#robot vs. robot is not a sin

[eyedoeluhn]

So uhhh what's been happening in BCF lately

It actually updated last night which I haven't read until now! Yay!

BCF Chapter 113.2 Interlude: Alan Barnes. Ah fuck. I almost wish it was filler. I'd rather eat glass. I have eaten glass and it was infinitely more pleasant than this. Its not like this b plot really matters to anything important so it's like the worst of both worlds.

For a quick recap of Emma's involvement, we haven't moved past any Winslow related plots. School was temporarily held on pause because of Joe's whole giant kaiju vs mecha fight that destroyed the city, but Taylor is still dealing with harassment. She went back to school with Emma and then decided to stand up for herself and then made a super cool awesome speech that #owned Emma so hard Emma attacked her. Joe watched this remotely from the wristwatch he gifted Taylor and then hacked into several other children's phones and leaked the video on Twitter and such. This went ultra viral and completely destroyed Emma's modeling career as basically every company made public statements about it and she was totally canceled. She missed out on modeling for the charity event his fashion summon did and he replaced her with his child robot thing Tetra who is so awesome and cool and epic that she totally overshadowed anything Emma could have done. Oh and he called the cops on her or something so she was arrested. However none of this was enough after all, Joe has returned to dunk on a child once more because he'd rather do this than save lives with his technology.

All of the fight happened largely in chapters 98 Finite Resolutions and 98.1 Interlude Taylor, Preamble Emma, Addendum Danny, and other chapters, however Joe has been aware that Emma is "bad news" for a while now because of his shard. Youd really think after establishing the fact that his shard has warped priorities he wouldn't trust it when it says some high school girl is the devil but the "fanon shard" honestly just seems like an excuse for Joe to already believe in spacebattler opinions and not have to waste time establishing then. Yawn. Oh, and the Protectorate are aware of Taylor's civilian identity, they worked it out from the video or something a while ago on 104.1 Interlude Hannah, Addendum Joe.

And oh my fucking god is 113.2 a DOOZY. BCF really just wanted to jack off about how awesome and moral Joe is, oh fucking man. Joe is one of the worst wormfic protagonists of all time already honestly and he spends all of his time sucking his own dick and letting people die unless he spontaneously develops a crush on them (Chen) i fucking guess but oh no Taylor was saaaad. She's literally fucking immortal now. Whatever. Okay.

Alan decides to head over to talk to Carol to try and manage the situation and then finds fucking Joe there in Apeiron garb just fucking hanging out. Because of course. What could possibly be more important than this. We have to spend the next 21 thousand words mauling this civilian. No other options. Emma must Suffer for her Sins. I imagine we're also gonna put them under 24/7 total surveillance.

He then talks to Alan about magazines about himself because hes cool and awesome or whatever and then goes let's read this one about Annette and then starts his ominous speech about her daughter. Joe by the way was one of Annette's students or something because I guess even Lord thought this was a little creepy without some personal connection but it really doesn't land. Alan then says "the unwritten rules" which Joe then goes ha, this is a unimportant school yard fight and not cape business. Anyway brining back from the Taylor discussion last chapter he accuses Emma of attempted murder because the locker was a biohazard and ecoterrorism and she's basically Bakuda.

Joe then tells Alan he lies to himself and he must be a very desirable lawyer for being able to believe anything basically calling him corrupt and Alan pauses for the 6th time now to think about how he could fucking die because of this conversation. And he could! I'm not gonna bother wasting breath on why this conversation is stupid but christ alive. This has already gotten an award BTW. Joe has had a bigger reaction to this than the Nine. Than to literally any other problem hes faced. It's really the most wormficy shit ever. Ugh. He brings up the flute. Joe you raging dick.

WHAT THE FUCK. Joe spawns in a SOLAR FLARE from a STAR and then tells Alan he wants to fucking kill him and Emma with this. WHAT. Fuck you Joe holy shit. Hes put more effort planning ways of torturing these two than into anything else. He has endbringer tier weapons literally made for Emma. I cannot make this up. I hate this fucking guy so bad. I hate him. Whatever.

This is basically porn for a sbsver. He also implies he soma'd Alan and is running a neural counterpart of him to predict his actions. What? Whatever. What the fuck? Why are we putting Alan into a simulation. Why? Fuck you. Whatever. WHAT?

Okay, so for some time now–by that I mean the chapter before the Bakuda fight–Joe's had a crossover companion insert named Alma and I'm not familiar with her source material outside or BCF but basically shes a dead little girl that's haunting some sort of psychic plane. She's been a negative character existing in maybe four scenes of attacking Joe and then offhand mentions of giving her gifts to placate her and thats a very very generous number. Now we've fucking summoned Alan to go meet the extremely powerful unstable dead little girl because of course she's upset about the locker. Why not. Why is she even in the Forge since Lord says he removed companions other than the Palico? Fuck you shes technically not a companion.

Okay man. Whatever. Joe continues to larp. Its hard to not laugh at his rants about the perversion of justice and abuses of power considering he is Joe and literally everything about Parian happened. He continues to threaten to kill Emma. By the way Joe turned into like a thirty foot tall cybernetic dragon creature to scream at Alan. What the fuck is your problem man. I gotta laugh at the fact that he was gonna trap Alan for months in a nightmare dimension. This reads like it was posted in 2017 for fucks sake. He then only decides not to (graciously) for Alma's sake and decides Emma is going to prison. Oh and Alan is being constantly surveilled 24/7 on literally every level. Cause fuck you. Joe why are you glazing yourself for violating Alan's mind with your mind copier. That was totally fucking unnecessary and wildly unethical. You treat snails better than this. Literal snails.

It ends with some glazing introspection about how cool and awesome the Forge is. Fucking amazing. If I reread this right now I could find something even more stupid than the general events and honestly I might later. This is genuinely one of the worst wornfics ever imo. The sheer length to just then take a massive shit in your lap with the same self righteous garbage you can scrap off of the side of the average op si is really just unmatched. Throughout all of this Joe and the narration made massive ovetures to justice and grand declarations and how furious he is and it's literally comical. This is like almost parody. I wish Joe died in a horrific car crash.

This was definitely difficult to get through. The Brian chapters mightve been worse but that was literally glaze over tech we've seen before for like three chapters straight and anything BCF does with aisha should land you on a watchlist. I can't wait for the next 4 chapters to be about nothing else but this and then 5 of filler haha. I jest–previous estimates placed us at about ten to fifteen chapters until the Slaughterhouse Nine but the handling of this does inflate the count. Plus I wouldn't put it past this fic to want to relax with some more filler soon. 2026 slaughterhouse 😭

[havendance]

Velveteen vs The Masterpost

When I was in high school, I stumbled across Seanan McGuire’s series of “Velveteen vs.” stories, staring Velma “Velveteen” Martinez, a former child superhero with the power to animate toys, who stumbles from one misadventure to the next. Taking place in a world where superheroics is run almost entirely by a single corporation and child heroes are put through some of the worst abuses of child stars, the series features fun characters, worldbuilding, and relationships, and of course, cool fight scenes. In true comics fashion, it ends on a rather open-ended note and, as far as I can tell, she hasn’t written any stories since 2017, but most of the main arcs are tied up and I definitely recommend you check them out!

(I became obsessed with these stories after finding them. An example of me getting into comics before I actually got into comics.)

(Thank you to https://broken-engines.blogspot.com/ for compiling directory of story links I could borrow for this post.)

Velveteen vs. The Isley Crayfish Festival

Velveteen vs. The Coffee Freaks

Velveteen vs. The Flashback Sequence

Velveteen vs. The Old Flame

Velveteen vs. The Junior Super Patriots, West Coast Division

Velveteen vs. The Eternal Halloween

Velveteen vs. The Ordinary Day

Velveteen vs. Patrol

Velveteen vs. The Blind Date

Velveteen vs. Blacklight vs. Sin-Dee, Part I

Velveteen vs. Blacklight vs. Sin-Dee, Part II

Velveteen vs. The Holiday Special

Velveteen vs. The Secret Identity

Martinez and Martinez v. Velveteen

Velveteen vs. The Alternate Timeline, Part I

Velveteen vs. The Alternate Timeline, Part II

Velveteen vs. The Retroactive Continuity

Velveteen Presents Victory Anna vs. All These Stupid Parallel Worlds

Velveteen vs. The Uncomfortable Conversation

Velveteen vs. Bacon

Velveteen vs. The Robot Armies of Dr. Walter Creelman, DDS

Velveteen vs. The Fright Night Sorority House Massacre Sleepover Camp

Velveteen vs. Vegas

Velveteen Presents Victory Anna vs. The Difficulties With Pan-Dimensional Courtship

Velveteen vs. Legal

Velveteen Presents Jackie Frost vs. Four Conversations and a Funeral

Velveteen vs. Jolly Roger

Velveteen vs. Everyone, Part I

Velveteen vs. Everyone, Part II

Sponsorship: Velveteen vs. The Epilogue

Velveteen vs. The Aftermath

Velveteen vs. Hypothermia

Velveteen vs. Santa Claus

Velveteen vs. Global Warming

Velveteen Presents The Princess vs. Public Relations

Velveteen vs. The Thaw

Velveteen vs. Balance

Velveteen vs. Spring Cleaning

Velveteen Presents Polychrome vs. The Court of Public Opinion and Not Punching Anyone

Velveteen vs. The Melancholy of Autumn

Velveteen vs. A Disturbing Number of Crows

Velveteen vs. Trick or Treat

Velveteen Presents Action Dude vs. Doing the Right Thing

Velveteen vs. The Consequences of Her Actions

Velveteen vs. Going Home Again

Velveteen vs. Everything You Ever Wanted

Velveteen vs. The Retroactive Continuity (2)

Velveteen Presents Jacqueline Claus vs. The Lost and the Found

Velveteen vs. Recovery

Velveteen vs. Temptation

[doodler16]

Apologies if this has been asked before, but: Any predictions for HB season 3?

Here’s my prediction for Helluva Boss season 3.

While I’m here, here’s a bonus part 2.

- Stoliz wedding (I’m definitely confident in this one, in the past I had a whole scenario and it kicked ass!) But, I can see more happening in season 4 as a finale, to be honest.

- Stolas also convinces Millie to have a kid and they bond over it.

- Blitzø is jealous of Vassago being a little too close to Stolas.

- Vassago bootlicks Stolas even after Stoliz becomes canon.

- Stolas and Blitzø finally get to know about each other via trauma dumping.

- If Stoliz aren’t married then I can definitely see Fizzarolli and Ozzie’s cringey self getting married.

- Loona’s backstory.

- Stolas argues with Blitzø and runs away. The episode ends by Blitzø apologizing.

- Millie gets her twins and see her fill full the biggest character development yet: being a mother (yes, I’m still confident with this theory. But I can also see her having a miscarriage).

- Stolas projects onto Millie.

- Stella throws this huge party and Octavia feels alone, it’s basically Sinmas all over again.

- Andrealphus attempts to get revenge by finding Blitzø’s apartment and destroying it.

- Mammon uses Robot Fizzarolli to revenge on IMP.

- IMP (plus Stolas) becomes homeless.

- Wally makes a return?! The whole episode him wallowing in own self pity that nobody likes him.

- Octavia and Andrealphus fight which leads to Octavia snitching on Andrealphus to Stella that he lost to a IMP and a Hellhound. Leading to Stella or Andrealphus slapping Octavia.

- Octavia realizes that her mother doesn’t love her and is a mega bitch causing her to run away to IMP’s office.

- Loopty and his bald business boyfriend (yeah, I forgot his name but I don’t care) make a return!

- The Seven Deadly Sins fight DHORKS’ Pope army, meanwhile IMP rescue Stolas.

- DHORKS become sinners.

- Sally May comforts Millie during her secret pregnancy.

- Millie leaves IMP temporary and avoids Moxxie.

- Moxxie vs Striker part 3.

- Paimon returns and he is disgusted by Stolas losing his status and wasted his hardwork but Blitzø defends him leading Stolas to tell Paimon off.

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Fizz and Ozzie are the most boring unseasoned yaoi couple in HB. Stolas and blitz are the absolute worse, but if you looked at them from dark bl manga perspective like stolas is an emotional abuser, that viv wants to feel sorry for because he married to a bitch and his daughter is a bitch, but in reality this a rich man refusing to take responsibility for the action of his crime and is DRAGGING everyone down with him. Blitz has deep seated insecurities and wants to be loved, so he stops fighting and bowes down to stolas and takes his abuse. Viv is gaslighting people into thinking they’re meant to be together, but Brandon knows stolas is abusive and they should not be together, it makes stolas and blitz fascinating. Again not because it romantic and you feel something for them but because you seeing a character in an abusive relationship you want to help get out of, and the odds are against your favor.

Fizz and Ozzie have nothing to their relationship aside from mammon and blitz intervening which makes no sense in the first place.

side note. How come it was easier for fizz to walk out on a fucking KING OF SIN, than it is for Angel to just walk out on Valentino who is below the hierarchy. It is because the hierarchy makes no sense? World building and writing is bad?

Fizz feels like a character that’s constantly getting retconned because viv has no idea what to do with him. First he’s introduced he works for Ozzie and is a shit starter with Ozzie, making fun of moxxie and blitz, next time we see him he’s sugar baby that’s been defanged and is mad that blitz abandoned him, never talked to him after the fire but forgives real fucking quick, because it “technically wasn’t blitz’s” fault he was disabled, he still works for mammon and has a rich powerful daddy so thank you blitz. Than he’s overworked and abused by mammon, and his rich powerful daddy doesn’t do anything and is complacent because he helped make sex robots of fizz, but it’s never foreshadowed or built up and fizz is able to walk away real quick, because he has a rich daddy that will take care of him. You see what I mean when I say that blitz and mammon intervene and make them interesting? On their own, there’s nothing to fizz and Ozzie, they just have kinky sex and you feel nothing when they say “I love you”

You know it’s bad when Brandon (the main writer) knows how toxic and destructive Stoliz is. I did enjoy Fizz and Ozzie’s dynamic in the finale of season 1 but now it’s like I’m witnessing a discord mod with his e-kitten except both of them are attractive and actually into the role play.

For Fizzarolli and Mammon vs Angel Dust and Valentino, the difference has to do with a soul contract. Angel Dust signed his soul away to Valentino while Fizzarolli just feels pressured and obligated to work for Mammon. I hated how the fire situation was an accident, it felt cheap.

Ozzie knew how bad the fizzy bots were but didn’t do anything about it. Lowkey Robo Fizzarolli is a bit more interesting than the real one.

[nattikay]

sure is interesting how the internet just loves to accuse Avatar of being a carbon-copy-ripoff of Dances with Wolves, Pocahontas, Fern Gully, etc. but never seems to accuse Dances with Wolves, Pochanonas, or Fern Gully as being ripoffs of each other. Surely if Avatar is exactly the same as all these movies at the same time then all those movies must be exactly the same as each other too right! But no, for some reason it’s fine when those movies share similar tropes and themes, but when Avatar does it, using those tropes is suddenly some lazy and derivative sin against storytelling, apparently.

Yes, Avatar does share a lot of themes and tropes with all these movies, no one’s denying that. But guys. Dances with Wolves did not invent the “going native” trope. Fern Gully did not invent “saving the environment from greedy villains”. Pocahontas did not invent “foreigner falls in love with a native”. It’s ok for more than one movie to share these ideas for pete’s sake y’all holy flip

Heck, you could argue that in some ways Dances with Wolves and Pocahontas are more similar to each other than either is to Avatar since they are both historical fiction set in North America centered around the native Americans vs the Europeans, whereas Avatar is a sci-fi/fantasy set on an alien moon six light years away where the humans have hyperadvanced technology and big robots and the whole moon is covered in a massive neural network that the locals can tap into at will using the biological usb cable that grows out of their heads. “it’S jUsT pOchAHonTaS iN sPaCE” SO WHAT? Telling a familiar story in a unique setting is not some cardinal sin against storytelling and I’m tried of pretending that it is. Maybe “a Pocahontas-type story but in the future in space with aliens and a whole bunch of unique immersive fantasy worldbuilding” is kinda a cool concept actually, there’s nothing inherently wrong with or “lazy” about it.

Sorry to suddenly go off about this, it just seems that whenever I see someone (outside the fandom) mention Avatar on the internet they seem to have this weird compulsion to make some dismissive disclaimer about how the movie is silly and derivative before they move onto the meat of their analysis (whatever that may happen to be), as if they need to justify their mention of it lest someone judges them for having poor taste and tbh I’m tired of it.

Avatar is fine. You don’t have to preface every mention of it with a disclaimer about how it (supposedly) sucks. You don’t have to throw in a snarky “oh God forbid, this movie” when you bring it up as an example of xyz. Especially when the most popular “criticism” that get tossed at it is as shallow and silly as “it shares some tropes and themes with some other movies”.

if Avatar is genuinely just not your cup of tea, that’s totally valid! Like any movie, it’s not gonna appeal to everyone and that’s ok.

But if your perception of it is “it’s bad because everyone knows you’re supposed to make fun of the dumb blue people movie, Big Reviewer YouTuber called it Dances with Smurfs and said it was lazy”, maybe think for yourself for five minutes

[oceansarepink]

Hey pink did you saw the new 4chan leak?

https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/145383112/#145394767

But the main thing for me was that Leviathan is a queen obsessed with fashion, and in principle, Envy is based on fashion(i already love her omg slay queen 😔)

We can’t assume these are real. So let’s talk in hypotheticals.

Leviathan sounds like “Him” from PPG. Using a drag queen who is evil, to embody jealousy is…a choice. A choice that could become queer phobic at light speed. I think the sins are more important to the story and world building, than stolas and his entire Bridgerton family bullshit only a few stolitz stans care about. And really, everyone is gay in hell? Everyone?

I think the idea of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ sins is childish. But especially sin embodiments who are pure good and didn’t at least work to get that way, is plain oxymoron. Sloth Lust and Gluttony are not better than Wrath Envy and Greed. One half is focussed on self indulgence, the other on harming others directly. BOTH are bad.

I wish she did a little more research into how hierarchy and power works. But this is a millionaire we have to remember …

There are no good monarchs, drug lords, and factory owners, if there is an oppressed working class and caste system. Even ‘nice’ gentle personalities can be part of the supremacist caste.

It makes a lot more sense to me if they are all morally dubious. Beelzebub and Asmodeus are both favourites, making them “nice” just because they’re faves, requires explaining their role in oppression as “they can’t help it” that writing is cowardly?!

“Asmodeus didn’t have a choice but to build fizz robots in his factory, and didn’t profit off it!” -> but that’s ridiculous. He’s not a helpless woobie. He should’ve had agency and decide to willingly work with mammon and sin openly, then changed when he grew close to fizz.

“Beelzebub hates the caste system and pounds but she can’t change it!” -> she feeds off of her subjects, keeps them happy and drunk, can’t handle negative emotions. She caused Ver to become an addict and enables her. The hell pounds is the same as a government leader not understanding how bad the foster care system and not prioritising it. She was the biggest potential for a morally grey character.

Why are you throwing out moral ambiguity and extremely interesting story elements??? !!

The only one that does make sense is Belphegor. This demon has been described throughout as an inherently neutral entity. One that refused to pick a side in the hell vs heaven conflict.

If I can add alternative.

Lucifer - a deadbeat leader too obsessed with himself to see the damage he has done and how his nation is suffering. he becomes malicious if questioned. Callous Neglect. He is malicious.

Beelzebub - The epitome of an addict. She is too engrossed in feeding off of energy like a parasite to enact her duties as a leader. She ‘cares’ about her subjects when they foul her mood and don’t feed her. Her addiction causes her to blackout frequently and forget years of memories. Her nature prevents reel growth. But she quickly removes and discards them. Like most government leaders she doesn’t prioritise having any improvements made to the foster care system, or more closely hells equivalent to puppy mills. She likely allows the system because she has no idea how to handle hellhound overpopulation. Think of her as being a teenager in charge of a bunch of babies and children. She lacks the maturity required. She’d rather sneak out to the club and give her baby a piece of bread to gnaw on while she’s gone.

Bee is the sin with the most gray morality potential but Vivienne medrano is terrified of moral greyness, the closest attempt is Alastor and Blitzø/imp. Bee is not malicious and dangerous. But she is not good either. As she is immortal, she doesn’t understand mortality and the fear around it. Marie Antoinette is actually a perfect figure to invoke, she was interested primarily in indulgence, while not the most malicious of the royals, not pure evil, but she was complacent and deeply classist in a polite seeming way.

Asmodeus - Because lust is a social sin, requiring interaction, it makes perfect sense that Oz would want his citizens to mingle with each other beyond castes and with himself for maximum pleasure. Lust also thrives off subverting power dynamics. I think him being non malicious but obsessively lustful and defensive of his sin, makes perfect sense to me. Like Bee, he cares only about having a good time. Any malice is hidden so the citizens don’t flee. But like porn does to the mind, it numbs it, erodes someone’s integrity emotional intelligence and their decision making skills. It really irks me that the Vees are a far better “sin of lust” symbol than Asmodeus who has become quite pathetic?

Basically, his “Ozzies” characterisation would be perfect if it wasn’t a facade.

Beelzebub - She’s a drug Lord. Enough said. She’s the embodiment of the evils of the Pharmaceutical industry. She’s also too lazy to be confrontational and violent. The real bel is like this.

[kandisheek]

FIC REC WEEK 21 – ULTIMATES

A Hundred Times, Once by FestiveFerret, SirSapling

Pairing: Steve/Tony Rating: E Words: 24,761 Tags: Time Loop, Internalized Homophobia, Falling in Love

Summary: The shrill tone of his SHIELD beeper pulls Steve out of sleep and into battle. He fights robots, he fights Tony's shameless advances, he fights the exhaustion that threatens to take over him, drown him. And then the next morning, he wakes and does it again. Exactly the same. And again. And again. And again.

Reasons why I love it: Poor Steve, oh my god. I really love how the focus of the fic – in a reflection of Steve's mindset – goes from being about the Ultimates and their battles to Steve's fixation on Tony specifically. The way their relationship builds feels so raw and almost painful before it gets easier, and I love every second of it. Plus, the smut is incredible. If you haven't read this one yet, you definitely should!

Every Chance We'll Have by magicasen

Pairing: Steve/Tony Rating: M Words: 16,835 Tags: Secret Marriage, Hospitals, Established Relationship

Summary: A mission gone south leaves a city block decimated and Iron Man hospitalized, but what makes top headlines is the fact that Captain America has a secret lover. To the man himself, it's a living nightmare. His husband is in a coma, his entire world is falling apart around him, and Steve has to to confront realities he never wanted to.

Reasons why I love it: Yeees, give me all the feels! I love the flashbacks of how Steve and Tony got together, and all the scenes that touch on the topic of Tony's cancer are incredibly heartbreaking. That conversation with Gail towards the end especially hit home with me. This fic is wonderful, and you should definitely read it!

Under God by isozyme

Pairing: Steve/Tony Rating: E Words: 40,185 Tags: Angst with a Happy Ending, Internalized Homophobia, Dom/Sub

Summary: “Captain America represents the values of our country. The recent allegations about his sexuality are specious and designed to smear an American icon. Captain Rogers regularly attends the Church of Saint Agnes and invites the citizens of New York to attend worship with him this Sunday, April 14th. God bless America.” -- Nobody was ever going to know. Steve would be a good husband, a good father, and he’d never give in to sin and touch another man. But Steve makes two mistakes, one after the other: he leaves two words out of the Pledge of Allegiance, and he doesn’t notice a camera flash among the strobe lights of a dark club, because he’s dancing with his clumsy hands on Tony’s hips.

Reasons why I love it: Steve just completely breaks my heart in this one. The man-out-of-time feels are strong, and I absolutely love his inner struggles with not just his sexuality but his fragile masculinity. And oh my god, poor Tony, he really deserves better than this. I'm so glad Steve figures that out too at some point, because the heartbreak is almost unbearable, it's so good. isozyme writes some of the best Steve vs the Modern World fics, and this one is no exception. Go and read it if you haven't, it's amazing!

[shadowhatesfun]

SuperFrisk vs Batchara #3

SuperFrisk estaba temblando e inestable mientras Batchara encendía el traje de kriptonita, se estaba debilitando y no ayudaba que apenas tuviera tiempo de recuperarse del robot sin truco… la agotó bastante, pero el ataque la lastimó más emocionalmente.

SuperFrisk: Batchara…¿P-Por qué? ¿Por qué me harías esto?

BatChara: Porque SuperFrisk… ¡Eres peligroso! ¡No me contendré para protegernos de esa amenaza!

Batchara se armó de valor mientras corría hacia SuperFrisk, sin dudarlo comenzando la paliza mientras sus frías manos cubiertas de aleación metálica golpeaban la cara de SuperFrisk una y otra vez. Si SuperFrisk pudiera ver la cara de Batchara, vería las lágrimas correr hacia abajo mientras la emoción cruda impulsaba sus golpes, no la venganza o la ira…

Batchara: ¡Creí que te preocupabas por la gente! ¡Sobre la misión! ¡Que eras mi aliado! ¡Mi amigo! ¿Pero pensar que estarías en la cama con ese CRIMINAL?!

Cuando Batchara golpeó SuperFrisk tan fuerte que fue golpeada 3 pies hacia atrás antes de tocar el suelo, ni siquiera respira mientras camina hacia ella y agarra el cabello en la parte superior de su cabeza, arrastrándola por el aire mientras usaba las herramientas que el traje ofrecía contra ella, mientras abría su mano, Un rayo de luz de kriptonita brilló en la cara de Frisk desde la palma de la mano de Batchara mientras la levantaba hacia el cielo y la golpeaba contra su rodilla, el sonido de su columna crujiendo resonando en sus oídos mientras SuperFrisk se estrellaba contra el suelo con un golpe sordo, El clima había comenzado a empeorar a medida que se podían escuchar los sonidos de los relámpagos en la distancia y el viento se volvía más violento a medida que la capa de Batchara comenzaba a girar violentamente.

SuperFrisk: B-Batchara…p-por favor…(tose)…para…

SuperFrisk está intentando alejarse de la pelea, pero todavía no quiere pelear con ella. El golpe en su columna la dejó prácticamente inmóvil, por lo que incluso con SuperFrisk haciendo todo lo posible, no iba a ninguna parte.

Batchara: Pensé que eras una heroína, alguien que quería lo mejor para su ciudad… pero ahora ya no estoy tan segura… Frisk, albergar a un criminal es un crimen. Te encerraré y luego me aseguraré de encontrar las formas adecuadas de acabar con Sans yo mismo.

SuperFrisk: Batchara…C-Chara…por favor…Somos familia…¡No… no quiero esto…!

Batchara la levantó y la sostuvo por el cuello sobre el borde del edificio, en el momento tenso mientras Chara dudaba, la máscara sobre su rostro se abrió mientras Chara tenía algunas lágrimas en su rostro… ella no quería esto… pero mientras miraba a Frisk, se armó de valor mientras la máscara regresaba para enfrentar su responsabilidad.

Batchara: Ese hombre es responsable de tantos crímenes… ¡Si no lo rescataras, ese bastardo sería cómplice de cientos de muertes y asesinatos! ¡Debe ser detenido y responsabilizado! Como lo harás tú.

Batchara apuntó el agarre a la cima de Sans Corp, desde el otro edificio varios pies más abajo, lanzándolos rápidamente hacia arriba en lo alto del cielo, sobre el pico más alto de la ciudad. En el aire, ajustando SuperFrisk con golpes para que cuando aterrizaran en el techo del otro edificio, Chara golpeara a SuperFrisk contra el piso con su propio peso y gravedad, aplastándola contra el edificio.

Mientras SuperFrisk yacía en coma en el suelo, inmóvil. El traje de Batchara se apagó cuando el verde se desvaneció de sus líneas de energía visibles, estaba fuera de carga cuando se quitó la máscara para respirar, sus emociones se apoderaron de ella cuando la realidad de lo que acababa de suceder comenzó a calmarse y golpearla.

Batchara: Lo siento… Frisk… te amo… de verdad, y esto me duele… duele… pero no puedo dejar las cosas al azar cuando se trata de ti, así que por el bien de todos aquí… te voy a entregar…

Mientras Batchara se secaba los ojos antes de dirigirse a asegurar adecuadamente SuperFrisk, el viento cambió cuando fue expulsada hacia atrás y la presión alrededor de SuperFrisk aumentó.

Los moretones y las heridas en SuperFrisk desaparecieron cuando se puso de pie, esa luz dorada se extendía sobre ella, cálida pero suave… Pero cuando abrió los ojos, el brillo dorado en ellos parecía peligroso cuando se volvió hacia Batchara.

SuperFrisk: Chara. Pensar que me harías esto… no sé qué es peor, pensar que intentarías hacerme daño… o que pensaste que funcionaría.

Chara se lanzó hacia su casco mientras intentaba volver a ponérselo y encender el traje, pero la fuente de energía estaba quemada, lo había empujado demasiado lejos para mantenerlo funcionando y moviéndose tan rápido como iba. Estaba fuera de servicio.

SuperFrisk apareció frente a Batchara en una ráfaga de viento mientras ella simplemente le soplaba una pequeña cantidad de aire, tirándola limpia del edificio, nada debajo de ella excepto cientos de pies antes de golpear el suelo de la calle con un chapoteo, por solo un momento antes de que respirara para tirar de Chara hacia sí misma solo para sostener su brazo a un lado esperándola con un suspiro y bostezo mientras Batchara le golpeaba el brazo con fuerza, como si le golpeara la cara contra un tubo de metal. Mientras patinaba por el suelo de cemento, se detuvo con un ruido sordo contra algunas tuberías.

Batchara: a-ah…

SuperFrisk: (suspira) Estoy tan cansada de esta Chara… De gente como tú que nunca confía en mí, que siempre actúa como si fuera algo que necesita ser observado o controlado… Que mientras tengas algo con lo que amenazarme, simplemente aceptaré lo que quieras de mí… que nunca tomaré una decisión.

Luego se paró junto a Batchara mientras la agarraba y la levantaba, colocándola en su lugar antes de golpear su mano contra el pecho, con el símbolo del murciélago en su pecho y arrancando el núcleo de su traje, el núcleo de kriptonita, sosteniéndolo en sus manos, pero sin verse diferente a antes.

SuperFrisk: La verdad es que… ¡elegí contenerme! Mamá siempre me decía que dejara de fingir ser un Dios, pero ¿la verdad es así? Siempre estaba fingiendo ser El Humano.

SuperFrisk aplastó el núcleo antes de arrojarlo sin esfuerzo a kilómetros de distancia, quién sabía dónde. Sorprendió a Chara, que estaba luchando por moverse, tenía dolor, pero no mejoraba…

Batchara: F-Frisk…P-Por favor…

SuperFrisk: ¡YA TUVE SUFICIENTE! 

SuperFrisk la agarró cuando ella comenzó a golpearla, sin perder tiempo ya que seguía golpeando a Batchara, el traje no podía soportar estos golpes, apenas podía contener estos golpes, ya que ya no estaban preocupados por la salud, de repente, a Frisk no le importó. Mientras la golpeaba, la tiraba hacia atrás y la golpeaba una y otra vez con acero contra la carne, la visión de Frisk se volvió borrosa; podía oír los sonidos de su hogar, de su madre hablándole de nuevo, hablando con ella…

Toriel: Estás haciendo un gran trabajo cariño… Estoy muy orgullosa de ti… DÉJALA QUE LO TENGA

Por primera vez en su vida realmente pudo soltarse, mostrar algo de su habilidad, dejar de ser tan DÉBIL, dejar de contenerse por estas personas, ¿por qué tuvo que hacer eso? Nadie más lo hizo, ¿por qué ELLA no podía ser la ganadora? Ya era hora de que ocupara el lugar que le correspondía como la mejor, ¡Batchara no era competencia para ella, todo era un juego! ¡Sólo me contengo porque siempre le enseñaron a hacerlo! Los sonidos de los huesos crujiendo y los gritos se volvieron estáticos mientras estaba completamente absorbida, las palabras deformadas de su madre se difuminaban en su mente una y otra vez…

Toriel: No importa lo que piensen… MERECES HACER ESTO… No es porque quiera que te contengas… ES PORQUE NO ERES LO SUFICIENTEMENTE BUENO PARA PRESUMIR…

Toriel: ASÍ QUE HAZLO TÚ MISMO…Frisk-

Toriel: Así que por favor hazlo por ellos… Frisk-

Mientras SuperFrisk agarraba a la Batchara averiada, la agarró por la parte de atrás de su capa mientras volaba, la lluvia comenzó a caer mientras volaba hacia ella, sonriendo, sintiéndose tan libre mientras atrapaba la iluminación con sus manos, sintiéndola solo para arrojarla de regreso a las nubes antes de arrojar a Chara a millas de altura solo para verla caer, no podía recordar cómo se veía Chara, pero todo lo que vio fue el rojo mientras usaba su velocidad y vuelo para lanzarse de nuevo hacia abajo y golpear a Batchara a través del edificio, hasta el nivel del piso, cientos de pisos de este edificio reducidos a una cáscara vacía de lo que era… Todo mientras respiraba y aterrizaba en la azotea del mismo edificio.

Ella no podía superar la risa, su propia sonrisa y alegría por finalmente ser libre, finalmente los recuerdos y fantasías de la heroína invencible que siempre quiso que aparecieran en su mente, solo para derrumbarse cuando miraba sus manos, a sí misma. Cubierta de sangre, no de su propia sangre, estaba completamente bien, sino de la sangre de Chara. No fue sólo un poquito, fue demasiado, estuvo mal… ¿Qué había hecho?

Toriel: Sólo recuerda a Frisk… ¿La sensación de cuando lastimas a alguien? ¿Especialmente cuando no fue una pelea justa? ¿Cuando supiste que ganarías? Cuando luchas para defenderte es muy diferente a cuando lo haces por ira, nunca estarás de acuerdo con eso. Te conozco mejor que ese Frisk, así que por favor… sé que puede que no lo entiendas, pero cuando lo hagas me lo agradecerás, te lo prometo.

¿TE SENTISTE BIEN FRISK DREEMURR? GANASTE, ERES EL GRAN GANADOR… FINALMENTE LE MOSTRASTE AL MUNDO LO QUE PODÍAS HACER…

SuperFrisk: Espera… no, esto no es lo que quería… solo quería demostrarles que estaban equivocados… ¡Quería tomármelo en serio! ¡Deja de contenerte…!

Ella cayó de rodillas mientras miraba sus manos, mirando el casco roto del murciélago, vio la sangre por todos lados, por alguna razón Frisk acababa de… olvidar que era humana. A diferencia de ella, si se lastimaba, no era sólo rebotar en ella, sino que realmente estaba arriesgando su vida. Y ahora Frisk se había ido y… ¿la había matado? Estuvo muy cerca si lo hubiera hecho, había demasiada sangre y Frisk sabía que no había sido exactamente indulgente con ella…

Los sonidos de las sirenas inundaron el lugar cuando la policía llegó al lugar, y las ambulancias, por supuesto el grupo de trabajo de unidades especiales, no permitieron que la naturaleza del caso se detallara al público, pero las fotos de SuperFrisk en el lugar ya estaban saliendo en Internet, si ella tenía algún enemigo antes, ¿ahora? Tenían pruebas reales de sus temores… Las palabras de su madre sonarían verdaderas antes de lo que ella esperaba.

Los enemigos en la oscuridad saldrían a la luz. Siempre la criticaron por no ganar como ellos querían, ¿es esto lo que querían? Ahora ella lo descubriría.

Próximamente, SuperFrisk: La Esperanza Ha Caído

[cinnamons1999]

OG (on the left from 2022) vs SiN-ified redraws (2024). yep say hi to SiN-TETO & SiN-NERU

yeah the only one that isnt a robot is teto cuz,,, chimera.

[catholic-character-tournament]

Round 1 - Side A

Galahad art credit @spiralstain

Propaganda below ⬇️

Junk Rat

I wish his Catholicism meant if he got killed in game it would take him 3 days to respawn

Galahad

OKAY SO . "Galahad (played by Jonny d'Ville): a travelling preacher/religious zealot who is told to sit in the Siege Seat by Merlin, and discovers the fact that Fort Galfridian is falling into the star Avalon. He sparks the quest for the GRAIL, and willingly goes to his death to overcome its final defences." DUDE SAT IN THE CHAIR THAT IS KNOWN FOR KILLING PEOPLE BECAUSE HIS CRUSH [MERLIN] [AKA HANGED MAN] [AKA DRUMBOT BRIAN] TOLD HIM TO . SORRY I THINK THATS REALLY FUNNY. he found out the whole shitshow of a spacestation he lived on was gonna fall into the sun and he went around yelling about it incomprehensibly and got fucking gunned down trying to get the GRAIL and just kept going through the gunfire because of how Religious [tm] he was . he died . in once and future king it just "galahad's blind faith" . also hellfire goes really hard . he is the definition of going insane with the knowledge of the universe . also jonny dville played him thats bonus points

There was a prophet. The prophet gave three separate people three separate instructions. 1. Stop being racist 2. Love your son 3. Sit in the Chair That Makes People Insane Galahad received number three. He was the only one who followed the instructions. He sat in the Chair That Makes People Insane, saw the sun for the first time, and immediately starts preaching about how everyone will burn in hellfire

i dont know anything about this guy i just wanna help make Kai happy please dont like not count my submission just because i dont know anythinf except for the Kills You Chair im trying my best im sorry 😭

his themesong is called hellfire and it slaps btw go listen to it. anyways he is my blorbo blingus he is Deeply unwell i could fix him but also whatever is wrong with him is incredibly fascinating to watch. a robot dude who's been hanging from the gallows since forever told him 'hey go sit in the Chair That Kills People Who Sit In It' and he was like 'I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT MY ENTIRE LIFE'. the getting-his-brain-fried thing definitely made him worse but he was also clearly kind of fucked up before that. his death is probably one of my favorite scenes in any mechs album. maybe just straight up my favorite. ahem. SAY WHAT YOU WILL ABOUT FAITH, BUT IT CAN HAVE POWERFUL EFFECTS ON THOSE THAT HAVE IT. IT CAN KEEP YOU FROM FALTERING AS THE BULLETS START TO SLAM INTO YOU. IT CAN KEEP YOU WALKING AS YOU LEGS ARE SHOT TO BLOODY STUMPS. IT CAN KEEP YOU LAUGHING AS YOUR LUNGS ARE FILLED WITH SHRAPNEL AND LEAD. IT CAN KEEP YOU SMILING AS HALF YOUR FACE IS BLOWN AWAY. IT CAN KEEP A MAN LIKE GALAHAD STANDING TALL UNTIL THE GUNS. CLICKED. DRY. anyways go listen to high noon over camelot <3

my friends my people my... flock I HAVE HAD A VISION!! A VAST FIERY ORB FLOATIN IN AN ENDLESS VOID!! and there so small so feagile US!!! BUT FALLIN FALLIN FALLIN INTO THE FLAMES!!! your soul is connected to the world youre in youre draggin it down with the weight of your sin surrounded by temptation and y'just give in we're fallin into the flames OF THAT FIRE THAT FIRE THAT HEEEEELLLLLLFIIIRE YOUR BROW BECOMES SLICK AS YOU PERSPIRE YOU THINK YOURE THIRSTY NOW WAIT TIL IT GETS DRIER AND YA FEEL THE HEAT OF THE FLAMES OF THAT FIRE THAT FIRE THAT HELLFIRE YOUR SICK AND SINFUL LIES WILL BUILD A FUNERAL PYRE YOUR PERVERSION SCARS THE STATION SON ITS GONAN FRY HER AND WE ALLLLLL FALL INTO THE FLAMES... oh i have SEEN DAMNATION MY BROTHERS!! ive FELT its searing heat within my VERY BONES !!!!!!! but there is a way me be saved... "OH TELL US FATHER GALAHAD, TELL US" I HEAR YOU CRY "IS IT PIETY IS IT PURITY IS IT VIRTUE?" NO!!! ONLY WAY TO SAVE US NOW IS THE HOLY GRAIL ITSELF... HAHAHAHAHHAAAA.... WELL THAT ORB OF DAMNATION MAKES THE SUN SEEM PALE YOURE QUITE CORRECT TO QUIVER YOU ARE RIGHT TO QUAIL THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE US IS TO FIND THAT GRAIL OR WE ALL FALL INTO THE FLAMES OF THAT FIRE THAT FIRE THAT HELLFIRE YOUR SKIN STARTS TO SIZZLE AS YOU EXPIRE YOU CLAIM TO BE VIRTUOUS BUT YOURE A LIAR !!!!! AND YOU FEEL THE HEAT OF THE FLAMES ... i said HEEEELLLLFIIIIRE HEEEEEEEELLLLFIRE HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLFIIIIIREEE HEEEEEEELLLLLLFIIIIIIRE OF THAT FIRE THAT FIRE THAT HELLFIRE AT THE HEART OF THAT INFERNO THAT WILL NEVER TIRE IVE SEE THE END IS NIGH AND DAMNATIONS NIGHER OH WE ALL FALL INTO THE FLAMES

Ok i know this is kind of a shot in the dark because hes so obscure but i need to speak my truth. Hes so insane. The narrator calls him a “holy roller.” He has a vision which is meant to tell him that the place they live is LITERALLY going to get burnt to a crisp because its slowly falling into the sun. But hes like Oh my god i just had a vision of hell i need to save everyone from eternal damnation. And he happily gets killed and turned into a pile of slop because he believes its what he was “chosen to do” he quite literally dies for his religion. Hes also quite funny. I like him. Thank you

[retphienix]

it still annoys me that Fawkes' "You're destiny culminates here" moment is so thoroughly memed as a sign that FO3 is terribly written, when it's honestly par for the course for the story they were telling; a very simple "Good vs Evil" RPG story that needed to end with a good or evil option because it was 2008 and we were still drooling over fable 1's 2004 depiction of those decisions.

I mean hell, Fallout 3 released only a few days after Fable 2, we were waist deep in these things, it was the style at the time.

The game was ending it's straight forward story and wanted to end with a nice big boom, and sacrificing yourself is like, still common in "good ending" stories in games right here and now- having Fawkes, the most well read companion who dwells on the deeper meaning of actions- even naming themselves based on what they deemed a thematically appropriate reference- see our story as it is written- with our father's sacrifice and the immense importance of this action- and say some bullshit artsy "Destiny" line is like- so fucking expected and normal for a video game story that it's impressive it caught anyone's attention beyond school yard "Well Akchtually, they should have done it so I could keep being a wastelander 🤓" discussions.

His dialogue in that scene is just a nudge to stay on track for the big sacrifice scene that tugs on the strings of immersion /slightly/. (not even harshly). And it was probably done to avoid adding like 15 more ending slides (3 companions are immune, good and evil variants, FEV and non FEV variants etc)- the same justification done for plenty of FO3 and NV things.

It kind of isn't a matter of "Well it doesn't make sense", and it's much more of just a narrative plot pushing video game moment- it's nowhere near high literature- it's just "what it is". Similar to how you can't actually take over the strip with your interesting charisma, speech skill, and powerful ballistic fist in NV- you have to doom the world to an upcoming robot uprising because they railroaded you into that instead.

It's legitimately so bog standard that if hating FO3 wasn't a meme in and of itself then it wouldn't come up. If anything people'd have fun little conversations about which of the 3 radiation immune companions do a worst job of maintaining immersion for that story moment.

(It's RL-3. Charon is a dickass with a vague "contract" of loyalty- the vagueness leaves plenty enough room for him to say no because we don't actually know what the limits are- it's all hearsay. Fawkes is an artsy fuck who definitely thinks they are providing a meaningful end to a meaningful life. RL-3 is a robot programmed to obey us- no amount of military lingo alters that he's given an order and says "No Sir!")

it would be a fun tidbit people bring up every handful of years and go "Hey, isn't it funny how Fawkes could have done it? Ha!'' but that isn't how the fallout community handled it.

It being the style doesn't excuse bad writing, but that's the thing, it's just "neutral/popcorn narrative" writing, with some fun ideas written here and there.

Fallout 3's writing overall isn't half bad- the worst it does is "be written by a different team than Fallout 1+2" and "Be written in the exhaustively hot epicenter of good/evil video game narratives" which is like... yeah, obviously it's that.

But even within that "sin" they take the time to explain the lore as to why factions depicted in 3 are different than 1-2 (such as the BoS we witness in 3 being an offshoot that abandoned the BoS way), and they try to explore what you can do within the standardized "good/evil" formula in a /few/ quests, about as much as you'd expect for a 2008 release still trying to fit within the current fad design.

Anyways, Fawkes' moment at the "end of the game" is thoroughly memed as a sign that the game is devoid of good writing logic or reason and is just stupid railroading- and it's not even how the game operates for 99% of players because of broken steel, a DLC that extended the end of the game into an infinite sandbox (because players wanted it) and allowed you to use Fawkes, RL-3, or Charon in the "sacrifice" scene instead, since all 3 are immune to radiation.

You know, the version of the game everyone plays today, the one where instead of the ""iconic"" immersion breaking line Fawkes says this:

Yeah.

I think in reality it bothers me mostly because what is effectively a removed voice line is treated as the smoking gun- when the exact event people "demanded" be possible and continue to claim couldn't happen- literally happens.

Fawkes goes in for you.

That's how the game has worked ever since 2009.

His fucking removed voice line is still the first thing you see on his fandom wiki page, as well as being the final "noteworthy quote" instead of including his revised lines anywhere in those areas.

Cute, I guess.

Anways, Fawkes is a neat super mutant concept- I often forget like 99% of their character (since FO3 isn't companion writing focused) but revisiting it in Tale of Two Wastelands is reminding me that as a "concept" I like them a lot. I think they do a good job of presenting it when you meet them too- it's just a shame that Fallout 3 didn't do companion quests to further explore them because I like what's presented and how it's voice acted- but then they just become the gatling laser companion who screams in combat a bunch.

[funishment-time]

17! 17! 17!

!!! HELL YEAH !!!

17. List five headcanons for your favorite characters!

the arrival of the Monokubs at a non-despair HPA causes a lot of chaos, as everyone thinks Junko built the kubs to make fun of them specifically. in fact, Junko didn't build the kubs at all, but she lets them "live" because their existence causes everyone despair (including her and her favorite son, Monokuma)

this may be a sin to some, but i actually prefer Miu and Keebo to have a brother-sister relationship, where Miu gets to dote on her Stupid little robot brother and give him Equally Stupid upgrades. (yes, i know there's a sexual element to a lot of how they interact in canon, but i like to think that's before she really knows how to Treat People Normally. it evens out Eventually, although she still asks him from time to time if he wants [INSERT SOMETHING ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING HERE] so he can "get with some bitches or Ouma or whoever the fuck")

speaking of Miu, she still watches Saturday morning cartoons with sugary cereal every morning. if you interrupt her Genius Routine she can't function and blames you for depriving the World of the things she could have made that day

Hajime often discovers memes about 5 years too late and tries to use them to befriend others. it's charming, a bit. he still thinks Rickrolling is funny. this is less charming

Sakura does not participate in social media with one exception: she loves TikToks of animals being silly, cats especially, and bonds with Ryoma and many others over this. it's one of the first inroads she has with people

BONUS: during the main timeline events, it's Hina who observes AI Chiaki and bashfully, carefully, eyes cast down to the floor, asks Makoto if there's any chance they could use the same Technology to bring back their friends, too. "at least...the friends we still have a piece of." but as she watches the NWP she knows it will only cause her more grief: AI Chiaki was not the original Chiaki, and an AI Sakura would be less than a ghost. the true Sakura would not want to dwell on the past...even if the impulse is there. instead, Hina becomes friends with Alter Ego, and understands the importance of a legacy vs cyber-necromancy thru AE's insistence that he is more like Chihiro's son, not Chihiro

[burningexeter]

Here's a fairly solid amount of all the different kinds of media that I think both can fit well in and could share the same universe as one of the greatest animated shows ever made Transformers Prime, along with a fan sequel I have in mind Transformers Skyfire, which you can both read and see below for yourself:

• Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock

• Michele Fazekas & Tara Butters' Reaper (TV Series)

• Robert Kirkman's Outcast (TV Series)

• Jami O'Brien's NOS4A2 (TV Series)

• Michael Dougherty's Trick r Treat & Krampus

• Mark Waters' The Spiderwick Chronicles

• Richard Donner, David Giler, Walter Hill, Joel Silver & Robert Zemeckis' Tales From The Crypt

— The Man Who Was Death

— And All Through The House

— Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone

— Only Sin Deep

— Lover Come Hack To Me

— The Thing From The Grave

— For Cryin' Out Loud

— Four-Sided Triangle

— Judy, You're Not Yourself Today

— Fitting Punishment

— Lower Berth

— Mute Witness To Murder

— Television Terror

— Abra Cadaver

— Top Billing

— Easel Kill Ya

— Deadline

— Yellow

— None But The Lonely Heart

— On A Deadman's Chest

— What's Cookin'

— The New Arrival

— Showdown

— King Of The Road

— Maniac At Large

— Split Personality

— Strung Along

— Death Of Some Salesman

— Forever Ambergris

— People Who Live In Brass Hearses

— Two For The Show

— Well Cooked Hams

— Came The Dawn

— Half-Way Horrible

— Till Death Do We Part

— Only Skin Deep

— The Assassin

— Staired In Horror

— Surprise Party

— You, Murderer

— Fatal Caper

— Escape

— Horror In The Night

— Cold War

— The Kidnapper

— Report From The Grave

and

— Confession

• Dan Angel & Billy Brown's R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: The Series

— Every episode of the entire show except Red Eye, Poof De Fromage, Bad Egg, Mrs. Worthington and Lotsa Luck.

• Bede Blake & Robert Butler's Creeped Out

— Trolled

— A Boy Called Red

— Bravery Badge

— Shed No Fear

— The Traveller

— Side Show

— The Many Place

�� The Unfortunate Five

— The Takedown

— Tilly Bone

and

— Splinta Claws

• Matthew Robbins' Batteries Not Included

• Bruce Timm, Giancarlo Volpe & Jim Krieg's Green Lantern: The Animated Series

• Dan Mandel & Chris Pearson's Dan Vs.

• Brad Bird's The Incredibles

• Dan Cross & David Hoge's Pair Of Kings

• Steven Spielberg's The Adventures Of Tintin

• Stephen Sommers' The Mummy (1999)

• John Carpenter's Big Trouble In Little China

• Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk Till Dawn

• Jordan Peele's Nope

• Rocksteady "Before Their Fall" Studios' Urban Chaos: Riot Response

• Istvan Zorkoczy's The Secret War (Love, Death & Robots)

• Neil Gaiman & Lenny Henry's Neverwhere (Mini-Series)

• LAIKA's Wildwood & The Night Gardener

• Jeffrey Boam & Carlton Cuse's The Adventures Of Brisco County Jr.

and finally, last but definitely not least —

• David Lowery's Pete's Dragon (2016)

[kitcatttt]

Repurposed my old pinned as an info post to link on my new one!

Please don’t mention around me (Ships)

TPC Cube x anyone other than Lythorus (Tied to a certain someone, but I’m kinda ok with it as long as it isn’t forced? Idk what would count as forced but Cube x Marcle feels hella forced- and just TPC versions of him. I ship HOPE Cubiris.)

Pyrare x anyone (canonically Aromantic)

Circubit x any female character/oc (canonically gay)

Blixer x Wave (don’t know much about the ship, but there’s apparently something wrong with it???? Idfk-)

Circumuscle x Cirtunda (Cirtunda adopts Circumuscle in my au, plus I don’t even think they’re close in age anymore. If you find past posts of me shipping them, it was BEFORE S2 Ep 1 of TPC came out, in which my au changed)

Marcle x Squadril, Marcle x Purpex, Squadril x Purpex (Purpex adopted Marcle and Squadril in my au)

Quintagon x Cubic (Literally just DNI. Why is this a ship.)

Other blogs!

@jsab-pa - Art blog! (Run in character by Sen, one of my sonas)

@corrupted-chaoss, @corrupted-chaoss-fic An askblog and fic blog for my JSAB au, Corrupted Chaos

@lil-robo-idiot - Rp blog for my TPC oc, Penl

@coho-chat - Rp and ask blog for my ocs for the Bossfight album Caps On, Hats Off

@tpc-rp-blog - General rp blog so I’m not reblogging to my main

@sins-n-sinners - Ask blog co-run by Milo and Ebony

@uprises-on-your-grave - Askblog for Uprising, and band based on a Teminite album by the same name

@drifting-collector, @dirtnrocksnminerals, @bigfucking-gun, @hammer-of-justice, @unstable-soldiers - ROR rp blogs

Important links (to be updated)

Drama post. Don’t read if you don’t wanna get into it.

Addressing important allegations. More drama.

TPC headcanons

Sexual content and my ocs.

Pyrare and shipping.

My HOPE au vs my TPC au

Pink Heroes infodump!

My tags! (New as of this post)

#kit is on her shit again - rambling tag

#oh shit kit got a pencil - art posts

#why do you tolerate me :] - friend tag :3

#fuck me dude - vent tag, drama tag

#yay blood! :D - gore tag, art or writing

#kit focus on English class - fic tag and lore tag

#kit forgot how to draw - gacha tag

#kit go to sleep - anything I post in between 12am -6am my time (EST)

#kitty cat yaps - ask tag

#😭❓❓❓ - random thoughts

My aus + their abbreviations

Magenta Decedance - My TPC au - MD

Wilted Roses - TPC au, name subject to change to an actual one because it just has the name for the Cintasphere fic currently. Once name changes I will update the description - WR

Mistakes Were Made - An au focused on Circumcannon, where he snapped and killed his family - MWM

School Love Chaos - A college au focused on Cintagon and Circumsphere, Cintagon being the yandere - SLC

Iris Insanity - An au where Iris cracked under the pressure and corrupted - II

Adler’s Experiments - An experiment au focused on my Flowers Of Antimony, Addicus or Adler, who is experimenting on shapes with the corruption - AE

The Contract - An au where Zinnia, Dub’s successor, made a deal with Rot (the tree), and everything went to shit - TC

Lovebug - Penl, a pink hero like Cyanide, got a virus! And now the corruption makes you a yandere???? - LB

Triple Star Shoppe - Cintagon, Purpex, and Pirene (oc) started a business together! Cinta is a dollmaker, Purp is a chef, and Pi is a blacksmith. Something feels… off, though. - TSS

Sins and Sinners - An au focusing on the 7 Deadly Sins’ kids, who took over after they died. (Co owned by Milo and Ebony) - SnS

House of Horror - Come on in! We don’t bite :) - HoH

Not Of The Machine - One of my ocs, Penl, is the only human in a world full of robots. Thus he’s forced to stop the corruption since he’s immune (it’s a virus!) - NOTM

Crystalline Hivemind - An infection au with Amethyst :] - CH

Robotic Necromancy - The Chipzels died, but had their souls trapped in animatronics! What do you mean this is a FNAF au? - RN

False God - The Tree killed Circumsphere out of hatred for Cintagon, so he decided to rebel - FG

Hope - My version of the scrapped Hope series by Brittney Robinson - Hope

Corrupted Chaos - My main jsab au - CC

Purity. - A tree cult was started after the corruption event in CC, and its just as bad. - Purity

Neutralized Nemesis - Another jsab au, where all of the bosses are dating a hero (includes the beta heroes) - NN

Failed Opposition - A bad end jsab au - FO

My ships (and the au’s they’re in)

Pentellow x Iris (both poly) - All except Hope

Cube x Lythorus - All

Cintagon x Circumsphere - All, one sided in SLC

Rincle x Circumuscle - All

Polyhedron x Cirtunda - All

Pentellow x Ajaceare (also poly) - All

Quintagon x Ajaceare - Not in any due to age differences

Dub x Barracuda - All

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Big Butch Talks Movies: The Creator 2023

Movie first watched (at the theater!) 9/29/23

“The Creator” 2023 directed by Gareth Edwards.

General likes -> worldbuilding, the sheer idea of it, symbolism, shot framing, soundtrack, language usage, acting, tropes used relative to “western” vs “eastern” politics, propaganda etc!, anti war message, set design

General dislikes -> women are very very relative to being mothers/wives instead of personal independence/agency*, possibly orientalist based on the location (though I am a white american and not the most educated on the topic and believe that some of it is plot relative which doesn’t make it ok, but gives a reason)

Personal thoughts -> absolutely blown away by the worldbuilding relative to the use of technology as shown by the Americans and the RoA/rebels. Acting was fantastic, especially young Alfie (or Alphie?) (Madeleine Yuna Voyles) and how her and Joshua’s (John David Washington) relationship evolved through the movie. The design of the robots, simulants, weapons and transportation was stunning, eye-catching and in my opinion, believable. The concept designers/those involved in design ideas should be cheered for!!!

Ramble -> I wish the character played by Gemma Chan was featured more prominently instead of being more of a simulant + Joshua saint/obsession. However this is a frequently occurring trope in thriller/action movies, woman who is obsessed over and ultimately, not what mc was lead to believe and tragically only important for what she represents rather than who she is and choices she makes. Interestingly enough there are three main women characters; the vengeful mother, hellbent on her delivery of fatal justice for revenge for the children she lost, wife and mother who is a non entity, chiefly a memory and a force used as a Reason To Endure, ultimately a peace maker, the child created as a peace-causing weapon, naïve but gains seemingly language, direction and purpose other than she was programmed with. She is the key to the rebel’s dream so it’s interesting they don’t really use her? That could be explained to be as a result of her tender age or the difference in ideology, if the Americans had a sentient, child weapon, no doubt they’d use her and not lose any sleep bc she’s not “real.” I loved the questions this movie asked: what does it mean to be human or “real”? ethics of robot usage once sentience is gained? how does one justify the use of such weapons? ethics of copying one’s likeness(-could be stretched to be work and other such personal matters)?

The juxtaposition of “eastern” (in this case I’m referring to Buddhism) and “western” (in this case i only mean Christianity) religion was very fun, the integration of the robots/simulants in the republic’s society was such that they were even represented in religious rituals and art/temples! On the other hand, from the Americans we as the viewer gets to observe, only the more shallow sense of Christianity is reflected, the belief (even in the weakest sense of the word) in heaven, sin (to be inferred from the belief that bc Joshua is not “good” and thus “not going to heaven” sin is relevant) forgiveness achieved through actions and absolution through sacrifice.

On IMDB the featured review says this movie is full of plot holes. I fundamentally disagree and believe that through bare bones imagination and analysis one can make plot based assumptions that are relevant to the story and general Vibe the director gives in other relevant works (Rogue One). The only “plot hole” is one that is Consistently used in space based/sci fi movies: the “my arm is stronger than the vacuum of space.” Thats literally the only real plot problem that stood out to me. Some articles are focusing on the AI thing and relating it to the current AI situation with its pollution of art and writing and it’s (in my, a random person’s opinion) such a dumb fucking stance. The problem I have with AI in the arts isn’t bc I hate robots. It’s bc I hate Actual People’s creations being bastardized and glued together in a ramshackle collage of bullshittery.

Detailed Synopsis (INCLUDES SPOILERS) -> the setting is a post-tragedy world where sentient robots and more human looking robots, simulants, have been used for years in harmony with humanity, suddenly a nuke goes off in downtown LA, killing millions and inspiring America (much like post 9/11 America) to launch a nationalistic war on robots/AI. Comparatively, the Republic of Asia is still comfortable with the usage and fully integrates these technologies into society, the home, culture and interpersonal/domestic relationships. This causes America to use the RoA as a scapegoat because the leaders/military believe “Nirmata”, the pseudo-mythical figure said to have ushered in the past/current era of AI-enabled robots/simulants is hiding in the RoA, caused (or at least did nothing to prevent) the attack and is developing a weapon that will end the “West.” This “fact” is used to create and launch attacks from a floating, in-orbit space station that launches bombs, called NOMAD* (*this is visually stunning, incredibly interesting conceptually and HORRIFIC to watch. So much collateral damage and civilian death.) which targets rebel bases and places Nirmata is thought to be hiding. 5 years ago, the main character, Joshua experienced a life altering event and is working a hard manual labor job (that gives the viewer great insight into the worldbuilding), and is contacted by the military saying “hey dude lol let’s go get Nirmata and destroy the weapon it’ll be totes chill and you’ll be a hero and don’t you want to be a hero? Plusbtwyourwifeisalivebro” and so he goes, chaos ensues bc these military ppl suck bananas at following orders, maintaining comms and not killing civilians for no fucking reason. Joshua finds the weapon only, fuck, it’s a simulant in the appearance of an adorable little child (never created before) and appears to know nothing of her purpose. Joshua grabs the kid, hightails it on out of there and goes on a wild goose chase trying to find his wife, in the process learning more about the young weapon, growing to care for her and being hunted by both the local police and the American military.

Ending Thoughts -> would I recommend this movie? Yes! Would I watch it again? Yes! Did it inspire my creativity and imagination? Yes! I found it incredibly entertaining, the action was beautiful, the locations were gorgeous, the devastation of the weaponry was heart-wrenching, the acting was overall quite good and I enjoyed the bittersweet ending and the message. I cried during the ending :)

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Susan vs. Doom

Fantastic Four #259 John Byrne (Escritor, dibujante)

— Susan Storm: Reconozco este estilo de tecnología. ¡Solo un hombre ha podido construir esta nave! ¡Doctor Doom! — Doctor Doom: Excelente, Susan. Eres tan inteligente como hermosa. Me molestará ligeramente aniquilarte junto al resto de los Cuatro Fantástico. — Susan Storm: Ahórrame la hipocresía, Doom. El rayo inhibidor que usaste contra nosotros perdió sus efectos hace tiempo. Ahora no hay nada que evite que utilice mi campo de fuerza para abrir tu armadura y aplastarte… si es que eres tú de verdad y no uno de tus dobles robot.

— Doctor Doom: ¡Qué saludo! ¿Así es cómo te diriges a tus superiores, mujer? Te había creído una dama. Pero si insistes en hablar como una moza de cocina… ¡Te trataré como a una! — Susan Storm: ¡Lo… he notado! Doom debe de estar usando una especie de arma vibratoria que contrarresta mi campo de fuerza. Por el bien del bebé debo acabar con esta pelea antes de que pueda golpearme demasiado… pero con su extraño código de honor me asombra que golpee a una mujer… matar a una, sí, pero lo creía por encima de la brutalidad. ¡Lo sabía! ¡Otro de los condenados robots de Doom! Y no era uno particularmente bueno. ¡Mi campo de fuerza ariete le ha arrancado la cabeza!

— Doctor Doom: Perdona que no te haya dado la bienvenida en persona, Susan. Hay asuntos más urgentes que me preocupan. — Susan Storm: ¿De verdad, von Doom? Usaste a tus robots contra nosotros la última vez que luchamos. Me inclino a pensar que sencillamente tienes miedo de enfrentarte en persona a cualquiera de los Cuatro Fantásticos. — Doctor Doom: Me conoces mejor que eso, mujer. Sencillamente, encuentro indigno de un monarca rebajarme a la violencia física. Mi verdadero poder se encuentra en la fuerza de mi intelecto y cómo usarlo para guiar a otros. — Susan Storm: Un bonito discurso, Doom, pero carece de convicción. ¡Sigues sin enfrentarte a mí! ¿Tengo que ir a por ti? ¿Tengo que desmontar toda esta nave para encontrarte? — Doctor Doom: ¡Maravilloso! ¡Maravilloso! ¡Qué fuego! ¡Qué fuerza desconocida! Te aplaudo, Susan Richards. ¡Te has convertido en una auténtica guerrera por derecho propio! Desde luego que podrías destrozar esta nave. Sin duda serías capaz de encontrarme. Por primera vez hasta me veo compelido a considerar que tú, a quien creía la más débil de los Cuatro, podrías sobrevivir a una batalla con Victor von Doom. Pero antes de poner a prueba esa hipótesis, mira detrás de ti. — Susan Storm: ¿A qué juegas ahora, von Doom…? Oh… no… ¡E-ese de ahí es Johnny! ¡Y Ben! Pero… ¿Contra quién pelean?

— Doctor Doom: ¿Pelear? Querrás decir quién los está destruyendo, ¿no? Mira atentamente, Susan. Sin duda reconocerás a un viejo… amigo. — Susan Storm: ¡Tyros! ¡Tyros! ¡Pero está muerto! — Doctor Doom: No, Susan. Ha resucitado. Por mi mano. ¡El poder cósmico vuelve a ser suyo, el mismo poder que una vez le robé a Silver Surfer! ¡Y esta vez nada evitará que Tyros, mi involuntario esclavo, destruya a los Cuatro Fantásticos!

— Doctor Doom: Y ahora me enfrento a ti. A quien estás viendo es al auténtico Victor von Doom. La decisión es tuya. Enfréntate a mí en una batalla a la que quizá podrías sobrevivir… dejando a tus seres queridos en una a la que ellos no pueden sobrevivir… o acude en su ayuda, recordando siempre que hacerlo es huir de Doom. ¡Reconocer que él es tu superior! — Susan Storm: ¡Maldito seas, Doom!