#shapeshifter problems

[failingatlifespectacularly]

oh hey look it's that wip I kept mentioning

and my favorite color palettes

[ichiyamakuro]

If You Can Shapeshift, Do you retain your allergies?

Okay so my roommate asked this and now I need other opinions! If ou could shapeshift, would you keep your allergies. like if you're alergic to cats and shapeshift into one, are you then allergic to yourself. and does this extend past animals. like if you can shapeshift into anything, and you are say allergic to flowers and turn into a flower what would happen.

[stupid-lil-poetries]

im so tired, I feel so helpless. It's not that I don't want 2 live, I just don't want 2 live like this, this isn't living, this is just surviving.

[selki-sepulcher]

The institute doesn't know I have any social media, I just need a place to be able to express myself freely, or at least know I can when I want to.

Shifters are rare, but I don't feel like I'm being studied as much as I'm being supervised. I feel like there are things I'm meant to feel. Things I shouldn't feel.

I'll tell the truth. I don't want to use my shifting to better society. I don't want to do it for any reason. It's just the way I am. I shift moment to moment. Sometimes, I stay stable for weeks. Sometimes, my appearance is nearly liquid. When I force my form, I feel like I'm suffocating.

I don't believe in true forms. I don't have one. There isn't one "true Selki." I'm my form, my moments in time, I'm the way I feel. My form in the moment is my true self. That's what I really think.

[tinfoil-jones]

How does Weirdmageddon happen in the Jerk Ford au?. Does it even happen at all considering.. Ford literally seducing Bill?.

Jerk Ford may have tricked Bill Cipher by rizzing him up charming him back in the 80's, but baby girl Bill was not about it afterwards. The rage and hatred Bill has for Jerk Ford can only be described as 'all consuming and bloodthirsty but also reeking of desperation'.

Weirdmageddon still happens, with the circumstances being different. For one thing, it was triggered by Dipper breaking the snowglobe with the rift in it because Jerk Ford did not tell either of the children what it was, and Dipper wanted to break something Jerk Ford liked because he saw he was getting closer to Mabel, and Dipper was NOT standing for it.

Another thing, on the Nightmare Realm side, there were no major Henchmaniacs who survived to the end. The heaviest hitters on the side of Gravity Falls made sure of that. The heaviest hitters being Old Man McGucket, Stan, and Shifty (Fire Chief Doppelgänger). Below is the how and why:

McGucket didn't need to be driven insane by the memory gun in order to be unhinged. His love and aptitude for death machines is still a major factor even if he did have to keep that side of him more hidden from his wife and children. As soon as Weirdmageddon comes? Oh, he's having the time of his life and getting pot-shots with his death ray in-between shifts working on The Shackatron. McGucket takes out a mix of henchmaniacs because he uses weapons and doesn't parry at all.

Stan is more hardcore than his canon counterpart because he's the one who inherited the murder gene instead of his twin. He really embraces the mindset of "Peace is an option, but never your only option", plus he's so normal and unassuming that combined with his duplicitous nature he is never perceived as a real threat because 'he's just a boring teacher'... Until it's too late. Stan takes out the smaller Henchmaniacs (and then the escaped prisoners) compared to McGucket and Shifty because he's only fighting with brass knuckles, a baseball bat, and whatever other blunt object happens to be in his vicinity.

Shifty is an alien shapeshifter. They technically do not belong to this world, but it's the only world that they know. It's their home. And damnit, they are not letting their home, with their friends and family, be overtaken by some extradimensional interlopers. There's only room for one otherworldly being in this town. The choose to drop all pretenses and fight in their true form, later having 'help' from Steve the Tree Monster.

Old Man McGucket's Casualties

Kryptos

Keyhole

Lava Lamp

Teeth

Stanley's Casualties

Bill Cipher (w/ the help of Jerk Ford)

Discount Auto Mart Warriors (Didn't kill them, just beat them up really bad until they surrendered)

8-Ball

Hectorgon

Amorphous Shape

Shifty's (w/ The Tree Monster) Casualties

Pyronica

Zanthar + Island Head Beast

Paci-Fire

Creature with 88 different faces

The Horrifying Sweaty One-Armed Monstrosity

Although Stan killed only three Henchmaniacs on his own, he was more brutal than Shifty and Fiddleford; he was sticking the bodies on pikes right outside the cabin as a warning to Bills remaining forces.

[yesterdayiwrote]

Holy Shit...

[ethosiab]

Obssessed with this fuckign thing

[orengejoshi]

do u write fanfics? i need to GOON 💔

damn brother, you just gonna come at me like that? alright I see you

that's a great question tho! I have indeed thought about writing a fic... for years tbh...

but there's a myriad of problems

well first of all I'm not native in english. that is probably noticeable more often than not. I sometimes even use a translator, I always secretly got google/dict.cc open in a second tab. didn't formally learn english, I just snagged it by proxy listening to American Youtubers and reading manga online. that's why I prefer to ramble a bit in public or to my damn self in private areas than live-texting 1 on 1/in groups; bc I can take more time totally judgement-free. you're gonna see me "typing..." for 30 minutes and wonder wtf is taking this mf so long?!

apart from that there's dyslexia. I can't spell one word correctly without swipe-to-type autocorrect. I think all arguments I've gotten into stem from me mistyping, using completely wrong words, messing up the sentence structure etc

my brain is a single dense cloud of fog that'll occasionally split open to drizzle down a bunch of jumbled thoughts that I could turn into barely cohesive words if I'm brave enough and exude copious amounts of energy.

so my linguistic skills are not up to par. my intelligence lies more in... intrapersonal and existential departments.

unsurprisingly I've thus become a visual artist to express myself.

the catch is... that I understand paperhat, I do.

but I can't seem to draw toxic dynamics. my head is just empty about how to depict it. it's like it doesn't come naturally to me. not without going overboard and making a whole comic that I would likely abandon before even reaching the half mark. I've been given these angelic skills along with the curse that I shall only draw joyous, bright scenes.

however if I could write it... now we're talking.

as a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure that most of my ideas are way too dark and sober. people don't know me like that so I'm petrified about the presumably shocked response when and if I did drop smth like that.

I'm not ready for that... I have really severe OCD (that the internet is making way worse with their anxious tendencies to interpret smth sinister into any and all fiction that is not happiness and rainbows. which seems new to me, idk where this mindset to read so deep into shit is suddenly coming from. I was here 2017-19, left for like 3 years and all of a sudden everybody's fallen off their rockers)

writing domestic stuff is too boring for me... there's gotta be gut-wrenching horrors and drama and tragedy and conflict!

none of this would be PG (which is what I assume you're asking for anyway) I'd just write smut with sprinkles of character studies and a pinch of comedy mayhaps, but I used to do that about 10 years ago and it was so bad. the way I describe these scenes comes off very plump and cringe

I... might. dip my toes into it later this year.

I'll drop a few ideas in the tags... maybe 2 ideas. very roughly. without spoilers, just in case.

[thecountess]

It's truly remarkable. I shapeshifted so much in order to become someone society embraces, that I have difficulty pinpointing which part of ME is actually MINE.

[taw-k]

I want Loki and Bucky's first on screen interaction to be Bucky glaring at Loki and Loki responding my morphing his face into something fucked up

[failingatlifespectacularly]

i could fill 10000 pages with all the things I miss

[alephzdraws]

That Freak of Nature AU

I can imagine Sonic becoming increasingly exasperated trying to explain to Shadow how to function as close to a normal mobian as physically possible so that G.U.N. has a harder time discovering him and Shadow just goes "what's the point of all this? I don't get it. I hate this skin already, get it off me."

Like trying to remind him to blink so he doesn't stare deep into peoples' souls as much, and he does, but with a third eyelid so he doesn't lose sight (Immediately freaks Sonic out on the spot).

Or attempting to explain to him that he can't just morph his body around in public to get around the discomfort of existing in a form he doesn't like (if you're unaware, the Doom Morph in this AU is Shadow's true base form and he can shapeshift into a hedgehog. Pretty much the reverse of SxS Gens).

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No, splitting your face open to scare away people you don't like isn't a good idea. You're trying to stay hidden from those guys who want to finish the job of killing you.

No Shadow, eating people is wrong, even if you're an alien. Yes, even if they're bad people like the ones who killed your favourite human.

Try not to make weapons out of your or my limbs unless you really need to protect yourself.

Please don't take over my body unless I need you to. I don't wanna have to "explain" that to the public, and it's kind of existentially terrifying for me to lose control (Don't tell anyone I said that).

I understand that your "quills" are technically your tentacles and kinda wanna move on their own, but you're sorta freaking out those people across the street.

I know it sucks walking around in the wrong form, but it's either that, you hang out in my body like a weird alien parasite, or G.U.N. takes you.

[selki-sepulcher]

I look into the rippling lake

my reflection looks like me

but when the waters surface stills

there's nothing left to see

[juststoleyourcat]

i also love that it showed nimona not fitting in with the animals either. the problem is not about her being a bird, a deer, a bear, a whale or a gorilla. it's about nimona being herself.

[prehnite-soul]

i LOVE giving my characters white hair and vitiligo

makes them feel more… me. I have neither vitiligo nor white hair. Why does it feel like me if it doesn’t LOOK like me?

why do I identify more with my online alias Soul than my real life name?

why do I think of my real life body as a burden? I would like to shapeshift please. Just… become a creature. Live in the woods. Be a fae and study dragons. Be a shapeshifter doomed to protect a random human kid. Be a dragon fated to bear a split soul. Be a random human mixed up in criminals deals just because she went into the wrong bar at the wrong time.

these lives are more comfortable than where I am.

I want to go please. Shape shift into my daydreams.

[boyscanned]

i’ve honestly been thinking about figuring out a feminine name to go by alongside my name currently (luke). like when i present more fem i can give people some cutesy little name instead of my masc name. luke is a great name but immersion in the femininity is also great