#snek... ramblings?

[coldmail750]

boy howdy is cities skylines 2 a big fat disappointment

[a-little-ray-of-fantasy]

Sir Pentious' stim: fixing his bowtie.

[legosnek]

Once again remembered that I'm on this dumbass website, which means my account here has officially lasted longer than my twitter

[snekthedemonnoodle]

im surprised balu brigada is not there, but im still very excited!! i havent heard much about any of these artists other than noahfinnce and bears in trees so i think the tribute album is gonna be really good for smaller artists like them.

[peppermint-whiskers]

I just realized throughout Heavenly Serpent, Pentious is gonna go through at least two more form changes and some more costume changes

This series really is just me playing dress up with him agdjsbd

[narniasclosetvoltron]

gf didn’t want to see the snake plushie I got :( so I’ve been playing Spotify snake for the past 20 something minutes

anyway, snek

[thesmollestsnek]

Today in the snek rambles about random fandom things, we have: Danny’s age! Specifically, how he ages long-term, seeing as he half-died at fourteen.

Now, a lot of the fics I see that age Danny up in some way have his human body aging, either normally or occasionally at a slower rate, and his ghost form naturally changing to mimic that. Almost as common are the fics where Danny’s human form ages while his ghost form stays at the age he died. And don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot of fun to be had with both those options. I’ve seen some great fics playing with both those concepts.

…But yknow what I haven’t seen?

A fic where Danny’s ghost form is the one that ages, while his human form stays the same. Think about it, a ghost’s form is malleable, and doesn’t necessarily reflect what a person originally looked like so much as what they think they should be. This is almost alway the explanation given for Danny’s ghost form aging with him, when a fic writer decides to go that route. Ghost forms are malleable, it makes perfect sense for Danny’s Phantom form to be capable of aging, so long as Danny believes that it should be.

…but you wanna know what isn’t so malleable? A human body. And for all that Danny’s still alive, he’s also dead, and while the show seems to portray Danny and Phantom as two separate halves with little to no bleedover, fanon seems to prefer having the boundaries between death and life in one Danny Phantom be much blurrier. As do I. Danny is a human who is dead, just as Phantom is a ghost who is alive. Both and neither at the same time. And while living humans age, dead ones don’t.

So. When Danny walked into the portal, he died. And regardless of how you want to argue semantics of resurrection and was there a brief period of time when he was only dead and he was also alive when he left the portal, he did die and a part of him stayed dead. Meaning that, by some definitions, his human body can be considered a corpse. And corpses don’t age.

Just, imagine the potential angst there, of Danny realizing, a year or two or three after the accident that no, he’s not just a late bloomer. He’s just. Not. Aging. And never will again, at least as a human. How long did it take him to recognize that fact? …how long did it take for him to realize that he can never seamlessly blend into human society again? His Phantom form is obviously not human, and his human one will never make it past fourteen.

…But then, his ghost form is still aging, it never stopped even after he noticed that the two forms no longer look the same. Even after he accepts that Danny Fenton will never make it past fourteen. There’s a part of him that recognizes that he’s still alive and that he should be aging, so Phantom grows up even though Fenton never will.

Which, if you’re inclined to keep piling on the angst, can also serve to isolate him from ghost society. A being of change trying to fit into a community of people who will forever stay the same. Preserved exactly as they were at their time of death. Except for Danny. Who’s still the odd one out, even in death. A ghost who’s growing up and a human who’ll forever remain a child.

…

Orrrr if you’re not in the mood for soul-crushing angst, you can also use this concept for fun and hijinks. Age Danny up a couple decades, plop him into any world with other superheroes, and watch the identity shenanigans take over. I’m especially fond of this being done with the Justice League, because he’s basically a reverse Captain Marvel. Imagine, the League finds out that their adult coworker is actually a small child masquerading as a grownass man through the power of a magically aged-up superhero form and a lot of bullshit. They see that when Billy Batson is in his civilian/human form he returns to his actual age. And then they see phantom, another coworker who, when not in the form they use for heroics, physically turns into a child. And so they go “we got this, no further clarification needed.” (Spoiler alert: they do not, in fact, got this).

[taterswithranch]

i've never been so in touch with my aroace-ness than with my fellow aspecs going on a rampage on the bots hdhdjsk

[snekkinsnerpent]

When flirting with your mutuals leads to them sending you the weirdest (published) Khrushchev x Stalin smut you've ever laid your eyes upon

[snickersnek]

Kobold Shows

An inspiration particle hit my dumbass brain and generated this Idea™️ which means you have to read this.

They're like a dog show, but dragons (and adventurers) bring their kobold in. You can enter yourself if you want to, but it really helps to have a coach.

There's an Agility course, but also Combat and Trapmaking contests. A crowd favourite is the Hoarding event, where the kobold is let loose to complete a scavenger hunt under time pressure. There's shiny-looking but ultimately worthless decoy loot, cumbersome loot, hard-to-reach loot, so there's all kinds of strategies ranging from "Grab everything and win on quantity", "Appraise items quickly and make few, high-value looting trips," and even "Quickly construct a wheelbarrow to gather loot and a pogo stick to reach high-up loot".

Earplugs are recommended for the "Loudest Yip" event, but don't forget the "Softest Yip", very competitive scene there.

All kindsa kobolds enter the best-in-breed events, fluffbolds, floppabolds, dogbolds, candlebolds, seabolds, chromaticbolds, gembolds..

Dragons looking over and examining the kobolds for their qualities, rating tail length, crest hue, jaw strength.. and oh my word the dragon politics behind the scenes!

[cerulean-dreams-18]

Crazy to me how I've seen people who hate snakes but LOOOOVE dragons like are you kidding me snakes are just limbless little dragons!!

[smudgesticksgonnasmudgingflip]

So I'm currently working on a compilation but I was watching chapter 1 episode 4 and... Can we get someone to analyze the conversation at like 19 minutes and 30 seconds in with Veronika and Arturo?

Some screenshots below

[honestlyobsessed]

(commentary incoming)

MK's mental health:

Man...I haven't gotten this much emotional whiplash from a series since the rottmnt movie.

Aside from the new animation style to get used to, this has been my favorite season since season 2.

The storytelling and world-building were great as always. Then we also got this random, morally grey snake boi who just...dipped in episode 10.

(Please! I need more of him!)

And I know LMK is an equally angsty and comedic show, but this season hit different man...

The whole 'MK having to sacrifice himself while also on a mental decline' had me having rottmnt movie flashbacks.

[whomstsnek]

Avantris friends I have a question, slightly long and rambly post under da cut

I am OBSESSED with making silly genderswapped aus for stuff, and Legends of Avantris is no exception. For now, I only really wanna make aus for the campaigns I've seen (or started lol, haven't finished IB or CoS yet </3), and one of my favorite parts of these types of aus are renaming the characters lol

there are a couple of characters I'm having trouble with though: Taishen, and Kana

To me, Taishen is a name with really masculine connotations and Kana has very feminine connotations. I could be wrong, I'm certainly no expert, but that's just the way it sounds to me. so...

Question: should I try renaming these characters? There are plenty of other characters whose names I am not changing, so it wouldn't be too out of place I think if I didn't change theirs. It would also save me the trouble of potentially messing up Chinese and Japanese naming conventions, since (per the Avantris wiki) Yulong and Inari are inspired by and have themes of China and Japan respectively, so I would want to keep that theme with their names

Furthermore, if I were to rename them to have more opposite-gendered names, I would likely base their names off of meaning rather than sound. I guess I'm a little concerned that after a certain point it could potentially get confusing? or even feel dishonest to the character if that makes sense? and I don't want that either, so it'd be an incredibly fine balancing act.

All that said I do think it would be a fun exercise to attempt to rename them in a way that both fits their respective characters and also could REASONABLY be a name of the opposite sex. And I like the idea of the real characters and my sex-swapped version being separated not only by design but by name, especially for Kana whose outfit probably wouldn't change too drastically.

idk this is longer than I meant it to be and is really next to nothing lol, but do you guys have any thoughts? and if anyone sees this and actually knows Chinese and/or Japanese, would you consider sharing your wisdom in the event I do decide to rename em? This has been on my mind for weeks now lol would love to have other people's insight

[sp1derc1der]

Redid weredragon Cyrus’s art!

[narniasclosetvoltron]

mom stop it’s not a dick