#fine then i’ll make my own post~

[fujii-draws]

OKAY! Chatot rant in tags below! Read at your own discretion.

[heyclickadee]

So…here’s one reason why I’m continuing to be optimistic about the Tech situation. Yeah, there’s the fact that Tech coming back around eventually is what makes the most sense to me for a variety of reasons, but another reason alongside everything else? I refuse to be depressed about this.

The reality is that this isn’t a situation we can control. That leaves me with a choice about the current situation; I can decide the current situation is permanent (something which seems unreasonable to me given how easily recontextualized everything is) and spiral about it, drop it, or I can poke at the text and theorize about how the situation can get better. And since I don’t feel like spiraling and my brain won’t let me just drop it, option three is what I’m going with.

Tech means a lot to me, and, despite the fact that I remain highly critical of the finale in the context of there not being anything afterwards, The Bad Batch generally does as well. So let’s say I’m wrong, because I very well might be. Let’s say that there are not only no plans to follow up on any of this, but that no one ever picks up the threads left behind, and no one ever grabs the grade A catnip that bringing Tech back would be. At least I’ll have had fun theorizing in the meantime, and will come out the other side with a bunch of ideas on how to finish things off myself.

[sophfandoms53]

Hi, same ‘how can I make this about Striker’ anon from before. I dont know how to feel about the ‘Satan is Striker’s father theory’ because on 1 hand I guess it could work??? But also it just doesnt sit that right with me, like I feel like if Striker was literally half sin he’d act/be more powerful than he was shown to be so far. My numerous ideas for his backstory basically change by the daily because I think about him too much but I only gave credence to the ‘Striker’s half royalty’ idea once and even then I wrote it in a way where Striker didnt know about it/had zero idea that was the case to begin with.

Not to mention that him being half-royalty would technically be a way to dismiss his (very valid) arguments about the upper class but maybe thats just me imagining the worse case scenario. For all I know it could be the most well-executed plot point ever.

If Satan isn’t Striker’s father than once we actually see the Envy Ring we’re gonna get ‘Leviathan is Striker’s father’ theories instead because they’re both snake-based. If Striker IS half royalty, than I could imagine it to be some sort of goetia, maybe, but half deadly sin? Next Striker ep appearance would need to have him pull off the most insane shit ever that a imp cant do for me to consider it plausible

I’m responding to this so late but omg anon yes you’re so right.

I feel like the only way the twist of Striker being a half blueblood could work would be if he straight up didn’t know about it and/or if they suddenly give him more power and strength that we’ve never seen from any other imp, like you mentioned. But again regardless of him knowing or not, like you also said, it completely negates his entire character and everything Striker’s said up to this point about royals and how they treat those lower than them.

Which only continues to be validated to the point where Blitz is now echoing his sentiments in canon. So like ??? It wouldn’t make sense for the show to suddenly invalidate Striker’s points after directly paralleling his words with Blitz’s.

Striker’s entire existence is to be a dark reflection of Blitz anyway. They’re two sides of the same coin. Striker is who Blitz would be if he let himself drown in his sorrows and his grief. If he let his anger control him. If he let himself do things alone. For as much as Blitz pushes people away he cares too much about others to truly let himself be alone.

As far as we know - Striker has always been alone. Or at least we know he’s been alone since he lost everything. Which is honestly the big thing people are missing when they talk about the Striker is Satan’s son theory - the entire scene where Striker voices his grievances to Stolas about his experience with royals.

This is the scene that tells us everything. And if it was meant to foreshadow something as huge as Striker being a literal sin’s child then the dialogue choice and the BODY LANGUAGE of Striker during this monologue would be insanely different.

The emphasis this scene gives to his claims of having to live a hard life, losing everything, and being talked over. That is Striker talking about his experience.

His feelings. His loss. His anger.

He is SO angry. Too angry for it all to just be about being a bastard son.

I’ve watched, analyzed, and thought SO MUCH about this moment right before he cuts Stolas’ ropes.

The pure disgust and anger on his face. The way he shakes. His eye twitches. He grinds his teeth. He growls. He’s pissed.

This is insanely personal to him. This is part of him. This is who he is. This disdain runs through his veins. He’s made it part of his identity. He was so scorned that he just cannot let it go.

This is not just anger about a royal parent or a loss of status.

This is anger from a man who was failed by Hell’s system and has not healed from it. He has not allowed himself to heal and he refuses to.

This is Striker’s way of taking back control that he once lost.

And not even mentioning the fact that Striker’s canonically a WANTED MAN in TWO Rings.

Wrath (y’know Satan’s ring) AND Pride.

Considering royalty in this universe is all about status and reputation, you’d think a sin wouldn’t want their kid just having their face plastered everywhere like that?? Cuz it’s embarrassing?? Just wanted to point that out😭

[fiveminuterice]

controversial take i think but i don’t like when artists say “don’t like without reblogging” on their posts or say they’ll block people who like their art without reblogging. i say this as an artist, if you feel upset often enough by people who like without reblogging then that’s not on them that’s on you. and i say this is gently as possible. you are not owed engagement.

[ghosts-and-blue-sweaters]

I’m not gonna stop posting about or caring about Ghostbur!! Or c!Wilbur!! I shall continue to make content for them and seek out content of them, in the forms of stories and art :) Feel free to block their tags (along with my ghostposting tag) if that makes you uncomfortable.

[roseworth]

my urge to remake my rose reading list is constantly at war with my urge to do nothing forever

[angst-is-love-angst-is-life]

When I have a drawing idea way beyond my current skill level :((((

[rigb0ner]

*sighs* why the heck am I going through my old asks about shance headcanons and AUs… such fun times… but it wouldn’t be the same anymore :(

[tenitchyfingers]

So I just remembered this song

[psychicthepsychic-daily]

pondering how Myth and Fear were both exploited and hurt by their conjurers and how Psychic killed his conjurers almost immediately after being created

it's interesting to me at least bc that shows that psychomancers are really only conjured when people need or want something from them. their only purpose for existence is to serve other beings. they are essentially sentient tools. at least from what I've gathered.

but Psychic killed his creators. I wonder why, or how he knew to. I wonder if he ever looked back on it later on and wondered how different his life might be if he'd chosen to serve them. could it have been better than what his current master has done for him? Psychic wouldn't think so, but he can't help but idly consider it. I wonder if he considers meeting his master a lucky break. compared to Myth and Fear, the first half of Psychic’s life was a lot lonelier, but maybe he was better off for it in the end.

he’s likely happier serving someone other than his conjurers because even if he didn’t like it at first, Psychic chose his master. he got a say in who he was to serve. even if living as a tool was inevitable, Psychic was never someone who would accept his fate lying down, not if he had a chance to find something better.

serving his master in the beginning seemed like the most productive out of multiple equally terrible options, but Psychic got to choose it. that’s already much better than what Myth and Fear were dealt, and it wouldn’t have been possible if Psychic accepted a lifetime of serving his conjurers. as a result of that, Psychic probably has much more respect for his master than he ever would for his conjurers, because as far as I can tell, to create a psychomancer is to assign someone a job before they are even born. it’s the magical equivalent of having a child to save your marriage. /hj

it’s an inherently selfish thing, conjuring a psychomancer, and Psychic doesn’t respect selfishness. but his master was willing to take him in, no matter what Psychic’s original purpose for existence may have been, and raise him into something more powerful and deadly than Psi could have seen in himself otherwise. and that is something Psychic can respect.

[designernishiki]

shout out to my poor unfortunate mother having to listen to me record and re-record rouge of love on the piano 3000 times because we live in a small house and i can’t find my usb drive to record via midi instead and use headphones right now

[punkwixes]

lmao christ what a stupidly insulting poll

(didn’t get all the options in there but you get the point, the last two were like “i don’t read at all”/“see results” or w/e)

anyways. lmao. they apologized for calling it “foolish” but like only because they realized that Some People Can’t Get To A Physical Bookstore

and it’s just like. lol. lmao. i’m a guy who 100% prefers ebooks! the small screen size of my phone is PERFECT for holding my attention — this is a problem that existed Before I Owned A Smartphone, even, because as far as i can remember i’ve made my internet browser window as small as possible to read articles or w/e.

anyways i love being able to read ebooks on my small screen, i love changing the font and text size and page color, i LOVE easily searching through books for quotes with keywords, i love being able to highlight and make notes with all the space in the world. i love being able to screenshot what i’m reading and crop it down to share things quickly.

and i LOVE being able to buy ebooks for cheaper than the cost of a physical book and/or quickly rent them from the library! i love having dozens of books stored on a device the size of my palm! i love reading them wherever i am, but also nobody Has to know what i’m reading (the last time i took a physical book in public i removed the dust jacket, lmao.)

and they don’t take up any space in my house! i have like…. idk, 40-50 books on my phone? maybe more, idk, a lot of them are On Here but not downloaded because i haven’t read them in a bit. i have to move across the country in a few years! i am already dying abt it & would die more if i had to pack and carry boxes of all those BOOKS.

and i DO own some physical books, and will buy more, but they’re books i Deeply Care About/Would Read Multiple Times.

oh! AND! i love not having to worry about where a library book has been. i love getting a book from the library and it’s a nice ebook & not a physical copy that has Weird Stains on the pages. and i hate the library book smell. it’s my second least favorite thing that these people performatively brag abt loving, right next to Flipping Pages. what is it abt these people and NEEEEDING to Flip Pages?

[dragons-hoarde]

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[milimeters-morales]

if i did ever leave tumblr what other social media site would i even go 2 like

[hunter-sylvester]

My new baby 🤘🖤

(I’ve been meaning to post a pic for like a week or two but kept forgetting to take one until the sun was already down and lighting would have been ass)

Took ages to arrive and I’m so glad it’s finally here. The shape took a little getting used to but once I did it’s very comfortable to play. It actually really suits my need to sit with my legs in a pretzel.

[southislandwren]

The next genius move my family has pulled is making me, notorious for losing my shit when I get hot, sleep in an un-air conditioned house when it’s literally 85 degrees out at 11pm. And this is AFTER making me go to fireworks (loud, boring, annoying) and go to a whole different stupid family party (boring, awkward, fucking hot)