#straight up yappin

[axiilotl]

I drew him in Dash's jakket agan,, heuehhehe

Read belowe cut if ya wanna "lissen" ta my rambl lel

Soz,, I projekt ontew Dash a lottt lel. It'z probs cuz I liek Danny cuz of his twiggyness plus dorky heheh silly. >:33 OH, and I wanna be buff liek Dash,,, so obvs I got ta put sum o my own pursonaliti nd issews onto him az well ^_^

Anywayss,, hiz parents ar homofobik, nd mean, nd pushy, nd yk the like, rittteeeee? :p

I luv them tew 2gether!! Like c'mon their colour pallettz mach sooo well x33 hehehue

It'z liek tgeyr maed 4 each othr >///<

[axiilotl]

AAAAAAA this is so good so cute so in charavter whar farck

Heuebj

I love them

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[saturn-sends-hugs]

one thing i’ve never really seen explored in fics explicitly is the fact that despite both echo and tech being autistic, they were brought up in very different environments with different responses to their autistic traits.

tech’s special (war-related) interests and obsessive data gathering was likely encouraged by the kaminoans. he had a group of supportive brothers who were equally shunned by the other clones, but the kaminoans saw them as elite, and they internalized that. what the regular clones say can hurt, sure, but they aren’t the ones in power, the kaminoans are. the bad batch know they’re different from the other clones, but they think they’re inherently better. and yeah, the batch still tease tech and are outright mean about traits of his sometimes, but they stand by each other when it counts. tech’s differences make him special in a good way, and despite the hardships, he knows that.

but echo? echo’s batch were also shunned, they were an actual “bad batch”, but the kaminoans were upset by it. these weren’t special defective clones, these were just defective clones. echo in particular had his habits of repeating orders and obsessively reading reg manuals, and because his batch were all trying so hard to fit in with the others, they learned to look down on traits like that, echo included. i think echo has a good amount of internalized ableism not just as a formerly physically able-bodied person who suddenly lost three limbs and his autonomy, but just as an autistic guy growing up in a system that praises conformity to the extreme. he’s literally a CLONE. and not a special elite one, he’s supposed to be just like everyone else, but he isn’t. (fives might’ve even been so adamant about clones’ individuality because of this, because echo had internalized harmful ideas of conformity and fives wanted him to see past that. idk i might add on to that later lol)

my point being, i think it’d be really interesting to see echo clashing a bit with tech when he first joins the group. not in an outright mean way, not with the intention to harm, but just. on accident. he’s ignorant, and he’s learned over the years to suppress those traits in himself, so seeing someone so openly and freely embracing his passions and interests and differences would probably make echo uncomfortable in ways he wouldn’t even recognize.

he might make casual comments or jokes that are meant to be harmless or at the most self-deprecating, but that end up hurting tech. he might be stricter with tech in certain situations, like formal events that he’s learned the hard way to pay attention during, but that tech brushes off to mess with his datapad. i think echo would scold tech for little unimportant things, things that echo trained himself out of, because he thinks he’s doing him a favor when really he’s just perpetuating harmful ideas. they might even be things tech already is aware of but knows are ableist ideas, so he ignores them.

idk. i just think it’d be fun if, in addition to helping him accept all the changes that have happened to him, tech also helped echo learn to accept who he’s always been :D

and of course there would be the side plot of crosshair gradually getting more and more defensive and protective of tech when echo is being a bit of an unintentional dick and them inevitably butting heads in a big way because of it. because ofc they would :D

tagging @the-bi-space-ace and @phantom-of-the-501st cause why not lol

[lemonlimestar]

how does he walk around knowing he’s the funniest person ever

sb94 issue #90

[transgenderbuffoonery]

i adore reading your tags

HAHAHA THANK YOU

[braindamagedrizz]

Wake up, babe, new Destiny OC reference sheet just dropped!

resisting the urge to do an underclothes version.

His strand is based off flamesilk.... <3

[torakubi]

postal doe thought

i think its cool ppl draw her with ripped trenchcoat sleeves but shes just straight up sleeveless. it's canonically something like this in her original design

[fullhavelstonearmor]

I came across something here on tumblr. It was a list of stuff like “You don’t HAVE to make your evil protagonists justifiable” and “Your evil characters don’t HAVE to face consequences.” Now, this list was clearly yet another case of “tumblr user thinks they’ve thunk a new thought.” But here’s the thing. They’re right. You don’t HAVE to. Everyone knows it. Everyone who’s made a bad guy knows it. There’s nothing morally wrong with you as a person if you write a story about some homicidal rapist getting away with shooting up a school. But now tell me this. When was the last time you read about this kind of character in the role of protagonist, and ENJOYED it? You can’t really name a lot. Because in most cases where the protagonist is an unjustifiable evil person, the story is dogshit. It’s REALLY fucking hard to write a story about that kind of guy, and nigh impossible for the story to be GOOD. Especially if they face zero consequences.

Now, before opening my tirade on certain bad examples of evil protagonists, lemme speak on good examples. First of all, slashers. Like, horror movie slashers. These are good because they’re meant to be stupid and cheesy. They do ridiculous kills because it’s fun, or occasionally disturbing, to watch. And you may argue that they aren’t protags, but be honest with yourself. When I say Friday The 13th, who comes into your mind? Not Tommy Jarvis, Jason Voorhees. The hockey mask guy with a machete. The story of the series follows him, so he is the protagonist. And he does ridiculous shit like go to space. It’s dumb, it’s cheesy, and even though he avoids consequences by being immortal, you don’t really care, because it’s a shitty slasher film and it knows it. Next positive example.

Jack, from The House That Jack Built. Now, I hear you. “Oh ultimate super intelligence Havel, he DOES face consequence! He dies and goes to mega hell!” Okay, fine, I give you that, but for most of the movie, we watch him get away with despicable acts. When you reflect on this fucked up movie, do you think of the Dante’s Inferno references, or do you think of that taxidermy kid’s terrifying smile? The smile? Yeah, me too, bud. The reason he works as this kind of fucked up bastard of a protagonist is because we still see it from the outside. Despite being the protagonist from a technical standpoint, to us, he is an antagonist. We hate him. We watch the movie and hope he gets gunned down by police or something. We hopelessly pray to movie gods that his victims survive. This is only helped by Vergil, who provides insight and criticisms to Jack’s fucked up ideology. I mean, we watch him glorify Hitler for crying out loud.

Alright, final good example is ironically, good for almost the exact opposite reason as Jack. “Johnny Cutthroat Cash” from Manhunt. See, while we see that Jack likes killing, and is straight up addicted to it, we can only INFER that about Johnny. We only know two things about Johnny. He was on death row, and he’s good at killing people. We don’t know if he was a serial killer or a mercenary or anything. You could claim he’s sadistic, but he may also be doing his job of creating a spectacle. We see only one bit of guaranteed emotion from Johnny, and it’s from when his family is kidnapped. Johnny works so well, not because he’s a well written character, but it’s the fact he lacks a character. He’s a bald Caucasian man. He matches a million people. You are Johnny. You decide in your own mind if he’s a fucked up killer or he maybe killed some official for banging his girlfriend. You don’t know and you get to pick. I think the lack of origin aside from his family hating him after whatever he did is what helps. When you can make your own character, it doesn’t get boring.

Now. Onto the two bad examples. Our first protagonist is ironically called “The Antagonist.” From Hatred. Hatred is… well… dogshit. The story is ass and so is the gameplay. If you’ve never heard of him, you’ve definitely seen his face. He’s the poster child of shitty edgelords. The whole plot of the game is that he hates people and just goes on a shooting spree before nuking his city. Its gameplay is similar to the original Postal. But while Postal 1 is a delve into a madman’s psyche, in which he expresses remorse and is implied to have killed himself for it, (for a defense of later Postsl installments, see horror slasher section) The Antagonist just… doesn’t do that. He shoots people and then nukes the city. It’s fucking stupid. I’m not crying over the lack of a happy ending, I’m complaining that it’s BORING. I mean, we don’t even get an idea on why he hates people. The game is so edgy it’s laughable.

Speaking of so edgy it’s laughable, I could really put any original Garth Ennis character here, but I’m going with the classic. The one and only British Punisher. The worst “protagonist” I’ve ever even fucking heard of. Billy motherfucking Butcher, from The Boys comic run specifically. If you’ve ever watched the show, you’ll notice that Billy is a complex individual. All of that depth is gone in the comics. He’s just a genocidal freak, and Garth Ennis makes all the superheroes pedophiles and junkies to justify the Punisher ideology he’s such a fan of. Thing is, the Punished is a good character. Because he’s different. The Punisher is in the wrong, and he knows it. He knows blowing the brains off some bank robber is not the most moral choice. Butcher on the other hand, will kill a super hero in front of his children, and AFTERWARDS discover the super hero had a stash of “cheese pizza” so he’s ACTUALLY the good guy now. He’s only seen as a bad thing at the end when he goes full on “I hate ALL superpowers, time to kill my friends who I have superpowers” which is… I mean, it’s consequence I guess? But it’s a dumb fucking ending to dumb fucking comic series. The Becca thing still happened, but he only mentions it occasionally to justify his bullshit when he DOES do something Garth recognizes as questionable. Don’t read The Boys comic. It’s not even so bad it’s good. Just read Watchmen.

Anyway! This is a topic I’m strangely invested in. Can’t believe I wrote a whole rant over a single tumblr post about “bad guys are cool.” I think it’s because I agree. Bad guys are cool. But consequences to their actions is a major part of it all, and so is a base level of justification. Do you guys have favorite examples of this, good or bad? Lemme know. I’m open to debate too, if for some reason you loved Hatred or hated Friday The 13th.

TL;DR: You know how making a pure evil character in Fallout is just a boring playthrough? Fiction writing can be like that if you’re not REAL careful.

[axiilotl]

@honeyconez I maid u a lil gifty gift,,, herher me hopez u liek it ^^‼️🔥🔥😼😼

Sins i sawd ur intro ting (ik itz werd 2 say butt i hav red teh hole ting az i do wiv mozt of my mewchuals,, :33 lol)

[hibernating-stag]

(This is his win quote against Venom)

HYE??? WHAT IF I DIED HUH. WHAT IF.

[fandom-is-my-drug]

Petition to the universe to make the white guy next to me in my astronomy class a magical girl

[xtreme-cringe-warning]

Putting crabs to sleep is more fucked up than what people give credit for

Imagine you’re just sitting in a park, eating a sandwich when suddenly a giant just fucking grabs you and lifts you up into the sky. You try to make it let go of you but instead it just starts jorking your motherfucking peanits.

[notvil]

i think abt my prof sending me that tumblr post everyday.

[hballegro]

'oh yeah ill work on the painting a little bit'

'hey this is going pretty well! maybe i should do the hair-'

[pympartic]

:[ ;;// Izzy showing me all these 616 comics has drawn two conclusions : First- Wow Hank does not stop taking L's Second- Marvel please let the team be together again and not being torn apart every other week? ? ]

[braindamagedrizz]

Ugh I miss old Fandom culture where everyone just accepted some people had dogshit opinions/ships and ignored it like a normal person. 😔😔😔 So tired of the puritan culture and the whole “Oh it’s not canon you can’t ship that!!” I DON’T CARRREEEEE