#jakalboy

[nyctoheart]

Is it possible brain waking up in Scala has to do with him no longer wearing the coat? I don’t really want to hypothesize too much, but could he have possibly tried to travel through the darkness without proper protection?

I honestly cannot remember at which point in time you sent this Crow (sorry it’s late 😭) but to ME, I think you’re onto something, that the reason Brain is wearing the coat in this scene is because he would have to travel through a Dark Corridor in order to reach the Keyblade Graveyard world in the first place since the worlds are separated at this point, and I ASSUME he can’t turn No Name into the vehicles that the BbS trio have, and I don’t even know if the lanes that the BbS trio use even exist this soon after the War.

And I know a lot of people are like “well then WHY isn’t he wearing it when he arrives in Scala/where-ever?” but I figure why wouldn’t he just return the coat to Luxu when he’s done, cause he’ll have to go back to the Ark in order to use that final pod to time travel anyway right?

............. wait I think I misunderstood now that I wrote all that LMAO. Are you comparing Brain to, say, Riku in KH1? Who traveled worlds (and the darkness between worlds mentioned in Xehanort Report II) without any sort of vessel/protection and therefore was exhausted? Cause I never thought about that and I think it’s very interesting. IF Brain somehow attempts to travel worlds without lanes (which, like I said, may not exist at the point we see Brain in that city), without a ship or vehicle, and without a corridor of darkness, you’re right in doing it the KH1 Riku way would be his only option. I STILL personally think he arrived via time traveling, and you may have meant that from the beginning, but either way I’ll keep this in mind because it’s fun to think about LMAO

[nothorses]

Honestly the vilification of masculinity really hurts me as a trans man. I can’t even solidly define what masculinity is, much less how to express it “non-toxically”- similarly, I can’t define femininity, or a healthy expression of it. Whenever I hear people talk about it, it always seems to be a neutral trait or a weird interpretation of a neutral trait. Which makes it even tougher to have convos about, because progressive spaces tend to claim all positive things and deep, multifaceted emotions as inherent to femininity, while on the opposite asshole side people claim all strength as inherent to masculinity with femininity as inherently weak. I feel like I can’t even talk about it with non trans people without being framed as a gross misogynist for not holding up sacred femininity, or as inherently sub-masculine and sometimes even sub-human for not bowing to oppressive masculinity. Idk if I’m even being coherent here

Yeah, I think honestly that “masculine” vs. “feminine” are difficult traits to define to begin with, because they’re both related to social presentations and whatever the current gender roles are- and they’re related to an internal concept of and relationship to gender. There’s both no clearly-defined, agreed-upon idea of what is inherently masculine vs. inherently feminine, but also, if you do either of them wrong, people will know, point it out, and generally punish you for it.

Then you have this sort of modern radical feminism concept of both, which states that the patriarchy actually oppresses femininity, not womanhood, and privileges masculinity. Which can validate and maybe explain some transfemme experiences, but actively erases AFAB gender-nonconforming and transmasc experiences. 

And their way of “fighting back” against this perceived function of oppression is to just say “yup, they got it right! We just think women Good and men Bad.” Femininity is all the stuff society says it is, masculinity is all the stuff society says it is, and the only thing wrong with the patriarchy is that it interprets femininity as Bad and masculinity as Good.

But why do we accept this premise at all? Why is masculinity inherently bad, and femininity inherently good?

It even ignores that society often does see masculinity as a bad thing- it just concludes that this is inherent to all men, and so men shouldn’t be held accountable for it. And it does often see femininity as a good thing- it just concludes that this means women must martyr themselves to care for men, and that women are therefore prizes to be won. Taking those gender roles and saying one is bad instead of good, and vice versa, doesn’t do anything to challenge the actual system of oppression in question.

Which is entirely why we need examples of healthy masculinity, and healthy femininity. We need to acknowledge that gender expression is not inherently one thing or the other, even if relationships to them can be toxic and used to cause harm. Gender expression is neutral. It can be positive or negative depending on the individual person’s relationship to it, and both are worth discussing, but inherently, it’s just... neutral.

Trans men aren’t bad or wrong for being masculine. We aren’t “choosing wrong”, or betraying women, or hurting women, or turning into woman-haters. Violence, misogyny, cruelty, etc... none of those are inherent to be men, or to being masculine. Same goes for cis men. Same goes for gender non-conforming cis women. Same goes for nonbinary people, and for all trans folks, and for everyone with any relationship to masculinity.

[parakeet]

such a polite step up. i approve of this parakeet

[y2kais]

... you win. dm me abt what u want the fic to be. i am only good at writing y2kais and otherwise it will be garbage

[year2000electronics]

I want to draw loverboy2 singing so I’ve been searching for a decent reference, and I just realized I couldn’t find anything cuz I was picturing sharpay from her version of you are the music in me. Now all I can see in that sequence is loverboy trying to get spork to quit their job and join his band

ive never seen high school musical despite my alleged wildcat new year comment but i have seen that one song sharpay sings about how fabulous she is and yes. thats him

[excusemewhileiplaykh]

Yo coded was my first KH game (tho for some reason I could never beat the Aladdin level), I’d love it if you would talk about its version of Oblivion 👀

I wish I had more time to go into this but I’m busy with law school BUT that version focuses on pain for both the thing you attack AND the user which is interesting bc a big theme in recoded is hurt.

Hurt as explained in the game is painful. The pain comes from missing or forgetting something important to you. (Refer to the Castle Oblivion section)

Oblivion is also about forgetting (reference it’s description in KH 3). Also it’s a keyblade associated with Riku. Did Sora forget something associated with Riku? Is it causing the both of them hurt?

[kineticallyanywhere]

I'd love to hear those fusion thots :eyes: the pacific rim ones were V good

If you’ve been around this house for a hot minute you might know that fusion aus are My Entire Jam Garden so you might imagine I’ve already put some thought into this and you would imagine right. The following was brainstormed in consort with @aryashi my second brain. 

The basis for this au is that fusion is possible in the forgotten realms and is just a thing people there can do. This also applies to sudden interdimensional travelers. 

tl;dr I wrote basically a one-shot’s worth of words down there but in short fusion is rad but also there's an unexpected amount of drama. which is basically a summary of the podcast but replace "fusion" with "fatherhood"

(preface: fusion is not a sex metaphor, just like pacific rim. Platonic fusion is normal. Familial fusion is normal. Okay, continue.) 

First inter-dad fusion: “I silence his dumb ass with a kiss” except its “I silence his dumb ass by accidentally fusing our bodies and consiousnesses into a single being w h o o p s” 

I like to name fusions as something other than their romantic ship name so let’s call him… o h yeah we named all of Henry’s fusions after animals. So this guy is Hare (like Darryl). Hare is pretty stable from the outside, but their internal dialogues clash really hard so they're incredibly slow to make decisions. 

Internally, Henry feels like he's crossed Darryls boundaries. They have to hold it, but he lets Darryl take the wheel and all similar mistakes are made. They make it through the thing with the Lance before unfusing. Darryl has no idea what that was and already has a lot of intimacy issues, so he’s not particularly inclined to try that again for funsies. Henry is curious, but there’s a buried part of him that’s making him deeply unsettled by the whole experience. He can barely have a straight thought about it, much less articulate the feeling, so he doesn’t try. He lets it go. 

First sons fusion: When the Lord of Chaos throws back his robe, yelling “Dad! !” it’s a GIANT Lark&Sparrow. They’re like trying to fuse two rubies together, you just get a bigger ruby. This changes a bit later, when the twins start to diverge from each other vis a vis Love Wolfism, but basically the Lord of Chaos is an Oak Twin the size of their dad. But still looks 12. It probably actually takes the Love Wolf speech from Henry and their divergent reactions to get them to unfuse. 

Second inter-dad fusion: That other time Henry and Darryl smooched while high on drug flowers. It was very unpleasant, they don’t talk about it, they don’t try that again for a while. 

They get a book on fusions from the Library that reads almost like a birds and the bees talk and there is minor culture-shock panicking about whether fusion is Like That, but something in Henry is telling him “No. It’s not Like That.” He doesn’t really know why he’s so solid in that belief. He understands that fusion is unique and powerful and a wonderful thing, but something about doing it is just… getting under his skin. 

Third inter-dad fusion: Glenn and Ron. I’m not even sure the exact context or anything. Maybe they were just vibin’. All I really know is that I imagine these two occasionally fuse for the weirdest things, like

Fourth inter-dad fusion: also Glon, fishing magic items out of a giant toilet. They needed to be taller. 

Glon is… gosh, what the heck is Glon. Performative out the ass, for sure. Down for basically anything. Allowed to wear bootie shorts. 

Back up a hot minute though, because first dad-son fusion: almost happens on the Tower of Terry. It comes so close. They’re in that hug, and Ron thinks maybe if they fuse, the magic won’t take TJ. Or even if it takes them both, that’s better than TJ getting taken alone. They don’t have to say “I’m sorry” or “I love you, son” out loud, but before it really takes, Terry gets ripped away. Because Willy can’t have that, can he? 

Fifth inter-dad fusion: is Glon again, but the circumstances are way different because Ron just saw the mummy of his wife and Glenn is trying to help him breeze past it and it works until it doesn’t and they fall apart with Ron a crying mess. 

Sixth inter-dad fusion buckle up because we’ve reached Ravenloft. Before dad-fusion 6, Henry gets caught in his dad’s claws. He feels something very familiar and rejects it with everything he has, and escapes to grab Glenn. Then he gets hit by Calm Emotions, Glenn reaches up, trying not to fall, and Henry is already super chill about everything all of a sudden, so when Glenn tries to fuse out of panic, Henry goes for it. 

Gila—Henry and Glenn—can do actual bard magic. They’re like Opal, in that a single moment of disconnect is enough to snap them apart and finding that disconnect is not difficult. But when the situation is saving their kids and telling their asshole dads to get lost, that’s plenty enough connection to cast an actual magic-ass thunderwave with a guitar and maybe a bit more. 

(Barry didn’t like that.) 

So another fun thing about adding this factor to cannon is that this lets the dads have glimpses inside each other’s heads. So certain conversations could change a little bit. For example, in the van while they’re driving away from the Ravenloft fight and Henry’s explaining a few things. 

Henry: I don't have a lot of memories from that time in my life—  Glenn: Not a lot? Try "not any.” Henry: Glenn—  Glenn: Dude, none of my business, but your brain was weird.  Henry: Glenn.  Glenn: Like did the government get to you when you showed up on earth or—   Henry: Glenn what the fff—rick are you even saying just shut up Darryl: …

Darryl had noticed, too, but Glenn has other fusion experience to compare with. Henry could catch glimpses and imprints and trains of thought which ground in different points of Darryl/Glenn’s entire life, and Glenn and Ron can do that equally with each other. But a bunch of things for Henry, if you try to backtrack to where the decision comes from it just. Stops. Especially with using magic, which Glenn got to do. And Henry’s thoughts on fusion end dead hard. 

(filtering all of this through Freddie’s headcanon that Glenn always figured Henry was from Faerun but was just wildly wrong about all the details is so much fun)

This is the part in the fic series where there’s a one-shot about Henry having a panic attack just outside of the camp at night, and the most he can explain is just that something about seeing his dad again set him off. 

And then we get to a lighter turn for first dad-son fusion but for realsies this time: Ron Stampler nat 20s to hug his son and then also is the son. And that dad. And dads are supposed to be inside to do a ritual for a demon cow. 

RJ is the sweetest dude. Also if you don’t sit on him he will wander off and do the most extreme version of the first thing that comes to his mind for a problem solution or release from boredom. And he will not tell you about it in advance, so seriously. Sit on him. 

So they stand there for a second like "yes... Yes. Yes... Okay. Im... I'm the dad. But I'm the kid? But im. The dad. And all the other dads are also the kid so... Dad... Trumps kid status. And I'm the dad... Cool." and they go in to help with the demon cow. 

The kids are flipping out outside. 

Henry spots them and drops the cage, almost like he’s Garnet and just spotted Stevonnie. While all the other dad’s are freaking out/fawning/curious, Glenn lifts their glasses and theres four eyes and he drops the glasses and never mentions this again. 

Rj: hi um. I'm a dad.... Yeah. So I'm here tooooooo frickin kill a demon cow let's do this Rj: got the good dad vibes comin out of my butt

For realsies though Terry should be outside, so they unfuse for the cow thing and the bbq but then Dennis happens. 

Second dad-son fusion: Dennis: are you sure you've got this?  Ron: i can do it  TJ: he can DO it dad GIVE ME YOUR HAND

RJ’s an arcane trickster and it’s real cool and Dennis looks so jealous ha ha ha and also they separate after the fight and suddenly Terry’s unsettled and needs to talk to Ron for a second because “Hey Dad is Dennis not real????????” 

Third dad-son fusion: is way less eventful, but who the heck can say no to more reasons to cry about the Wilsons at the tail end of the Supper Bowl arc? 

Fusion is not a replacement for talking, but it is a bit smoother in communicating emotions. It doesn’t happen until the end of their talk, when Darryl’s got his arm around Grant. I don’t think either of them are super attached to this whole fusion thing, (If Grant is, it certainly wasn’t his dad he’d been thinking about trying it with. Maybe one of the other kids… “maybe Terry.”) so they may not even pick a name. Henry certainly cries at least twice as hard, but when they want to just get something to eat and maybe just hang out for a while, nobody pushes. 

I think the most important part of this is that it gives Grant a kind of… emotional break. Lets him feel something nice again— like he does in the show, too, but in a way that’s a bit more stable while it lasts. Like the feeling when you’re a kid on a long car ride with your parents, one that ends in getting home late and you’ve fallen asleep and they carry you out of the car. 

Good things for Grant Wilson for til forever. 

Somewhere in that arc, though, Glenn approaches Henry by themselves. Glenn’s not really a feelings guy, but whatever’s going on in Henry’s head is a problem. It’s a one-up the o-dads have on them, and they can’t afford that right now. 

Glenn: so you like... Really don't hardly remember being a kid?  Henry: Glenn, I don't want to talk about it  Glenn: I bet your dad's gonna wanna talk about it  Henry: well... i don't care what he wants  Glenn:... You seriously don't know how you got to earth?  Henry: [exasperated] the frick are you-- I got to earth like anyone else, Glenn. You know where babies come from, right?  Glenn: of course i fucking know where babies come from. A mommy and a daddy love each other very much and then their kid runs away so hard he skips dimensions  Henry: wh-- wait you-- do you think I'm an alien?  Glenn: obviously  Henry: Glenn that's-- [sighs, rubs his face] Glenn this isn't the kind of time for your conspiracies  Glenn: hey as far as I'm concerned, a man who sleeps with an axe under his pillow is a fool every night but one. and you shoot poison from your hands and shape shift into bears

Which adds nicely to the slide of heading to Oakveil next

Henry: y'know what. When we leave here, we can get my kids next.  Glenn: your interdimensional kids  Henry: to prove to you you're being crazy. Again.  Glenn: De Nial is a river man, and we left it back on earth

And one more dialogue bite, because…

Glenn: claim your powers latched onto you from this world all you want. But that language you and your dad spoke, didn't come out of the air, it came out of the door in your head

...fusion means the other dads get to learn about the metaphorical brain door. 

This brings us into the most recent arc, heading into Oakveil. He and Ron sneak in, and Beary tells Henry he’s home, and pieces start to click together. Henry’s from this world, so he understands why he’s had such a particular view on fusion and that basic cultural understanding. That it’s considered normal. And that it’s even normal for a kid’s first fusion to be with their parent. Their parent who loves them and knows them wants to see them grow. 

Bear Ry’Oak is not that. 

First O-dad fusion: Henry’s first fusion was with his dad. 

I think the worst thing is that, when fused with his dad, Hen doesn't feel like he's not himself. one of the interesting things about the Oaks is that they're kind of all slight alterations on the same traits. Like as gross as it feels to admit, Beary is just Henry but with the condescension turned up to a billion and his high horse is basically an elephant and no self-awareness or care for how others might have different perspectives from him

But Beary is still so overwhelming to Henry that it just flattens pretty much anything that makes Henry, Henry. Specifically the parts that Barry dislikes. like Henry's anger. To directly quote Aryashi: “Beary thinks using fusion for combat is barbaric. obviously fusion is for Conflict Resolution. Fuse with Beary so he can sort out your disagreement with him!”

(and then bathe in bleach)

So Beary finds them in Oakveil and Henry starts panicking and he tries to Handle Henry like he did when Henry was a kid, fusing with him to stomp down on his feelings to cut a panic attack or outburst off at the pass. If Henry's in no place to fight back it usually works, but if Ron's there--literally pressed against Henry's back--to see the fusion coming, maybe he reaches for a fusion, too, and lets Henry's instincts choose which pull to follow, and Henry's instincts choose Ron.

Seventh inter-dad fusion: Wren is suddenly there before Beary can even start his attempt to coach Henry through breathing (his half-effort to help Henry and be able to say that he tried freakin hate him) and is sitting on the ground and the disgusted look Beary gets seeing this. (Fusing with an outsider is something he considers so beneath his son.)

Beary:... Ah. Ronald.  Wren, existing, suddenly, and mostly being Ron's processing power as Henry's mental wheels try to slow down to match Ron's pace (cultivated through a childhood of dealing with Willy) rather than amp them both up: uhm... It's just Ron, actually Beary: would you mind... (there's other people around so he can't say "decontaminating") liberating my son. (as if ignoring the role his son had in choosing this fusion over his) Wren: Henry is uh... (me? Not me? Yes me, not up for this, we should go somewhere else that usually works fine, we can just leave and find the others and that'll be fine) he's good. We're good, we're gonna... (looking at the other people who look like Henry and the "not amping each other up” thing is working less and less)  Wren: bye

And then they just stand up and fast-walk away

Wren is either chill af and rolling with every punch or the living equivalent of a coke bottle that you popped a whole roll of mentos in and then closed immediately. At this moment, it’s very much the coke bottle side. Beary lets them go because he knows Henry will be back, and they make it just outside of town to where the others have just shown up before they fall apart. 

Ron: We found the door!  Darryl: what door?  Ron: the one in Henry's head!  And all the dads know what he's talking about Glenn: did you open it?  Henry: no  Ron: a little bit  Henry(probably now starting that panic attack): the anchors in there  Ron: his dad came out of it  Darryl: his dad???????? Henry, vulnerability, Oak: I AM FEELING VERY VULNERABLE RIGHT NOW AND I HATE IT  [chorus of mumbled sorrys] Ron: oh also Oakvale is Henry's home Darryl: WHAT Glenn: Uh hey anyone gonna pick up the phone cause I FUCKIN CALLED IT Henry: That's not my home! My home is with Mercedes back on Earth! Glenn: Yeah, this is just where you were born.  Henry: Glenn I swear to God-- Glenn: Dude lay off, I was agreeing with you! Home's where the heart meds are and all that jazz Darryl: Wait, you have heart meds? At home? When was the last time you took your heart meds? Glenn: Uhh... not since I came here? It's fiiiiiine. Never felt better! Ron: Not to interrupt but Henry's on the ground breathing funny. Glenn, are you sure you don't have any heart meds? Henry: being hugged by both of his sons in a simultaneous way that is not their normal simultaneous way (i.e. the Lord of Chaos way): WHY ARE MY SONS TALLER THAN ME Glenn: I'm more surprised that they're hugging you  Lord of Chaos: to assert dominance! Any moment now, we will turn this hug into a suplex!

And that basically brings us to now? I want a Triple Oak Fusion (the King of Chaos) but with how the fight with Beary went I’m not sure where it’ll go. OH YEAH. 

Autumn stopped fusing with Hen even when he was a kid because she couldn’t stand to see how much her son craved the approval of that evil man who stole her life away. And whether or not Henry ever fuses with anyone ever again after finding out he’s got Eldritch in him has gotta be up in the air. 

And at this point I could easily be convinced that the next inter-dad fusion is Darryl and Glenn, those beautiful idiots. They could be… Denn. Glarryl? We’ll workshop it. 

[eclipseisminetocommand]

Honestly I really loved that Jim’s full troll form was the same species as Bular and Gunmar. I loved the bright glowing cracks all over him and his spiny crystal mane. The design was amazing.

it was but it gave me heartache

GOD I’M SO GLAD HE’S BACK TO HIS SOFT AND SQUISHY SELF

[aicrushesallbanks]

Gordon as just an incredibly aggro horse is hilarious to me, esp if it’s a swan lake type situation somehow. But I feel like if he’s human he would be someone Benrey had robbed or smth because he would never be a cop. A vindictive victim who’s the personification of that “your life ends 30 fucking minutes from now” comic

NOT COP ...... i feel like palace guards are way more human that cops esp bc the laws in corona wouldnt be like modern day laws. plus guard + thief is such a funny fucking pairing esp if the thief doesnt get off easy just bc there together

but victim of robbery is also good i think

[autumnsidhe]

Lev when you rb’d that anti anti post I was so terrified until you got to the end thank fuck for brain cells

I HATE THAT POST SO MUCH ASDIFJKSADFJASFD i didn’t wanna rb it at all b/c of that misconception shock that i knew folks were gonna get but i wasn’t abt to just like. let the awful misinfo stand lmao

[statementends]

Jon and Tim, a quiet moment?

There was a Ferry to Yarmouth. 

The group had been silent for the three hour drive for the most part. A few times they went over the plan again, but they knew it by heart, and breaking the silence felt too... loud and awkward. 

Wordlessly they got out of the car and split off. 

Jon stood looking over the water. He was very aware of his own mortality then, as memories of his childhood and that wide ocean played in his mind. It was peaceful. Lonely. Even with the chatter of the other passengers. 

He looked to his left. Tim was there. Beside him, as if they were together. Travel companions sharing a reflective moment. Looking out on the water with him. He opened his mouth to say something, but closed it. There were too many things between them now. Words wouldn’t make the moment any better.

There wouldn’t be any apologies or forgiveness. Just this quiet, almost companionable silence. 

Jon remembered the Tim he used to know. Who was able to have happy moments. Who had a bad sense of humour. Who would playfully argue with him about Smirke’s architecture. 

And Tim, looking out over the water, as furious, as desperate, as done with everything else as he was. He took a moment and remembered those things too. 

[nyctoheart]

I have to tell you just because it’s so absurd, but the other night I had a dream that some band released a music video in collaboration with kh. The music video was this super serious sad piece about leaving an abusive relationship, but Sora’s model kept popping up from the bottom and gawking at the main character and prancing around in the background. Everyone was mocking the music video because it was in extremely poor taste, but then people did some digging and it turned out it was the start of a fucking kingdom hearts arg that got like, REALLY dark and I woke up before I learned more. All I know is that Mickey had a really emotional death

MICKEY????? HELLO?????

I FORGOT TO RESPOND, THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME THIS I LOVE DREAMS ABOUT KH

[basic-braining]

Ha🅱️🅱️y 🅱️irthday!

Thank you!!!!!!!!

[youaremyfriencl]

I rlly rlly hope that the twewy anime opening is an enhanced reanimation of the opening animating from the game. Like man, if I watched the first episode of the anime and Twister came on with those visuals I’d lose my shit. I’d go fucking nuts

I WAS JUST THINKING THAT EARLIER!!!

If the opening at LEAST isn’t a new version of Twister then WHAT are we doing????

[totallycorrectpmdquotes]

Wigglytuff: Hey everyone! Thanks for coming to our little meeting. Now, I know you may be discouraged by the fact that two thousand regions have been frozen in time so far-

Loudred: WHAT?!

Sunflora: Two thousand regions have been frozen?! It hasn’t even been a month yet!

Bidoof: Oh my god, we really are fucked!

Wigglytuff: -And I know even more of you are a little down because we haven’t even recovered the first time gear yet!

Loudred: WE HAVEN’T?!

Croagunk: I thought we were almost done!

Wigglytuff: Uh, you guys know that there are seven time gears, right?

Loudred: WHAT?!

Wigglytuff: Oh jeez I am just making things worse. Point is, we found Grovyle’s next target! Now, we formulated a few strategies with the help of Hero and Partner!

Dusknoir: HERO?! Hero, they’re the reason we’re dealing with this disaster!

Wigglytuff: Do you have any evidence to back that up?

Dusknoir: Evidence? I don’t need any evidence!

[who-is-page]

Hey, you just reblogged a post by someone named “balkanradfem”, and as a fellow trans I gotta warn ya

yeah I deleted the post, blocked them, and marked them down in shinigami eyes. thanks for giving me a heads up