#offline analysis

[ryin-silverfish]

The Nezha 2025 Analysis Post

…Which is less of an analysis of the movie itself and more about related stuff outside the movie. What could I say, giant tangents and infodumps are kinda my thing.

I'll admit, I have complicated feelings about Nezha 2.

Not the movie itself, which I love as its own thing——a lot of people do. And having read folk storytelling and opera stuff with more vulgar humor, I really don't mind the same toilet humor that is also in the 2019 movie.

It's the fandom's possible response that gives me the looming sense of anxiety.

The less said about the Age Discourse, the better, but honestly, the proliferation of the "Demon Child" thing outside of its tailor-made context has just tired me out.

Like, when I'm reading Nezha fanfictions in Chinese, folks usually acknowledge that their works are 2019/2025 specific, and there are fandoms for different Nezhas in modern adaptations, vernacular novels, and broader mythology. And when they bring in FSYY stuff, they also tell you in the Author's Notes.

As is true for all fanfiction everywhere, there are still ones who don't follow that convention, overwhelming focus on Nezha 1979/2019/2025, and takes I personally find bewildering. But generally, it's easier to look for works that suit my taste and fanfics of FSYY novel alone.

…That's very much not the case for English fanfics of Chinese Mythos-inspired media. Of all things, it's the fandom of JTTW adjacent medias that latched onto the 2019/2025 "Demon Child" story, with a heavy dose of Nezha 1979, and pretty much treats it like mythological canon that's true for all Nezhas everywhere.

[Spoilers Under the Cut]

With that in mind, it's perhaps not so strange that my first thought, after the excitement and hype has calmed down, is "Please don't let Villainous Chan Sect be the new 'Demon Child' of the fandom."

So far, my fears haven't come true, because most people don't seem to recognize the Chan Sect as a faction distinct from generic "celestials" of the Heavenly Realm. Kinda sad in its own way, but still better than, well, the alternatives.

(Obviously, this is also not a "You Shouldn't Write Demon Child Nezha At All In Non-2019/2025 Fanworks" post. Like, who the fuck am I to dictate what you can and can't write.)

(I simply like Novel! Nezha because I feel like it offers some interesting avenues of character explorations and scratches my particular itches, and wish folks would take more inspiration from that version. Your milage may differ and that's okay.)

The Chan Sect

To start off on a happy nerdy note: I love the movie's Chan 12 designs! They've done a good job of making each immortal looks unique and distinct, while also paying homage to the iconography of Buddhist deities Wenshu, Puxian, and Cihang are based on.

There's also the strong undertone that they aren't a monolith with the same stance on things, despite the briefness of their cameo: some of them are more obviously prejudiced, others are more cautious and reasonable, and a couple are playing the peacemaker.

However, the Jade Emptiness Palace as a whole…is where the complicated feelings come in.

Those who've read my other media analysis posts probably know that I'm not a big fan of JTTW Conspiracy Theories. Well, "Chan Sect Bad" are the JCT of the popular FSYY fandom.

I have such a personal dislike for JTTW Conspiracy Theory because 1) I dislike people projecting modern beliefs and anxieties onto a past author and claiming that's actually the authorial intention, period, and 2) the original novel has themes and messages and techniques I find valuable and still worth thinking about in the modern era, one that JCT doesn't engage with beyond the surface level and often ends up obscuring.

2) is also precisely why I'm not as concerned about FSYY adaptations making Chan Sect less righteous and more morally grey, because frankly, the original novel has some serious storytelling flaws.

It's an interesting setting and a project of pantheon-building, one that does go on to greatly influence folk religion.

But the main themes…well, "Fate Says So" and Neo-Confucian morality tracts, as they are presented in the novel, are not very engaging nor fitting for the modern world.

And because of a combination of values dissonance and Skill Issue on the author-compiler's part, Novel Chan Sect really isn't all that heroic to a modern audience.

Like, the author doesn't think they are flawless, but he certainly thinks of them as completely in the right…even though, to a modern reader, their disdain towards the Jie Sect's indiscriminate admission and their yaoguai disciples come off as pretty elitist and prejudiced, and some of the Chan 12 are overprotective of their disciples to the point of unfairness.

My problem isn't "Chan Sect can be morally ambiguous and kinda fucked up". It's "Chan Sect Bad", because more often than not, it depends on making Jie Sect into innocent victims of Yuanshi Tianzun's conspiracy to wipe out his biggest rival (and anti-yaoguai racism).

FYK: I'm a Jie liker because they have some of the most memorable characters in the whole book. Doesn't stop me from groaning whenever they decide to build another formation, though.

And it's precisely because I like them that I believe they deserve the same level of complexities, moral ambiguity, and fuck-ups.

Even if you ignore the horrible plague magic guy (Lv Yue) and the cannibal (Ma Yuan), Jie immortals are pretty distant from humanity, most don't really care about the shit King Zhou's up to as long as they are helping out their sectmates.

They also have no problem unleashing AOE spells and treasures of mass destruction on enemy combatants and civilians alike (Lv Yue again, Luo Xuan, the Han brothers' windmills and Huoling's Fire Dragon Soldiers, Winged Immortal's failed attempt at dumping an entire ocean on Xi Qi…).

And they are also massive, compared to their rivals. The sheer size and varieties of the sect (not to mention they live on a bunch of oceanic islands) also mean their biggest problem isn't so much indiscriminate admission as inadequete regulations: as Guangcheng Zi's visit to Biyou Palace has shown, even Patriarch Tongtian, their one charismatic leader, has problems reigning in his disciples when they are really set on doing something.

Which is a neat segway back into discussing the movie: the Chan Sect isn't evil per se, Wuliang is, but I feel like the theme of prejudice and fighting against institutionalized oppression can perhaps be made stronger than it already is, with more attention to the possible nuances of the Chan-Jie conflict.

Movie Chan Sect and the Differences

Now, to be fair, there are quite a few allusions to the upcoming War of Investiture.

The Chan 12 had a meeting to discuss the exact thing, and Wuliang used "strengthening the sect and turning the odds in our favor" as a justification for his terrible deeds——capture random yaoguais who are just minding their own business and make them into pills to power up Chan disciples.

(Fun Fact: Wuliang's design is heavily inspired by the Old Man of the South Pole, who's the senior brother of both JZY and Shen Gongbao in the novel and Yuanshi Tianzun's disciple.)

Still, when I see the Jade Emptiness Palace disciple ensemble, my first thought is "Darn, if there's a 3rd movie about the War of Investiture proper, how many Jie NPCs are gonna be squeezed onto the screen?"

I'm writing this down in jest, but the Jade Emptiness Palace as a sizeable sect with its own army, instead of a tiny group of 40+ named characters, changes the whole dynamic.

Like, you can argue that the named Chan characters in the novel aren't the whole faction, and there are more offscreen disciples.

However, when Sage Randeng saw the Ten Thousand Immortal Formation for the first time in Chapter 82, his reaction is "Darn, they have so many people, while ours can be counted on one hand."

They very much recognize their own disadvantage in numbers, and personally, I'd prefer the Chan Sect's most questionable deeds to be a direct consequence of their small size and extremely selective admission.

Say, if the Chan Sect only has several dozen members in total, them playing dirty, being merciless towards their foes, and trying to give themselves advantages at all costs seems a lot more natural as a result——they are hamstrung by their own elitism, yet instead of being less elitist, they choose to double down on their deep-seated beliefs.

In the movie, where the Chan Sect is a sizeable army and dominant faction, Wuliang's conspiracies come across less as an elitist minority fucking themselves over and deciding to go after the symptoms instead of the core causes, and more like a corrupt, powerful mainstream authority making their dominance even more absolute.

Which is fine for an animated movie made for an all-age audience: a narrative with clearer good and bad guys probably appeals more to the younger kids watching. I still can't help but wonder about the possibilities and potential of a greyer narrative, though.

Like, I kinda wish that, during the trials, they are going after a mixture of your typical man-eating ne'er-do-well yaoguais AS WELL AS the ones who are just minding their own business, and the pill-making being much less of a secret thing——shouldn't they receive their just dessert and punishment for harming so many humans? It's not like we go after yaoguais just for being yaoguais, some of our best disciples are cultivated beasts, we only capture the Bad Ones.

Sadly, our rivals don't give a crap about what their disciples do outside of Biyou Palace after they finished their studies, whether they'll use their new cultivation for good or harm.

Well, if they won't hold their own accountable, someone has to do it for them, and they have the gall to call US unfair for treating them like the selfish, cruel villains they are! Like they aren't using their numbers advantage to strongarm US!

The most convincing lies are the ones mixed with truths, and the liars themselves believe wholeheartedly.

The Giant Tangent

…Fun fact: back when I still binge-read WeChat articles, I've learned the fun trivia that some Chinese parents of ADHD kids refer to their kids affectionately as "Wukongs" and "Nezhas".

No idea how popular that is, or whether it's still true after a few years, but also: a bunch of ADHD/ASD support group accounts I followed brought up Nezha 2019 as either very relatable for special eds kids, or a metaphor for their experience.

As an adult AutiHDer who volunteers for special eds extracurricular classes during my breaks, I completely get it.

Seriously, for kids who get diagnosed while they were kids but aren't "disabled enough" for special eds schools, the Chinese schooling system SUCKS.

Like, you can literally be kicked out of kindergartens or primary schools because your symptoms are too disruptive and other parents/teachers are worried about you being a "bad influence" dragging the rest of your classmates down.

2019! Nezha's whole "If I can do nothing right, why should I even try to be anything other than the menace they see me as?" attitude is painfully real for a lot of ADHD & ASD kids IRL, and the first half of Nezha 2025 certainly gives me similar feelings.

(Aside from the literal pills scene. Totally not the authorial intention, but damn, isn't that my exact experience with wrong medication dosage /j)

For the kids that do manage to stay in the regular schooling system, there is still the strong attitude of "You will only be accepted if you match up to our standards (pass the tests, get good grades, prove that you can sit down and study like everyone else)".

Which is Nezha's experience in the Jade Emptiness Palace too. And indeed, you see Nezha trying to match up to their standards too ("I will become an immortal!").

However, the second half of the movie (the dividing point being the conclusion of the 2nd Trial)…kinda deviates from this potential metaphor into something more fantastical, which is okay; they are trying to do more than one thing.

(There's also the fact that Movie Chan Sect is subtly designed to be an US expy——just look at their sect logo on the jade tablet.)

(And honestly, I don't have too much of an opinion on that. Like, the anti-US sentiment is just the background constant of modern Chinese pop culture, and I only get annoyed when it isn't attached to a good story and too in-your-face in terms of execution, to the point where you can't read it as anything else.)

(I do think that Chan Sect, as it's written in the novel, is an odd fit for that particular metaphor, though.)

However, it does mean I personally enjoy the first half of 2025 more than the second half, while liking the movie as a whole.

To connect it back to my Chan-Jie analysis, an alternate narrative could perhaps emphasize the "Good/Bad Yaoguais and Demons" divide a bit more.

Like…even when a special eds kid is lucky enough to be part of the normal education system and recognized for their achievements, their difficulties are rarely acknowledged, not to mention the idea that maybe the system itself is failing the kids.

Instead, they are made into inspirations. They've worked hard to "conquer" their inborn defects, become normal and even exceptional through hard work, and if you try hard enough, you can be like them too!

(The assumption is, if you can't be like them, you must not be trying hard enough.)

At the same time, asking for accommodations and acceptance are treated as excuses for laziness + demands of special treatment.

The courseload and stress are hard on literally everyone else too, how come you get to be treated any differently? If society won't be lenient on you once you graduated, neither should the teachers, and being harsh on you right now is just preparing you for the Real World.

(tbh, Shen Gongbao's dad reminds me the most of that attitude.)

A more nuanced, but still fucked-up Chan Sect could similarly view their deeds as a matter of Equal Enforcement of Consequences. We don't just make yaoguais into pills either, the Bad Human Immortals also get the same treatment.

You aren't pressured to hide your "demonic" presence and conceal your true form because you are a demon, we just have strict regulation on all of our disciples' conducts and high expectations.

Of course, in practice, enough folks don't practice what they preach while still believing they are only going after the Bad Ones, it's just that there are a lot more Bad Ones among yaoguai-kind.

But even if they do act perfectly just by their own standards, who died and made them the boss? How are they qualified to be the arbitator of Good and Bad?

On the flip side…if the Jie stereotype is formations "You killed my sectmate, prepare to die", the Chan stereotype is 护短——being overprotective and enabling of their disciples in most cases that don't involve outright, explicit betrayal with no possibility of reconcilation.

So even though, in general, their acceptance and camaraderie is conditional, their high standards are mixed with equally high praises and lavishing of attention and goodies upon the "inspirational" juniors who meet their expectations.

If you are good enough to pass the trials (get good grades, aren't overly disruptive and aggressive), we literally can't care less about anything else.

(Unfortunately true based on my volunteer experience, where some parents just, straight-up deny that their kids have ASD even with a diagnosis at very young age, incredible distress as a result of their disabilities, and next to no independent living skills outside of a classroom setting, because they can quietly sit in class and get good grades.)

And that element of what seems like genuine acceptance and "tough love" and "everyone has to earn their place" can really make it more of a struggle to openly reject the whole system, to tell them, to their faces, that their very standards are broken and you will not let them define your worth.

Like, they aren't friendly, but overall still more accepting than the village kids back in the 1st movie, and between the doubting rumors, there are also folks going "Maybe he's like that winged student of Yunzhong Zi?" or "Gosh, I hope he's less annoying than that Tianhua kid".

Just, you get the feeling that they are kinda stuck-up, but also see Nezha as far less of an outlier and someone on his way to prove his worth, and the dangling of potential new peers and communities out of sight makes him eager to become an immortal for reasons other than the desire to save Chentang Pass.

(Or, on a less sympathetic note: it means an "exceptional" junior is free to be an ass to others and has their misbehaviors swept under the rug by their masters, as long as they don't step over the serious red lines.)

IDK, but I feel like the mirroring of prejudices in an institutional setting could be made a lot stronger if Wuliang isn't the sole Evil Villain Guy Orchestrating Conspiracies and the disciples of Jade Emptiness Palace are just obedient drones, but a matter of sect-wide attitude and strong beliefs forged by their Small Sect Who Only Accepts the Best of the Best nature.

Appendix

By the time I finished this, I've seen a bunch of Chinese speculations for Nezha 3 that are all "Ohhhhh they are totally gonna wreck the Jade Emptiness Palace!", mixed with your typical Edgy Conspiracy takes, which…makes me feel like I haven't been salty enough about the "Chan Sect Bad" thing.

Maybe, on some corner of the internet, that would get me called a Chan apologist or something. (shrug)

Nah, mate. I just think that exploring FSYY as an actual war and its ramifications for everyone involved is an interesting direction that very few modern FSYY adaptations have actually taken, and also, "Chan Sect Bad" really is just JCT-lite: same underlying logic, annoys me less.

Like, if every adaptation is a conversation between the adaptation and its parental work, JCT is the equivalent of stuffing a sock into the parental work's mouth before it can speak, then starting to wax poetics about how you totally understand its Deep Scathing Satire TM.

FSYY Conspiracy Theory is also stuffing a sock into the parental work's mouth, but after the parental work regurgitated another thinly disguised Neo-Confucian morality tract at you and showed no sign of getting back to the Cool Parts.

A bit more understandable, but I still think carefully listening to + thinking about what the parental work has said is necessary for a good conversation, even if you disagree with everything that comes out of its mouth and your reply is a ruthless takedown.

And if you want to make "Chan Sect Bad" central to your work, I'd prefer that they are at least uniquely bad——as in, you can't just replace the Celestial Realm in a setting that runs on JCT with Villainous Chan Sect, and have the story play out largely in the same way.

Like, make it so that they are not just another Feudal Propriety/Oppressive Government metaphor, but ruthless divine combatants in a war of dynastic transistion who are working with the rebels.

(Yes, the Chan/Zhou side are, in fact, the rebels in the context of WOI. You can argue that Jade Emptiness Palace has more institutional prestige and legitimacy on the Shenmo side of things, but they are still supporting the rebellious Zhou against the Shang, a decision which the narrative felt the need to justify with many long, boring speeches.)

(Which honestly makes the idea of Chan Hegemony quite hilarious when their novel version fit the "ragtag group of rebels where almost all the top fighters were beneath the legal drinking age" image to a T.)

[artist-issues]

no story or character is ever going to check every single box you identify with, and when they try they won’t do it perfectly

so how about everybody season their ability to relate with a little more grace (meaning room for error) and I promise you’ll enjoy things way way more.

and more people will be allowed to join you in relating to a character. and you’ll be less all-about-me in general.

[florshedworf]

I LEAVE FOR FIVE SECONDS

[acidrat560]

The hardest part of my life was having to accept that I was the brother at some point.

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

Do you think in-universe that there's actual pokemon levels? If so, how do they measure it? And if not, how do they keep things like the battle facilities level-capped? I remember you mentioning before that you think battles are largely for show, and that in gym battles the leaders/trainers will basically "fight down" to whatever predetermined strength level they've trained their pokemon to fight at depending on how many badges a person has. And that basically they're not actually "fainting" from some kid's baby pokemon, they just have a set amount of damage they can take before they concede the win. Assuming I'm remembering correctly anyway.

But like... are those standards just arbitrary? I assume the various Leagues have rules about that kinda thing, so their gym leaders and Elite Four/Champions are trained rigorously (gym leaders more so, I think, because they'd have to learn eight different levels of difficulty by heart, whereas the Four and Champion only need to abide by one difficulty level). But in a battle facility or tournament, you're not just limiting what your pokemon are allowed to do, you're also somehow making sure that your opponents are doing the same, at the exact same difficulty level. If there were actual levels I think that'd be easier (although I'm still not sure of the actual mechanics of how it'd force them down to level 50 or whatever), but if there's no levels and it's all arbitrary, then literally how would they even tell or enforce it?

Or is this the kinda thing that's just me entirely overthinking video game mechanics that have no logical or reasonable in-universe explanation. Because maybe it's just because it's really late here, but I'm drawing a blank. Although, I guess the pokemon universe does have some mind-bogglingly advanced tech that would in no way work in ours, like Bill's machine that turned him into a clefairy or a functional doomsday device 4,000 years before the modern era or even just the PC system as a whole, so I guess if there are levels it'd make sense that there was some kind of tech that could measure and suppress them?

oooh, really tough question.

so your first paragraph summary is basically right lol—what makes most sense to me is if pokemon battles are like, for show, or honor duel type things, where they're—generally speaking—stopped long before the point where either party would do lasting harm to the other. (there are exceptions, like in the case of frenzied alphas or other certain wild battles, but usually if it's not a scenario that is legitimately life or death, they're not gonna fight like it is.) it's just a matter of demonstrating that one is stronger, and their opponent conceding. & yeah, the corollary that goes along with that is that gym leaders and other high level fighters really are, as they rightly should be, much more powerful at a baseline than you are when you fight them—but to make the fight fairer, they'll try to match strengths with you.

levels though. yeah, it's kind of a toughie. even if you don't assume the above, levels are kind of tough to make coherent in-universe. this might just be one of those situations where game mechanics sort of run up against inworld depiction, yeah, like when an npc tells you to press the B button to run? or the apparent metaphysical law of reality preventing anyone from having more than 6 pokemon on their team at once. it might be that in reality, "strength levels" (inc. not just xp levels but also EVs/IVs and that kind of thing, since some trainers (ingo again) have also shown that they can modulate those) are just sort of a thing a high-level trainer and their team gets a general feel for as they advance, and then maybe they have to do some extra training to actually do the moderation, but the general sense for different strength levels is already there. like, maybe it's not as granular as "okay, now be level 37," it's just "yeah put in like... 40% of your normal effort. great."

but then yeah, the idea that there's no hard and fast rule for it makes stuff like the battle subway kind of hard to explain. since like, there's no way to actually stop someone from cheating and going over 50, and if they do there's no actual Numbers for them to point to and say "no, you've gotta take it back a bit." they can only rely on vibes to determine whether someone isn't strength scaling appropriately? that seems like they wouldn't be a fan of that.

on the other hand i do love the idea that modern day pokemon people have invented some kind of machine that can just scan your pokemon and output a bunch of numerical summaries of their general stats. ooh, maybe that's one of the things a pokemon center machine is doing when you heal, it's giving them a lil blip and updating their info chip in the pokeball-or-however-it-works with their latest info. if it was anything that was actually enforcing a level standard i think it would have to be based around that, since modern pokemon are at least partially data based and i think it would make some kind of sense to be able to sort of. put checks on that data.

alternately, there's no actual physical limitations, it's just that if you try that you will be kicked out of whatever you're participating in. and there would probably be like, sports news drama about it, depending on whether you were participating in some kind of tournament. so people generally don't bc the payoffs of winning once aren't worth it when it's so immediately obvious to everyone that they're breaking the rules. (there could even be some kind of like, known scammer's/cheater's art of trying to just barely toe the line of "rule-breakingly strong" without anyone being able to strictly prove it and punish them for it. but for the most part that's more investment than people want to do for not a lot of gain, it's easier to just fight normally)

...but then the thing you always circle back around to when talking abt this is like. from the battle subway forwards, you're not just going down to 50, they can make you go up to 50 too. which is like, how the fuck, even. how are they juicing the fuck out of my level 20 starter to make them match with everyone else. which is why i feel like there might not be any physical in-world numbers about it, and it's just a matter of it being accepted that both opponents should play down to whatever the weakest party member is, and 50 happens to be the standard level the games represent that as for ease of calculation.

-ok wait a second i just went to check and according to bulba in post-bw games, like in the battle maison and further, they stop doing that scale-up-to-50 thing. it's just the fucking battle subway that does that?? hi?? hello?? out of universe i guess this makes sense from a gameplay perspective, since they're a much earlier-game and generally more accessible facility than other regions, so it's actually unlikely that a player would have a level 50 team when first boarding. in-universe, though?? what the hell are you guys doing over there???

[datamodel-of-disaster]

Sometimes I'm really sad that there's not really a platform for... "IT-adjacent" people, who aren't proper IT people. You know, like business analysts.

Because let's face it, I'm not techy enough to be on Mastodon, and there isn't even a subreddit for business analysts that's not just... job ads and people shilling courses.

Sometimes I feel the only place where I see people in my particular line of work is fucking LinkedIn. Which... kinda makes me feel like my job is a scam, to be honest.

I want a platform where people actually talk about their job and their clients! I want a community where you can genuinely exchange advice and experiences! And I don't want it to be all sanitized job search nonsense and paying courses! There is so much hilarious bullshit in this line of work! Where are my memes?! Where are my anonymous confessionals?!

Anyway, it's really fucking hard to be hype for a job that feels like the epitome of "a job that people have just to have a job". And I'm convinced it doesn't have to be this way. This job IS interesting! I just wish I had someone to share it with.

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6. Formstack

Formstack is a good example of a survey product with a very wide remit. The online form tool allows the creation of sophisticated surveys and their responses to be data harvested. But it can also be used for straightforward customer feedback panels on websites and social media.

Many companies use it to process leads and analyze their rate of conversion by integrating it into other sales management solutions. It works with Mail Chimp to enable targeted information gathering and feedback from existing customer databases.

As a survey tool, it works well enough, though it doesn’t have the templates that some competitor products offer.

Costing has four levels; Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum. The Bronze package offers a single user solution with basic forms and no application integration. At the other end of this scale, the Platinum plan has a multi-user license with the scope for multiple forms and thousands of submissions per month.

[marketxcel]

What Is Market Research: Methods, Types & Examples

Learn about the fundamentals of market research, including various methods, types, and real-life examples. Discover how market research can benefit your business and gain insights into consumer behavior, trends, and preferences.

[gxldensxldiers]

Tag dump

[rooksamoris]

💞 — 𝐋𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐇 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐒.

💞 — in which professor divus crewel is down bad for his spouse.

💞 — divus crewel x reader

💞 — warnings: none really, just fluff and ace and deuce being ace and deuce.

💞 — around 700 words!! not very long, but yk it came to me when i should have been writing my essay (due tomorrow) since that card came out. ive been hella offline, my cousin had a malwi (yemeni bridal party) yesterday, and the wedding is tomorrow, and my other cousin is in the process of having engagement parties all throughout july--hope you enjoy!

“No way you get bitches,” 

“What was that, Trappola?” Crewel shot a glare at his student who was staring at the picture on his desk.

The picture was of him and his spouse, looking very happy. He looked relaxed in the picture, his arm draped around you while you held his face in your hands and kissed his cheek. The best part was that you were dressed in one of his designs, looking ever so elegant in the fur shawl over your shoulders.

Ace stiffened up and was sent a concerned glance from Deuce, “Uhm, nothing… sir,” he quickly corrected himself.

He could not help it—all the time he spent in Professor Crewel’s class was filled with a certain strictness that he did not think anyone would find appealing. The redhead glanced at the picture again, before back at his professor.

Deuce was sweating, praying to whatever was in the sky that he would not get caught up in whatever trouble Ace would be in. He almost wanted to shake some sense in his dormmate.

Crewel drew the silence out, just for the sake of intimidating his students a little longer before his brows softened. He would not do anything further wreck his mood, not when the love of his life would come over and share lunch with him. He sighed, raising a red gloved hand to pinch the bridge of his nose, “I’ll let it slide this once, pup.”

The cyan-eyed student visibly slumped in relief.

He handed each of them their corrected worksheets. They both had detailed notes written in the margins on what they could do to improve. He pointed out how Ace could use his skills in Magic Analysis and apply them to Alchemy, and gave Deuce examples that could make more sense to him. He was a strict professor, but that did not mean he was a bad professor. He knew his rowdier dogs could improve—he expected them to. He laid out the resources, they just had to use them.

“Thank you, professor!” exclaimed Deuce, bowing his head in respect as he held the page to his chest. Deep down, he appreciated his professor's willingness to correct his work so thoroughly.

Ace nodded, as if sharing the thanks with Deuce, before following his classmate out.

Things stayed quiet before you burst through the doors, carrying lunch bags with you, wearing that smile he loved so much. Your clothes were a bit of a mess, but when were they not? You were always running about and doing something.

Crewel stood from his seat, a softer grin on his face as he stepped forward, his arms reaching out to adjust your outfit. Gentle hands tugged at the collar and fixed your mixed-up buttons, “Now, I wonder what circus you just returned from,”

You laughed and leaned into his touch, “Just the kitchen, nothing too crazy, Divus. I made raisin butter and homemade bread,” you told him, excitedly.

His thumb brushed over some flour left on your cheek, “I can see that much,” he muttered before he moved to your side and slid his hand down to the small of your back, “Come sit,” he said, guiding you to the seat across from his desk.

“You saved me from another lunch spent playing chess with Mozus,”

“Oh, come on. You act like spending time with him is a chore,” you replied, reaching into the bags to set the food on the desk for you guys to share.

He carefully moved his things out of the way, before taking his seat as elegantly as ever, “It’s only a chore when he spends thirty minutes deciding on his next move.”

You rolled your eyes playfully, “One day you’ll be just as old and spending thirty minutes buttoning up your vest. When that happens, I’ll remind you of this conversation.”

He let out a little laugh at that. Your joke just affirmed what he always knew, you would be with him forever, even when white became the natural color of his hair, even once his students were visiting him as adults with their own lives, and thanking him for his harshness. He let out a breath of contentment, before carefully cutting the bread you made for him, “How was work, my love?”

[annabelle--cane]

so um. I think I accidentally figured out who my hater anon is. saw a post by happenstance that pinged my "hang on this sounds familiar" alarm, searched a keyword on their blog, and found a couple of posts with almost exactly the same wording and overall syntax as the anons I've gotten, made on the same days I received them. not sure what to do about this one, I don't think that would be enough evidence for a proper harassment report even if staff weren't running on a skeleton crew, and I am not too keen on the ethics of publicizing their url, but. uhhh. I might? if they don't back off?

so, as a final peace offering, an open letter to my weird hater anon:

from what I can tell, your problem is not actually with me, it is with how tma is written, and I just happen to like and frequently talk about the parts you hate the most. we have a fundamental disagreement about a work of art that we're both invested in, but That's Fine, we can and should just block each other. heck, I think I've had your main blocked for like two years maybe, and hey presto you stopped passively annoying me with your posts until you started regularly directly harassing me in my inbox and serially block evading.

you seem to be motivated, at least in part, by a desire for people to treat addicts with more sympathy. that's great! love that for you. I also wish people would treat addicts with more sympathy, this is a matter on which we can both agree. the problem is, you are directing all of that desire for sympathy towards a fictional character who does not exist and cannot ever feel pain or suffering while continually insulting and belittling me, a real life human addict who can feel pain and suffering, whenever I talk about the themes of addiction I enjoy and relate to as they are presented in that fictional character. you clearly receive my analysis of this piece of fiction as demonizing of addiction and condoning violence against addicts, and I as the person who is me shrimply know that is not what I have ever said nor thought, because, and I really cannot stress this enough, I am an addict, and have been since I was fourteen of god's own years old. I do not believe that I, or anyone like me, should be "put down like a dog" for having disordered patterns of substance use, and I find it frankly offensive that you would repeatedly accuse me of advocating for that both in my inbox and in a series of vagues on your main.

I am usually much more didactic and direct in anything I say about real life human non-allegorical substance addiction, but, to be as fair as is possible, you might have missed most of what I've posted on that topic in the recent past, as I talk about it considerably less than I did 2-3 years ago. this is because when I talk directly about it without the oven mitts of metaphor, people are usually very quick to inform me that they think I'm not human and should be put down like a dog. believe it or not, I don't really enjoy this. even when it's coming from easily blockable faceless anons, there was really only so much of that I was willing to voluntarily subject myself to before deciding to be a bit more judicious about when and where I talk about addiction in public online spaces.

I tell you the above for two reasons.

1. to let you know that I'm intimately familiar with the kind of dehumanization you keep accusing me of and appear to believe that only you can truly understand. for realsies, I am sorry that anyone has ever made you feel like that, that feeling is the kind of awful and insidious that's hard to ever fully shake, and I'm doubly sorry that you feel like no one else gets it and the world is uncompassionate to your experience. I profoundly get it, if I went into any of my offline history with addiction in my mid teens then this would become unpostably upsetting, and I know that kind of thing makes one liable to be prickly and lash out.

2. to explain as clearly as I can that your harassment does not come in isolation, and why I take such an issue with it. I can't make bland-ass PSAs about treating substance users like human beings without people coming into my inbox with stories of abuse and explanations of why this makes it okay for them to hope all addicts die alone and in pain, I can't make casual personal posts about addiction without people coming into my inbox with graphic accounts of loved ones' overdoses and demands to know why I'm encouraging substance abuse, and now, because of you, I can't even talk about. fucking. jon podcastman's metaphorical addiction-like character arc about peeping the horrors and feeling like the torture sphere had a sort of "je ne sais quoi" without risk. it is very hard to exist as an addict on tumblr dot edu, and you are singlehandedly making my one relatively low-stakes outlet for talking about it like 5x more inhospitable. you are one arm of the great machine making this site hostile to me and people like me.

so, like, maybe you still hate my fiction podcast analysis posts and the ideology you read them as conveying, that's your right, so block me, add my url to your content filtering, and move on. you cannot be honest with me and tell me again that you think I believe addicts should be summarily executed because of, and I say once more, my fiction podcast analysis posts, but the great news is that there is no malevolent entity out there forcing you to tell me that over and over again. you can just hit da bricks and Stop.

after many attempts at blocking you that you have repeatedly bypassed, I am explicitly laying down the final boundary that I do not want you ever interacting with me again.

you are thirty-two of god's own years old. give it a rest.

[oh-my-grayson]

An Unnecessary Analysis on Dick Grayson and the Themes of Replacement in His Story

Been re-reading some of the N52 comics (specifically the Batman Vol 1 and 2 TPs and the Night of the Owls collection), and I was reminded that the fear of replacement is such a large recurring theme for the characters more oftenly associated with Batman. Whether it be the characters themselves feeling that fear of replacement or others feeling that fear in relation to the characters, it's reappears so frequently that it's hard not to begin seeing it in everything.

The most commonly referenced examples are, of course, the Robin boys and their very tragic stories. Dick being replaced by Jason when he's fired by Bruce (in the more commonly accepted canon), then Jason being replaced by Tim when he's killed by the Joker, and then Tim being replaced by Damian when Bruce is lost in time and Dick takes over as Batman and needs to give Damian an outlet.

I've talked each of those instances to death already, both on this blog and to my offline friends when they decide to humor me, but a moment that I want to focus on now is one that came up specifically in the N52 comics.

Because Dick's origin at the circus is, in and of itself, a story about replacement.

Vols 1 and 2 follow the Court of Owls making a move on Gotham and those in charge of the city (alongside a few infamous individuals who lack actual control but impact the city itself through other, less savory, means), and in them we learn that Dick's great grandfather, William Cobb, is a Talon, and that Haly's Circus is, and has been for a very long time, a means of scouting and training new Talons for the Court.

Furthermore, in one of the stories featured in the Night of the Owls collection, we're introduced to Alton Carver, a Talon recruited from the circus as a young boy who served the Court for an unusually long stretch of time, but who'd progressively become less and less efficient. When he's told by a member of the Court that they're thinking of retiring him, that they've found his replacement (that key word again), he goes to the circus to see for himself the child that the Court's talking about. This child winds up being Dick Grayson, but what Alton has to say about him is this: "I needed to see him. The one who would take my place. No one had to tell me who he was. I could see it. And I could feel it. It was him. And for the first time in decades... I felt fear."

Emphasis on that fear he says he feels. He knows he's being replaced, and he's looking at the boy that will take his place and seeing exactly why the Court has chosen him to do so.

In the end, this is all just to say that the themes of replacement and the fear of being replaced are concepts that are seemingly ingrained into the story of Batman and its characters, but specifically the character of Dick Grayson.

His legacy is intertwined in unwilling replacement after unwilling replacement, so much so that he's most often referenced as being the first to be replaced in regards to the role of Robin, but he, himself, was originally destined to be the replacement of another man who could no longer service his designated purpose— a man who was no longer wanted.

The story of Robin, beginning with Dick, mirrors the story of the Talons and how the Court replaces them when they can no longer do their job with the required efficiency, and we see this in the same line of thinking in the various Robins as each of them are eventually made to drop the mantle and see it picked up by another, younger boy. Whether it's true or not, the Robins each felt that they could no longer do their job to the standards they were being held to and developed insecurities centered around those feelings of inadequacy when comparing themselves to their replacements.

(For the record, it isn't true, there are all very valid reasons for each boy evolving beyond Robin, and the entire family is just incapable of communicating with one another so the feelings of inadequacy are perpetuated and the real reasons— fear of loss, death and grief, and simply out-growing the lessons and security the role of Robin offers— are never explained which breeds further insecurity and resentment towards themselves and their respective replacements, or those that facilitated the replacing).

I think this also is ironic, or maybe just interesting, when put into relation to the fact that Dick was being groomed to be a Talon like his many predecessors before him, but when Dick is told this by Cobb, he responds by stating he doesn't believe in destiny. Despite the fact that he is the first in a cycle that mirrors the way the Court works, thus, in same way, fulfilling that destiny even if it isn't as a Talon.

Anyways, thanks for coming to my very rushed analysis, I'll see myself out now.

[fiamat12]

Re: They lost the plot, we're a bit behind in making sense of the chaos...

But don't you worry the Lukola FBI always catches up! 🕵‍♀️

1) This isn't good no matter how you slice it. 🍞🚫

•L is losing followers by the minute, and his last F1 Boss post w/ A accelerated that rate. We only have estimated numbers in the thousands rn, and it's dynamic as info. spreads. Anyhow, if you want to keep track (this shipper ain't got time for that, lol) you can go here, as it also shows hidden tags: instapv.com.

• Most accurate summary from an Anon, imo: "There is no explanation that people are willing to tolerate". Whatever reason you think Lukola is doing this, none of it holds up as something people want to see, tolerate, or for which they can advocate. All one can do is ignore what one doesn't want to see and why does anyone want to have to skirt around the truth when they can move on to more joyful, aligned experiences...

2) We got options: 📝

• I've always said, it takes a month or two to figure out what the previous mos. were about so I put forth several options for @jmuz09 to feed the Robot, and asked for any other options - w/ no "hybrids" and no "last" verbiage, to pare it down as much as possible.

• W/ that said, I do think it could be a hybrid of 3 & 4 - damage control + post renegotiation concession OR initially planned. The Robot thinks the initial plan is low because Lukola would've been suppressed, BUT I'm not sold... Easter eggs could've been seen as better than nothing/ I do believe they retained the right to hint for the fans. Also, the clueless X users who believe Antluke are a thing were celebrating A posting L on her IG, and we know it's been a checklist of things fans said he'd never do so it *could* be in the original plan...

3) What is the MOST likely? 🤔

4) Final Thoughts 🧠

If you're always looking at it through the lens of the PR f*ckery that it is/ an NDA contract negotiation, it becomes a little easier but there are some things we just can't be privvy to so we have to be comfortable w/ the probabilities, or "something in the category of". It's barely been 24 hrs, and we'll only know the direction it's heading in over time. I wouldn't blame any of you if you take a good long break! Tbf, they simply aren't making the investment worth it, imo, but you have to decide for yourself.

Bonus Robot analysis per the vigilant @jmuz09 about PR monitoring for damage control 👀

⬇️

"Antonia’s accounts were online constantly while the stories were up. Then both went offline when they expired..." ⬇️

[lee-the-yeen]

Yeen's Blitzwing Headcanons!

Been going nuts about analyzing this big silly bot so here's some HC's

So, to start, I don’t think Blitzwing was one bot split in three, but two smashed together.

Blitz’s Icy face was a seeker, the off-color spaces on his cheeks even being the perfect place for where his theoretical vents would have been.

Hothead was a tanker, and while we get only one example of a “pure” tank cybertronian in TFA in the form of Warpath…

…you can see my vision here, right?

If you go with the ”split” method, no matter which face was the “original”, the other elemental power and alt mode had to come from somewhere.

But if Icy was the jet, and Hothead was the tank, where does Random come in? To answer that, I wanna get into the process of becoming a triple-changer.

The procedure could have been a way to try to make a super soldier, master of the land as well as the sky. Adding on Icy and Hothead’s elemental powers, the resulting individual would, in theory, be an unstoppable force.

If this sounds somewhat familiar, it should. A possibility for how Safeguard exists could be because the Autobots caught intel about the Triple Changer experiments. However, they would have had to make some serious adjustments since canonically, every single attempt to create a Triple Changer has either failed or ended up wildly unstable mentally. Blitzwing might even be in Megatron's inner circle purely because he’s the only “functional” Triple Changer to exist.

My thoughts for how the process goes is that not only are the frames and abilities combined into one, but their minds are combined as well.

Two consciousnesses being forced together, with all their memories and experiences preferably intact (that way your perfect soldier doesn’t have to re-learn to walk and talk), it causes an existential dissonance. Imagine being bombarded with the memories of someone else, and expected by everyone around you that they are yours now.

The resulting existential crisis burns out the processors, offlining the lucky, and maddens whoever manages to survive.

You have to be the cybertronian equivalent of drift compatible in order for it to go even decently well. Blitzy’s components were close, but not there yet.

What spared them the fate of other failed Triple Changers is a few precautions from Blackarachnia. She had the foresight to stick a third, empty processor in Blitzwing’s head to act as a buffer for the huge influx of data, as well as EMP-ing him as soon as the Existential Dissonance was occurring. This wiped the majority of his memories of his life before the procedure, but even all that wasn’t enough.

The trauma of the procedure, being torn apart and put back together again, as well as the Dissonance (whether they remember it or not), it was too much...leading Random to manifest within that empty processor.

Now, what brought me to this conclusion? Time for my amateur psychoanalysis under the cut!

To start, the expected disclaimers.

I am not a psychologist, and I do not claim to be. This whole thing is just for fun, and over-analysis of media I like is a big pastime for me. I also do not have DID, and anyone who does that has objections and/or critiques of my analysis, I fully encourage you to voice your thoughts.

Also, keep in mind that cybertronian brains likely don’t work one-to-one with how humans do, and that there’s no true equivalent to what Blitzwing is in terms of human psychology.

With that out of the way, with these headcanons in mind, Icy and Hothead are not alternate personalities in the psychological sense, seeing as they were once completely separate bots.

But Random is.

Random acts as something of a mediator or moderator for Icy and Hothead, in order to keep them somewhat balanced and working as a team. See the Jet-Tank argument, with him popping up to propose a compromise.

While all three faces can and do hold their own, to me Random especially acts as a protector. Examples being him headbutting Lugnut in ‘Lost and Found’ and his sudden change of trajectory in ‘Velocity’ (Never give up, never surrender, nevermind!). Bringing up the Jet-Tank argument again, he notably pops up while the sirens of the “autobot reinforcements” are getting closer and louder.

As for why Random pops in just to make jokes, humor is often used as a coping mechanism [he just like me fr], and not only did Blitzwing’s components go through the Triple Changer procedure, but millions of years of war. It’s no wonder, really.

And while a lot of Random’s jokes are very much “haha I’m so craaazy”, that feels like it’s more of a cry for help. Blitzwing is hyper-aware of his condition, and self depreciates as a way to cope [he just like me for realllllll :,)].

In conclusion, someone get this mech in Rung’s office, he desperately needs a psychotherapist (cyber-therapist?).

As a side note, something I really like is that, despite the nicknames for his faces in the Almanacs (that I used here mostly for clarity), Blitzwing is just referred to as Blitzwing, no matter what face is up front.