#can't think i'll be able to live without adult version of

[kudouusagi]

Animedia Uryuu Kyouko interview

Not skating but playing karuta!?

Q: What is the scene that you though "this is hot" the most during?

A: While they were playing Karuta! Please feel that true breath of life!

You'll be able to see all sorts of firsts!

You'll be able to see how Sakurayashiki and Nanjou interacted while they were young!

Just as the title says, you'll be able to see their morning routines!

You'll be able to see Hiromi-chan in love!

Click to read the rest of the interview

We asked Kyoko Uryu for secrets about the production of the OVA! 

--It's been just about 4 years from when the first season was aired on TV, and the OVA is going to be shown in theaters soon. How did you determine how production would go?

While we were making the first season, people would often say things like "I'd like to do this type of thing in season 2" so there was a strong desire to continue in the production team. So it was determined we'd make a season 2 very soon after we saw the reaction to season one. However, since it's an original anime without a work to base it off of, and the staff had plans to work on other projects, we figured it would take a while to make another season. We decided to produce an OVA before the second season, as we wanted to deliver something new in the meantime, and also as a gift to express our gratitude to the fans who would be waiting for a long time. That ended up taking quite a while too though......(sweat). Thank you so much for waiting......!

--Uryuu-san, please tell us your favorite part of the OVA, that's an "Omnibus story about their everyday lives"

We wanted to make something we couldn't do in the series, and we wanted to make it something that us as the staff would also want to see, so this is an episode we made from all of our ideas. I can't say much about the content yet because it would be spoilers, but I can tell you now that my personal favorite point is the theme song! Not only is it sung by Reki and Langa, the lyrics that Utsumi-san helped produce are amazing, so please listen to the full version on the OVA bonus CD!

--In the commercial currently available, we see Sakurayashiki and Nanjo in their highschool days. Was the part set in the past something you came up with after it was decided there would be an OVA?

Well, we had decided that they've been "frenemies since childhood" before this, but we started from wondering how these two would have been during their school days if they fight like children even as adults..... That's how we went about creating this story. We hope you enjoy seeing their former daily lives(?) that we aren't really able to depict in the main series.

--If there's a character that your impression of has changed, or you've found a new appeal because of the OVA, please tell us!

Kikuchi! Kikuchi is a mysterious character by nature, but I think you'll see a side of him that's completely different from the image you have of him from the TV series.

--Other than the second season that's already being made, there have been various collaborations and pilgrimage tours held for this series that's been loved for a long time. Is there anything that you personally want to see happen for SK8, Uryuu-san?

I feel like the fans of SK8 have a deep love for this series, so if I ever have the change, I'd like to have a tea party or something like that to talk with the fans about the series. I'll never forget about how enthusiastic the fans were at the talk event held during the pilgrimage tour last year (lol). Other than that, I'd like to be able to have a Canada episode someday and be able to hold a Canada pilgrimage tour...... of course before that I'd like to go to Canada with Utsumi-san for location scouting!

--Finally, please give a message to everyone waiting for the OVA to go one sale and the theater screening!

Thank you so much for waiting 4 whole years. 

The OVA is made for the fans who are overflowing with love for SK8, and I think it's packed full of rich content for them so please look forward to it!

The limited time theater screening will of course contain the OVA itself, but we also plan to deliver specially edited footage from the first season so that everyone in the theater can enjoy it together, as well as behind-the-scenes talks with the cast and director. There will be footage only shown in the theater so I hope everyone will enjoy it together before the OVA comes out. The OVA packaging will be just as elaborate, if not more than, the series packaging, so we hope you'll pick it up and watch it over and over again!

[greatwyrmgold]

i feel like everyone has their own vision for this in their head, so what do YOU think an Ai Lives version of OnK would be like? both in terms of what you think the manga itself would have been like and what you, as a fan, would like to see for the characters in that kind of scenario

So, the fun thing is, I've had a few Ai Lives AU fanfics kinda outlined and semi-scripted in the back of my head. I'll try to keep "what I think makes sense for the AU" separate from "what I thought I could justify in that fanfic," but no promises.

I will divide this into two sections. First, I'll discuss how I expect the Hoshino family dynamic would shift over time if nothing disrupted it. Second, I'll discuss a disruption that I expect/hope would happen sooner or later.

The Hoshino Family

Much like HikAi, the Hoshino family is a bunch of people with complimentary unresolved traumas. Like HikAi, there's theoretically a way where these mesh together cleanly and let everyone involved heal without complication, like a broken bone that sets itself.

Like HikAi, that would require implausible serendipity. Unlike HikAi, I don't see that devolving into violence. But the idyllic Hoshino would devolve into a normal, mildly dysfunctional family, composed of people who have minimal experience with anything except the idyllic Hoshino family and idiosyncratic forms of filial abuse.

Aqua has the least baggage. But depending on how his slide from Goro to Aqua turns out, as Ai and Ruby's baggage comes up, I can imagine him appointing himself as the Family Adult without even realizing it. The part of him that's still Goro still sees Ai as his patient, someone who needs his help.

Of course, Ai doesn't know Aqua remembers being his mother's doctor. To her, this just feels like the child/parent relationship being inverted. And I don't think she'd like that much! She'd probably blame herself before Aqua, thinking that this is all because she's a terrible childish mother, but still.

As for Ruby...she'd react basically how you'd expect a little sister to react to her big brother telling her what to do.

There'd be more tension between Ruby and Ai. Ruby wants the unconditional love a mother is supposed to give her child, Ai wants to feel like she can give someone that love; they should mesh like puzzle pieces designed for each other. But that's conditional on Ai being able to express that love.

One of the AU fics I've outlined is the first time Ai has to spend several weeks away from home. She stars in a move with a bunch of scenes shot in Hokkaido or somewhere, and a week or two later B-Komachi has its first world tour scheduled, and then that gap gets unexpectedly filled when Ai gets hospitalized away from Tokyo. (Maybe she broke her leg in a skiing accident or caught an infectious disease or something.)

Anyways, the end result is that for a couple of months, Ruby doesn't see her mama. All she has are occasional phone calls. Even if the rational part of Ruby realizes that her mama isn't intentionally abandoning her, she feels abandoned, and doesn't appreciate Aqua's appeals to her rationality. She needs Mama and mama isn't here! And Ruby's lonely and scared and mad and explodes when Mama finally shows up again. And Ai is dying inside because she feels like she's failed her kids on a fundamental level.

If there's a single moment where the "idyllic Hoshino family" phase ends, it's that. Maybe not that exact scenario, but whatever moment where Ai's work means she can't maintain that intense positive affection. After that, no matter how real Ai's love for Ruby is, it's not going to feel real the way it used to.

Crucially: The actual Hoshino family experience is, objectively, not that bad. But to Ai and Ruby, it feels like they stepped off the slippery slope. Ai worries that she's going to keep slipping until she's as bad as Ayumi, while Ruby worries that Mama's going to keep growing more and more distant until she's abandoned, like everyone except Sensei abandoned her.

Part of the problem is that the Hoshino family is kinda left to stew by itself. As long as Ai of B-Komachi is a public figure, she has to keep lying. She can't admit that she's the mother of her children to anyone she doesn't trust absolutely. That means they can't give her advice, or comfort, or even point out that from their perspective the family is still okay. It's fine. They're fine. It's fine.

(I guess there's Ichigo and Miyako. But they're not exactly an ideal nuclear family themselves.)

Odds are, the Hoshinos will stew in the fear and paranoia about becoming a Bad Family until something disrupts their status quo.

The Hoshino Disruption

The argument that Ai of B-Komachi needs to hide her family for her whole life, or at least her whole career, is contingent on Ai Hoshino being able to hide her family for her whole career. When she's just a semi-famous idol with a couple kid-kittens at home, that's not unreasonable.

But as Ai of B-Komachi's fame grows, more and more people will poke around, looking for a lead that could make their carer, or at least a tidbit that could let them pay rent. And as Ai Hoshino's kids grow, it will be harder and harder for her to balance their needs and desires against her career.

In one of the AU fics I outlined in my head, the dominoes fall like this: The Saitous set up a livestream so Ai can watch her kids' first sports festival, a paparazzi catches her watching it, he recognizes one of the kids as that boy from That Was the Start, then does a little digging to find out that that boy and his sister are legally the kids of Ai's boss, then does a little more digging to find some circumstantial evidence suggesting that Ichigo Saitou's wife was not actually pregnant when the twins were born and also they seem suspiciously close to Ai of B-Komachi.

Nothing definitive, but enough suggestions and raised questions to catch the world's attention. Because by this point, Ai of B-Komachi is the global face of J-Pop. However these suspicions accumulated into circumstantial evidence, finding out that this perfect, pure idol might have had a secret boyfriend and two children is a major story in Entertainment News.

And then there's Kamiki.

Maybe Strawberry Productions could have answered those suspicions and provided something more (seemingly) concrete than all that circumstantial evidence. But as indicated by the Ai Dies primary universe, Kamiki is still emotionally clinging to Ai and prone to doing impulsive things at her.

In my fic outline, Kamiki crashes a press release where Ai and the Saitous are answering questions about these allegations. He basically says "Yes, it's all true, Ai had children and I'm the father! Ai, will you marry me???" And Ai panics and agrees on live TV and there's no walking that back, even though she realizes it was a mistake.

Whatever the details, Kamiki is gonna do something that makes it impossible for Strawberry Productions to just dismiss the rumors out of hand. If they don't admit that they hid their idol's pregnancy, there are gonna be investigations. And those kids are Ai's children; if Kamiki elevates this story from top-tier celebrity gossip to an evening-news controversy, the truth will come out sooner or later.

The Fallout

Whatever ends up happening to Kamiki, whether he gets to marry the love of his life or gets murdered by Ryosuke for defiling history's most perfect idol, the Hoshino family is free of the burdens of secrecy. Ai can go to PTA meetings and take her kids to the movie theater and show baby pictures to her colleagues. She has so many baby pictures she never got to show anyone, it'll be years before she shows anyone pictures of what they look like now.

Of course, they'll have new burdens. Ai is probably too famous and skilled to go completely without work, but her reputation and income will probably never recover. And Ai of B-Komachi's ex-fans are going to exert as much pressure as they can. Ruby, who has been flaming the haters since she was a toddler, is going to give them more clickbait than they know what to do with.

But at least Ai Hoshino can stop lying. And whatever tribulations she must face, I don't think the Hoshino Family can know peace until that happens.

[localvillagecryptid]

Naruto characters in SVSSS because I circled back and am stuck again in crossover brainrot:

I personally think every ninja in the cast is a shoe in for Bai Zhan peak, but that's boring so I'll try not to put them there unless I genuinely think there's no other options.

Team 7 in SVSSS

Sakura:

Head disciple of Qian Cao

Bai Zhan disciples come to harass her on a weekly basis (LQG does not endorse this, but does not care to stop them)

Could've probably gone elsewhere, but was curious about medical practices in a new world

Apple of MQF's eye

No one has the guts to accuse her of being a demon even though she has that weird little purple mark on her forehead

LQG punching air because one of the physically strongest recruits they've ever had is on the MEDICINE PEAK

Sakura does not know what the Hippocratic oath is

Repair requests for Qian Cao are billed to An Ding weekly

SQH wants Sakura and the Bai Zhan disciples dead

Sakura now regularly visits Bai Zhan to let off steam + keep unruly bloodthirsty kids off her peak

Is only mildly curious about swords. Not particularly interested in flying.

When asked, she says she can get around just fine

Then demonstrates by jumping and fucking DISAPPEARING???

She finally gets her sword

It's not a sword.

It's a fucking flail.

The demon allegations finally come in after she uses her stored qi and the purple mark fucking GROWS

No one says anything to her face because she threw a tree with her bare hands once

Naruto:

Heavily dependent on which version of him reincarnates. Kid Naruto is Bai Zhan no doubt, older Naruto (in a kids body) is probably Qiong Ding.

YQY would meet the most charismatic fucking kid with ancient eyes and weird whisker marks and decide he's exactly what Qiong Ding needs

Would be terribly surprised to discover he's actually brought back quite the troublemaker

But it's so harmless and fun and Naruto's smile is so damn big and his laugh is so infectious that YQY can't even get mad at him for real, he's too damn fond

Kid Naruto would find out that ninjas cultivators can fucking LIVE FOREVER here and FLY and fight monsters and be heroes and decide that's exactly what he's gonna do

He's got no idea if he even has spiritual energy but he's not gonna let that stop him

He marches up to Bai Zhan and demands a place, because it's this or he goes back to the slums and has to be alone again, and he refuses to be alone in two lifetimes

Bai Zhan!Naruto is LQG's favorite student. Do NOT tell Naruto.

Surprisingly, regardless of the version of Naruto that winds up here, he's the only one without any demon allegations

It's the charisma

Talk no jutsu is apparently effective even in a world without jutsu

Probably talk no jutsus SJ into not pushing Binghe into the abyss

Befriends baby Binghe day 1, true lonely orphan magnet

Sasuke is NOT impressed by Naruto picking up ANOTHER emo orphan (there can be Only One)

No one is sure what to make of his blonde ass hair. SQH does not recall a single blonde character but no one says anything because he's just such a sweetheart

And then it's because they're too scared when he reinvents the rasengan. And the shadow clones.

Kurama's a demon of some kind here, probably still connected to him in some capacity. It might leave Naruto able to do some adapted version of the nine tails transformation

Basically he protagonists so hard all over the place that he derails the plot without knowing there is one, but that's okay, because Binghe has a friend now

Sasuke:

Also depends on which version this is. Adult Sasuke? The right situation could take him anywhere. Maybe even Huanhua. Baby or teen Sasuke would either attempt to go rogue (and fail) or wind up at Bai Zhan, but that's boring and predictable.

Under the correct conditions, I can imagine Sasuke as the new menace of Qing Jing peak.

He'd terrorize his poor martial siblings with his attitude and general existence

Angry baby/teen Sasuke is essentially a less outwardly put-together Shen Qingqiu. In other words, a fucking disaster

Seeing the two together is like a bomb waiting to go off. They're too alike. Unstoppable force vs. immovable object

Either they'd get along or they'd immediately become sworn enemies. No in between.

Unsurprisingly, this actually makes Yue Qingyuan love him. It's like having two Xiao Jiu's, which is the only thing better than one Xiao Jiu.

Adult Sasuke could swing Qing Jing too, but it would probably be less entertaining tbh.

A very funny if unlikely idea is (adult) Sasuke on Qiong Ding

Because this man is nothing if not dedicated to being Naruto's #1 wife hater

Would primarily get in because he and Naruto have effectively bonded like stray cats that cannot be adopted separately (and YQY loves to self-project)

Neither of them are head disciple because that would end in bloodshed.

Dysfunctional together, non-functioning alone, it's a miracle they manage to do anything effectively at all. But surprisingly they always get the job done

Adult or teen Sasuke could also end up at Huanhua, either on accident or entirely on purpose to avoid Naruto

Would clock the OPM as a freak day one

Demon allegations abound after the reveal of his sharingan

Many speculate that he's responsible for OPM's untimely disappearance, which conveniently happened the second Sasuke got promoted to head disciple

Unfortunately, there's no evidence either way. Huanhua's official public statement of "no body, no crime," did nothing to quell these rumors.

This continues to feed the conspiracy that he clapped OPM

No matter the iteration, he'll likely beef with Binghe. This cultivation world simply isn't big enough for the both of them

[theworldofkree]

I love your story and your babies SOOO much, I am also in love with you version of Harpies!! Thank you so much for making them and letting us be apart of their world, it's the absolute best part of my life haha, I cant stop thinking about them I've had a ton of questions...can I ask more about a harpies life span, their mannerisms and mating rituals in general?

Do they dance like other bird in addition to presenting stuff? (I would give my kneecaps to see Kree attempt to dance for Clara <3) Are there cross breeds or different types of harpies? How are mating feathers made? Do harpies have to be a certain age to make them? If they get older and have no mate what happens, can they still make mating feathers? Are harpies more solitary or hang out in flocks? How strong are their family ties/bonds with each other, would you say their bonds are stronger then humans (since they mate for life unlike most humans) How many children do harpies have in their lifetime? What happens to orphaned Harpies? Is there any difference in mannerism in offspring depending on their parents coupling? Can I ask more about lesbian harpies? If Kree had been a female would Clara still have caught his attention? How would his life have been different if Kree was a female? Would he still be considered unattractive by his own kind?

Unrelated but I was curious, what happens if a human were to consume magia? would they get sick? or would it give them light magical properties?

Sorry about all the questions, I know it's a lot and only if you feel comfortable answering, I just really really love your lore and you, I can't wait for the comic!! Thank you again for including us in your beautiful world and precious characters! loveyouokaybye

That's a lot of questions! But I'll try my best to answer them.

Harpies can live up to 200 years old, so twice as long as humans do. Since they are people and not animals, they have various ways of trying to woo partners, but it's typical for the males to seek out the females and for the ladies to ultimately choose who becomes their mate. The process can involve dancing, gift giving, singing, showing off useful skills, etc. There are yearly festivals/celebrations held in spring to allow for males and females to meet and woo each other, but I honestly haven't dived too deep into what those entail.

Harpies tend to stick to their own species so there's not really any cross breeding with other magical creatures, but there's a large variety of bird-like traits within their own species like color and feather placement that makes harpies able to look very different from one another.

Mating feathers are made by focusing the magia within a harpy to one particular location of their body and infusing a newly growing feather with that power. Only adult, fully developed males can create mating feathers and they magically attach to their chosen mate in a place she/he chooses.

They can make multiple mating feathers, but once someone has accepted one, they lose the ability to, making harpies mate for life. It's possible for them to make mating feathers again if their partner dies, but most wouldn't want to. Harpies can spend their lives alone without mates if they choose, but since harpies stick with immediate family and kick out siblings/ children when they're old enough, it's a more dangerous life to live alone having to provide and fend for oneself. Harpies can make friends with others, but "flocks" aren't really a thing for them. Their family comes first always, but their partner is the most important of all.

I don't know if their familial bonds are 'stronger' than humans, I think that's a bit unfair since humans can love deeply. But they are less likely to hurt/betray/take advantage of the ones they love than humans since they mate for life.

Harpies can have many children in their lifetime and can have anywhere from 1-5 children every spring. Unfortunately, many harpy children don't make it into adulthood due to the dangerous areas they live. They get eaten, injured, and lost very often despite constant vigilance from their parents. Orphaned harpies simply don't make it unless they're old enough to fend for themselves or if they get adopted into another family, most likely by a mlm harpy couple.

I don't know about the mannerisms thing, they all have their own personalities that have more to do with their experiences rather than who their parents are. As for lesbian harpies, they're practically non-existent. Harpies are being actively hunted by humans, and females have the most dangerous job of being the family protector. They die young often and there’s much less of them around now than there used to be. If a female happened to be a lesbian, she would have a very difficult time finding another like her. Harpies also have a stronger, instinctual urge to breed than humans do, so they have a stronger inclination towards males naturally.

If Kree had been a female, he and Clara would have never met. He would have easily gotten a mate despite being smaller, and his lack of fancy colors or patterns would have been within beauty standards, since female harpies are typically duller.

Most humans get temporarily sick when consuming magical plants or animals and tend to stay away from them. The only ones who consume magia regularly are southerners who, over time, have built up a resistance to the ill effects of magia. They get sick because non-magical bodies are not equipped to process magia through them. But, if a human can get past the initial sickness, magia can have a preventative medicinal effect similar to eastern medicine.

Phew! I did it! Hope this all makes sense and helps you understand Kree's world a bit better. It's funny when folks like you seem more interested in my harpy culture than even I am, but it's super nice to see.

[jmdbjk]

Domodachi

Had some stuff going on these past few days but I finally got to watch the most recent RPWP MV: "Domodachi". The symbolism was too literal for me to just let it pass without commenting.

Young person, living his young person life, two innocent boys riding bikes. The Boy on Bike perhaps represents our Namjoon or a version of his journey.

It's dusk. Maybe a little late for young ones to be out. Where are they going?

Drummer dude is not drumming until Boy is even with him, then commences to bang away. The ever-present drumbeat going on in life.

The road turns from a gravel road to a paved road. Gravel road=rural, less sophisticated, simpler life. Paved road=urban, complicated, faster life.

An adult enters the scene and allows Boy to proceed. Younger boy is held back. Coming of age when not ready, immature mind getting swept away into adult spaces and places.

Boy on Bike continues on willingly.

Lyric: "I be slippin thru all kinda bullshit"

Boy rides through some sketchy dark place looking for something familiar and encounters other young people playing a ball and cup game, pass the ball to the other, but the image begins upside down, not really what it seems.

When I saw the cups I thought it was adults drinking until the images turned upright and I saw it was kids.

Lyric: "Ima lead ya to the heaven, play the pipe All my friends wanna get around in 0's (I interpret that as zeros as in lots of zeros behind a dollar sign) All my friends wanna take another pose (I interpret that as "posing" as something they are not)

Kids who might not be who they seem, young people perhaps looking for something more, something they might not be ready for. He is swept away with them.

Boy is thrust into a swirling confusion of adults pointing in all different directions. Boy is confused, doesn't know what to do.

A hand comes out of nowhere and snatches him out of the confusion.

A benign guide. Someone of similar age that guides Boy past the chaotic and slightly violent version of the world he finds himself in. Shows him the way to safety through a tunnel.

Lyrics: "We're all friends, let's dance here (I'll dance right now)"

But then Boy's world turns into some rat-race train-wreck nightmare. He's overwhelmed amongst the adults putting pressure on him from all sides.

Lyrics (Little Simz rap): "Watch I'ma go all out for my hitta I already told them I'm a gorilla Simz and RM, man it don't get bigger"

All those lines COULD rhyme with the obvious word instead of "hitta" if it was a western rapper's song. But a deliberate choice was made here. That's my take on that.

The train enters a tunnel and it gets dark, slam on the brakes, time to slow this train down and try to get control but it all crashes.

I did snort-laugh when I saw this train driver/person, Namjoon said "fuck you mothafuckin asshole Korail dipshit who shared personal info."

The train crashes and the eye of the lurking monster is there searching for its next victim.

The friend appears again to guide him away.

I think the benign friend of same age is himself. His wits, his will, his mind. He climbs the fence, not a difficult barrier to overcome. He's still able to be on both sides.

He exits the dark place, back to his previous life. His young friend is waiting. But when he gets there, Boy realizes he cannot go back.

He has lived too much, seen too much. He can't go back to where he was before. Sad but true. Innocence stripped away. He stops just short of the gravel road and turns around and leaves behind his youth and innocence.

That's what I got out of it from the second watch of this MV. After that second time, I also realized how prescient this is because of all the bullshit going on over at the Hybe building: "Mothafuckas wanna bigger growl, motherfuckas wanna take control... "

Anyway.

FESTA!!!!! BEAR HUGS FROM JIN!!!!! Oh wait, sorry, "light" hugs from Jin. He doesn't want to accidentally crush any ARMYs with his gigantic arms.

[peachielilthing]

Welcome one and all , to BROADCASTTALE !

A lonely , broken down Mettaton , stuck in his dilapidated au , wished for another chance to be something stellar . His wish was heard by and outcode named Rose , and with her help he was able to create a brand new au for monsters like him

Broadcasttale was created with two things in mind: giving monsters with no home world a place to live and thrive , and creating something that could spread joy and laughter throughout the multiverse . Thus was born BTMTTTV (brodcasttale mettaton tv) .

A multiversewide TV station dedicated to entertaining the multiverse !

With your host and mayor , STELLAR !

No one in the multiverse is quite as dazzling as him , his voice is as angelic as it is charismatic , he captivates his audiences and steals their hearts .

He's a very kind and loving person over all , he cares deeply about his au and its residents , especially the cast members of his TV station . They're his family and he would do anything to ensure their safety and happiness .

He/they/it

The multiverse news reporter , TOPAZ !

The energetic newsie is a little bit nosy and he's always looking for the next scoop , dragging his cameraman with him across the multiverse to capture and air stories from all over !

He's got a heart of gold and he'll always look out for the people he loves .

(He secretly has cat ears and a tail . They are hidden by his attire .)

He/they

Speaking of cameraman , here's BLOOKSIE !

They're Stellar's beloved cousin (from another au .... ) , and Topaz's trusted cameraman

They're soft-spoken and timid , often thinking less of themself , but they do their absolute best , and when push comes to shove they always pull through ! They're much stronger than they give themself credit for .

They/them

Can't have Sans without Papyrus . Meet KUNZITE ! (named by my good friend @knightpapyrus on Twitter)

He's Topaz's dear brother , he runs a cooking show on the station and his culinary skills are the best in the multiverse !

He's an absolute sweetheart and he'll defend his brother with his life (even if that means lying to people's faces that Topaz didn't inherit the cat gene)

He/him

And last but not least , STATIC !

They're a ghost of a human child who used to live in the au broadcasttale was built upon . They somewhat resent the creation of the au , but no one seems to notice that they're here .

Deep down they have a loving heart , they're just very bitter about the initial destruction of their au , and aren't entirely open to the drastic changes that Stellar and Rose made with the broken world .

They/them , 11 years old .

Rules

1. Fanart is a-ok ! Tag me in it even .

2. Headcanons are welcomed and encouraged . They may help me build upon the au !

3. Nsfw of the ADULT CHARACTERS is fine , so long as it's kept in adult spaces , far FAR away from minors .

4. Ships are ok , as long as they are not problematic type ships . Keep the adults shipped with the adults , and ship chara with people their age .

5. Feel free to design broadcasttale versions of other characters , and what sorta segment they could have on the station , I wanna see it , and who knows .... maybe I'll adopt some of them .

6. HAVE FUN !!!

[mama-mystery]

Personal Update -- Moved & Safe

Hokay! Been a while since I posted here, but a lot's been going on. Let me give you the short version.

My wife and I move and left the state of Texas after saving up for over a year this year. It was a hard move for us to make, but we made it after a very long drive with two very quiet cats. My wife was the mastermind of all of this, and I don't know how we could have done any of it without them at the helm. They are my beacon in so many ways, and they certainly were that again here, as we moved.

But, as I had began to say, it was a hard and stressful move. Some folks know that I was out of work before COVID hit, struggled to find work during the pandemic, we had a slew of bad events happen in our lives... but we pulled through it, certainly not perfectly, but we pulled through it.

But living in Texas didn't make any of that better or easier. While in Austin, a series of laws were enacted by the Governor that specifically targeted the Transgender and Drag communities of the state. People think of Texas as a big Conservative hellhole (and it is due to the government), but it's also much more than that. The cities of Texas are incredibly diverse and wonderful places.

I don't hide the fact that in real life, I'm transgender. My wife's transgender. These laws were purpose built to screw with people like me and keep us off of the stage and out of public view. For example, certain "devices" (see: breast forms and fake packages) could be considered adult and can't be included in public performance if a specific law isn't blocked, which would include public speaking like mine. If I wore my breast forms, for example, it would classify my act as adult no matter what I was speaking about or how clothed I was.

In fact, it's so broad that simply wearing my breast forms in public would constitute a crime. It would bar me from public life if I chose to present myself the way I've presented myself for multiple decades, without issue.

All of that for a pair of fake boobs under a t-shirt. Amazing law. Brilliant legal. Yes, these are sarcastic sentences.

That's just the beginning of the stuff that's been happening down there, and it honestly only gets worse. Not all of it makes it up to the news media, but we're lucky that some of it does, like our AG trying to get a list of transgender people in the state without legal reason.

I'll be blunt: It's dangerous to be transgender in Texas right now, and I feel deeply for all of the transfolks who are still down there. None of us should have to live like that or be degraded like that.

I deeply admire those who are choosing to stay for whatever reason they have, as those people are fighting for their literal lives. They do it with class too. My wife attended multiple protests in Austin, and each time they were surrounded by amazing, helpful, kind people. There were physicians, lawyers, people with water, food, and first aid kits... the list goes on.

I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone here on my blogs and social media for all of the messages of kindness, support, and strength. I turned to them many times to help push me through. Without y'all, we wouldn't have been able to do what we did in the first place -- so thank you.

I'm still recovering from everything we had to do. While it's been a few weeks since we moved, it's been an extremely emotional time for me. It's odd to say, but I've found that I'm recovering from the stress of living in fear in Texas -- stress I didn't even realize I had until we left. It's also been the anniversary of my Dad's passing, as well as the passing of a number of our friends. This time of year is always grueling on me.

I know I'm doing better and feeling better, but it's still a slow path of recovery. I've taken it step-by-step, yet I truly loathe how abysmally plodding it all feels. My wife said it best: It's slow because we have to build new neural pathways in our brains to replace the old rusty ones and that takes time and patience.

I'm looking forward to getting back to being creative again, especially if I can continue to carve some more free time for myself now that my wife and I aren't living paycheck to paycheck with an astronomical rent. (I've been very, very confused by the concept of "having personal time again.")

I don't know when I'll quite be back doing my thing again with consistent gusto, but I will continue to be keeping in touch on my DeviantArt, Tumblr, and Instagram, as well as doing what's needed for SizeCon's tech.

And, I can say I do look forward to seeing everyone at SizeCon Micro 2023! <3 ~Mystery / Astra P.S. - Fuck Texas.

[zoyaspoetry]

I know that you guys could be surprised cuz last few posts were about Halsey. Ah, i knew that this moment will come here one day and basically i should explain why i like her so fking much.

I'm gonna do this in 2 versions - polish and english cuz i know that i have both types of readers here. ;-)

There we go - english at first (polish later, after my shift at work).

I was 19 when I discovered Halsey here on Tumblr. I was 19 and depressed, so Tumblr was some kind of med for me. First her song - Young God, which i reconized cuz of this post. I was looking for a new music anyway, so maybe that was a sign, huh? It was something new, something magic... And i was like "wtf, it can't be true, why is she so fking great?" - i swear, i was shocked for next few days. Finally i found someone who understands me in 100%. This is how i discovered BADLANDS - her 1st album. Now i just feel tears in my eyes, cuz i didn't expect then that her music is gonna save my life... like 665734 times. She was first person, who understands what i had in my head and what i wanted to say. Do you know how is it when you don't understand yourself, when people around you don't understand you and then you discovered artist, who FINALLY KNOWS WHAT DID YOU MEAN? I was devastated. Her music shocked me at first and broke me into small, tiny pieces. So many memories i have in my head right now. I posted a video from her yesterday's concert where she's singing "Drive" and i just felt like Im 21 again and all what i can see is colorful sky, 5 a.m, and my ex-boyfriend sitting with me in his car and we are sooo tired, happy, even when Im manic again and Im gonna break him. This song is about him, i swear. It's about every fking moment, when we were drinking raspberry tea, smoking cigarettes at 3 a.m, talking and laughing. I think BADLANDS changed something in me. This is one of my favorite albums EVER. All of this is about my roots. About being a Tumblr princess, colorful hair, glitter, tiny dresses, heavy shoes (I should focus on my job right now, but all what i can do is being crushed cuz i feel like 19 again).

Halsey is a great lyrics creator. Her words every fking time resonate with me (maybe cuz she's bipolar as well, which i realized few years later). Sometimes she's just singing something what i can't even describe. She's brave and in simply way saying everything what i wanted to say, but sometimes i just couldn't. Today, almost 10 years later, I can't imagine what could happen with me without her music. I'm so grateful that i could discover her music. This is one of many good things Tumblr gave me.

I believe that one day I'll meet her at her concert and I'll be able to say how grateful I'm. She was my support in almost every moment of my adult life. When i was broken, depressed, crazy, insane. When love sucked for me, when i felt misunderstood, when i needed power and being sure that i'm doing right things. Even when i didn't understand myself. SHE LITERALLY SAVED MY LIFE. When i was sure I'm gonna die soon, i just listened her music and i was better.

This is one of the most personal thing in my life, more personal than things i did when i was manic. I wish that everyone can discover her music and her as a person. Everyone should be grateful cuz without her... I would be fking dead long time ago.

(polish version later, so stay tuned and sorry for my being emotional lol)

Thank you @tiredandlonelymuse for everything. You're my queen since you started your music adventure and it's not gonna change, like never. You have saved many, many lives. Mine as well.

hold me down x roman holiday x young god

halsey + swimming pools

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[iboughtyouviolets]

Ack! I think we have some more famous introjects...sigh.

As with the dead famous creators, we certainly don't believe we are the actual living musicians. They/we are highly fictionalized versions of these artists. We might be nothing like the actual person. We are heavily influenced and connected with music. It only makes sense that if we were to have introjects that they would be musicians. Because they are very different from who they molded from we consider ourselves fictives rather than factives. Brain went, "yes, this makes me feel better. I'm going to take a tiny piece of that band and store it away for later." I'm really questioning if I'm host to my own subsystem. 👀 (I mean...how? What? Uhh...I'll go with it. We've probably been here for a long time but didn't have as much consciousness. For now I will speak for them as they might be fragments within me.) There are a few, once again, fictionalized versions of deities here too. (We are their myths, but not them.) I don't feel comfortable disclosing any musician introjects or deities.

It's wild how you can map out when we had traumatic periods in our life by what fictives and kin we are. Like "oh, this was all of our teens...oh that was 2016. Childhood, was probably watching that when shit was going on in the background or when we were nearly bedbound that full year. That's when that assault happened. We were reading that book around that time." Also our main kintypes. The vampire that was turned via medical experiments holds most of our childhood dental and medical trauma. The succubus holds some of our sexual trauma. The alien allows us to be visibly neurodivergent and unmask. Our main little (though she has been an adult more often these days) heavily identifies as a bunny. You'll never guess the theme of our nursery/room. 🐇 People have always demanded a lot out of us and we have basically never been able-bodied. We also would be more shocked to find out we aren't on the spectrum. Society kind of lets you know when you're different. 😞 We've often felt we weren't human and could never be. We don't know everything Silas is but we do know he is many alterhuman types. Les, while her canon aligns closer to the series than the books, she has major mommy AND daddy issues. (Many seem to forget how she had thought of murdering her father many of times as she took care of him.) She also had a complicated relationship with her mother and her brothers were horrible to her. Hers especially were far worse than the books. We have been dealing with major issues within our blood family. Then there's me. I house grief and death, yet I'm very comfortable among the dead. Be it spirits or bodies. Western society has a very narrow look at death that is rooted in fear. While we've always viewed it a tad differently than our peers, death is still upsetting. There isn't a way around sadness or grief, but I embrace going through it and processing to get where it hurts a little less. I also store introjects of family members that my host "can't live without." They will become active once the person passes. They have peeked through a few times and it is something we all are very uncomfortable with while the actual person is alive.

...people around us think we don't do anything. Little do they know we're a full-time therapist, just our clients are me, myself, and I.

[yellowhippo]

Spilling the Yellow Beans, April 2025:

What a way to celebrate the Little Prince's birth month in my own way.

Unexpectedly, my hands picked on The Return of The Young Prince by A.G. Roemmers for the month of April. I wasn't exactly aware that this month was the publication of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince. I guess, my random choice of reading Roemmers own prequel to it was designed by fate to give me more signs that this book talk series was really a project meant for this year.

I'm going to be honest though and say that although I do have a certain soft spot for The Little Prince, Roemmers' attempt writing an older version of him was not my cup of tea (or, coffee, rather). His book still held the wonder and curiosity that the young prince had in the original novella, but it just wasn't for me as it felt too 'DICTATIVE' for my liking. You may have a different opinion if you read it, but I'll stand by my own perspective that it was simply too 'dictative' for my liking. But even then, I pushed myself to keep reading for the following reasons:

I must continue with the book talk project.

I want to celebrate the Little Prince's birth month.

I have to read books as I've hoarded a ton over the years.

I feel like I need to read books to BALANCE my emotions right now.

I need a DISTRACTION on what this year brings for me.

So, here I am taking a month-long drive with the prince.

'A problem is like a door you haven't got the key to.'

Indeed, every problem is a door as it usually leads to people thinking that after solving the problem, they've closed a chapter of their life and is gearing up for a new beginning of sorts. But not all the time, one gets to open it in a blink of an eye. Some have to cry and try and try until they find the solution - the key.

- What I Do When Faced With a Problem -

Nothing. Or actually, I let others face it for me while I sit back and wait for them to give me the key so I can move forward to my next destination. To be more exact, I have my parents solve everything for me. Even now as an adult, I still depend on them so much that I can't imagine a life without them. Clingy, right? But also very weak and immature of me, I believe.

The age of ADULTHOOD has come and gone, yet I still live like a CHILD.

As I was reading The Return of The Young Prince, I can't help but thing 'how is he able survive on earth, an unfamiliar place, without his flower?' It struck me then, this book may initially be giving me peek at what I need to do to solve my problem. Like the prince, I need a sense of INDEPENDENCE and probably, all the keys would slowly but surely appear along the way for me to open doors after doors.

'You're putting the problem outside yourself and blaming someone else for your situation, which is an excellent way of not resolving it.'

Honestly, the statement above by the narrator hits hard as I found a way to 'dodge', or actually, more like 'ESCAPE', a problem just because I do not know where to find they key. I chose to turn elsewhere just so I don't have to find a way to open that door. I escaped and blamed others for a mishap which honestly had a clear solution but I was stuck at the idea that it wasn't my fault at all and that I did what I can and that no one was helping me out. But of course, I can't exactly depend on someone to solve my problem at that time as it was a problem that only I had the key to. And because, the others are also too busy finding keys of their own to open other doors for themselves. So I know there's really no one to BLAME but myself. But being the stubborn person that I am, I kept - keep - on blaming others and creating a LIE just to escape that door.

Now though, I may have escaped that door but I am now facing a new one and the key is just as hard to find. Annoyingly, I still find others to blame. The society, technology, the tight competition. Though it may be true, the biggest blame is on me as I escaped the previous door without even trying. I gave up too soon, thinking that the next door would give me an easier time to find the key to it since the previous door seemed to be 'too hard' for me at the time. Turns out, it wasn't. The previous door was a lot easier because the solution was literally right in front of me and all I needed was a little effort to reach it.

'If you had been more secure, if you had more confidence in your feelings, the grass wouldn't have found her way so easily into the the crack that had opened up in your heart, and she wouldn't have had such a destructive influence on your life.'

And that's exactly it. I'm too complacent rather than being confident. I realized how being too complacent could easily lead to laziness. As a result, when problems come, others solve it for me and I don't LEARN anything. I may have escaped. But the next problems would seem hard - harder, even - to face as I have not learned or gained anything new to help me face it.

'So how do I grow up without becoming a serious person?'

- Growing Up -

With the economy constantly evolving and the demand progressing so fast, my pillars could no longer keep up. Slowly, they CRUMBLE. There's really no way to FORTIFY it as these pillars, my parents, are not immortal. With technology taking over, they find it hard to cope and keep up with the world, leading them to find solutions in ways that I never thought would come. Ways that I never thought I'd have to face because all my life, my parents looked like they were indestructible. But that was the child in me thinking that they're forever strong, unbeatable.

But now that they are literally, physically weakening? I need to grow up and break out of being dependent on them. It still hasn't sunk in yet. But perhaps, once my mother leaves to work abroad, life would slap me awake and hurl the pain of having to be INDEPENDENT once and for all.

You've already seen how they'll cling to the slightest support, however small, before admitting that they're wrong and need to change.

Like the little prince, I have to come to the realization that my 'rose', my parents will wither sooner or, hopefully, a lot later.

Even the people with the firmest faith in the world have experienced doubt.

Very true, indeed. But first, this alludes to why I find this book too 'dictative' for my liking. Roemmers always finds a way to insert God and faith in every point the narrator shares with the prince. I may not exactly be a non-believer as I was baptized and raised as a Catholic, but I'm also not a religious one to enjoy reading something with the mentions of God in it.

Additionally, mentions of FAITH annoys me for some reason after meeting someone who used to 'force' his belief on mine and indirectly saying I am either a sinner or is too astray and that I'm a hopeless cause. An unlikely friendship was formed though as I always found myself retorting back how life is not all about faith and 'believing' in God because one needs to BELIEVE in themselves too, One of the problems he's been failing at for years and uses his disability to further drag himself down.

But maybe his presence is just what I needed. Just like how the prince was found by the narrator, I was also found by someone who made - makes - me realize a lot of things in my life. Things that I need to incorporate in my own self.

My friend had limited himself in order to let me discover the best of him so that I could find the best in myself.

[inwintersolitude]

- January 26th 2025 -

How long have you lived in your current home? We bought the house last March, and moved into it in April.

Do you have sensitive skin? Yes, it gets red and inflamed easily. I have a sensitivity to niacinamide and several types of sunscreen ingredients, they make my skin sting pretty badly.

Do you wear necklaces or earrings more? I almost never wear either.

Rings or bracelets? Rings, I guess. Although, I did recently buy a few black beaded bracelets that I like. But prior to buying those, I went like 6+ years without wearing a bracelet.

Are you attracted to several guys at the moment? Nope, just my husband.

Pasta or tacos? That is a tough choice. Which one I'd choose would probably depend on the day and what I happen to be the most hungry for.

Water or soda? Water.

How many toilets are in your house? Three.

Do you have an older sister? Nope. Just a younger brother.

What color is your mum's car? Pearly white.

Do you live in an apartment? No.

Do you have a wallet? Yes.

Where do you keep your kitty litter box? I don’t have a cat.

Are you rude to little children? Of course not.

Do you like Ethiopian food? I've never had it, but I think it looks good and I'd like to try it. There are a few Ethiopian restaurants in the city about 40 minutes from here.

Is your current crush younger than you? I don't have a crush. But my husband is older than me, by 2.5 years.

Are you a lighter complexion than your father? Nope, we’re both super pale.

Do you like apricots? Yep.

Do you go to the beach every summer? I always try to have at least one beach day every summer, but I don't always get around to actually going. I'm inordinately picky about what the weather is like for having a beach day. Has to be not too cloudy but also not fully sunny, not too hot, and not windy. I also prefer going on weekdays when it's not crowded.

Ranch or barbeque sunflower seeds? I like plain unseasoned ones.

Do you have a pet fish? Nope.

Do you believe being gay is a choice or a “disorder”? It’s neither.

Do you make your bed everyday? Why/why not? Usually. It bothers me if the sheets/blankets get too bunched up.

If you had the power to shapeshift, what would you turn into first? Why? Me, but an invisible version of me. So I could sneak into top-secret government facilities and read all the classified documents.

In what circumstances do you feel most at peace? When I'm spending time out in the woods, on my favorite hiking trails near my house. Also when my husband and I are having a relaxing and cozy day at home together.

Do you enjoy hugging people? Do you enjoy receiving hugs? I am huggy with only my husband and closest family members.

Do you think you are interesting or a bore? I probably seem boring to people who don't know me well. But the people who do know me say that I'm interesting.

What do you feel is your number one flaw? Are you doing anything about it? I lack self-discipline and I have horrible time-management skills. I'm trying to do something about it by using habit trackers and daily to-do lists, but that can only help so much. I feel like I won't be able to get anywhere close to fixing this unless I go back on medication for my ADHD, but most ADHD meds are either stimulants (which I can't take anymore because of heart/nervous system problems), or SNRIs (which I refuse to take because of the risk of my tinnitus/hyperacusis getting worse). I want to try ADHD-focused therapy but most therapists who do that only work with children, which is infuriating and I could go on a whole separate rant about how the mental health system ignores the needs of neurodivergent adults, but I'll save that for another time.

What is a talent you wish you possessed? I wish I still had a talent for sports and physical fitness. I used to when I was younger and I miss the feeling of being physically powerful and agile.

Do you tend to be punctual or are you usually late? I try really hard to be punctual, and I oftentimes am, but my brain does not perceive time in a normal way (and sometimes I struggle to perceive time at all) so sometimes I end up being a bit late despite my best efforts.

Would you ever visit a nude beach? Nope, I don't want to see that shit lmao. And I don't want anyone seeing me naked, either!

Do you take any prescription meds? Yes, birth control pills and my heart medication.

Who was the last person you dreamt about? My husband.

Have you had any fruit today? Yes, pineapple.

Do you keep a diary/journal? These surveys are like my journal.

Is your best friend a slut? Nope lmao.

Do you have any dishes in your room? No.

Are you planning on going to college? Been there, done that. Every now and then, I get an absurd desire to go back for another degree, this time in physics, just for the fun of it. But I probably won’t.

[eversea143]

You know, sometimes I go through my (immense) list of cartoon fanfics and I think 'huh, this version of [character x] is better than the original' and it strikes me that such a thing is even possible.

It's really the situation of how and why fanfiction is written that can potentially be the source of this observation. Unlike cartoons, which are made by productions and are purely designed for a children's target audience, fanfiction is entirely made for a single person (or several working together) and is aimed at anyone willing to read. Sure, some have a certain 'audience' that these works are aimed at, but that's still different because the accesibility means anyone can read these fics, no matter who it's meant to be for.

Of course the baseline for cartoons isn't the definit norm. I can think of several which definitely wanted to appeal to a wider, adolescent group (Infinity Train immediately comes to mind) and the idea of 'adult animation' is reaching new peaks in recent years. I can say for sure that some of these have pushed above and beyond the normal expectations of cartoon animation and that makes me happy.

But fanfiction authors have a particular perception of the characters, and combine that with the lack of expectations (besides their own) and you'll get a sometimes much more... realistic or mature interpretations. Mindsets and personalities are delved into much deeper than some cartoons would ever dare to go, and the responses and reactions were at times more alive and engaging. Readings conversations between characters from a show have often made me feel more intrigued and interested than listening to their over-the-top behavior in the actual show.

And that's without even considering the fact that with cartoons and animation shows, everything has to pass a board of inspection which can be... frustrating at times, I'm sure. Writers, animators, producers, I'm confident many can share unlimited amounts of drama surrounding thr struggle of getting certain 'things' past the more narrow-minded or conservatire board members. (Gravity Falls and Steven Universe, however did you manage to even air?) Again, this is something that's much less prominent with fanfiction and truly helps to keep the true beauty of the idea intact with limited editing.

Most of all, fanfiction authors are simply... people. Everyday, simple people who each have their own lives and their own struggles. Few are actually true writers and even fewer have ever written anything before, like, at all. I certainly found my love for writing thanks to fanfiction. I don't have any writing peers or am under the public's eye because I'm working on a show, unlike the writers and producers of any kind of show or movie. I'm not looking for fame or fortune; writing isn't my job and livelihood. I don't have any deadlines (besides my own) and if I decide to make a change it's only because I wanted to. Not because someone else thinks I should or have to.

It's all of these factors combined, in whatever direction, that makes it so that particular characters receive more recognition and respect in fanfiction than what the original author(s) could have done. Maybe some burned-out writer from a popular children's show has ended up going through a fanfiction work and shed tears at seeing their character, their creation, be brought to life in ways they were unfortunately never able to.

I'll always treasure the original source of my favorites, but sometimes I can't help but wonder... if maybe they deserved more justice.

[mclzandaya]

hiroto kazama best boi

yes im rewatching season 1 of kilari and falling in love with him all over again, 10-year-old me is THRILLED

[covecorner2]

corbinthemysterypirate asked:

I wanna know, since it seems that most people don't really realize this but, are there any other kids in candle cove. And if so has Janice ever met them, how does she react to others?

Ok, I can only really speak for my au, not other people's, but yes there are other kids in candle cove besides Janice, it's just that she's the only one there from our world.

I know on the wiki Nathan is mentioned as another kid member of the Laughingstock Crew who was Janice's neighbor in the real world, but because I think that's kind of distracting and takes away from Janice being the focus of the story (and creates a HUGE plot hole for my au's world building) in my version he's also a puppet like everyone else. He's also a little older than Janice in my version, about 13 (just to make sense out of why Calvary seems more chill with him being on the crew than Janice at first), and while he and Janice are pretty close friends and can come to each other as kids about stuff in a way they can't with the other adults I also cut the tid-bit about them having a crush on each other out cuz, again I made him older and it felt like another distracting thing.

There's also Auburn! I don't nearly talk about her as much as I should considering how much she rots my brain (again just referring to her in my own au not the wiki). In my version Thade and Lillian aren't her biological parents, but rather she was a stowaway on the Tarantula ship (for reasons I'll get into later) and was just sort of...adopted by the crew over time? Lillian did practically become her mom and while it's more difficult to discern what relationship she had with Thade, since I hesitate to call him a dad sometimes because they feel like a more terrorizing little sister and very tired older brother duo, they were all family none the less. This also means Auburn was there for Red Mary's attack on the crew though, and along with Thade and Percy, was the only survivor (though the other two aren't aware of this and presumed her to be dead since they were separated).

I can't really get into her too much since I also have a big sequel au where the good guys and bad guys team up to defeat Red Mary and Auburn is involved in a big way, but the basic gist is after the attack she was just on a hellbent path for revenge which ended up getting her involved in a bunch of magic stuff, as well as hurting others and herself. In the same au she does end up joining the team and by this time both her and Janice are a bit older, Janice 14 and Auburn 16, but they actually get along great. Much like how Janice has Thade parallels in her characterization and story arc, Auburn has a lot of parallels to Lillian in the same way, so the two of them have a similary dynamic personality wise. Janice honestly just thinks Auburn is super cool and learns much more about magic and abyssians through her, and Janice helps Auburn give herself a break and move past some of the survivors guilt from the attack on the crew and how she was never able to avenge her mother on her own. I think they may also bond over losing their moms at young ages and having to live without them.

I've always loved to imagine Janice, Nathan, and Auburn just being this super chaotic trio of rag tag kids doing pirate crimes and getting into trouble. Auburn is usually the one to start chaos, Nathan tries to stop her, and while Janice helps her with it she's also usually the one to get them all out of it. It's their thing :] They should have like....a "Traumatized pirate kids who have been through some shit" therapy group they all need it.

Also, even though in my version she never actually makes it to the cove itself, me and a few friends on discord have come up with this sort of spin off story focusing on Melrose and what's happening back in Ohio after Janice goes missing that has more of that og candle cove cursed tv show feel than the main candle cove story I have where the feel is more aligned with grimm fairytales.

It's basically Melrose, who's going through guilt hell after Janice goes missing, seeing her sister in candle cove on the TV one day, basically the actual candle cove show described in the og creepypasta. Because everyone else only sees static though, she feels like she's going crazy, until one day a kid from school tells her "I saw your sister on TV too." From there Mel and a few other kids who have also witnessed the show (all oc's I'll share later) form this little group aiming to figure out what the hell's going on and to hopefully get Janice back from where ever she went. It sort of has that 80's horror movie vibe with the group of kids banding together over weird shit happening to them and having to solve a mystery or face off against something evil before it's too late. It's fun, it'll be fun I'm definitely not going to drag them all through trauma.

(April 12, 2022)

[epickiya722]

REACTIONS TO EPISODE 19 - FULL POWER!!

You know what goes on here.

LAST EPISODE'S REACTIONS

And here's the beginning of the one Deku Arc that gets me in my feels.

Yes, give me that Izuku narration! Even though it was just for the letter reading.

Ochaco, don't cry. Please don't cry! 😭

There goes his pose! That he makes looks cooler than Batman.

He looks and depressed already and this arc just started!!

The last time he wore that hoodie was back in season 4.

Oh, it's Shindo and Nakagame!! Grand and fucking Turtle Neck!!! Why is her hero name so funny to me?! 🤣

Shindo and his thot version of Froppy's hero suit. Keep doing you, boo!

It's nice Shindo mentions Ms. Joke since she is their teacher. I like that. And I like Ms. Joke, she funny.

"Now they're sending in kids." Yeah, but GROWN FUCKING ADULT HEROES ARE FUCKING QUITTING. THOSE KIDS ARE YOUR BEST BET, ASSHOLE.

I'm okay, I'm fine.

I get that you want to defend yourselves, but allow the heroes that are still around to help.

That's right, Shindo, tell them.

"... sticking their noses in our lives?" Uh, if Shindo and Nakagame are there to take you to their school...

I can't stand the citizens sometimes because oh, you were worshipping heroes before but now that they're quitting you want to give the heroes who are still around a hard time? They ain't perfect but damn.

"If we could take them by force..." May be extreme, but you gotta protect folks and if they're giving you a hard time... return the fafor. I'm joking.

Ah, shit, it's that muscly fuck!!! I HATE HIM!!! SO MUCH!!!

"You two, let's have fun!" SIR, THOSE ARE KIDS, DAMN!!!

WHEN DID SHINDO INVEST IN SWORDS?!

Did he just push her?!

SOMEONE KILL THAT BITCH!!

WHY RUN BACK TO THE WINDOW?!

12000 layers? Sir, that is disgusting.

"Sometimes, we have to sacrifice our lives!" SHINDO! 😭

"I'll turn your brain into a milkshake!" PLEASE DO!! I HATE HIM!!

Ew

LET'S GOOOOO!!!

I'm glad, as a purple lover, that Smokescreen is purple!!! 💜

"It's you, isn't it?" You're gonna wish it wasn't Deku, bitch.

Dingy looking ass rabbit... looking like a cryptid... I adore him.

"I'm just a human, too." You are???

Why would he put that rock there?

"Fight me will all you have, Midoriya!" Alright then, you asked for it. Don't cry now, don't cry.

"I can't see his face through the smoke." You won't be able to anyways, Tatami. He's wearing a mask.

EN!!! Wait... you're the purple one?! YES!!

En is also very pretty to me.

Ooooh, he's still being all calculating and stuff in a fight. My green boy!!!

Real quick, I love how Midoriya's mask makes his eyes look like All Might's. Especially since All Might's eyes like that are a reflection of him being a shell of what he used to be in his prime. Current Midoriya is well... a shell of himself. He's pushing himself and neglecting how others feel just as All Might did.

"I want a life without regret." Bitch, you ain't Miruko.

BEAT HIS ASS, DEKU!!! DON'T ASK HIM NO QUESTIONS!!!

I'm not fighting anyone who looks at me like this and just standing there. That is a person ready to snap your kneecaps.

I LOVE MY GREEN BOY!!!

But damn it, this arc just makes me sad...

Fucking wow...

FINALLY ALL MIGHT GOT ONE!!

Oh, it's those other hero kids!!!

"We don't want him to die." OH DO YOU?!

Deku passing by the glass just like All Might... THE DAMN PARALLELS!!!

You think Smokescreen smells like lavender? I hope so.

All Might got drip, huh? Them glasses!!

He still has that ringtone?! 😆

I need Izuku to get a bath and a blanket like today.

INKOOOOOO!!!!

I forget how buff Midoriya is sometimes... his face just hides that, okay?

"Please be more cautious." We can only hope...

All Might standing there like "... ah, crap, here we go again..."

Pretty shot of Izuku. He gets his looks from his mom. She is a damn pretty woman.

I'll be honest, out of all the families, the Midoriya's is my favorite. They have had the most tender moments and I swear I shed tears with them.

Ooh, the baby Izuku flashback playing with Inkoooo... 😭😭😭💚💚💚

"Don't worry. I'll come home." 😭😭😭😭😭

NOT ALL MIGHT CRYING, STOOOP!!! 😭😭😭😭😭

DOES HISASHI CRY, TOO?!

Why in the absolute hell is Best Jeanist holding that phone like that?

"The way he holds that phone is so cool." Hawks, stop lying.

I am impressed though.

Ooooh, Gran Torino giving him the cape...

Ooooh, getting more of the 2nd & 3rd Users next episode? 👀 Lady Nagant??

[fountainpenguin]

If you were given the opportunity to reboot FOP from the ground up, what would you change, shake up, or put your own spin on?

I'll have to give this a short answer, I no joke spent over 2 hours replying to this, then added a Read More and Tumblr told me that my post was too out of this world and it broke the editor. It kicked me out in a split second without any opportunity to save. Sorry to everyone who has to scroll past my stuff in the future, but I'm not living through this again. Read Mores have no place on my blog.

I'm furious because 1) I tried to copy-paste out of this editor like I always do and save in an external place, but the new editor is busted and only copies one paragraph when you do CTRL-A so I gave up, and 2) literally the last sentence I wrote before typing that was "Before my hiatus, Read Mores broke stuff, but I'm willing to give this another try." It's not even the same error it used to be. I can't. I can't.

At least we're friends and I think you know a lot of my thoughts anyway. Sorry it took so long to write an answer to this message, but I've already let it sit for so long that I HAVE to get it out of my inbox now or I'll never go back to it after losing everything :/ I can't believe that just happened. How ironic that one of the main reasons I went on hiatus was because stuff kept breaking and then it's worse when I return. Bleh.

So... Here's the short version of things I can remember talking about:

Update world lore, especially regarding Anti-Fairies. Anti-Fairies debuted in Season 2 and didn't reappear until Season 5; Anti-Fairy World itself made its first appearance in Season 6 because the Anti-Fairies were only seen in jail before that. Anti-Fairy World is kind of barren and stereotypical, and the general vibe of Anti-Fairies is that they are all evil because their magic revolves around bad luck. I'd prefer some gray area. I also feel like the characterizations for Anti-Cosmo and Anti-Wanda were rushed and we should say it.

Logically I know that Anti-Wanda can be said to parallel Wanda's high-class mafia upbringing, but I doubt that was planned since Wanda's family only showed up in Season 5. In another universe, we could have had a classy evil queen. I love the grubby gal, but there are so many cool aesthetics she could have had instead. The Anti-Cosmo and Anti-Wanda vibe doesn't bring anything to the table that Cosmo and Wanda didn't already have unless you take creative liberties.

Maps. Maps would have been great.

Designs. Cosmo, Crocker, and Dad really don't need the same shirt. Wanda's outfit is pretty bland too, and it's honestly a shame that Anti-Cosmo got a unique outfit but Anti-Wanda's is just a recolor of Wanda's. See also, classy queen.

Also I've never liked Timmy's Channel Chasers adult design; I just don't think it's in character. I feel like his body type would be much closer to his parents, and the existing one is just too extreme for my preferences. Doesn't say "Timmy the average kid" to me.

"Fairly Odd Baby" - As much as I enjoy the idea of Fairies placing a ban on babies because they're destructive and Fairy World likes to push away its problems, I'd have introduced Poof as part of an announcement that Cosmo and Wanda had been expecting a baby for 100 to 1000 years. Their lifespans are so long, it wouldn't be out of the question. A reveal episode could have been fun.

I also don't think I would have chosen to leave Poof a baby who can't speak for that long; I think he has a fun personality (Sasses Foop, deliberately puts Foop in harm's way, but also he's super chill and nice and likes sports) and I would have liked to see more episodes where he talks. I don't love how he was shipped to boarding school as soon as he was able to talk and dialogue was needed.

Vicky takes Mark back onscreen. She canonically decided she wanted to start dating him again, after she found out he was an alien and she broke up with him. She made the choice to take back her alien boyfriend and she loves him and we should talk about it. I'm obsessed with them and will forever treasure the deleted "Foul Balled" scene of them holding hands at the senior home while Mark is in his squid form. I support Vicky becoming the shapeshifting queen of a violent planet and being extremely in love with her squid husband.

Chloe / A.J. friendship. A.J. ended world hunger in Season 2 and he built a time machine a few seasons later, I feel like those two would have really hit it off.

More episodes of Timmy playing soccer. I will not re-elaborate.

More of side characters I love, like Molly and Kevin. I love them. I love Kevin falling farther and farther behind his uncle when they walk together, I love Timmy introducing himself to Molly's fairy by shaking her hand... They might be side characters but I feel like they add a lot more to the world and character dynamics in their few scenes than many of the characters do.

Sharing fairies. Timmy sharing fairies with Chloe (or Kevin) as part of a temporary program (like she was just here for one school year before her parents moved again). I think one of the issues people have with Chloe is that it feels like she's here for the rest of Timmy's fairy-related life, and I think a few months of hanging out with her would have been plenty and then there would have been a reason for her to leave the canon afterwards.

Make Chloe Dinkleberg's niece. My favorite headcanon. Also a perfect explanation for why Chloe's family would move to Timmy's street. Also a hilarious parallel of Timmy seething with frustration at his "perfect" neighbor despite spending the entire series making fun of his dad for doing the same thing.

More Timmy/Chloe "step-sibling" interactions. I support Timmy "I will sit with you while you have an hour-long panic attack" Turner in "The Booby Trap" but I cannot emphasize enough that I equally support Timmy "Will take a call from Chloe, listen to her explain that she vaporized a juice box, then hang up and go to bed" Turner. They are step-siblings...

Timmy, Chloe, and Kevin. I support Timmy - Chloe - Kevin trio interactions in general. They're a comedic trio and I want them to support each other.

Gary and Betty. Unironically, we need to talk more about Gary and Betty canonically being aware of the magical world. Or at least they adjusted really fast to being teleported from California to Florida and back again. Also we should talk about that time Gary rang Sanderson on his cell phone, which gets funnier the longer you think about it. Also I love them and we should talk about the deleted "Totally Spaced Out" scene where they tried to flee to Mexico together.

Ending the series with a proper send-off. I'm not a fan of Timmy keeping his magical memories after losing Cosmo and Wanda. Being the protagonist doesn't make him immune. I feel like there are so many ways this could have been done in a sentimental way that people would have loved... I'm sad we didn't get a proper send-off.

On the list of things we don't need to change - Imaginary Gary, Norm, Mark, Molly, Jorgen, the Pixies, Flappy Bob, Foop, and Ed Leadly. They are flawless, 10 of 10. We also do not need to change Chloe casually swearing, but meanwhile Timmy will call you out for saying "Moron" on the radio, and we definitely don't need to change "This isn't a fancy French restaurant- this is a black hole!"

I love the Pixies. If they didn't exist, I would have come along and prepped some worldbuilding about characters who maintain magical paperwork. I love my snarky monotone wasp boys.

Also I just want to shout-out Chloe and Kevin and their personalities being hilarious. I think there are several Chloe-centric episodes that have flawed storytelling, but I do genuinely enjoy the character you're left with after brushing off some of her exaggerated perfectionism.

Kevin has some of the best dialogue in the entire series, and those two just seem to write themselves when you pit them together. I like the mental image of Chloe venting to Timmy about how unfair it is that Crocker shows him favoritism and then it slowly dawns on her that she also has a history of getting a lot of favoritism.

Thanks for the ask! I'm sad I lost the full responses, but I think I've learned my lesson and will draft in an external doc first. Please learn from my mistakes, I will not take back my venting >:(

Even if I lost it, it's nice to take some time and think about some answers to these things. I'm also pretty satisfied that I was able to make this post long enough to feel like a good answer. Yay.