#manners are important

[shepscapades]

[dbhc flavored] Hermit a Day May: Day 14 — Doc!

Featuring both a current-day s10 doc and a verrry early s8 post-deviant doc! :]

[autocrats-in-love]

Prompt (475)

“I killed your kidnapper,” the villain said, panting.

They were covered in blood. The hero rolled their eyes. The villain was so dramatic.

“Great. Can you untie me now?” the hero said.

The villain looked at the hero thoughtfully. “Hmm. I don’t know, can I?”

“Shut up and cut the ropes.”

[shower-phantom-ideas]

Danny is just a kid ya know? Like he is just a little guy. A baby really. 14? Tiny child! Look at him, he needs to be protected. Someone has to help this poor little dude. I mean he forgets to use his own powers to avoid attacks all the time.

Anyway cut to Batfam not knowing all of Dannys power set cause the lil dingus keeps forgetting he can do that stuff in the heat of battle.

Danny uses his invisibility all the time… to avoid being followed. But in a fight? Oopsies hes too busy thinking of funny one liners to realise he could do that.

Intangibility? Give the guy a break. I mean who calls themselves condiment king. Even he was stunned.

He so rarely actually uses his biggest advantage powers that the League doubt he actually has them. He, like any naive child, trusts them and reported fully on his power set. Instead of just asking him to demonstrate his powers they instead start watching him and try to find evidence of his powers.

At least they know duplication was true since they watched him make a copy of himself to go to the bathroom and not miss any of his fav tv show.

[medicalunprofessional]

the sickness is winning sorry .. more doodles. oohhh i can feel my artstyle shifting ever so slightly

i like rendering mundane doodles its fun and good practice for me 🫣

[julijbee]

girlbossing too close to the sun.

[fatedroses]

More than just the Demon.

[meamiki]

mira !!! :]

[cent-scratchnsniff]

something bad did indeed happen to that man. spent abt 25 minutes trying to find a better picture of that one (1) offical piece with his eyes open that wasnt compressed or tiny

[lemurious]

"It was their burning faith in things human, their absolute certainty of being right, their passionate and absorbing devotion to the indivisible Republic that was their church, their willingness to die for a cause without whose triumph life would be empty. It was their sense of world-renewal, their hope of regenerating mankind, their feeling of standing at the barricades of eternity to save all future generations."

- Twelve Who Ruled, R R Palmer

i.e. done with one of the best history books I've ever had the luck to encounter. What a way to summarize a revolution. <3

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

Something interesting to me is that even despite the fact that we've seen a mixed bag over the years of JP or Eng being the original for any given Sonic game, every time an English manual lists Sonic or Tails seeing each other as a brother, the JP manual either removes the mention when they localize it, or it was never in the original JP to begin with in case Eng is the localization

Even Sonic Frontiers, which is the only time a Sonic game has ever had Sonic call Tails "bro" in English, had said mentions removed for the JP localization by the director of the game himself (who did the jp localization of Frontiers)

It's almost as if Sega doesn't want the jp audience to see Sonic and Tails as "basically brothers" 🤔

And for that matter, it's clear not even English speaking people or Americans who work on the scripts for Sonic games, who worked on Sonic Prime, or even script writers/writers for the idw comics really want to broadcast that interpretation to the English speaking audience. Frontiers still remains the only time Sonic has called Tails "bro" in the games (which, even then, is a slang term not inherently indicative of people being basically nuclear family to each other), Sonic and Tails/Nine never called each other bro/brother during the entirety of Sonic Prime (but Sonic does use "bro" on Shadow), and the IDW comics has so few times Sonic says "bro" to Tails that I can count it on one hand. Ian Flynn worked on Dream Team and altered the script for Sonic Generations, and he didn't add either calling each other "bro" there.

Doesn't it read like a horribly half hearted attempt to fill some minimum quota of pandering to the U.S audience? I mean, if people working on the games and Sega wanted Sonic and Tails to be 100% unequivocally brothers, then this would be clear in the text itself. There would be no question, no localization differences, on the matter. And yet, the games as a whole (and even media canonical to them) depict their relationship as it always has been. Best friends, partners, with an unbreakable bond.

Just like that Shadow and Maria essay I did, the overwhelming evidence points to Sonic and Tails having a very strong bond that is not given a solid definition or label. Their relationship is ambiguous, and everyone is able to read them as they wish.

If you're dredging up crumbs, personal vibes you get, or old spin off media to make a point that characters like these are 100% unequivocally siblings, then you're grasping at straws just so you can bully people. Again, everyone has the right to read their relationship as they wish. Their relationship is canonically ambiguous. But one shouldn't be forcing their interpretations/preferred fanon on other people as canon and using it as an excuse to bully and harass people.

[painted-bees]

Would the Trio ever take a fourth? Doesn't even have to be a true romance thing or a physical thing exclusively or even permanently. I just feel like even a cuddle puddle night with them (especially Tess) would soothe my soul and I ache for what they have. And I don't mean a groupie thing either haha.

LOL cuddlefriends are always possible. In fact, if you are friends with Margie, you are a cuddlefriend. She is going to cuddle you. She might even invite Tess if ur obvious abt it.

Raf's kinda the sticky wicket on this... But he's got no problem with the girls being sweet on a new friend, as long as new friend doesn't have a history of scummy behaviors.

A -true- fourth would have to be someone who's put in front of Raf via extenuating circumstances, or someone he meets serendipidously...and finds intellectually attractive...and then continues to show that they're a good sort, -without- giving him a whiff that they're trying to win him over. Someone with good values/morales--who sticks to them even if they think it might upset him. He -really- likes that. Not in the moment, usually...but in retrospect...it's a big positive modifier on his opinion of someone.

And, genuinely--that person would need to be someone who contributes as a source of joy/calm and carries a generally positivite outlook. And has a ton of patience (for him, sure, but -especially- for Margie).

And honestly...at this point...if you have a liscense, can legally drive, and are willing to relieve him of the "Designated Driver" duty on frequent enough occassion--he'll straight up suck your dick*.

[*gender neutral]

[lovelylittlelobster]

IT'S DONE!!!!

In a brisk 101 pages I have fully documented the entirety of the Agency April Mystery! (AKA, the 2025 April fools event).

Included are transcripts of every single twitter post made, as well as the responses to comments made on those posts, a full transcript of every single article (including those no longer available to view on the website), every single email made publicly available (also with their own transcripts) and character and narrative overviews with information from throughout the event!!

Here is the current link, I've made a copy to post online so editing permissions are no longer available (since the event is concluded and I believe I have all of the information available), however, if I may have missed something please don't hesitate to reach out to me!

(P.S. Thank you so much to everyone here who helped make this document possible! Couldn't have done it without you all!)

[lizzybeeee]

Can't believe I waited ten years to learn that the Old Gods were elven horcruxes

[redrobin-detective]

Something I wonder about Simon and Betty's relationship is how long they were together before the whole crown ordeal. But they were engaged, you say. My aunt (in)famously met my uncle and had a ring on her finger in 8 weeks. We've seen that both Betty and Simon were both weird outcasts, crazy determined and a pinch insane. I would not be surprised if they decided they'd met their one true love and got engaged super quick.

My point being, Betty's shifting to revolve around Simon and Simon's rose colored glasses of their relationship feels very much like New Love. They're people who love each other and love being a couple but still haven't quite figured out how to coexist together, as two people in a partnership. I feel like if they'd known each other longer, lived together longer, some of the issues we're seeing would have probably self resolved.

I don't think their relationship is toxic nor is it totally perfect. It's two lonely, most likely neurodivergent people in a relatively early relationship still figuring out how it works. Everything that happened afterwards: the crown, the seperation, the time travel, the magic/madness/sadness just exemplified issues they had both as individuals and as a couple.

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

"what kind of idiot puts a flag pole behind the monastary?"

Monastary Wukong is peak character design. see him face.

i love this detail so much bc this is what a real monastary looks like^. wu cheng'en would have passed by this kind of building 800 years ago and thought to himself "hey that's a face" and he decided to make it a key plot point in his novel. the secret novel he wrote instead of doing his government work. god he's just like me fr.

[ragazziamagix]

the most overhated winx characters (and they don't deserve it)

they could never make me hate you my loves!

everyone is free to like or dislike any character in the world for sure but I do feel there is SO MUCH unfairness with those 2 guys, specially with leaks people are already jumping on the hate train yikes... It's not easy being a Sky and Riven stan 🤣, sometimes so many things about those 2 are taked out of context or outright misinfo it bugs me but I won't tell you "you have to love them!" what I will say for me however is that for both there's more good than bad way more good than bad, won't deny they are flawed characters but so what everyone on winx has flaws and that's what makes them human and interesting.

Sky is selfless he always fight for the good and so is Riven in a magic world where there's so many evil they are on the good side. even tho so many nasty characters gets a pass idk why lol as I said anyone can like any character but when there's hypocrisy and unfairness on the play... It's a no, also this only applies for the hypocrite discourse around those characters so its not a general thing.

Even having much more limitations than the girls on fighting they still face it sometimes even getting kidnapped (lol!) but what matters is their intention

Sky saved Domino (not alone, but he did saved it)

Riven went on a break to better himself specially for Musa, how many people do that? (s 8 he comes back as a better version of himself)

Sky is a very good boyfriend he always listen to Bloom and trusts her plans and trusts her power their relationship have some communication issues but overall I do think theres way way more sweetness than not, I do think theres unfairness when it comes to how some people view their relationship but that's not exactly the point of this post.

Riven and Musa are both people who might be troublesome for some part, but in the end they are always there for each other and their attraction is so clear! I know they have way more drama than the other couples but this does not make them any less good idk if I am used to it but I feel they are

Riven learned guitar for musa <3 (season 5)

Sky faced major danger in order to save Bloom in the finale of s 2

Sky would protect Bloom with his life! Literally putting his life on lane for her (season 6, but not just on this season obviously)

Yeah this is long and could be way better but I love them.