#stupid little edgelord guy

[peterofthedrakes]

the scrungly.... ....

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I love how fanon has their own special spin on the crisis core trio

Angeal: Sensible, overly-serious, kind of that dad-friend who is perpetually exhausted. The straight man in a sea of chaotic morons. Dedicated and hardworking, totally ready to lecture you for doing something stupid. An overall cool guy who sells himself short but really is the glue holding everything together, even if he gets no credit for it.

Sephiroth: Looks terrifying. Probably IS terrifying. Is actually kind of a soft marshmallow with mommy issues. Oozes trauma at every angle. Can kill you a thousand times over but he's also the group baby so oh well. Melts when given a hug. Outwardly cold and aloof but he would unironically die for you and folds like crumpled wet paper when he's left alone. Also he's a cat.

Genesis: Resident Little Shit™. Theater kid. Edgelord. Loudmouthed hothead who can't stop blowing things up. No one invited him. He came from the dumpster outside of an abandoned Waffle House. Arguably the most interesting person here but his attitude gets in the way of people figuring that out. Also kind of a secret soft baby but shhhh that's a secret. Easy to hate. Easier to love if you actually take time to get to know him.

[pocket-jack]

"Luffy laughs loudly again"

"Everyone is mesmerized as usual. And Law. And his crew"

Bepo: Wow! Straw Hat has a really attractive laugh!

Penguin: Yeah, no wonder people likes him! Dude's are charismatic as hell! Ah... But not like our captain! I'm pretty sure your laugh is as sweet as Straw Hat laugh!

Heart Pirates: Yeah, that's right!

Law: Tch, I don't get what so charismatic in a laugh. It just makes you look unserious, isn't it?

Zoro casualy joins in: Someone has an ugly laugh

Law: It's not the deal, Roronoa-ya

Heart Pirates: Yeah! That's not the deal!

Shachi: Just so you know, our captains laugh is so melodic and beautiful that it can kill God! I guess???....

Bepo: But if you think about it... We actually never heard captain laugh... Is it because my jokes are bad? I'm sorry...

Penguin: Me too...

Shachi: And me...

Heart Pirates: Us too!

Law: It's not the reason! Besides I chuckle. That's a laugh

Nami: Have you tried laughing as a normal person? People might think that you're a weirdo

Law: They can think whatever they want

Sanji: Yeah! Relax a little bit, "Traffy"! You know who you dating!

Law: Partnering. Refer to it as partnership

Luffy: C'mon, Traffy! Give us the best laugh you can do!

Law: ...I refuse

Heart Pirates: Ple-e-ease, captain!

Law, looking away: ...

Luffy: Pretty please?

Law, covering his eyes with his hat: ... Ha... Ha-ha... Ha... Ha?

Everyone: ...

Sanji: Yeah... I don't know... Sounds wrong for me... Something just... Ain't right...

Brook: There's no melody, perhaps?

Zoro: He just isn't created to laugh. Edgelord forever

Law: What were you expecting? It was forced. Aren't you suppose to laugh when it's funny?

Nami: Yeah, guys, don't be so harsh on him!

Robin: Perhaps, we should wait? Maybe someone will tell a good joke or something funny will happen

Franky: Yeah, maybe this time his laugh won't sound so.... Mmm...

Sanji: Forced?

Bepo: Shy!

Zoro: Idiotic

Luffy: Oh! Like a wound up granpa choked on oxygen mask!

Law: Pffff!-

Everyone shocked that this stupid joke got him: !!

Law, laughing with the most sincere and melodic laugh anyone could ever imagined: PFHAHAHAHAHAHA!! That's so stupid, Straw Hat-ya!

"Know everyone is standing there mesmerized from Law's laugh"

Shachi: I was wrong after all! Our captains laugh cannot kill God! He's the God himself!

Luffy: The God with such a beautiful laugh!!! Please, laugh again, Traffy, I beg you!!

Law, all red: You guys....

[funishment-time]

Kokichi/ general with

87 75. 73 25 and 22?

ooh, kokichi-centric! i assume this is for this ask game since it's the only one i've reblogged that goes so High!

87.)Headcanon on Pregame V3 Characters?

i have lots, but generally, my Main Headcanon with all V3 characters is that part of Tsumugi's "fictional" story is right: there is an Ultimate Hunt going on. their pregame selves are actually a memory-wiped disguise, not their true selves. the Monokubs really did give them back their talents and base memories, just also threw a bunch of fake ones in there too. and there is indeed a reality show going on but...well, i won't get into it here. long story short V3 is a reversal of Danganronpa 1 in many ways.

it's basically just what a lot of people headcanon already but in reverse. i think there's a lot to play with there psychologically still.

for Kokichi specifically, i imagine he was a timid weeb guy who really wanted to be an edgelord so bad but just didn't have the Audacity. i'm reminded a little of Charlie MoistCritikal's story about how in college he wore a CD around his neck and acted like a douche to pretend to be a Mysterious Anime Character. like that. that's what pregame!Kokichi wanted to be.

75.) Unpopular Headcanon?

general: that a lot of relationships in the main timeline wouldn't happen if they weren't backed against a wall, esp with the protagonists. i don't think Kyoko would care much for Makoto in a Normie World, but i don't think she'd care much for most folks. i don't think Kaede would be any closer to Shuichi than her other classmates either (and i'm someone who's gung-ho for a platonic soulmates thing with them). which is fine really! lots of interpretations and timelines to explore

for Keech: that Kokichi is 99% gay but would have a crush on a rare girl, like Kaede

73.) Popular Headcanon?

general: a lot of characters are actually plus-sized.

for Keech: that Kokichi is 99% gay. i guess technically he'd be bi or pan in my mind (see above) but i don't personally view him as one that cares for labels, and it's mostly guys he likes to play with

25.) Favorite Anthology Chapter?

i haven't read all the Translated/Fanslated anthologies, only the DR1 ones. (i'm not sure where to find the others. if anyone could link them to me, let me know.) but i loved the comics about Junko and Mukuro before Muki really had a defined personality of her own, and she was kind of just the annoyed older sister being dragged along on her crazy younger sister's stupid schemes. i'm reminded of the one where they temporarily adopt Mondo because he can't get a girl and become the Despair Triplets. crack central.

i also like the one where a blank-faced Kyoko just hides in things like a cat to find out where people might hide a body. and the one where she throws a horseshoe crab into a pot of stew everyone's making. they are genuinely close to how i imagine Kyoko really is on a personal level: just kind of a Beautiful Freak who doesn't interact with reality very much

22.) Favorite Random/Unnecessary Moment?

Hiro's dumb fucking stories about his life. the UFO burger abduction and the 100% unnecessary aside about how his dad burned down their house because he was smoking in bed (i assume that's why Mrs. Hagakure mentions she's divorced in UDG) and even Makoto's like ???? god bless Yasuhiro

[randomfanner]

I don't plan on talking about Hazbin Hotel much because I am not happy with it, and that is why I want to talk about what disappoints me the most: Alastor.

TW: mentions of cannibal

There were a couple of comics released a long while ago showing how Angel came to the Hotel, and a special comic with Alastor that I rather enjoyed where he goes to the meat market where a hellborn is being threatened by the butcher. Alastor of course kills and eats the butcher.

Basically the comics set him up as Hannibal Lector type moral code. If you aren't rude or unnecessarily cruel, he'll leave you alone. However if you are he would be thrilled to kill you in the most horrid way he can think of and then eat your corpse.

And then the show turns him into some edge lord with a connection to Lilith and half ass tries to make him seem like he cares about the hotel when he has alternative motives and he is just an edgelord. It sucks.

Because think of what could have been done in the show, and I think we kinda get SOME of what we could have from the cannibal village but think of what else could have been done:

For one thing, I think the Lilith connection could have been cut. He is there for his own entertainment, but he does like Charlie's spirit. I think it could be much more interesting if he genuinely isn't there to be evil. Course he still does fucked up shit and sometimes counter intuitive shit on the regular(just an example, Angel Dust could say something wrong enough he is about to cause a murder and has to be held back).

But he does actually help.

Like, instead of having to be coaxed into making a TV ad, just, have him doing radio ads?

Also him actually like the Egg Bois I think would be fun. They are stupid and kind of useless but they are sweet and he finds himself fond of them. Also could give him more of a relationship with Penticous. "You know, I have to give you credit, my boy, these little guys are extremely entertaining!"

Also if he was actually, in some way trying actively to help, I think it could lead much more into Dadstor. I want that to make sense, you know? I want it too but it doesn't and I think having him be more Gentleman who expect good manners, and can cause harm should you not.

And if they had gone more with the ideas of redemption and the actual truth of that, have a bad client thrown in that Charlie is really trying to help but they just keep snapping straws, and well Charlie can hold everyone else back well: Alastor is not all to pleased by someone wasting time.

[bl00dalchemist]

Since you're sick (ME TOO GET WELL IDIOT) Imma ask for ALL of the questions for Genshin :3c

SADISTIC MF (ilu get well soon too baby)

❤: Which character do you think is the most egregiously mischaracterized by the fandom?

Childe.

At first the jokes about him being a fuckboy were absolutely funny but now i think they absolutely fucking suck and people have taken it as if it is canon AND I HATE IT.

🧡: What is a popular (serious) theory you disagree with?

I normally dont check too much into theories bc honestly they just carry the same ones and in a very good way, so i actually can't think of one rn sorry JFJFBF

💛: What is a popular ship you just can't get behind, and why?

Haikaveh, if i wanted to watch a hysterical blonde and a stoic mf bicker, i'd go watch a white couple fight.

But fr i dont like it bc they always fuck up their personalities so absolutely bad it makes me go ewww, also they reduced kaveh to being alhaitham's stupid friend who can't do shit right and its just?? Ewww x2

💚: What does everyone else get wrong about your favorite character?

Tough one bc I don't like to say 'WELL EVERYONE IS WRONG ABOUT THIS BUT AM RIGHT' bc everyone has their headcanons BUT- I really hate the way some people treat Dottore as if he was just a boyfailure who sets trashcans on fire bc he cant get his phd.

The man is a damn evil genius, even arlecchino would have thrown hands with him if he weren't also a harbinger NFJBGN

💙: Which character is not as hot as everyone else seems to think?

I was going to pick one of the girls but that might be biased since am a fucking homosexual so i will say Zhongli! Atm the guy's just some man going around working in funerals and correcting historians about rex lapis NFKFJ not that hot sorry.

💜: Which character is way hotter than everyone else seems to think?

Cyno???

The slutty little shorts, he goes around shirtless, he's got a spirit inside him??? HOTTIE

🤍: Which character is not as morally bad/good as everyone else seems to think?

I will merge this one and the next one bc its the same character so here we go.

Ppl always go one way or another with childe, like, come on!

They either turn him into a horny stupid dumbass or an edgelord and am honestly very tired bc the man is so morally gray most of the time! He released a beast on liyue to bring rex lapis out, but not because he's the devil, he just wanted rex lapis to come out but turns out ppl were actually able to protect themselves! terrible job supershit!

💖: What is your biggest unpopular opinion about the series?

That people satanize it too much!

"it pushes gambling addiction!" So does every gacha out there, the point of a game made by a big company is to make money, but guess what! You can play totally for free if YOU JUST PLAY THE DAMN GAME INSTEAD OF EXPECTING EVERYTHING TO BE GIVEN TO YOU!

And if u dont want to play and think its fucking predatory and its bad for you: delete your fucking account or sell it so you can't go back. Seek help even.

💔: If you had to remove one major character from the series, who would you choose?

I don't think theres a major character outside the twins and dainsleif so i will say i just think sethos is pretty but so unnecessary lmao

💕: What is an unpopular ship that you like?

Arlecchino/Furina or Wriothesley/Lyney.

🏳️‍🌈: Which character who is commonly headcanoned as queer doesn't seem queer to you?

The queer circle is so absolutely wide that i dont actually think theres a single cis/straight bitch in this game ngl.

💀: If you had to choose one major character to die, who would you choose?

One of the main siblings, wouldn't it be absolutely fucking painful???

[pyjamaart]

one of my favorite edgelords 😈

Let's talk about one of my favorite games of all time, Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass.

I had originally started working on a different piece of art for this game, but that one is still a work in progress, since I have to get my shit together and draw multiple pieces of furniture for it. That's why I decided to draw something easier first. And I say easier, even though I spent like two weeks on this. Man, I really don't have that much time to draw anymore since I started working at my new job... Sometimes I really miss my old job, where I could finish all my work in an hour and then read Transformers fanfictions for the rest of the day. Sigh...........

I tried out a bunch of new stuff with Buck here, like finally learning that there actually is an Overlay function in Gimp and then promptly using it for the fancy effect on the line art, the pattern on his wings and the background. This image also made me realize I can only draw giant Mega Man boots. That's why his shoes look like that, lol.

Now let's finally talk about this game. If you don't know anything about Jimmy, it's a Mother inspired game about a little boy fighting horrors in his dream world together with his family and some other wacky characters like the coolest man you have ever seen, an anime waifu and a bear. The game starts off like a typical RPG where his mom sends Jimmy and his brother, Buck (pictured here in this image, I'll explain why he looks like that in a minute), to fetch some honey for a cake she wants to bake. And to get that honey, the two brothers visit the beehive that's located south of their house. On the way there, they have to fight various goofy looking monsters in turn based battles. Jimmy unlocks the power of empathy and imagination at the start of the game and can turn into some of the monsters he defeats in battle, by putting himself in their shoes. Examples include a smelly green blob that was living in his brothers dirty clothes, a sunflower that was getting freaky with some of the bees, a very fast bird, and a bear.

When they finally make it to the beehive, the queen explains that a group of thugs is bothering them and promises to give Jimmy some of their honey if he takes care of the ruffians for her. The so called "petty thugs" are located in a canyon right next door, so Jimmy and Buck go and beat them up. After various shenanigans, including a "goon exam" and Buck breaking some bartenders spine after he refused to serve Jimmy some milk, they have a battle with Punch Tanaka, the worlds raddest guy and also the leader of the thugs.

I think this is a good time to mention that this game is freaking hard. Punch was the first fight in the game where I lost a couple of times, since it really takes you a while to learn all the games battle mechanics. I didn't truly understand the power of Startle/Alert until I was halfway through the game. That's on me though. I'm stupid. Still, later boss fights can get insanely difficult if you don't know what you're doing. (Looking at you, Lingering Eyes....) After kicking the thug leaders ass on the first try, the whole gang flees the canyon, but not before Punch warns Jimmy that he doesn't know what he's up against. He's not talking about himself or his gang, but his employer. And we soon find out who that employer is...

Back in Giant Garden, Jimmy and Buck make their way over to the beehive again, only to be confronted by a trail of green liquid that leads from the throne to a door in the back of the room. The atmosphere suddenly turns very eerie, with the whole hive being shrouded in darkness, the background music being replaced by a frightening track that sounds like someone held a microphone right inside a dying swarm of insects, rightfully titled "Cacophany of Bees" and the enemies you fight on your way deeper into the hive being horrifically mutated, suffering, cannibalistic versions of the bees you fought beforehand. This is the first time in the game you come into contact with a so-called "nightmare dungeon", if you ignored the secret one you can unlock in the canyon.

These nightmare dungeons all represent one of Jimmys fears, because, as you can probably recall, we're playing through the dreams of a ten year old boy. Maybe he was stung by a bee in the past and that's why he developed a fear of them? (Doesn't help that his brother loves to terrorize the poor things...) The other nightmare dungeon themes only get worse than bees: spiders, heights, drowning, haunted houses, math, eternal sleep ...and bears.

Coming back to the beehive, after trekking through a plethora of gore and dead cartoon insects, Jimmy and Buck get confronted by the now heavily mutated queen of the bees, who has some of the most chilling dialogue in the entire game.

"Jimmy... Jimmy, where did you go?

I can't see well, Jimmy.

I can't hear well, Jimmy.

I can taste blood, Jimmy.

It's dark and I'm alone. It's dark and I'm alone. It's dark and I'm alone. It's dark and I'm alone. It's dark and I'm alone."

In the end it turns out that the title-giving pulsating mass is behind all the terrible things happening to Jimmy's dream world, like employing the petty thugs to terrorize him, corrupting the poor bees, the nightmare dungeons, etc etc. And after Jimmy and Buck finally get back to their house, they arrive just in time to see their whole family getting kidnapped by a space ship. Even the two brothers get beamed up into the ship. All part of the pulsating mass's master plan...

Now I won't go into detail and tell you the whole story of the game (even though I really want to), but you can expect the game to get even darker later on. Normally, I don't enjoy playing really dark and gritty games, but thankfully, since this game was inspired by the Mother games, it still retains some of the funny and heartwarming moments that the series is known for. And I like that a lot. If the heartwarming moments balance out the horrors, then I can deal with the horrors. (TVTropes has this very fitting trope called "Too bleak, stopped caring", which Jimmy masterfully avoids with its charming, yet flawed characters and ridiculous moments that genuinely make you laugh, like the whole game shifting into an entirely different genre for one specific area.)

I'll try my best not to get into too heavy spoilers (that's reserved for the other piece I'm drawing), but I think I still need to explain what happened to poor Buck here. Just like the queen bee, he's been taken over and corrupted by the pulsating mass, after saving Jimmy from a murderous bear. (As you can tell, there are a lot of bears in Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass. Or is it always the same bear? Better play the game and find out!) After the dreaded bear boss fight happens and Buck gets dragged down into a hole, Jimmy and their mother Helga jump in after him, but you don't see him again until way later in the game, where he suddenly sports this massive pair of veiny wings, his slightly deformed skin and muscles have turned into a deep shade of purple and his eyes glow in a menacing red. There's also no talking to him, since his normal grumpy personality has been turned up to eleven and he's completely blinded by rage, actively attacking and sabotaging his family members in their quest to stop the pulsating mass.

He gets better though. Don't worry.

What I find really interesting about this character is that he genuinely loves his little brother and wants him to get stronger and more independent, but the way he tries to accomplish this is just really really... bad. In a late-game dungeon centered around Buck you find out that he's actually responsible for all the horrifying abominations and gore making their way into Jimmys head. How, you ask? By showing him a bunch of thrillers and splatter movies that were definitely not meant to be seen by a ten year old boy. Just to "toughen him up". Another dungeon centered around him, titled "The Abyss" (which is just a memory zone and not a nightmare zone, despite the scary title) implies that Jimmy is actually a little scared of his big brother. As I've said, all of Jimmys family members are deeply flawed people. (Don't even get me started on his uncle. Oh BOY. More on that in my next essay.) But I think it's nice. I think it makes the characters much more human. Much more relatable. Because despite all the horrible things his brother put him through and despite how scared he is of him, Jimmy still loves him a lot. And over the course of the game you get to understand that despite how imperfect and dysfunctional Jimmys family is, they're all there for him in the end to help him fight against the pulsating mass.

Man, I have so many feelings about this game. That's why it's one of my favorites of all time.

But before I'm done yapping, one more thing about Buck: The fact that he's an older brother, was presumed dead after going missing and reappears later in the game completely changed with a big pair of wings reminds me a lot of Claus from Mother 3. And since he's one of my favorite video game characters ever, Buck gets a lot of points in that regard alone. But enough with the Mother comparisons, other reviewers (Am I a reviewer now?) have already done that in massive amounts.

I think I'm gonna stop here for now and continue my essay when I post the other piece of Jimmy fanart I'm working on. Until then (and until I get my shit together and draw some cabinets and chairs), see you next time.

Jenny out.

[w98pops]

TW: SUICIDE MENTION, VIOLENCE

i knew i said i would take a little break, but ive been mentally declining a lot and drawing my silly guys is my way of coping. I never actually properly drew Wendy from 2301, so im filling in the blanks.

I'd like to think of her as a person who never actually... grows up. She just kinda gets taller and more sad over time. Wendy was always very vulnerable but cheerful, and House kinda groomed her into a serious and politically aware person, still unbelievably vulnerable but a viable subject nonetheless. I always had this problem with writing her relationship with another canon character, no one realistically would give a fuck about her and her opinions. Sure, maybe Arcade will pity Wendy because she's "stupid" from a neurotypical point of view, but other than that, she doesn't have any weight in any political conversation that's going on in the Mojave. So I made her really fucking stubborn. Annoyingly so. Wendy just... gets the job done. She's resourceful, efficient and very easy to manipulate. A perfect fit for a House's courier, I think. She doesn't question his orders, she does not care for consequences as long as she has House as her cover (a trait she inherited from her step-father) and she's sometimes sociopathic and numb to voices of empathy. Not in a "edgelord murder killer girl" way but more like. She doesn't see people who hurt her as humans. A coping mechanism that would probably be the end of her, sometime in the future. I mean, she did confront Benny and got really physical. There was no way she could've win a fight against a grown ass man, and Benny did beat the shit out of her, but in the end he was the one with a cracked open skull. I just like to think that her pure madness and helplessness was enough to fuel her mind and overpower something she had no chance against in the first place. SPEAKING OF CHANCE. That's why I think she would totally get along with Chance, the Khan from the comic. I don't really put a thought about how he would've survived or joined her, but they're pretty much soulmates. They have very different backgrounds, personalities, literally anything, but Chance recognises her rage. Her inability to do what's right and the constant fight against unfightable (?) circumstances she's facing every day. I'd like to think he's autistic too. As a treat.

So yeah, she's super uncertain about anything in her life, and that makes her a very useful tool in the hands of a right man. Mr. House mastefully manipulated her personality in a conventional way, taught her the secret and mysterious knowledge of "masking" and sat her down for a few years to teach her ways of the capital and created this really sad but smart and charismatic politician with no real political voice whatsoever. She's also very cute and sweet looking so yeah. He made himself a Tandi. 😭😭 Also he scanned her brains, which would totally not be a big plot point for the future.

Almost perfect, but Sharky is here too, for some reason. He's the biggest pain in the House's ass since Benny. He has a certain emotional intellect, not easy to bribe or manipulate in mental or physical way, he really fucking cares for his sister, and is very aware of the things The Big Guy does to her. See, Sharky wasn't raised by his sister, she was a child herself at that time, and his mother didn't play much role either, too busy bickering with Aletus and then later too busy drinking and fucking in Gomorrah. Sharky was raised by the Strip and the rules of Wasteland. He might not be the smartest guy alive, but emotionally he's mature beyond belief. He's very observant, empathetic and cunning person. Even tho he was mute most of his childhood because of child neglect and untreated autism, he has incredible social skills and a Yes-man in his basement he found while renovating the Tops. He has a plan. Not a good one, but a plan nonetheless.

I have so much OC material I'm ought to write a fanfic. Or a comic, idk. In my dreams, sure, but it's still refreshing to talk about my ocs and draw them, and recieving feedback and praise for my storytelling skills 😭😭😭 it means a lot. Thank you all for reading this far!!!

[toadistoast]

"ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛ ɪ'ᴅ ꜰɪɴᴅ ʏᴏᴜ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏᴜ'ʀᴇ ʜᴇʀᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ꜱᴏ ɪ ʟᴀꜰ ʏᴇᴡ!" /ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ

》 unlovable

Errr somethingy I wrote, I could've just said "woah there, calm down edgelord" but I didn't so now we have this post, enjoy :3

Angst -> comfort ft. Akitoe

Pre-relationship btw!!

You have grown to acustom hatred for love, loving someone is excruciatingly painfull when you are unlovable.

Akito is the bane of your existence, ever since he came around you started doubting yourself, ever since he came around you started realising that you're not a likeable or lovable person. He doesn't have a valuable reason to love you and that made you realise your friends don't have a valuable reason to like you, which includes him. You cannot fathom that someone would love you for all the reasons you hate yourself. You cannot even fathom people wanting to be your friend anymore, you think they're putting up with you. They have to be, you are unlovable after all, and you've come to the conclusion that you need to accept that, even if you don't want to.

You're distancing yourself from everyone, and Akito noticed: you've stopped visiting Weekend Garage, you seem out of it when you're with your friends, you've stopped messaging your friends and at school you call of sick more often than not. It's difficult to score good marks at test when all that clouds your mind is whether you're even at the very least likeable or not.

Akito has been wondering where you've been, it's been a month since you have been present at school so Akito straight up shows up at your home. He sees you after ringing your doorbell and since you didn't expect him, out of all people, to take time to come to your house you just kind of stand there, with a surprised face.

"Hey" he greets. "Hey, um... do you wanna come in?" You greet him back and proceed to further open the door and he steps inside your home. "So, how've you been?" He asks, curious about why the hell you've been absent so much. "well, I'm sick" you respond back. "Yeah, I've noticed you've been gone."

You guys get into your living room, and sit on the couch. "Do you want something to drink?" You ask "How come you've been sick for about a month, is something up?" He asks, completely ignoring your question.

"Ah no nothing really."

He's met with lies and it makes you feel guilty but what are you even supposed to say? That you feel like shit because you think all your friends hate you? That you think that he, who you love dearly, will not reciprocate because you deem yourself unlovable? Leaving your heart vulnerable like that is terrifying, you have no interest in getting your heart trampled over, so you don't say a word.

It feels as if he's looking through you when responds "Well, your friends have been missing you: Akiyama said something about wanting to show off an outfit to you, Toya's been worrying about you getting in trouble because of that library book you forgot to turn in, An really wants your opinion on this new dish in Weekend Garage she'd think you like and I..."

he hooks off, hesitating to say the rest.

"Ah, they missed me? Haha" You murmur, he noticed your eyes were slightly wet, he knew something was up, so he stopped hesitating and continued talking.

"Yeah, they did, I missed you too. I miss seeing you in the crowds of VBS events, the crowds are nicer to perform to when you are there to listen and I just need you to be there, it's selfish but please get well soon."

You were trying really hard to prevent yourself from bawling right now, finding out that your friends were thinking and caring about you was relieving.

And Akito, Akito thought that crowds were nicer with you. Stupid ass, if only you knew that he thinks everythings nicer with you.

You don't know what to do at this point, the idea that you're not unlikeable is starting to be something you understand in your mind, but not in your heart, and you still feel unlovable... This does happen to be a beginning to feeling a little better though.

"Hey Akito, when and where is the next VBS event? I think I might be a bit better by then." Your voice sounds a little meek but you try to sound a little more optimistic.

"Woah are you getting better all of a sudden?" He laughs.

"Well if you out of all people want me to be at your group events so desperately then I suppose I have to get a little better."

You couldn't tell him everything yet but if he continues to look at you with worry and care, then maybe you'll risk a heartache, just for him, because he's worth it <3

[tobiasdrake]

Madame Web was good, actually

I should probably qualify that. As a superhero film, Madame Web doesn't hold up. There's extremely little superheroics in it. The big colorful superhero costumes look like bargain Halloween outfits, save for Ezekiel's Edgelord Spider-Man getup. The main villain is a fucking cartoon character who is impossible to take seriously any time he opens his mouth.

But the superhero stuff that the movie isn't very good at takes up only about 3% of the film. The bad costumes only appear for like 10 seconds of combined screentime across the entire film. It's not really a superhero movie.

Madame Web is a horror thriller. It's closer to Final Destination than Spider-Man. It features an asymmetrical conflict of three powerless teenagers and their Found Family adoptive mom trying not to be murdered by Evil Spider-Man. That's what kind of movie this is. It's not a power fantasy. It's a horror flick.

At the heart of the film is Cassie, the film's main protagonist. Immediately likable from the second she steps onscreen, Cassie carries the film whenever she's onscreen. And she's onscreen for like 80% of it.

The way the film introduces her powers is fantastic. Cassie can see the future, something the film makes great use of. This is the one superpower that our protags get; Cassie gets advance warning when Evil Spider-Man's about to show up to rip the girls apart with his bare hands. And it's played to incredible effect; The film uses jarring cuts and cinematography to make you feel every bit of how intrusive and disorienting her powers are from her perspective.

Ezekiel, as noted, sucks as a character. The dialogue he has to read is 100% cheesy "Guy Who Knows He's The Movie's Villain" dialogue and he's directed as the most over-the-top "I AM THE EVIL MAN THIS IS MY EVIL VOICE".

But as a horror monster he worked for me. The fact that he could rip these women in half with his bare hands is never in question, which keeps him menacing and dangerous throughout the movie. He's effectively the film's Terminator, showing up with blood in his eyes whenever it's time for an action sequence - and the film avoids the mistake of having him do something stupid and softball his attacks to give the protagonists more of a fighting chance. He always feels like he's going for the throat.

The heart of the film is its Found Family dynamic. Specifically, this is a movie about mothers and their daughters. That's the central idea the film wants to explore. Cassie's relationship with her mother is placed under a microscope and even managed to make me cry at one point. Meanwhile her Found Family daughters all come from various parental troubles. The bonds they forge with each other and with Cassie are expected to carry the film - And in my book, they succeed.

I don't really know what else to say about this movie. I had a great time.

[obscurecharactershowdown]

Group D Round 1

[image ID: the first image is of Matatagi Hayato, a boy with spiky black hair, tan skin, and black and gray eyes. the second image is of Phon, a Thai man with short bleached hair, wearing a yellow shirt. he also has an ear piercing. end ID]

Matatagi Hayato

he is. just a fucked up little guy, your honor. he is a two-faced bitch and i love him for it. he's so much of an edgelord and just all-around fucked up lil guy that he literally wins a soccer match w his team against literal aliens because those aliens could see people's minds and his was SO fucked up and twisted that it messed up the aliens' strategy- also he has two younger brothers who he deliberately teaches that lying and stealing is 10000% ok u just have to make sure you don't get caught jio;gejaos even tho his personality to other ppl is trash and he personally believes other ppl are inherently untrustworthy he Does rlly care abt his brothers and he basically raises them by himself because they live in poverty and he agreed to join his silly little soccer team because he was promised money so he could take care of his family and that's respectable but he is TOTALLY a fucked up little jerk who is mean to everyone gjeio;gas idk i just want to examine him under a microscope, i care abt him lovingly referred to as Specimen Number 01 he's just weird. he's a weirdo. have u ever seen him without his stupid blue hair streak? now THAT's weird. OH and fun fact abt his blue hair streak. it magically appeared in the middle of a soccer match after he revealed his two-faced bitchy nature to everyone. yeah, he has edgelord disease. i'm afraid it's terminal. he's just a lil virus. nasty lil guy. he's easy to bully. i want to keep him in a jar. also he's my son. hope this makes sense. thanks.

Phon

Listen, he may be the right hand man of a mafia boss, but he wants out so he can live a nice quiet life with his trans girlfriend that he loves very much. Was willing to do whatever it took to make sure she had enough money for gender reassignment surgery. Just really loved his girlfriend. Had to go and get himself killed in the first episode though, sparking a revenge quest lead by his best friend (who he definitely had some romantic tension with) and his girlfriend. He deserved better. All three of them deserved better. They're also a really interesting parallel to the main trouple (who were responsible for killing him, but in their defense it wasn't on purpose).

[cambion-companion]

When will these people realize we are simping for show Aemond and not book Aemond??

Here’s a great example of how they’re different and why it matters.

In the book, when Viserys dies…Aemond just shows up to his mom and asks, “So is Aegon king or do we have to kiss the old whore’s c*nny?” That’s it. Okay, edgelord.

Meanwhile in the show, he quietly reassures his mother that he can help find Aegon before trying to look in ONE brothel that Aegon traumatized him at years ago, then he gets really uncomfortable because he had a bad experience at 13, then he rants to Cole about why he feels snubbed in place of Aegon, and that he can’t find Aegon because he’s a good kid that doesn’t like depravity but studies the blade and reads a lot instead.

Hence why he should rule instead of Aegon. But then he helps bring Aegon to his mom anyway and kinda just pouts about it.

Show Aemond is a kitten compared to his book counterpart. He’s also not cartoonish and one-dimensional. They have already cut so many of his stupid villain-ish book lines and acts.

He didn’t slap a three year old Joffrey in the show, he didn’t savagely beat Jace before getting his eye cut by Luke in self-defense, he didn’t insult Rhaenyra, he didn’t mock the Strong boys at the dinner without provocation, he didn’t tell Luke to give him his eye or else he’d literally kill him.

He kills Luke in the book because Maris mocks him and questions his masculinity too. He had threatened to do it too. There was little doubt he actually just straight up murdered the kid.

Meanwhile, he accidentally causes Luke’s death in the show because he wanted to scare him with a big dragon because he was really angry about the lack of justice for his eye. The writers literally told us he didn’t set out to kill Luke and rather just wanted to scare him.

Book Aemond could never!

This ties in with the Alys thing as well. Yes, she’s apparently his war prize in the book. No surprise there. In the show, that momma’s boy that’s scared of brothels probably won’t even be able to go near Alys with confidence if he feels attraction to her. Watch her be the one to initiate the relationship.

They are too different for you guys to keep questioning why we like show Aemond and sympathize. Just get over it already. They are hardly the same and likely never will be.

SO different!

I don't like book Aemond...so imagine my relief when the show makes him our soft momma's boy babygirl.

Another brilliant Anon, I'm so lucky to have yall.

[jackalopes-pen]

Vroom Vroom.

TW: Description of violence, swearing, taking the lord’s name in vain, gay people

Summary: South Park Racing AU, but I focus way too much on one idiot.

Characters: Craig Tucker, Tweak Tweek, Tolkien Black, Clyde Donovan

Word Count: 988

A/N: Brain rot. Just brain rot. Let me write damn it, I have nothing to do.

Craig wouldn’t particularly call himself a ‘street racer’, although if you care about textbook definitions then he is. He just performs for rich idiots who like to bet on poor idiots on shitty motorcycles. Legally, they call that ‘street racing’ and Clyde likes to get on his nerves about it. Craig could almost bet that Clyde had a literal stick shoved so far up his ass that it’s causing his lactose intolerance. 

“Craig, you’re racing tonight, right?” Tolkien said from across the lunch tale, catching his attention. 

“Oh, yeah. It’s duos tonight so me and Tweak are racing.” Craig responded simply. This was his first time in the major circuit so he had to do the duo race to get registered for solo races. If it was his choice, he’d jump straight to a solo race but unfortunately this season is down to team races. 

“Cool, I’ll be watching… like always.” Tolkien smirked. He only supported Craig in this because it meant he got money. If it was a net loss, Tolkien would do anything to pull Craig out.

“You’re both so fucking stupid.” Clyde groaned, “I heard the major circuit is where people get hurt cause the modification rules are non-existent.”

“Yeah? I heard cheese tastes good, but you wouldn’t know, would you?” Craig snapped back.

“Jesus- alright.” Clyde held up his hands and kept eating his lunch.

Craig decided to just keep eating his shitty cafeteria food and give little more than a side glance at Clyde. After all, that idiot had no idea how much money Craig was making and how many Red Racer dvds he was accumulating. He almost had the full movie set, except for Red Racer Vs. Blue Racer: The Ultimate Race. It was a TV movie so it’s hard to find any copies. One day, though, he’ll have them all. All the Red Racer he could ask for. 

“CRAIG!” Tweak’s shaky voice broke through Craig’s fantasy.

“Yeah?” Craig said, annoyed.

“Dude- did you see the line-up? We’re so boned!” Tweak’s constantly shaking hands kept Craig from reading Tweak’s phone screen. It just looked like a jittering box of light.

“Honey- calm down. Lemme see.” Craig took the phone from Tweak’s hand and looked over the list. It wasn’t exactly names, because if any of them got ratted to the police it was over. Instead, what he saw was a list of persona names to hide identities. 

Among the list was “The Junker”, who had a decent reputation as a sure-shot, a clean 54 races won. Although his motorcycle is liable to explode. He also saw some edgelord named “Hook Horror” who currently had a 39 win streak, and a massive hook attached to his motorcycle to grab and destroy. The only other real problem he saw was some idiots named “toolshed” and “human kite”. No fucking way that Stan Marsh and Kyle Broflovski were racers. 

“We’re gonna explode, ribs ripped out, lost by miles!” Tweak was pacing back and forth and shaking. He clearly already thought the absolute worst possibility and was imagining painful deaths. 

“We’re fine. These guys are edgelords.” Craig rolled his eyes and handed Tweak his phone back. It doesn’t matter if they have exploding engines or weird weapons, they have speed. Who gives a fuck about the rest?

__ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

The night of the race, Craig was making sure everything looked right on his motorcycle. He was that reckless, to not check his stuff and make sure he wouldn’t die tonight.

“Look honey, it’s fine. See, that guy is nervous.” Craig pointed to a different stall with a duo. One of them was freakishly tall and was quietly comforting the shorter one. They couldn’t tell what was being said, but they looked really gay. 

“uRG- WHAT IF IT’S AN ACT?!” Tweak seemed so utterly terrified. He seemed like he was certain he would die tonight.

“It’s probably not. Look over there, that fat fuck will probaby come dead last.’ Craig pointed out a box with one guy who looked like the most money he’d seen was five bucks and the other who looked like he treated eating as an olympic sport.

“It could be padding so he can get back up!” tweak said, still pacing.

“Fuck! I forgot my socket wrench. Gimme a minute.” Craig got up and looked around. He noticed that the gay fucks from earlier had one lying around. He casually got up and walked over to them to ask for it. He could vaguely hear what they were saying.

“You’re fine, love. We practiced a thousand times.” The tall one said.

“I- I dunno… why couldn’t Salem make it?” said the shorter one.

“Salem is betting tonight.”

“Oh yeah… forgot Salem is rich like that.”

“Making fun of racer names, are we Nevermore?”

“You got your name from the D&D Monster Manual, you can’t talk.”

“... touché.”

“Uh, excuse me?” Craig said, “Can I borrow your socket wrench?” He pointed to it on the black toolbox decorated in band stickers. 

“Hm? Sure- just give it back at some point.” The taller one said, nonchalant. “Who.. are you?” 

“Blue Racer.. Like the tv series Red Racer. Do you watch Red Racer?” Craig said, his autism showing a bit.

“Oh.. the newbie. Good luck.” The tall man handed over the wrench and kind of shrugged him off.

“Oh yeah, who are you?”

“The Hook Horror… this is Nevermore, my partner.” by the person’s tone it was hard to discern what variety of partner. Although, Craig could take a guess.

“Oh… cool. See you on the line.” Craig walked off to fix his bike and leave the gay idiots alone. Although their voices did sound kind of familiar. Maybe they went to the same High School or something.

Actually, now that he’s really looking around, all these idiots seem to be idiots from his high school. This just got so much easier.

[icedmetaltea]

Just venting about literal imaginary friend drama ignore

Still not sure if I have some form of DID but how tf do I explain to my therapist that two of my imaginary friends/versions of myself who are essentially an old married couple have been fighting and now are ignoring each other in the most petty way possible 😭

One of us threatened to "recycle" her cause she was being overly possessive and that's what I had to do a couple times growing up with other versions when it started to feel unhealthy but damn now she's just being as passive aggressive as possible and barely talking at all

like GUYS we were doing fine, we were communicating, we were happy (well when the depression wasn't too bad), what happened????

Now one of them's just been doing technical stuff nonstop and while I appriciate having something to fixate on we're talking 10+ hrs of hyperfixating on computer stuff and not having any art ability cause that's apparently her thing not ours. I've been telling myself it's just art burnout but it sure feels like it based on who's been most active when I've been able to draw the easiest etc

Like ya'll can you NOT have a breakup in my brain pls. We literally cannot escape each other. We can work through this, it's been so so so much worse before and it will be ok again

But it sucks cause she's normally the one who does a pretty good job of distancing us from everything, like "blurring" our thoughts for lack of a better word. Not full on dissociation just a healthy distance. And since she's not really well AROUND I have to deal with things as they are and that's not fun. Even more so cause well I miss her, and I know he does too but he's been content to distract us with stupid technical mumbo jumbo for hours and hours on end (and sure I know it's handy cause we did need to make backsups of stuff just like... well... in case, backups are good, but I could do with having the will to do something ELSE for a while thanks)

Aaaaaand the little edgelord intrusive thought guy seems to be crawling back to the surface cause I've been getting like brain popups for lack of a better word, just dumb intrusive thoughts that make me feel awful about myself and I keep telling myself that's all they are but it's hard to see it that way. I'm guessing all the political unrest has brought him back to the surface cause he seems to come out when shit is most fucked in the world. On the bright side of things literally nothing can phase him bc he's awful so he may come in handy if shit continues to get fucked

And I noticed I was dissociating a lot during the pms stuff but lord above it wasn't the good kind. It was the bad everything-feels-foreign-and-I-feel-drunk-and-dizzy-and-weird kind and it didn't even happen when I NEEDED it to, like when I was on the verge of a panic attack, more just at random times like??????

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHHHH

Dude just let me wake up in a different body with a different brain and different memories and different soul, I'm so done with this shit

[lit-crits]

(1990) Good Omens, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman. 06/06/2024 - 07/06/2024

First time reading? Yes

Rating: 7.5/10

Favourite quote: "if Bruce Springsteen had ever recorded Born To Lurk, these two would have been on the album cover"

Watched the TV show before I read the book so had images of the characters already in my head and couldn't imagine for myself how they looked, which was interesting. I think I would have thought of Crowley as similar to David Tennant anyway though, I wouldn't have imagined Aziraphale as similar to Michael Sheen but he does a great job in the show. Makes a LOT of sense to me that Crowley made Glasgow and Aziraphale Edinburgh, scruffy tough boyfriend vs posh pansy boyfriend - just feels right in my bones. I started counting the amount of times Aziraphale's 'manicured hands' were mentioned, hoping it would be a funny reoccurring thing throughout the book, but it only happened twice :( BUT the gay comments/jokes towards Aziraphale was actually a funny reoccurring thing, a few of my favourites are: Aziraphale having a "penchant for Wilde first editions", being described as "gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide", and the fact he is called a fucking FAGGOT and poofter. Crowley is obviously implied to be bi/gay when Anathema basically thinks "oh these two men are...yknow... and in love so I'm safe" when she gets in his car but it is nothing like Aziraphale's descriptions. The book had a lot of silly little things that I really enjoyed: Aziraphale eating a devilled egg made me chuckle, the biker guy with fish tattoo'd on one hand and chip on the other, Thou-Shalt-Not-Commit-Adultery Pulsifer - like just stupid things that are absolutely brilliant. I have mixed thoughts on the depictions of the Four Horsemen, War was kinda lame and I didn't think she was as cool a concept as the others, Famine was probably my favourite in terms of the concept, Pollution replacing Pestilence is so clever, and then Death was just an edgelord but I'm not sure how else you could write that kind of character. Pepper (aka Pippin Galadriel Moonchild) was one of my favourite characters, which is weird since she is supposed to be a sort of parallel to War who I didn't like. I really was not a fan of Newton Pulsifer and his whole thing with Anathema, he is definitely my least favourite character and it annoys me that she had to put up with his annoying ass. Also, the air base guard thinking that England had gone soft and smiling at the idea of Newton burning faggots was actually wild. Overall, very silly book that I enjoyed very much!

[nagirambles]

Do you have any idea what the guild would be like if Laxus became the next master (in the 100YQ)? For example, how would he manage the guild, or what would the atmosphere be like? He's a bit of a softie now, so I can see him having the same presence as Makarov while keeping a strict approach regarding the behavior of some members.

Laxus, hmm... I think he’d pretty much stay the same as the kind of quiet, broody cool guy in the corner of the room, who’s occasionally fawned over by several people. Occasionally he’d chime in a plea to not be stupid, he’d be perfectly capable of stopping whoever wants to be too reckless for their own good, etc.  So he’d be pretty much like Master Makarov is now, minus the goofing around. So I think the vibe of the guild would be similar, albeit now they turn to judgemental big bro Laxus when they’re in trouble instead of wise-talking gramps. They don’t get words of wisdom anymore, they just get disgusted looks of judgement as Laxus figures out how to help you. 

I think Laxus becoming the next guild master would be an amazing peak for his character arc. Surprising for how he was first introduced, he’s incredibly patient in GMG, allowing himself to steam in silent, unnoticed anger until the perfect opportunity arose--- and then, he went all out and blew Raven Tail to bits. His composure is what I’d consider ideal for a guild master, because he’s capable of choosing when to fight and when to hold back. He’s mature enough now to understand that. So he’d be the hallmark of a good master in that regard. 

Is he a softie, oh, he definitely is. I do think pre-GMG Laxus would be rather strict on the rules like how Erza would be, but at this point, Laxus feels like an enabler, at least to me. I can see him just going about with everyone and letting them do dumb stuff because... well... Wendy looked so eager when she suggested trygin to eat the hurricane, who was he to stop her? He’s always here to catch them when it gets too crazy though, so no big deal. (They will both nearly die, get windswept really bad, and end up walking home together all ragged and disheveled and they will answer absolutely no questions. Laxus is definitely not going to admit to being an idiot.) 

I’d like to think that paperwork is never handled. Makarov burns complaints after giving a speech, but Laxus isn’t the speech type-- he’s a man of a few words. He burns them as soon as he gets them, in front of the messenger, and dares them to give him more with the most deadpan look on his face. They cry each time. 

He throws any important paperwork, eg reports or letters of apology or meetings, to his self-proclaimed secretary, Freed. Freed is more than happy to handle it all for him, to the behest of literally everyone who thinks Laxus isn’t respecting them enough to show up personally. (Cue Freed going off on these people criticising Laxus)

In the same vein, Laxus delegates these minor jobs to everyone around him, so all he does is sit or stand near the bar (or somewhere out of sight on the second floor) like the broody edgelord he is. He prefers to be alone, not in solitude, but surrounded by the cacophony of the bar full of everyone he loves. 

Following up on Laxus not being the speech type. I’d think new members would consider him incredibly intimidating, unlike Makarov’s fun little grandpa image. That’d scare a lot of people from trying to join, at least until Cana puts a party hat on him and try his best to convince them he’s not scary. I think there was a scenario like this in 100yq? Sorry, I don’t remember it much. But basically, that gets ten times worse because Laxus has to actually approve of anyone joining which means they have to meet him. He gets slightly insecure about how scary he looks. Attempts to look harmless turn into shenanigans as the guild makes fun of him for it. 

Of the people in charge of making sure Fairy Tail’s scary reputation is cancelled out by good impressions, Bickslow is in charge of appealing to kids, Cana is in charge of making people comfortable by talking to them at the bar, and Mirajane has her Sorcerer’s photoshoot. (With Evergreen, because seriously, why is Ever not a model? It’s right up her alley and in line with her personality??) Lucy is in charge of the journalist side of things. Anyways they all do horrible jobs and FT’s reputation continues to get scarier. Oh well, most of them like it like this anyways, and Laxus just sighs longsufferingly. He gives up very quickly.

You know, this made me wonder about something. If every guild had a ‘next generation’ master, I wonder who they would be? I think Blue Pegasus would be Ichiya, but even further than that? Hibiki seems like the obvious choice... but I think Eve, the youngest and most ‘innocent’ in personality while being the tentative smartest/strongest (in lieu of being former Rune Knight) would be an interesting option. It seems obvious to pick the most prominent character like Lyon, or Bacchus, or Kagura for the other guilds... but what if someone less important/strong, but more responsible did it? Like... Yuka, for Lamia Scale? 

We could even have one joke one, for example, Sabertooth being too traumatized/stigmatized by the idea of a strong Master, so they have Frosch be the Master in name. Frosch would have ‘bodyguards’ or ‘secretaries’ accompany him to guild master meetings, so the guild would still be able to get the official proceedings through, they just have a catfrog as a Master and they all love the way this works. They all chip in to run the guild, without a real figurehead-- just held together by the power of Frosch’s cuteness. 

I think that’d be a fun idea.