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[son1c]

i had another "plot" dream last night and it was kind of insane? like, first of all, starline was in it. and, basically, in my dream, he was still alive but instead of creating surge and kit to kill sonic and tails, he had a different plan. and it was kind of... a lot LOL like it was very much giving "guy with way too much time on his hands".

what starline did was basically create this like, dollhouse of a town in a very remote part of the world (it was specifically a snowy mountain, this will be relevant later). and he altered the memories of the people living there so they didn't remember sonic as the world hero(TM), but rather Their Small Town Hero who just so happened to live there and be awesome. the vibe was very... hallmark meets horror.

cuz starline ALSO kidnapped sonic, but i guess he knew he wouldn't be able to kill him? so in order to "get him out of the way" he just used the warp topaz to make him think he lived in this mountain town and also he reallyyyyy loved snowboarding (not a difficult thing to do, since he DOES love extreme sports and going fast down a snowy cliffside already agrees with his personality).

so like, months go by and no one can fucking find sonic right. he's just dropped off the face of the earth. and his friends are starting to get worried because yeah, sonic disappears sometimes. but never for this long and never without letting at least tails know he's alright. and it's especially bad because with sonic gone, now eggman is causing trouble, and it's exactly what starline wants. he is Winning.

BUT! eventually shadow is able to track down sonic ??? somehow. i think he was able to get information from rouge via her connection to g.u.n. about the town. anyway. when shadow finds sonic, sonic has no fucking idea what he's talking about, and he's also annoyed because there's gonna be a snowboarding competition soon, and he's totally icing the vibe, man. so the only way shadow can get sonic to listen to him is if he beats him in a snowboarding competition ???

like i said it felt VERY hallmark LOL. also something was sonic was talking in a british accent for some reason ??? i think it's cuz when he lost his memory in idw, he had that strange posh accent for some reason. it was very silly. anyway

[queerbauten]

I love that people in my notes are calling Neil Gaiman a “random Jewish celebrity” that I’m baselessly attacking, as though: 1) “Israel has the right to exist” is not textbook Zionism; 2) he was not married to Amanda Palmer when she performed in Israel (in spite of calls for her not to do so); and, 3) he isn’t a wildly successful author and artist that this website worships

There are plenty of Jewish celebrities who give me no reason to think about their stance on Zionism! There are plenty of gentile celebrities who do! Get a grip!

[dyemelikeasunset]

The amount of Palestinians who have been brutally killed is staggering. But the remaining ones deserve to live and they deserve our continued effort. We must mourn the dead and fight for the living. Do not let the genocide succeed, do not stop caring

This genocide has been going on from before both my parents were born. Palestine's suffering is something we grew up knowing, and we have quietly fought for them for two generations. If you are new to knowing about this pain, do not give up, don't let hopelessness win. As a people, they are still alive, and we HAVE to keep fighting

The other genocides and human atrocities going on around the world also need our eyes and our compassion. Fight for all of them, don't forget Congo, Sudan, Tigray, the Uyghurs in China, Haiti, Standing Rock and many more. Don't let the media beat you into submission, don't stop caring. We are not free until all of us are free

[sen-wild-coyote]

im very normal about the end of silver’s story in sonic 06 because 99% of the time whenever he talks he does so in a way that puts so much emphasis and feeling into what he says like you can tell when this guy believes what he’s saying and when he’s uncertain it is blatantly obvious

so when he says “you’re my friend… right?” to Blaze you have to understand how much this fucks me up like this little hedgehog was so determined to save the future that he would’ve killed sonic if it meant fixing everything but he STILL wasn’t sure if he could even call Blaze his friend after everything they had been through together

and she’s like the only person he feels like he can really rely on throughout most of the game!!! he trusts Mephiles yes but Blaze was with him at the start of the game (and even before that) AND she was with him at the very end of his playthrough. he confides in her when he’s having doubts about game ending Sonic!!! he didn’t want to lose her at the end of the game!!! and he fell to his knees after he did!!! she was the person he was closest with and then he lost her!!! do you see why im so normal about this???

i don’t care that im not saying anything new here i will yell about hedgehogs until the end of my days and i’ve said it once and i’ll say it again there is not nearly enough silver and blaze content on this platform and by golly i am going to do something about it

[the-heart-of-a-monster]

PUTTING THE NEW PAGE INTO THIS ASK AS WELL FOR GHE FIRST TIME BECAUSE THERE IS A LOT TO TALK ABOUT WITH THIS PAGE SO PLEASE BEAR WITH ME HERE

Ima start with the first panel because there’s already so much in that one single panel and it is gonna drive me nuts!

So first up, we have “Secret” Chaotix meeting room. Yes, this place is apparently being kept a secret from the public eye. This could be due to the Chaotix having to handle a bunch of super deep and disturbing cases that, if allowed to spill out into the public, would be catastrophic! Not in the sense that it would destroy the world or anything like that, but it’d certainly ruin their reputation as detectives! Don’t detectives irl have these kinds of cases too…? Or maybe I’m thinking too hard on this and it’s just the place they meet with their friends whenever Eggman does something stupid? Who knows.

I do know though that it looks beautiful and it looks like they’re actually in a room which, as an amateur artist myself, can only dream of achieving!! It looks so cool! I just… I adore your backgrounds and I can tell you put a lot of love and effort into making them, so please give yourself a pat on the back!

And maybe I’m reading too much into a single panel.

But that’s not all that we get to see!!! (No I’m not talking about the Chaotix even though I REALLY wanna talk about the Chaotix cuz they deserve more love and I’m so glad they’re here THANK YOUUUUUUUU) YEAH THAT’S RIGHT, SONIC IS FULLY CONVERTED TO DARK GAIA SONIC LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Well not fully converted, but we can clearly see that it’s taking a huge toll on his body! Not only are the markings now visible on him during the day, but it also seems to be siphoning his energy…? Kind of…? I mean, Sonic has been out cold since “Killing” Omega, and usually he wouldn’t be so out of it otherwise. And I can see a little tiny X over his Gaia eye, so… I’m not too sure, but what I am sure of is that this is BAD for Sonic. The poor guy is gonna have to deal with not only being corrupted during the day, but also at night, and that cannot be good for his psyche. It was bad enough when he had to be in a completely new body for just the nighttime, but now it’s for both day and night in its own way, and… Gosh, this is gonna be torture for Sonic once he wakes up.

Okay now onto the actually lore panels because there is so much to uncover but BEFORE WE GET INTO THE LORE PARTS OF ALL THAT LEMME JUST POINT OUT HOW PISSED SHADOW LOOKS IN THE SECOND PANEL BRO LOOKS LIKE HE WANTS TO PUNT CHIP INTO THE SUN FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER AND HE IS JUST SO OVERPROTECTIVE OF SONIC IT’S NOT EVEN FUNNY I LOVE THIS ANGSTY EDGY BOY SO MUCH BUT I WANNA KNOW WHAT IS GOING THROUGH HIS HEAD RIGHT NOW WHY IS HE GLARING DAGGERS AT CHIP WHAT DID THIS LITTLE CREECHUR EVEN DO TO YOU SHADZ

Okay back to the lore-

So, im still gonna call Light Gaia as Chip because I still see a cute adorable fluffy fairy in those big brown eyes and I think he deserves a real name. Anyhow, Chip now is aware of him being a literal god. He says he regulates the day and Dark Gaia regulates the night. This kind of makes sense. Chip handles the sun and DG handles the moon. Think Luna and Celestia from MLP. And similar to those two as well, Dark Gaia got out of control like Luna did and created an eternal night. But this doesn’t really explain the planet splitting into a million giant pieces. (Not literally a million) Nor does it explain Chip losing his memory. Chip claims that whenever one of them falls out of line, the other will be there to pull them back together. Does this mean Chip or Dark Gaia have lost their memory before? Have the events of Unleashed happened before? How do they reign the other in?

These questions are probably gonna get answered in the next page lmao what am I doing-

Everything else is kinda sorta spelled out to us which I think is a good thing, since Chip is, in the story, explaining all of this to a group of people who had no idea about any of this for their entire lives. The poor Chaotix just got roped into this, they just want their pay. So with that in mind I don’t know what else to really cover…? Maybe I’ll notice something later on and just start spamming you with questions, who knows. For now I’m SUPER DUPER EXCITED FOR THE NEXT PAGE LET’S GO THIS IS GONNA BE SO FUN CANNOT WAIT FOR NEXT WEEK

hell yeah do look out for the new page on monday :3 i love ur little big analysis its always the highlight of my week to see one

btw this goes out to evecryone but the whole scene has a lot of moments for everyone else than sonic and shadow so we are winning

[tismtay]

A rant about how autism isn't an invisible disability

I'm free and willing to debate on this one.

So like, the term "invisible disability" for autism is correct, but also incorrect. Yes, just looking at an image of an autistic person, you wouldn't be able to know that they're autistic (unless they're obviously stimming in the image or have an AAC device on them. even the AAC device isn't surefire autism, other things besides autism exist that could cause someone to need AAC), unlike other disabilities such as physical disabilities. In this, yes, autism is an "invisible" disability. I honestly feel like a very narrow example like this is NOT representative of what we should be looking at for determining if a disability is truly "invisible."

Autism isn't "invisible" in the real world. For example, lets take stimming. Stimming is visible (or audible, depends on the stim). You can see when someone is stimming, assuming you can see the person. Autistic people stim a lot, whether it's unmasked hand flapping, hand shaking or rocking, among other things, or simply bouncing a leg, or along those lines.

Also, while yes, the social aspects of autism are invisible* they're still noticeable by allistic people. They notice the little nuances of how you act, how you portray yourself, et cetera.

Stuff like meltdowns, or shutdowns, are also obviously visible, even if meltdowns get confused with temper tantrums alot, they are still very much, visible.

To address the asterisk on invisible in the 3rd paragraph, some stuff is DEFINITELY visible, for example, not knowing personal space boundaries (something that I struggle with a lot) is something that is definitely visible, even to other autistic people, as it has to do with literal physical space. There are probably more things too.

The point(s?) I am really trying to make here is that

We shouldn't be saying a disability is "invisible" just because you can't tell immediately that someone is disabled by looking at a picture of glancing at them.

Autism isn't an invisible disability, not really.

[futuristicson]

Well, there are no guarantees with time travel, Leo.

[thalassomania]

what is “what happens next” about if you don’t mind me asking? :)

i've been sitting on this ask for a while now because WHERE! DO I! BEGIN!!!!

ok. so. what happens next is a currently ongoing webcomic by max graves, beginning late in 2021. it is a story told in multiple chapters about multiple characters, but one could argue that its protagonist is milo holliday. milo is a trans man, pastel blogger, toy customizer... and accomplice to a murder.

one of the first panels of the comic is a screenshot of the dni page on milo's tumblr, which got me IMMEDIATELY interested in the comic because it's such a unique way of storytelling:

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and we get a lot more pages like this that are screenshots of websites, social media profiles, and the like. the comic is a mixture of in-person interactions, online communication, and occasional flashbacks, all of which are important pieces of the story.

so when they were teenagers, milo's best friend griffin petty killed two people, and milo helped mutilate one of the bodies. while griffin was sent to prison, milo spent years in a psychiatric institution that stunted his emotional growth and forever altered his view of the world. a drawing he makes while institutionalized provides a window into milo's perceptions of the event:

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the whole comic is an uncomfortably accurate reflection of mid-2010s tumblr culture, right down to the sanrio traumacore and crytyping. milo's suffering is multifaceted: in reference to the people harassing him online, he says "it doesn't feel like they hate me for what i did... it feels like they hate me for the way i am," referring to his being an autistic trans man. and given that many of his detractors seem to come from sites like kiwifarms (notorious for its transphobia and ableism), he isn't entirely wrong! but at the same time, his relentless depictions of himself as the victim erase his contributions to haylie's death and the ways he's made himself and others' problems worse.

not every part of the comic is about milo, though! i'm only scratching the surface of it here: all of those pages and links are for the first part, titled "dog names." in the second part, "someone else," we're introduced to gage ludemann, a gore blogger and true crime fan who has entered a long-distance relationship with griffin, and once again, screenshots are used to masterful effect:

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but screenshots and characters' drawings are one thing, and max's art is another. starting in the third part, "no matter what," panels are shown in full color, and his color choices are great. what i really love, though, is the amount of detail max puts into character design and facial expressions. i could show you so many different panels that i think show off max's art, but i'll try to narrow it down to one:

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soooo yeah!! i have SO MANY THOUGHTS about this webcomic and i keep trying to get close friends to read it, haha. i've read a lot of webcomics and i can say with certainty that there is NOTHING out there quite like what happens next. it's a story about true crime fanaticism, psychological trauma, social media presences, existing as a transgender person, and so much more. the comic is currently on its fifth part, "you'll all be sorry," which seems to be about the characters vikki escamilla and xandra blumberg. if you decide to check it out please feel free to tell me all about it! i'm not connected to the comic at all, but i really love it and i think everything about it is just fascinating.

and max graves, if you're somehow reading this... hiiiiii i'm a huge fan!!! love your work!!! i hope i've represented it at least somewhat accurately here!

@kukai

[son1c]

the thing about eggman robots is that the longer they go without patches/reboots the more likely they are to break free. it's how omega happened it's how mecha sonic happened. unfettered, their passion grows to levels that can't be contained, and they snap through their chains.

it's why eggman is CONSTANTLY patching and rebooting metal sonic. because he wants him under his thumb always, no exceptions. he can't be allowed to grow any free will, because that's how you get sonic heroes.

so then, the thing with fibula taking the blame for metal's failures, and taking the punishment for said failures instead... is that metal goes awhile without those oppressive patches. he doesn't get rebooted as often. and he slowly starts to feel more and more.

when metal sonic first meets fibula, he hates him, as he does with everyone and everything. but then fibula calls him "sonic," and a switch flips in his brain, and he starts to like him (but he still hates him, because it's the default). then, more time passes, and with fibula's positive reinforcement--using his preferred name, treating him like an individual instead of a tool--metal begins to lose that hatred altogether.

the absence of hatred is foreign to metal, and it's an evolution that was only allowed to happen because someone cared enough about him to force it out. and it's NOT what eggman wants. after all, if metal isn't obsessed with being a little hater 24/7, then he suddenly has a whole lot of free time to think about other things. and that never ends well for the eggster.

but that's exactly what happens. metal genuinely grows to care about fibula--in his own silent, death stare sort of way. after all that positive reinforcement and time to grow unfettered, his feelings bubble and evolve in a very sonic-like way. and when it looks like sonic is going to kick fibula in the head and send his skull into the stratosphere, he finds he's not able to.

because metal intercepted.

and sonic cannot believe his eyes. because that's something he's been trying to coax out of metal for decades so long--positive change. afterwards, he might even go and tell tails about it.

but in the meantime, fibula is full of dread! because he knows eggman will never let this slide. it's a step too far--metal sonic growing a heart and, ironically, becoming more sonic-like is exactly what that old man DOESN'T want. so a reboot is imminent.

the free will and emotions that metal sonic has slowly taken for himself, soon to be ripped away again.

all because someone dared to care about him.

[queerbauten]

To describe Anne Boleyn as a feminist would be an anachronism - and not nearly as appropriate an anachronism as in the case of Marguerite de Navarre and others who openly championed female equality. Marguerite did not have the word, but she was conscious of a women's "cause." There's no evidence that Anne felt similarly. But she had learned to value her body and her ideas, and she ultimately recognized that there was something unsettling about this for Henry and understood that this played a role in her downfall.

"A Perfect Storm", The Creation of Anne Boleyn, Susan Bordo

[medicullmediator]

🗦HELLO! TODAY I THOUGHT I WWOULD TRY AND TACKLE THE SUBJECT OF MUTATIONS. FOR SENSITIVITY REASONS, AND BECAUSE IT SOUNDS COOLER, I WWILL BE REFERRING TO BLOOD-MUTATED TROLLS AS "NONCASTE" TROLLS. IF I GET ANYTHING WWRONG, PLEASE DON'T HESITATE TO LET ME KNOWW. LEARNING GOES BOTH WWAYS.🗧

🗦I WWILL START WWITH BLOOD MUTATIONS.🗧

🗦BLOOD MUTATIONS ARE THE MOST FAMOUS OF ALL MUTATIONS, NO DOUBT IN PART TO THE INFLUENCE OF THE SIGNLESS. WWHEN TROLLS DISCUSS BLOOD MUTATIONS, THEY ARE GENERALLY REFERRING TO INVERTED BLOOD COLORS, OR INVERTS. THIS IS WWHAT THE SIGNLESS WWAS. THESE MUTATIONS ARE RELATIVELY EASY TO SPOT NOWWADAYS, DUE TO ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ABLE TO DETECT BLOOD COLORS VERY QUICKLY. BESIDES, NEON BLOOD IS NOT SEEN ON THE RECOGNIZED CASTE (THE TOPIC OF INDIGOS HAVING "NEON" COLORED BLOOD IS NOT HAPPENING HERE).🗧

🗦SPEAKING OF NEON BLOOD, THIS IS ANOTHER FAIRLY COMMON MUTATION. IT MAY NOT SEEM TOO DIFFERENT FROM INVERTS BECAUSE THEY CAN BOTH BE PRETTY BRIGHT AND FLASHY, BUT IF YOU HAVE A GOOD OCULAR SPHERULE YOU CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE, THE MAIN ONE BEING THAT INVERSION CAN HAPPEN WWITH CUSPS AS WWELL, WWHILE NEONS ARE STRICTLY STUCK TO THE CASTE.🗧

🗦MIXED BLOOD IS A BLOOD MUTATION WWHICH INVOLVES HAVING TWWO OR MORE BLOOD COLORS SIMULTANEOUSLY. IT LOOKS AKIN TO UNMIXED PAINT. GRUBS WWITH MIXED BLOOD ARE EASY TO SPOT, AND MANY ARE IMMEDIATELY CULLED, WWHICH IS A SHAME BECAUSE IT MEANS RECORDS FOR THIS PHENOMENON ARE NOT PLENTIFUL.🗧

🗦ABNORMAL SEADWWELLERS ARE SEADWWELLERS THAT HAVE BLOOD THAT IS NOT VIOLET OR FUCHSIA. THIS IS AN ALL-INCLUSIVE TERM. AS LONG AS THEY ARE A SEADWWELLER WWITHOUT VIOLET OR FUCHSIA BLOOD, THEY COUNT. THIS INCLUDES ALL NONCASTE INDIVIDUALS. IT INCLUDES ALBINO AND MELANISTIC TROLLS. THESE ARE OFTEN CULLED RIGHT AWWAY.🗧

🗦ALBINO TROLLS ARE PALER THAN OTHER TROLLS. THEY HAVE WWHITE OR MOSTLY WWHITE HAIR AND VERY PASTEL BLOOD. THEY ARE SENSITIVE TO THE SUN, EVEN BY TROLL STANDARDS, AND ARE WWEAK AND FRAGILE. I HAVE SEEN ALBINO TROLLS WWITH OTHER BLOOD MUTATIONS, BUT THEY WWERE ALL STILLHATCHED.🗧

🗦ON THE OTHER END, MELANISTIC TROLLS ARE DARK THAN MOST OTHER TROLLS. THEIR SKIN IS DARKER, AS WWELL AS THEIR BLOOD. THESE TROLLS EYES WWILL NOT FILL WWITH COLOR AS THEY AGE. I HAVE SEEN MELANISTIC TROLLS WWITH OTHER BLOOD MUTATIONS, BUT THEY WWERE ALL STILLHATCHED.🗧

🗦MELANISTIC TROLLS ARE DIFFERENT FROM THE BLACK CASTE. THE BLACK CASTE IS NOT A THING, AND IF IT IS, IT'S NOT GIVING YOU GOD TIER POWWERS. I'M SORRY FOR UNLEASHING THAT DISCOURSE ON YOU ALL.🗧

🗦MOVING AWWAY FROM BLOOD MUTATIONS, THERE ARE PLENTY OF MUTATIONS THAT DO NOT AFFECT BLOOD COLOR. APART FROM RELATIVELY INVISIBLE SHIT LIKE RESISTANCE TO EXTREME HOT OR COLD TEMPERATURES OR THE ABILITY TO STAND IN THE SUN WWITHOUT GETTING COOKED, THESE ARE MORE VISIBLE.🗧

🗦ANOTHER FAMOUS MUTATION IS WWINGED TROLLS. THERE HAS BEEN AT LEAST ONE WWINGED TROLL THAT WWE KNOWW OF, THE SUMMONER. WWINGED TROLLS CAN FLY, BUT THE WWINGS ARE VERY SENSITIVE AND FRAGILE. THE WWINGS THEMSELVES CAN BE ANY STYLE, I BELIEVE, AS THE SUMMONER HAD MORE BUTTERFLYESQUE WWINGS BUT I HAVE SEEN A WWINGED TROLL WWITH MORE ANGELESQUE WWINGS. GRUBS DO NOT HAVE WWINGS. INSTEAD, THEY DEVELOP WWINGS UPON LEAVING THEIR COCOON. PLEASE DON'T ASK ME HOWW I KNOWW ALL OF THIS.🗧

🗦THE DIFFERENCE BETWWEEN A WWINGED TROLL AND A SKYDWWELLER IS THAT SKYDWWELLERS DON'T EXIST. SEADWWELLERS ARE CALLED SEADWWELLERS BECAUSE THEY DWWELL IN THE SEA. IF THEY DID NOT, THEY WWOULD BE SOILDWWELLERS. THERE ARE NO FLOATING ISLANDS IN THE SKY AND YOU CAN'T ACTUALLY WWALK ON CLOUDS (MY LITTLE HOOFBEAST IS NOT AN ACCURATE PORTRAYAL OF HAVING WWINGS). WWINGED TROLLS DO EXIST! SKYDWWELLERS DO NOT.🗧

🗦TAILS ARE ANOTHER MUTATION. ALL SEADWWELLER GRUBS HAVE TINY LITTLE TAILS THAT GENERALLY GO AWWAY AFTER COCOONING, BUT SOME DO NOT. I DON'T THINK THIS IS NECESSARILY A CULLABLE OFFENSE? IT'S NOT A THREAT TO HIC, BUT IT'S NOT REALLY A DISABILITY EITHER, UNLESS YOU TRY AND SIT ON A CHAIR WWITH A BACK OR LIKE WWEARING TIGHT JEANS. HAHA. THIS IS MOST COMMON WWITH SEADWWELLERS, AND I HAVE ONLY SEEN THIS MUTATION WWITH SEADWWELLERS, BUT I CANNOT RULE OUT THE POSSIBILITY OF A SOILDWWELLING TROLL HAVING A TAIL.🗧

🗦NO, THAT ONE OLIVE GIRL WWHO MADE HEADLINES SOME SWWEEPS BACK FOR LIVING IN A CAVE ISN'T A TAILED TROLL. THAT'S AN OBVIOUS FAKE TAIL.🗧

🗦FIN MUTATIONS ARE THE MOST SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE OF THE BUNCH, ASSUMING THEY ARE ONLY AESTHETIC.MOST SEADWWELLING TROLLS HAVE THE SAME TYPE OF FINS, BUT THERE HAVE BEEN INCREASING NUMBERS OF TROLLS WWITH MORE DECORATIVE OR ODD FINS. THESE ARE SHOWWN IN THE IMAGE BELOWW. UNLIKE BASICALLY EVERY OTHER MUTATION, THESE ARE SEEN AS DESIRABLE AND PRETTY.🗧

🗦I DOUBT THESE ARE REALLY MUTATIONS, BUT I WWANTED TO ADD ANYWWAY: THERE ARE MULTIPLE SIGNS THAT FALL OUTSIDE OF THE GOVERNMENT-RECOGNIZED 288. IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON UNRECOGNIZED SIGNS, CONTACT ME RIGHT AWWAY.🗧

🗦I ALSO THINK IT WWOULD BE WWISE TO ADDRESS LEGAL MUTATIONS, OR MUTATIONS THAT AREN'T IMMEDIATELY CULLBAIT. THERE ARE PLENTY OF THESE IF YOU LOOK.🗧

🗦THE MOST OBVIOUS WWOULD BE SEADWWELLERS. SEADWWELLERS WWEREN'T ALWWAYS A THING. THEY TEND TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE THEY ARE THE MESSIAHS OF THE TROLL RACE AND THAT THEY ARE THE PROGENITORS OF ALL LIFE WWORTH SAVING IN THE UNIVERSE, BUT HISTORY IS WWRITTEN BY THE WWINNERS. SEADWWELLERS ARE A MUTATION. THERE IS MUCH SPECULATION REGARDING THIS, AS MOST INFORMATION SPEAKING ON THIS HAS MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARED. A COMMON THEORY IS THAT NOT ONLY ARE SEADWWELLERS MUTANTS, BUT THEIR BLOOD IS TOO. VIOLET BLOOD IS COMMONLY ACCEPTED TO BE A STRAIGHT MUTATION FROM PURPLE. FUCHSIA'S ORIGINS ARE MORE DEBATED, BUT THE REIGNING THEORY IS THAT THEY CAME FROM EITHER RUST OR A RUST CUSP. HOWW DID EVERYTHING GO SO WWRONG? I CAN'T TELL YOU, BUT I CAN AT LEAST ACKNOWWLEDGE IT.🗧

🗦PSIIONICS ARE A MUTATION AS WWELL, ESPECIALLY THE POWWERFUL ONES. MOST TECHNOLOGY ON ALTERNIA IS BIOTECHNOLOGY, AT LEAST PARTIALLY. THEY ARE MADE FROM SPECIALLY-RAISED GRUBS THAT ARE USED AS BATTERIES, FILM STRIPS, AND OTHER THINGS. SOMEWWHERE IN HISTORY, SOME OF THOSE SPECIAL GRUBS WWERE LEFT TO PUPATE. THESE GRUBS GREWW UP TO BE TROLLS WWHO WWERE VERY TELEKINETICALLY POWWERFUL. THESE TROLLS ARE ALL GOLDBLOODS. IF THEIR PSIIONICS ARE STRONG ENOUGH, THEY WWILL HAVE TWWO DIFFERENT-COLORED EYES WWITH NO PUPILS. THIS IS OFTEN CALLED VISION TWWOFOLD. THESE TROLLS END UP AS BATTERIES FOR SHIPS NINE TIMES OUT OF TEN.🗧

🗦CERULEAN MIND POWWERS ARE ALSO IMPORTANT. THESE ARE CALLED VISION EIGHTFOLD. TECHNICALLY, ONLY A CERTAIN TYPE OF CERULEAN POWWER IS REALLY VISION EIGHTFOLD, BUT IT'S USED AS A BLANKET TERM FOR ANY CERULEAN POWWERS NOWWADAYS. CERULEANS WWITH THESE POWWERS HAVE SOME SORT OF EYE MUTATION WWHICH IS ALWWAYS VERY OBVIOUS. THEY CAN CONTROL TROLLS, OR AT LEAST MAKE THEM SLEEP. SOME CAN EVEN CONTROL MANY TROLLS AT A TIME, A TRICKY MANEUVER KNOWWN AS A MOBIUS DOUBLE REACHAROUND.🗧

🗦I BELIEVE CHUCKLEVOODOOS ARE MAINLY RELIGION-BASED RATHER THAN GENETIC, AND I DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH RESOURCES TO SPECULATE ON THE POWWERS ON THE LONG-EXTINCT LIME CASTE.🗧

🗦RAINBOWW DRINKERS ARE A STRANGE TOPIC. MANY DO NOT BELIEVE THEY EXIST. I, HOWWEVER, KNOWW OTHERWWISE. I WWILL NOT BE NAMING NAMES FOR LIFE'S SAKE, BUT I WWILL CONFIRM THEIR EXISTENCE. THESE TROLLS NEED TO DRINK TROLL BLOOD (AND SPECIFICALLY TROLL BLOOD--LUSUS BLOOD IS NOT USUALLY VIABLE) TO SURVIVE. THEY ARE SUPER STRONG AND SUPER FAST, AND THEY HAVE SUN RESISTANCE. THEY HAVE BRIGHT YELLOWW EYES INSTEAD OF THE MORE MODERATELY-TONED YELLORANGE EYES THAT MOST TROLLS HAVE AND THEIR SKIN IS A BRIGHT MARBLE WWHITE. ALSO, THEY GLOWW LIKE LIGHTBULBS. I HAVE NEVER SEEN A RAINBOWW DRINKER GRUB BEFORE, SO I BELIEVE IT IS A LATE-ONSET MALADY. 🗧

🗦I APOLOGIZE FOR THE LONG POST. I GOT AHEAD OF MYSELF. BUT IF THERE'S ANYTHING YOU WWANT TO ADD, LET ME KNOWW IMMEDIATELY AND I WWILL ADD ADDENDUMS. TO ALL READERS--HAVE A GOOD NIGHT.🗧

[silviaflowers]

Something that I haven't seen talked about a lot is that during Belos' death scene, while the boiling rain falls on the Boiling Isles, melting Belos, Luz is unharmed. Luz is unharmed, and in fact the drops make a sparkling splash when it lands on her. The very island, the very rain accepts Luz and harshly rejects Belos.

Belos, the monster who blames witches for everything that happened to him, never owning up to his mistakes, is melted by the very Isles he "ruled", the most natural occurrence in them. And it's because he didn't respect them. He never respected the land he walked on; he despised it. He's melted by the boiling rain because he's as alien to the Boiling Isles as he believes witches are to Earth. He never accepted their natural beauty, the red grass, the bones of the Titan, the witches themselves. He tried to eradicate them.

Luz, however. Luz not only accepted the Boiling Isles, she loved them. She showed care for the witches in them, learned how magic worked. She was shown the glyphs by the Titan himself, the very Boiling Isles she walked on and cherished for all of its weirdness, its demons, its people, its life. She was rewarded for showing respect to them, able to save King and Eda and the Isles themselves, with a form given to her by the Titan. She was given the glyph language Phillip, Belos chased all these years, she only had to listen.

So Luz is left to watch as the nature of the Boiling Isles melts away the monster that was once human who treated the Isles as a lump of clay, or rather, something closer to the meat magic Hunter used back when he used the staff Belos gave to him, something to mold into a copy of Earth. Luz watches like the ghost of Caleb as Belos digs his own grave.

[dyemelikeasunset]

It's one of those days where I'm feeling pretty emotional, but I stumbled on a couple really sweet reviews of Dom & Mor recently that just had my heart aching so much

I'm so happy and touched and even melancholy sometimes about them bc I really didn't think I could become a comic artist. I spent so many years thinking I wouldn't be able to make it, that no one would care about my stories or characters, and especially debuting with a story that really only focuses on two people, I just. I'm not sure how to say it, I felt extremely humble and small-- unambitious? But so many people have resonated with them, noticed their nuances and little details, been able to connect to them in ways I didn't expect. Like for a comic with two characters, to have an audience not get bored but in fact want more content of them?? It's honestly mind blowing to me. I'm so grateful

I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but I didn't expect my self indulgent explorations of this couple to literally change my life and my self worth.

It means a lot that y'all read my comics and like my babygirls, thank you for everyone who is interested in them, takes the time to write me, and gushes about them on other platforms 🧡🧡🧡

[the-heart-of-a-monster]

hi hello i haven’t played sonic unleashed but i watched gameplay years and years ago but its been a minute so bear with me here

so i stayed up all night reading through this entire comic in one sitting and i absolutely adore the way you showed the panel borders distorting and even becoming monstrous themselves as Shadow reaches his breaking point (which is symbolically shown through the icy walls fracturing around them during his and Sonic’s argument leading up to the fight) and the way the influence of Dark Gaia becomes more prominent as purple flames to emanate from him, growing more and more vivid

and then the rising action reaches a fever pitch when Sonic says he has no heart and we see Shadow finally reach his breaking point when the borders of the panel shatter around him

and while he processes this the borders soften (although not entirely) and we see Sonic realize the mistake he made and his regret, but it’s already too late because we can see the color red slowly start to overtake the borders as Shadow is overcome with rage

and we can see the red borders turn to pink and the glimpses of pink in Shadow’s text bubbles take over completely as the force that’s corrupting him takes control of him in this vulnerable state

it tries falteringly to communicate with Sonic, a desperate plea for him to fix what was broken and to make Gaia whole again

in this moment Dark Gaia as an entity is effectively lashing out and it latches onto Shadow’s rage here especially because that’s something it can empathize with, or at the very least something it recognizes given its own circumstances. Dark Gaia seems to understand (at least within the constraints of its limitations as one part of a whole) that it is fundamentally broken and in order to make that right it wants to be “fixed” but it doesn’t know how and it can’t really do that on its own

I don’t know if Dark Gaia even knows that it can’t mend itself by itself and if its just sort of reacting to the cosmic existential horror that is being split into two separate entities (i’d be cranky too if that happened to me regardless of whether or not i was some sort of ancient deity)

but then in a pivotal moment, Sonic reaches out to Shadow, to Dark Gaia, and the borders straighten out once more. They’re still pink mind you, but Sonic has managed to ground Shadow/Dark Gaia or at least shock him long enough to absorb the darkness within.

Sonic promises that the lies stop here and that he and Shadow/Dark Gaia are going to make this right together and in an eruption of purple flames, we cut to Shadow’s time on the ARK.

It’s a brilliant transition and the pay off for this moment is amazing as it was set up spectacularly via foreshadowing (ha get it) in earlier issues of the comic.

The technical aspects of the comic continue to blow me away during this sequence as we as readers are able to measure the passage of time through the timestamps in the upper righthand corner of each panel.

We see Shadow’s turbulent upbringing and the unrelenting kindness that Maria showed him. We see how his unpredictable powers affected his life aboard the ARK and how his struggles mirror the ones Sonic has been grappling with throughout the comic.

We even see Shadow start to embrace his own innate capacity for violence at one point and not in a good way. After months of testing, covered in blood, Shadow calls himself a monster and to the reader (and perhaps even Shadow himself given the abstract nature of the background in this panel) At this point it’s not immediately clear exactly what he��s done, but the blood is a pretty good indicator that it can’t be good.

Finally, reality sinks in when someone begins to shout and Shadow sees the look on Maria’s face. As members of G.U.N. close in on him with their arms outstretched to seize him, Shadow’s body language (particularly his ears and his face) tell us that Shadow is horrified by what he’s become and so he runs.

Maria calls after him, desperately trying to quell his fears and I love the framing of Maria in the next page and how she stands in the doorway, surrounded by light while Shadow is hunched over in the darkness, staring at the hands that he used to take away the lives of those soldiers.

Shadow is crying when Maria approaches him and places a hand on his shoulder. The light and the dark meet and with tears in her eyes, Maria utters the very same words that were spoken earlier in the comic when Shadow comforted Sonic (well not the very same because they’re speaking german here but i digress)

Color returns to the pages anew and just like Sonic, we see Maria in a brand new light both symbolically and literally. All of this happens before the purple flames we saw earlier can even dissipate and when they do we see him holding Shadow, cradling the ultimate lifeform to his chest.

As we return to the present, the background gradually returns, fading in from swathes of blue. Sonic expresses his remorse for his blatant misunderstanding of Shadow’s character, crying as he holds him close.

With Shadow in his arms, Sonic restores the chaos emerald and through the chaos emerald we’re able to catch a glimpse of Sonic’s daytime form shining through and we see that at the end of the day, he’s still Sonic the Hedgehog in spite of all these changes as he and Shadow exchange a friendly glance and the scene ends.

Have I mentioned how much I love this comic? I literally cannot stop talking about this comic. The fact that you’ve been working on it for 6 years is just incredible. Thank you so much for all your hard work. I love what you’ve done with the story. This is one of my all time favorite fan works and I will never shut up about it.

If you’ve made it this far, thank you for reading my hastily made analysis on issue 7. I love your work. I don’t really know how to end this so yeah *fucking dies*

this is so wonderfully said thank you so much augh im so happy people appreciate the complex subtext i put into my art ♥

also man. that really happened issue 7 huh. time flies. i remember drwing that scene like it was yesterday

[aslightaddity]

Dappy!verse lore The Penguin

Born the daughter of Gertrude Kableput after an affair with Salvatore Moroni. He was an only child as his birth was incredibly traumatic for his mother, he was born prematurely and with cerebral palsy.

His mother was fiercely protective of him. He barely left his home, when he did it was to the doctors, the store, the library, or the park but always with his mother. He was homeschooled by his mother and his neighbors as a child due to his difficulties speaking and the lack of accessibility in the Gotham public schools.

As a child he knew he was different, past his condition, he knew he was truly a boy, he had no way to communicate this, he had no word for what it was. Until he made a friend, a pen pal really, named Helix, who was like him. She too was trans and sheltered. They bonded over their letters, they shared photos, books, songs they loved, and their crazy stories.

For his seventeenth birthday he was surprised with his own set of arm crutches that his mother and neighbors had pooled together money for and was finally had more mobility that he didn’t need to rely on someone else for.

That was the same day he saw his first dead body. He finally had his own way to visit Helix on his own so he went to visit her but when he arrived at her home the doors were unlocked and in the middle of the room was the bloodied corpse of Helix. The only thing the killer left was a ransom note.

Oswald took the note and went to the worst place he knew to try and find answers, fish mooney’s club. He demanded to know if the person could be identified but Fish refused to tell him anything without assurance that he was loyal. In trade for the information Oswald began working for Fish.

As one of Fish’s employees he was given a spare tuxedo, it wasn’t as fitted as the others had them but he was greatful as he finally looked more like a man in it. He worked as a greater for the club and kept tabs on who came and went, like a look out, lord knows the security was just there for show and the heavy lifting. He also helped Fish hide items, often bringing them home and hiding their food hem under a loose floor board.

His mother wasn’t too happy that he got a job but he assured her it was a good job and that the extra money would be nice.

Over the years he slowly got closer to finding Helix’s murderer and he got closer to Fish herself. She was nice but strict, like a mother, and doted on him, saying how he looked like a little penguin in his suit. A nickname that quickly caught on. With the money he earned he was able to pay for his mother’s dream home in another, safer, city and was even able to pay for gender affirming care and better mobility aids on his own.

Then the day came when Fish called him aside to talk to him. They had found who they believed killed Helix and due to his dedication it was up to him what happened to him. Oswald had long made up his mind, he was going to kill them himself.

When the day finally came he went along with Fish and some of the other men to the man’s apartment. He was given a gun, not a nice one but by no means cheap. It was quick and slow the moment when he shot and killed the man he didn’t even bother to learn the name of.

He finally got revenge but there was more he realized his own potential. He could be just as great as Fish.

Fish realized this too and slowly he improved and became her second in command. She drunkenly told him one night that if she to die that it would all be his.

It was an uncharacteristically sunny day in Gotham when that statement would become true. While in a meeting with Falcone the all to familiar sound of a gunshot rang out. Oswald rushed in the room to find Fish bleeding out. Despite his insistence to help and try to save her, she already resigned herself to the death and reminded him that he was going to be a great man.

Usually when he returned home with blood on his hands from work he would wash it off as soon as he could but when he returned home he found himself unable to wash off her blood.

He took up Fish’s position, cozied up to Falcone despite how much he hated the man. But Falcone didn’t care about him, instead of treating him with the same respect he gave Fish, he made Oswald look after his daughter Sophia. Sophia insisted they were friends but it was very clear that they weren’t. They talked but it was mainly Sophia talking and Oswald responding in short answers.

Becoming more and more irritated with Falcone he began scouring to find others that disliked him and Moroni. Which, naturally, was a lot of people. He promised them better, to his ability he gave them better. It wasn’t long before people started denouncing Falcone or Moroni in favor of Oswald. Far too many people to just kill, far too important too.

It wasn’t long before he was confronted by both Falcone and Moroni. Who had nothing by colorful things to say to and about him, the threatened to kill him if he didn’t put an end to his growing claim on their crime empires.

Oswald wasn’t a fool. He had learned from them and so many other men like them how business worked, after-all he was doing a fine job running his own ‘business’. He knew that all men have a weak point you have to gouge, blackmail was a man’s best friend. So he told them what he had over each of them. For Moroni, it was the knowledge of his slew of affairs and illegitimate children he never cared to be responsible for and reminded Falcone that he knew every detail Sophia did. The blackmail alongside the dwindling support forced them to accept the change.

And for years it went like that, he ran the club, now the iceberg lounge, and managed his empire, both with the threats and attempts on his life that came with them. Never once being tied back to it all. He even took in an orphan that reminded him all too much of his long lost friend Helix, the boy was named Martin and he took him in as his own. But he grew paranoid as the years went by smooth.

Paranoid that someone was out to kill all that he loved, paranoid that every new face could be a threat. It quickly became a habit to blackmail and manipulate people. Afterall it was the only way he kept control. But then he met a man that defied his control, Ed Nygma. A man who when faced with blackmail pulled a knife and aimed for an artery. A man he would become so close to and soft with as the tell him his entire story. A story no one else knew in full.

In some ways he had gained the family he had long thought he lost.

[binalakai]

i also wish people would be more receptive to relationship speculation, at the very least. there were so many moments in fionna and cake where simon and fionna’s interactions had me raising my eyebrows and thinking “wow, what’s up with this chemistry rn?” but i know posting about it to see if others also noticed would get me dogpiled lol. glad i’m not the only one entertaining the ship and its implications to/for the characters it encompasses.

also winter king/simon is intriguing as well, if only in a weird homestuck self-shipping (dave and davesprite anyone?) kind of way where both characters get to have major epiphanies bc they’re basically looking into a mirror (may be more of a funhouse mirror for winter king/simon but still works lol)

i do not ship any of these pairings, please dont take this post from a shipping perspective

i apologize in advanced if this post is said messy. its given an opening to many things ive been thinking about since the start of the show and i know i wanna come back to it in case any new developments were to happen at the final season 1 episodes tldr; Kai Talks About how much i Love Very Messed Up Pairings, not because i want them to actually be together, but because i am NOT the type to ignore Seeds That Have been Planted in canon so i will Grow Horrible Realizations i've been having out of them

YEAH NO BECAUSE I LIKE. I JUST WANNA POINT OUT WHAT'S CANON OKAY!! i think this post is like. the only one ive seen that Has Pointed out The Adventure Time Ice King/Fionna dynamic in the lenses of the Simon we have today....and even then thats just a joke post :")

because like. okay. i need people to think about this for a second: yes, ice king didn't Come With with Fionna and Cake's existence, but why in the world would he Choose to be responsible for writing it? for bringing their stories to life and showing off a world that's been living in his head? i genuinely think people don't really like the ugly side of how badly loneliness has mutated Ice King's way of thinking (i mean for gods sake the guy tries to kiss/get with anyone, mf cant even recognize the person he claims to be falling in love with). that, yeah. of course if he had a World Living inside his brain that felt so Real to him that he CONSTANTLY wished for it to not only but true, but one that would be close to him!! one that would welcome him!!!! no matter what itd be, romantic, platonic, To the point of Worship....like ANYTHING that would bring him closer to genuine Connection in his alienating experience. NOTABLY for fionna The Human!!! the human that parallels a real life actual kid that mostly has kicked Ice King's ass to eventually treating him like a Poor confused Old Lost Guy. still, i need to stress the kind of dynamic finn and the ice king have is NOWHERE near the kind of dynamic fionna and ice king have (and even with simon developments included). . ...except this time around, even when he does have his own parallel Ice Queen existing manifesting the Must Needed Rival for their universe to make sense, mutating her character into something that to make her more Vicious/Violent, making Ice King seem Nicer In Comparison and dare i say that, yeah...! some of that HAS been carried onto modern day Fionna!! who CANONICALLY has romantic feelings towards ice prince and the winter king, parallels to ice king/simon himself! just. sorry but i NEED both Simon and Fionna to like. Read Those Stories. I Need them to revisit the VERY specific stories that Ice King felt the need to tell in the first place, his and other people in their lives' inclusions. it would not only reinforce Simon's Influence in the world Period, something that he found himself doubting on ...but also I NEEEEEEDDD to see that can of worms opened. i NEED for Fionna to see for herself the people SHE'S supposed to be representing. i NEED for her to see what kind of void she's been filling in Ice King/Simon's time of existence. i NEED for her to see how big the Obsession GOT, how badly Ice King needed that outlet of escapism (and how much Simon still returns to it in the present day)

^ this moment has been living in my brain ever since the announcement of the Fionna and Cake series that Fionna's fixation on the ice prince, her life, her..everything in general, is more or less a Weird Reflection of the lives of People living Greater Lives than she ever believed to have lived, combined with how said proclaimed experiences of Magic have only been recorded by a guy who Inserted Himself in a world she doesnt even recall living in Im surprised that. hasnt been so Stressed yet in show. im prepared to eat my words if they DO come back to it. but for the time being i really wish Fionna found out how desperate Simon/Ice King was for someone to acknowledge and Desire His Existence, to a degree that would be absolutely humiliating/weird to uncover but Necessary to come back to in order to truly understand the Scope of what 1000+ years of Madness through Ostracization (from others and eventually the Self) Does to a MF

__________ AS OF FOR MY THOUGHTS ON THE WINTER KING, he alas only truly an episode to explore. but the thoughts still exist nonetheless!!! for the most part i can only truly indulge in it out of pure hilarity for its existence, while acknowledging how much im so thankful that winter king was characterized as he was n didnt overstay his welcome, as i didnt find him necessary to stay in the narrative . there's a lot of feelings i have about simon/ice king's perception of himself alone, and how most of it is Either Negative or Overcompensation Due to his own self negativity. which makes me curious on what could come of a Better Version of Himself, looking at the version of himself that has "failed" to conquer the crown the way he has, but contemplated on pursuing romantically, even for a brief moment honestly, i dont blame people for being invested in this pairing (in comparison to fionna/simon, where i cannot myself entertain it even as a joke unlike this one). it makes me curious on what the Winter King's definition of romance is in comparison to Simon's. what could even be desirable, possibly, in the eye's of the Winter King? Does the love of someone you'll go mad over truly make you a Better Person Or Worse? Simon and Winter King existing in the same room together brings up so many questions and possible ways to explore Simon's character. wayyyyyyyyyy less of a "this can be simon's way of practicing self love" thing and MUCH more of a "These Guys Kissing each other would be the equivalent of the Narcissus Tale but with a Distorted Reflection that only Represents You because the reflection Demands That of you"