#do i dare maintag this?

[cats-thoughts]

Spoilers for Ivorycello's Kaboodle Smp finale stream:

She said "Do you know how many times I've killed you" to the wardens.

Wardens don't. Exist in the Nether.

Miss Cello How. How have you killed wardens before.

2 theories: One, she isn't from the nether, and has been faking it. Or, Two, C!Ivory was possessed by CC!Ivory, or some form of her, in the heat of battle.

Also "they know who i am"

I love the idea of CC!Ivory possessing C!Ivory for the warden fight but idk how likely that is, and there's very little evidence that c!Ivory isn't from the nether, so idk. Just.

waow. woman.

[wither-rose-circus]

You are not alone in your opinion about Gem's Empires ending. I'm curious, if you could write the ending of Empires s1 what would you do/change?

I’m only realizing after I’ve written this whole essay that you said the entire season ending and not Gem’s specific finale, but it’s too late now so you have my opinions on how I would’ve handled Gem’s personal ending instead, whoops

Also this got pretty long so I’m putting it under a cut

Well firstly, I think she had a lot of threads that were started without finishing them. The school I can mostly forgive. The idea of her character going from young inexperienced wizard ready to prove herself to a mature headmistress teaching the next generation was a great idea for a character arc in my opinion. I wish she had given it a little more plot relevance, it mostly served as a way to goof around with the others, but I get that it was primarily a big finale build project and not really a story project. Even if we didn’t get to see much of her being a serious teacher, what we got was more or less enough to get the idea of where her character was heading.

I’m still pretty annoyed about the corruption plot going nowhere. Scott freezes her heart in this big dramatic scene and she gets a little cold. The next episode, she’s got a red streak in her hair and is talking about how powerful she feels, how she deserves to flaunt her accomplishments a bit. Then. . . she drinks some soup and she’s all better? And it just left me wondering, well, what was the point? What did she learn? What did Scott learn? It feels like they were setting up for something big only to chicken out at the last minute. I think Gem’s character really struggles with her own pride and not being able to do things herself. I think she doesn’t think through her actions and will do what she believes will benefit herself most, not considering that what benefits her might not benefit others. I think it wouldn’t made a great parallel to Sausage’s corruption in that he wanted to be powerful, but Gem already knew she was powerful. She wants to take charge and fix things her way, she truly wants to help but doesn’t realize she’s not helping in the right way. I think it would’ve been a great way to humble her character and make her realize that wanting to help is great, but you need to pay attention to how others feel about your help.

And that brings me to her ending. I do think it was in character of Gem, where she was, to just wash her hands of the situation and run away. She’s a fairly selfish person and doesn’t always consider the well being of those outside of herself and her immediate circle. Had the corruption arc properly gone through, I think Gem’s finale could have been her realizing she can’t fix this and resorting to just trying to rescue the friends she could. I’m still pretty bitter about the fact that, after intertwining their stories for the whole season, she didn’t even give Sausage a passing glance? I wish they had at least had a final conversation, something along the lines of “Sausage, we need to get out of here” “no, I can fix this, trust me, I’ll be okay.” Especially after Sausage spent most of his early arc desperate to be a strong wizard, and some of his later arc training under Gem. It would’ve been a nice moment of Gem trusting that Sausage has grown and letting go of a situation she can’t help, and Sausage finally getting the acknowledgment as a capable sorcerer from someone he looked up to.

I also think the Crystal Cliffs should have been destroyed. It really breaks the tension of the apocalypse by Gem saying nothing went wrong. She frames the ending as “my work here is done, I’m retiring” and not “my world is collapsing, I have to leave,” which doesn’t make any sense in context. Like, she doesn’t even say Gandalf protected the area or anything, she just said she left it in his care. I really don’t mind Gem and fWhip surviving on dragon-back and living out the rest of their lives peacefully, though I do think that it should have been the baby dragon who rescued them. Like, I can acknowledge that it probably was a technical limitation to only hatch the dragon in the finale, and that having it progressively grow up would have been super difficult to pull off. But purely looking through the lens of the story, think it should’ve hatched earlier and have been this small teenage dragon that could just barely carry a couple people, both explaining why Gem could only save so few people, and giving the baby dragon a reason to exist. The larger white dragons could have all fled as a sign of the apocalypse to come, and the baby dragon only stayed with Gem because she’s its mother. What I mind is that it is completely tonally oblivious to the end of the server. It doesn’t even acknowledge an apocalypse has begun, it reads like fWhip made a fucky wucky and now they’re running from the consequences. She at no point acknowledges that any other empires suffered, or what happened to the people she considered her friends, she just frames it as a nice happily ever after for her and her alone. Like at least Scott killed himself to earn his!

I don’t know, I guess in my perfect world, Gem gets a proper corruption arc that shes brought out of by her friends, the apocalypse properly affects the Crystal Cliffs, and she tries and fails to save anyone but herself and fWhip. The end.

[spinchs-field]

in which Ashes loses Tim

oops! all gunfire angst! im sorry i just thought of DTTM and um. yeah. anyway. warnings: ANGST, violence, murder, temporary character death uhhh yeah. lemme know if i should put a warning for anything else. stay safe <3

Tim’s mad, low cackle echoed through the hallways of the Aurora, bouncing off the walls until it eventually reached Ashes. Now, don’t be deceived, Ashes had heard this laugh countless times over the millenia. They knew it well. They found it rather endearing, as a matter of fact.

But this time was different. There was an edge to it that was only ever there when he was about to do something very, very suicidal.

Sadly enough, Ashes knew this edge well.

They stood from the couch that was bolted to the floor all those countless years ago, and set off to find Tim.

They never felt scared to be on the ship, even if their life was constantly threatened by everyone and everything that could feasibly kill them. But this time was different. Unknowingly, their shoulders tensed, their breath seized in their iron lungs, and they tried their best to ignore the shake in their hands.

Aurora felt so… hollow without Jonny to fill in the gaps with his ego. The silence was deafening.

Soon enough, Ashes finds Tim, eyes darting about the cockpit at every control and switch and button. 

His laugh wavers slightly as Ashes gently knocks on the doorframe to get his attention. 

Slowly, he turns to face them.

Ashes was well aware that Tim lacked any ability to cry– some losses had to be taken to fix his pretty little eyes– but his face was blotchy, and he was practically collapsing into himself. It was a near perfect copy of the horror stamped on his face when he first woke up after Carmilla gave him his new eyes.

He was terrified.

“Ashes!” Tim half-yells. “What the hell are you doing here?!”

His eyes never focus on anything. His pupils shrink and expand wildly, keeping everything he sees a hazy blur. 

“I just uh–” Ashes winces as Tim violently whips around to fully face them, cracking his wrist against the control panel. He barely blinks at the pain. “Just… heard you laughing. Wanted to see what was so funny.”

For one split second, Tim’s eyes focus perfectly on Ashes, the camera-like swirl of his irises twisting, as if to zoom in on them. His eyes quickly unfocus again as he averts his gaze. “You’re worried about me, ain’t’cha?” he asks, voice rough and shaky. Droplets of blood cascade slowly from his newly formed injury.

Ashes’ face contorts slightly with sadness, and they move closer to Tim. “No, love, I’m just–”

“Get the fuck away from me,” Tim says, voice horrifically clear all the sudden. “Don’t touch me.”

Ashes feels a spark of anger in their chest. They stomp the feeling out before it starts a bonfire. “Fine,” they say, stern and quiet. “Just tell me what you’re doing.”

“That’s–” Tim cuts himself off, forcing his voice down from a scream to a near whisper. “That’s none of your business.”

Another flash of anger. This time, something inside Ashes catches fire. “I think it is my business! Especially when the one I love is–”

Tim whips around to face Ashes again, ripping his gun from its holster and holding it by his side with an iron grip. “Since when did you care so fucking much about the ones you love?!”

Ashes shouts at Tim for the first time in centuries, “Since Nastya fucking shot herself out into the abyss and when Jonny went and got himself killed, you bloody moron!” 

The cockpit falls dead silent. 

Tim’s eyes focus again, directly on Ashes. 

He laughs. Loud. Harsh. Grating. The sound rips itself from his throat, and shoots Ashes clean through the heart. 

Something akin to panic explodes through Ashes, and every part of them is set ablaze at the feeling. 

Now, don’t be deceived– Ashes had lost Tim plenty of times in the past. It’s rather difficult to stop the breakdown of a traumatised, should-be-dead soldier with very hefty knowledge on nearly every weapon in existence. The best thing to do was just drown him with guns and explosives and let him loose on some poor planet with a high enough population to satiate his bloodlust for another few decades. Or kill him.

But Aurora was nowhere near a planet, and there most definitely wasn’t enough time for Brian to hurry in and drive her to one. 

Someone was going to die, and it was either the rest of the crew, or Tim himself.

And Ashes wasn’t going to die.

They lunge at him, and a shot explodes through the harsh laughter. The bullet only barely misses Ashes, shredding the skin on their arm. The pain only fuels their panic and anger.

They grab Tim by the throat and slam him against the control panel. The force is enough to loosen his grip on his gun. Ashes wastes no time in ripping it from his hand, wincing at the sound of his trigger finger cracking. They hold the gun tight and press the barrel to his temple.

Right before Ashes pulls the trigger, they catch a fleeting glimpse of pure, unrestrained horror in Tim’s eyes.

Then a shot explodes through Tim’s head, killing him instantly. 

He wakes up some time later with a screaming headache, surrounded by the crew in the med bay.

His eyes flit about wildly before stopping on the horrified, tear-slick face of Ashes.

His eyes focus, and in that moment, he wishes he could cry.

[kennys-parka-jacket]

I feel like in high school kenny and cartman would be that one kid who just shows you IRL gore completely unprompted

[meltingelvencookies]

what if groan released the next life series on valentine's day. what then.

[something-rlse]

saw a post that said "do you guys think our grandpa and mayor Lewis explored eachothers bodies" and before I could process that tumble crashed leaving me staring at my phone screen in disbelief

[tubbytarchia]

Could we get more Jimmy and Doc? Or Ren and Doc... for the children

You may... I'm struggling with the actual continuation still oops but please accept this doodle for the time being... for the children

[zerothejackal]

if i see another post being silly about Shadow and Surge bonding over hating sonic i will SNAP

you DO NOT understand!!! Shadow holds so much respect for sonic despite PERSONALLY DISLIKING his attitude towards issues and his way of handling things, BUT HE STILL CARES

Shadow would NOT like Surge however, because unlike Sonic, she's actively destructive, malicious, and even embodies aspects of Shadow himself that he grew out of

He could feel pity for her, but unless she actually starts doing some effort to not be a villain (get amy rose in here) I don't think Shadow would ever bond with her, at least not positively

i mean we ALL saw Shadow wanting to kill eggman as Mr. Tinker, we ALL saw Shadow murdering the jackal squad, Surge's sad backstory won't stop Shadow from seeing her as a threat to he taken care of

anyways i explode your pancakes with my mind, dear reader

[lesbianfakir]

Drosselmeyer descendant oblivious to their writing powers accidentally makes Misha Collins bi through writing supernatural rpf

[talktalitha]

Every new bit of information I learn about Hank Green is more unhinged than the last. Bestie played some music the other day and I was like "hmmm that voice reminds me of chronic entrepreneur and YouTube science man Hank Green". Well guess what. He's LinkedIn famous. He's John Green's brother. He owns dftba. He has cancer. He uses that as an opportunity to teach us abt how chemo and cancer work. He might be the only ethical capitalist. He's even bisexual.

[effervescentleaf]

why do people so desperately want a character who has shown absolutely zero interest in sex to fuck

[nonbinaryaubrey]

my worst hero doodle so far 😁👍💙

[tuxedokit]

i keep making horses. heres our duck headmates' horses (minus beakley she said maybe later)

edit: here she is!!!!

[cure-the-plague]

Huguguhghn.. Art

[wackpedion]

ive been getting into MSI which means reblogging relevant posts and i wish the best of psychic damage on all my followers who arent familiar with MSI and are made to read about how Jimmy Urine showed his dick on stage to a live audience and ended up in jail for the weekend over it, while still wearing his pink faggy outfit btw

[betweenlands]

i think someone needs to lock squiddo and forgelabs in a room to see what kind of entirely new backstabbing gremlin behavior heretofore unthinkable by mankind might pupate out of the resulting scheme