like a fine wine, I think.

I could do about anything I could even learn how to love like You You You You

Crazy thing with this version of the song, and not just the intro, is that it SKIPS the line: "Love me, like you" but I think it's kind of appropriate here tbh. Self-love is important, and tying it with Metal's whole identity crisis arc makes sense and here it hasn't been completely resolved even at the end of the story. That is something that still needs work because that shit takes time especially, after all the shit they've been through. A relationship might not magically fix it but I don't think it will hurt it either. Like, I kinda hate the saying that at least floated around when I was growing up about "Ooh, you need to learn to love yourself before you can love others <3" like... HUH?? As if people who are struggling with mental health and/or trauma that makes loving yourself difficult can't be allowed to fall in love or be loved in a relationship, like lol, lmao even, miss me with that shit.

Metal continuing his arc about finding an identity outside of Sonic sounds like something that Amy could help with a lot, like- GIRL SHE'S BEEN THROUGH THIS CIRCUS BEFORE. She was obsessed with him too after all and had to learn how to grow more independent. ALSO, I like to think Amy has some issues of her own with abandonment. Despite being so outgoing and loving she carries her own insecurities about "What if my friends are only friends with me because of Sonic? What if they don't actually care about me or want to have me around?" - which I don't think is true (Amy's friends love her very much), but how true something is doesn't always solve the problem if it's all in your own head, y'know? And though Metal might learn to tolerate Sonic's existence I still think he would hate him enough to make a fear like that a complete non-issue for Amy. So they could help each other a lot with their struggles me thinks, and that's sweet. Love that for this ship 🩷💙

These cartoon animals can be projected onto with so many real life struggles HAH, it makes them so #relatable. I love art, I love playing with my touys, we're having fun here 🫶😌 and I think I'm done rambling about why I love these two and this song for them heheh. THANK YOU TO WHOEVER ARE READING ALL MY RAMBLES, I HOPE YOU HAVE FUN WITH ME ❣️

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Honestly I’m more of a Gemerl x Omega kinda guy.

THAT'S ANOTHER GOOD ONE, though I've barely seen anything for these guys except for like, the Born to fail zine... but I see it, I see the vision. They would be R4R (robot 4 robot)

I'm such a fake fan for not having played the handheld games oughghgh, I do not know enough about Gemerl I need to do my homework and EDUCATE MYSELF 🙇

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I gotta ask why Oh No is there.

🎵Song #4 Oh No! by MARINA 🎵[Full playlist]

Thanks for asking! I actually struggled a bit here because it was in the early draft of the list and then I was like naaaah and took it out but then my own bias said "fuck it, I'll make it work" bc I love this song LMAO

BUT besides being a bop it is also part of Metal's arc on catching the feelings as it is in the early parts of the stories. He tries to play into what Eggman wants from him (being the real Sonic, kill that loser copy), deny the need for love or companionship at first but oops- that turned into a colossal failure!! Now he's gonna suffer for it (get his ass beat by Sonic and friends power of friendship and DIE turn into a scrap pile that needs to be repaired later) LYRICAL BREAK DOWN BELOW 👇

Don't do love, don't do friends I'm only after success Don't need a relationship I'll never soften my grip

Sure buddy, you keep telling yourself that. It's what the egghead wants from him after all! Friends and love is for losers, obviously 😒

Don't want cash, don't want card Want it fast, want it hard Don't need money, don't need fame I just want to make a change I just wanna change, I just wanna change I just wanna change, I just wanna change I just wanna change

I fucking love the way this song has it's own internal struggle. LIKE this is the first slip of the mask that yeaaa, are you sure that what you said before is REALLY what you want? 🤨😬 Because right after this it goes into the chorus to double down instead of accepting this desire:

I know exactly what I want and who I want to be I know exactly why I walk and talk like a machine I'm now becoming my own self-fulfilled prophecy Oh! Oh no! Oh no! Oh no, oh!

He wants to be is Sonic! The one and only original and superior Sonic, of course. That's what the coding that Eggman programmed into him says after all so it's gotta be true!!! 🙂‍↕️

One track mind, one track heart If I fail, I'll fall apart Maybe it is all a test 'Cause, I feel like I'm the worst So I always act like I'm the best

Hahaahaha get it, because he's a machine? A machine with an impossible mission? It's funny because it's sad and horrible and I'm so sorry Metal Sonic I'm sorry he did that to you 💔

If you are not very careful Your possessions will possess you TV taught me how to feel Now real life has no appeal It has no appeal, it has no appeal It has no appeal, it has no appeal It has no appeal

SO LIKE, yea again with the machine (TV) imagery that just makes me go teehee it's about a ROBOT. But also this might be the first song on the list that sorta hints at how fucking depressed he is the way he is now. Like he can't fight his programming and can't get out so then life is pointless. Ough, the robot existentialism gets to me. I love angst, I love pain, suffering, agony even. There are more songs down the line that touches upon this (smiles through tears 😭👍)

I'm gonna live, I'm gonna fly I'm gonna fail, I'm gonna die I'm gonna live, I'm gonna fly I'm gonna fail, gonna die, die, die, die

You did your best bud ✊😩 (wasn't good enough... as per usual😔😒). It's like you were Born to fail or something... crazy. Anyway, the dying part is also very important as it goes into the next song (Arms Tonite) that is all about falling in love while dying in that persons arms. Gotta love a sweet transition if I do say so myself 🫶🙂‍↕️

[rxttenfish]

What are your thoughts on Adrien x Hazel though?

Shipping meme.

oh god i can't even really talk about this ship, just on account of how much the sheer principle of adrien pissed me off. i'm so sorry hazel i'll find you someone nice to smooch later i just really hate what was attempted to do with adrien more.

[swearyshera]

Friday night asks...

@superbdragoncollection-stuff Only the ones that aren't annoying as fuck.

@blahpanblah And one day, he will too!

@sonofrose Was it the Latin Rickroll? It was the Latin Rickroll, wasn't it?

@sonofthedragon she's excited just to be in space

[swearyshera]

Part two of the giant ask marathon

@theoryfan205 And she's gonna feel bad about that for a while. But she won't apologise for it, it was needed.

@maireadralph Scorpia finally doing something for herself is a powerful moment. And a sad one, because she really does not want to leave Catra.

@blahpanblah She has! I love this moment so much for her, it's not just a turning point in her relationship with Catra, but a shift in how she sees herself and her role in the world too. Scorpia, up until now, has defined herself by what she does for Catra, and the breaking of that allows her to stop and think about the person she wants to be.

That's a fair question, but there is a reason. Catra's reaction is not 'I realised I went too far and I'm sorry about it'; her reaction is that in that moment she realised how much she's relying on Scorpia and how Scorpia leaving after that sort of argument is such a destabilising moment for her. It's a selfish sorry, a moment of panic for herself, not for Scorpia's feelings. She wants Scorpia to come back because she needs it, not because Scorpia does.

The contrast between them at this point is an interesting note as well. Scorpia has just awoken to the fact that the dynamic between the two of them is not healthy for either, whereas Catra hasn't. All she knows is that the thought of Scorpia leaving her is much, much more worrying than she expected it to be.

(I feel like I could drop in the words 'Favourite Person' here and the people with BPD reading will know exactly what I'm talking about)

[swearyshera]

Part two of today's asks

@galaxyfish I think at this point, the entire Fright Zone knows what happened to them, and they all just avoid telling Scorpia because they don't want her to be sad.

@specter-177 I also know that word and I have only just put two and two together!

There's nothing like a scorned ex for some dramatic tension, hey?

Spinnetossa is the relationship I wish I had, because they spend their time being snarky about the people they work with but never about each other. That's love.

@blahpanblah Adora's resigned to it happening, Perfuma is shocked by it and Bow is investigating that curtain very closely so he doesn't have to look at anything else.