#this is probably the first and only poll i'm gonna post

[izzy-b-hands]

I will be forever grateful i can be on this new med. it's one a lot of folks also need and can struggle to have access to! It's important i be on it, especially if i start doing any vid collabs

(some of which, really, all of which, i unfortunately actually need to cancel that were in the preplanning stages, bc the election results have me wanting to wait and see how the general atmosphere of the country is before i agree to meet up with anyone. I feel bad for cancelling, but also i just can't know for sure how safe things are/might be going forward and I'd rather avoid the potential of. ya know. various not great things that could happen at a meet up, tho i would certainly hope they wouldn't. i don't feel like actually addressing them rn, u guys know what i mean)

That said, if the truvada initial side effects could fuck off asap would be so lovely. three weeks at worst, then they should be gone/much better or so i am told. really hope that's true bc losing my mornings to being dizzy and nauseous is Not Working for me lmao. im on week two, and now understand why my new doc said to call if i needed any 'cheerleading' and support to get thru the side effects, bc apparently she's done that for several ppl to make sure they actually make it thru the three weeks and keep on it (lovely of her!!)

[qqueenofhades]

The 2025 project seems to reflect that the Republican Party is becoming more and more fascism, but it actually reflects the growing number of extreme nationalists, misogynists, and racists among ordinary Americans. US is a democracy, and politicians rely on votes to stay in power. The fact that the Republicans dare to draft such a project shows that they are confident it will gain significant public support. Politicians aren’t fools; they wouldn’t pursue something that only a small group agrees with while the majority opposes it. The global rightward shift is evident, and though I’m not American, my country is also deteriorating in many ways. Why is this happening? Because the economic base determines the superstructure?and in recent years, the global economy has been in decline?

Mmmm, I'm gonna have to challenge you here.

First of all, it's just flatly not true that there's a "growing number of extreme nationalists, misogynists, and racists among ordinary Americans." That movement has become more vocal and visible in post-2016 America, but there's absolutely no evidence -- and indeed, a lot of evidence to the contrary -- that their numbers are growing instead of shrinking. The Republicans got lucky with Trump's win in 2016 thanks to a combination of decades of anti-Hillary smears, extensive Russian interference/psyops, the anti-democratic Electoral College, and general misplaced complacence that he was never going to win and people didn't need to bother voting for two disliked candidates. They've flatly lost every competitive nationwide election since then -- 2018, 2020, 2022, and very probably 2024. In between, their hand-picked Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade (guaranteeing the right to an abortion in all 50 states) and set off a titanic tidal wave of voter support for abortion rights, even in very dark red states like Kansas and Kentucky (which are not liberal by any stretch of the word). In fact, the Republicans' (flatly false) excuse that they just wanted to "return [abortion rights to the states]" has been unveiled as another lie due to their desperate attempts in this election cycle to ratfuck voter-approved abortion questions off the ballot in Arkansas, Missouri, Florida, and elsewhere. This is a badly losing issue for them, even in deep red states, and they don't want people to vote on it, because they hate democracy. We'll get to that.

Likewise, polls of "culture war" issues like LGBTQ+ rights, abortion rights, immigrants' rights, etc., consistently get much more support among ordinary Americans than not. The ordinary public is becoming more liberal, not less, even in the face of constant aggressive and reactionary attempts to undo the sum total of social and civil rights movements from the 20th century. Republicans' views are getting less popular, not more, and this is also driven by the ongoing demographic change in America. Within a generation or two, whites may be in the statistical minority, and that deeply terrifies people whose entire political and social identity is built on ethnostate white supremacism. The reason Republicans are getting so extreme and antidemocratic now is because the electorate is getting younger and younger, more diverse, more accepting, and less tolerant of their age-old bullshit. As such, there is a very visible window of time outside which the Republicans will not be able to win competitive nationwide elections, even despite all the advantages they're building into the system and have always had. That terrifies them. It is also why they have decided to destroy democracy.

Which leads us into your next assertion that "US is a democracy, and politicians rely on votes to stay in power. The fact that the Republicans dare to draft such a project shows that they are confident it will gain significant public support. Politicians aren’t fools; they wouldn’t pursue something that only a small group agrees with while the majority opposes it." Yes, maybe, in some exceedingly generic logic that doesn't take any account of the actual situation in the US and the fact that the Republicans have made their hatred for democratic free and fair elections very, very clear. This is why Trump pushed the "election fraud" Big Lie in 2020 and sent a mob to attack the Capitol in an attempt to prevent the certification of Biden's win. This is why states controlled by Republicans have frantically enacted as many voter suppression and voter-removal laws as possible and conducted constant purges to get voters (especially the mysteriously missing 1 million Democrats in Florida) off the rolls. This is why they talk approvingly about Trump being "a dictator on day one." This is why they have pursued a decades-long strategy to capture the federal judiciary (by installing extreme right-wing hacks to the bench and then funneling extreme-right legislation into their courts to get a favorable ruling and/or send it to the extreme-right Supreme Court). And on, and on, and on. The Republicans are explicitly aware that their ideas cannot win in a free and fair election, because their ideas are terrible, and as such have been taking massive, ongoing, and coordinated efforts to disenfranchise American voters, expose them to lakes of sordid Russian propaganda/psyops in favor of Trump, double down on the xenophobia and white nationalism to stoke Fear Of The Other, and everything else they possibly can to prevent voters from voting for their opponents. They hate democracy and they are not counting on democratic methods to implement Project 2025. They intend to do it by secretive oligarch methods funded by right-wing billionaire dark money and their Russian friends. That's the whole point.

Indeed, you can see that in the fact that as soon as Project 2025 became widely known and therefore widely hated, the Republicans were thrown into a panicked fluster of disavowing it and insisting that Trump didn't actually know about it (which is a lie, but that's all the day). Because it is electoral kryptonite, they are trying every single method they can to lie to voters long enough to get into power and do it anyway. Authoritarians can often come to power through democratic elections, but once there, they do their utmost to degrade, erode, or otherwise destroy the institutional safeguards that prevent them from keeping power forever. Trump is a literally textbook example of this and he has made his intentions very clear. He flat-out told a group of Republicans at an event earlier this year that "we'll fix it so you won't have to vote again." He already tried a coup and somehow the Republicans nominated him again, because of the deep corruption of the party on every level, but the Republicans are not doing Project 2025 because they think it will organically generate popular support (and they know it doesn't.) It's a blueprint for a tiny group of extreme right-wing theocrats and fascists to get their way regardless of what the broader public says about it, and represents the culmination of decades of far-right power-play strategies related to exploiting economic, racial, social, and cultural grievances. They're doing this now in order to lock in their power before long-term demographic changes make it impossible for them to win another democratic American election. So their solution is to get rid of democratic American elections, the end. This is explicitly a project for permanent minority rule. They know that and that's what's driving their strategic choices here.

As such, essentially saying that the Republicans aren't really fascist, and/or the real problem and/or are just giving an increasingly fascist American population what they want, removes any moral responsibility for their deliberate choices and legitimizes the populist claim to be acting "for the people" instead of a corrupt institutional system. Everyone knows the many, MANY problems with American politics and government; we don't need to go through them again. But even if they were "just giving the people what they want," which as noted above they're not, it still wouldn't make it okay or defensible. To use the obvious example, just because Hitler was popular and democratically elected in 1933 doesn't make what he did right, and the social forces that propelled him to power weren't just a passive "reflection" of The People's Will but were shaped by the larger fascist-curious interwar 1930s. In fact, America also had a burgeoning fascist movement in the 1930s, driven by WWI and Great Depression fallout, but Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal explicitly created extensive government mechanisms to support society, provide new jobs and welfare, and other integrative and restorative economic methods. This crucial difference in approaches -- the New Deal vs. the Nazis -- is why America remained democratic despite the challenges and Germany fell into autocratic genocidal fascism.

This is because populism and dissatisfaction with democracy rises when people feel that the government is not listening to them, is not responsive to their needs, is ignoring them, or otherwise not doing what they want. It is driven by multiple factors, primarily but not only economic, and it is stoked by powerful interest groups who have a vested interest in using the fissures to discredit democratic governments and movements. It is also by no means limited to America, as you note at the end. Think of the decades-long campaign by the British media against the EU, driven by British isolationism and exceptionalism and a sense that the petty bureaucrats in Brussels had no right to be telling the almighty British Empire what to do. This created and stoked existing social grievances which were often domestically caused (since as Margaret Thatcher destroying the British social-welfare state in the 1980s) and turned that grievance against an external opponent who was easier to blame. As such, as we know, it led to the country voting for Brexit in 2016 despite what a whopping, overwhelming, incredible own goal that was and continues to be for the UK, especially economically and socially. It was obviously dependent on many contextual factors from British history, politics, and culture, and there were certainly many people who actually thought it was the right thing to do (and not just about racism, which uh, hmmm), but it's very difficult to think that this organically or naturally came about without a direct and extensive popular-pressure campaign designed to do just that.

People often vote against their own interests because they have been convinced that democracy is corrupt or ineffective or "just as bad" as authoritarianism, which allows illiberal populists to rise to power. These populists often use racial, religious, or cultural grievances, especially against perceived "outsiders," to artificially stoke existing prejudice and justify crackdowns and/or consolidations of their own personal power and destruction of institutional systems and safeguards meant to stop them from doing that. That's how we got Erdogan in Turkey, Bolsonaro in Brazil, Orban in Hungary, and Trump in the US. Other authoritarian movements around the world are also driven implicitly or explicitly by the massive autocratic and antidemocratic global influence disinformation machine headed by Putin in Russia. As such, it's not accurate to insist that this just represents a simple passive "rightward shift" among the global population overall. It is happening because it has been designed and manipulated and pressed into happening. It can still be electorally resisted, which is also the most effective strategy for removing authoritarians, but if we fail to vote out Trump once and for all in 2024, it will be MUCH harder and much more deadly.

Overall, to simplistically claim that the Republican party is just giving the increasingly fascist Americans what they want and expect it to derive broad popular support is, as I have demonstrated above, a diametrically backward conception of the problem. The Republicans are deliberately and increasingly fascist because they realize that very soon, if allowed to continue operating in its accustomed fashion, the American democratic system and American public opinion is going to make them obsolete. They're racing the clock to cement permanent super-minority rule, and to change the rules overall, before America's shifting demographic composition and ideological mindset locks them out. That is why they are throwing so much misinformation, fearmongering, lies, Russian propaganda, and everything else that they can think of at this election, to get Trump and loyal Project 2025 footsoldier Vance into the door before the door slams shut for a long time. That is why this election is so fucking existentially important and why it is so crucial to accurately conceptualize and describe the problem, what it is, and how to respond to it. As such, while I otherwise don't do this much anymore because I no longer have the desire to argue with the people who are likewise brainwashed in the opposite direction and insist it's a Pure Leftist Moral Duty not to vote against fascist authoritarianism (as, uh, also happened with the fragmented and infighting German left-wing opposition in 1932 and good thing nothing bad happened next):

The end.

[does-it-introject]

Not a request but rather a question: are there any sources that have been submitted that you've been genuinely surprised at the winning answer for?

Sometimes I'm a bit surprised at the results, usually because I forget that just because a media is popular; doesn't mean there's many introjects of it.

Take for example: Hatsune Miku (or Vocaloid in general). In all polls regarding this: NO was always the winner. And logically thinking it makes sense, but it's still surprising to me as a System with multiple Hatsune Mikus (and not counting other Vocaloid we have introjects of).

Vocaloid is popular — Hatsune Miku even moreso. So seeing that Miku Introjects are actually not as common was probably the first big surprise of this kind I had on this account.

If we're talking more specific: the Furry / Fursona poll was probably the most surprising to me, specifically because the numbers ended up being really close, with YES only barely winning.

I didn't expect YES to even be close to winning when I queued the post, so seeing it win even if it's really close to a TIE was super cool yet extremly surprising.

And while not surprised at the WINNING answer, I sure was surprised to see atleast three polls where there was 0% on YES. That being Deadlock, Hellpoint and Remnant II — as far as I'm aware.

I typically am able to tell what the answer's gonna be on a poll — since they are in most cases NO — so I'm rarely ever surprised, apart from these ones so far.

Thank you for asking! This was fun to think about.

[mayonesamitch]

Lets yap about Geode and why it's practically canon!

Contains spoilers

Okay I've been wanting to write this for a while but never had time to. However, winter break just started! I should be working on some unfinished school work but I don't care about school. So here it goes! This is basically why Geode (Cole x Geo) is canon/will be canon.

So first, I wanted to talk about how Cole never really had an actual love interest up until now. Sure, in season 3, there was the stupid love triangle thing with him, Jay, and Nya, but it was confirmed by the writers that Cole never really had feelings for Nya and was just confused by the attention she gave to him. I'd also like to assume that P.I.X.A.L's perfect match detector thing also threw him off. (I'm just gonna call her Pixal for the remainder of this, yes she'll be mentioned again)

He also never had much of a romantic relationship with Vania. Sure, they were close and had a great friendship together, but that's where it ends, just a friendship. They never really did anything more. And when it comes to Ninjago, they make the love interest very obvious.

The writers are also very aware that they haven't given Cole a love interest. They make subtle jokes about it, like in this scene. While the ninja are hanging out with their significant other (expect for Lloyd who had a love interest but uh... we saw what happened the Harumi...) except for Cole. He's instead looking at the cake that the woman is holding up. The writers of the show also have said that his love interest is cake as a joke, so they're aware that they haven't given him a love interest yet.

They also once posted this on the Lego.com website as a poll. This might be far fetched but to me it implies that there might be someone else in the future that will be Cole's lover. I know that it says girlfriend but it doesn't mean that the someone Cole is yet to meet can't be a guy. Maybe Cole is a bisexual too we can't take that completely off the table either.

Now, let's talk about the actual ship of Geo × Cole. Geo is not as social as the other and is more timid. He keeps more to himself. However, with Cole, he's an open book. He raised a whole family with him. They're also rather close. Cole has never been that close to anyone other than the other ninja, and even so, it still took him a while to get used to them. So him being so close to Geo as fast as he did is quite attached to Geo. And if that isn't gay then I don't know what it is.

Now this is the part where I talk about my personal favorite and probably one of the most canon ships ever in Ninjago, PixZane. (Pixal x Zane, told you I was gonna mention Pixal again 😉) It is very obvious that they love each other and is canon that they're dating. So, why did I mention them? Well, they never explicitly say, "We're dating." Instead they say that they're "compatible." Zane also says that she has "Half of my (his) heart" Which all of those are all just says of saying that they're in love and dating. Also they both have a strong attachment together. I mean, Zane is desperate for Pixal in Dragons Rising, and in the comic, Zane's Pixal Project, he's so desperate for her and is willing is sacrifice himself for her. In fact, Pixal only says, "I love you." In Crystalized. Took them only 8 years to finally hear something less nindroid-y but that just proves my point more. Yeah, with all of that plus the stuff I didn't mention, they're dating at least.

So why did I mention all of this? Well, a common rule for story writing is, "Show, don't tell." Very common in real life to, like phrases like, "Your actions speak more that your words." So they would apply that rule to a ship like Geode. I mean, the hints are very loud, yet sneaky in a way. Enough for me to apply the gay label but not enough for someone to say it's 100% without a doubt canon.

I'd also like to say that the writers of the show hype up and imply this ship more than a little. One of the writers of Ninjago posted this on his Instagram. The writer is also gay so that's some extra points. (I got it from here.) Also I just realized that the little effect thing around their hands make a heart, so I'll add that to the evidence list. Also this clip, Doc Wyatt seems to support the ship. So I'm pretty sure the writers are planning something big for them, maybe... a kiss? Who knows?

Now, in the end, it is a gay ship, so they have to be much more vivid about it or else the show could get banned in certain places around the world if they do make it canon. However, other cartoons do have canon LGBTQ+ representation that's more prominent. (Ex. The Loud House - Clyde's dads (Howard and Harold McBride) + Luna is a bisexual, Adventure Time - Princess Bubblegum and Marceline) Plus, there is some LGBTQ+ throughout the show which I talk about more here. (Shameless plugging XD) So it wouldn't be out of character for Ninjago add a gay ship in the series. Not only will it give them more open doors since it shows how they're willing to add queer relationships into the show, so they might add some more queer relationships. It would also make Cole the first canon LGBTQ+ ninja of the main 6.

Okay, well I think that's about all I have to say about the most gay characters in Ninjago. Also thank you for all the likes + reblogs on my queer Ninjago post, I like yapping about this show clearly, especially the queer part cause I'm part of the LGBTQ+ community so I might as well spread my pride. I literally love Geode so much please make it canon in my life.

Anyways, I hope everyone enjoys their winter break, gets lots of presents this year for Christmas, and stay up for New Years. Make sure to stay healthy and have lots of fun with family and friends.

[galactic-knightmare]

Posting my old Sonic art Part 1

mm tasty tasty poll numbers lmao

Anyway lets start this off with the AU that I still haven't finished! (I might finish it later but we'll see)(Ya'll get to see the deformed squids that used to be how I drew hands lmao...)

Unfortunately I never finished Rouge's bio thingy, but now that like, ya know, I'm hyperfixating again I might end up redoing all this.(We'll see)

All of these are back before I decided on my preferred name, so their all signed Fidget or Fluffeh-Shiba instead. like shit, I'm not sure I even knew I was ace yet back then lmao (I figured that out when I was in the middle of making my Lifesize shadow plushie, so maybe inbetween the classic drawings and the bios?) its still the exact same style of signature though, with the white letters and magenta outer glow. (some of this older art in the folder has the super old signature on it though, from before I started dating my art lmao)

ANYWAY since I just threw a bunch of AU art at ya'll, lemme explain some bits of it! Its a swap au (obvs) with mainly Team Sonic and Team Dark, but also with a lot of other characters that I never got around to drawing the stuff for. Essentially, Sonic and Shadow were both on the Ark, with Shadow having just been created (he was a smol babums) and Sonic just living on the ark/being adopted by the scientists. the Ark raid still happened, and like in Canon Maria got Shadow to an escape pod thing, but, ya know, died. Sonic this time was the one traumatized, and GUN, thinking he was the ultimate lifeform (he wasn't) put him in the stasis chamber, eventually leading to SA2 (my favorite game not even gonna lie- not my first game though, that was Sonic Forces) the lifepod for whatever reason had stasis stuff too (Plot convenience!) and the baby was in there for fifty years until it's systems started failing, waking him up. Vanilla, while out in the forest, heard the angy baby noises and investigated, finding said baby and decided "Oh hey, free baby!" and Cream ends up with an older brother when she's born. the original idea was that Vanilla dies at some point, thus making the two orphans like how Sonic and Tails canon are (or at least not around parents? dunno if their actually orphans. the basic idea is that fuck no Vanilla would not want her kids doing dangerous shit so I had to get her out of the picture) but tbh I might be able to think of something else? I can't just pull a disney and kill everyone's parents... (not to mention I like Vanilla and Cream...) eventually the big bad (not Egg) pops in. everything is business as usual (baby Shadow running deliveries for people) and Cream ends up coming across a Chaos Ruby (phantom ruby swapped). the big bad, who I had only called The Traveller so far (I know who it is obvs I just never said it cause baby me wanted to be like OHO REVEAL TIME BITCHES) ended up kidnapping her because he wanted the ruby, thus starting the regular sonic storylines. Rouge and Knuckles are also swapped obvs. Rouge is the last of a bat tribe that lived on Angel island and protected the Master Ruby. She's still obsessed with treasure, she just tends to be guarding the ruby so it's not as obvious. Knuckles is a GUN agent and owns a bar, later ending up with two impulsive blue hedgehogs for a team (Sonic and Metal, who's swapped with Omega.) Theres more obvs, like how the Superforms are silver now instead of gold and such. (I think Blaze and Amy were swapped???) Eggman was kidnapped by The Traveller somewhere at the start before eventually being rescued (probably somewhere around SA2/Heroes) and ended up being the adopted Uncle of Team Shadow (He's a semi-responsible adult. responsible enough to be concerned and all but Eggman-enough to be like "hmm teenagers in dangerous situations fighting demons? thats normal.") Anywhere theres more but like, I'm tired of typing this out honestly and my attention span is failing again LMAO so here have the WiP of my Shadow design in the new style I'm trying out

Shadow with three eyes my beloved (I still haven't seen the third movie or played the new generations...)

[seventeenlovesthree]

Madoka Magica Ship Analysis - KyouMado

I wanted to thank @magical-xirl-4 for requesting this ship analysis! Among the polls I've posted a few months ago ([X][X]), they got among the least amount of votes - and since I have quite a soft spot for the rare rarepairs, I'm gonna tackle them now.

Other ship analysis posts: [Homura/Madoka] [Kyouko/Sayaka] [Homura/Sayaka] [Homura/Mami]

Disclaimer: I won’t claim this to be a conclusive/definitive analysis of all of the ship’s aspects. I have watched the original 12-episode-series and movies (including Rebellion), the Magia Record anime and I’ve read several manga series (the Original, The Different Story, Wraith Arc, Rebellion Story, Oriko Magica, Another Story, Mitakihara Anti-Materials). But I’m aware that I haven’t seen/read all of what’s out there and am also not thoroughly familiar with the games. Plus, oftentimes, ship dynamics vary depending on which series/timeline you are looking at. So this is going to be my personal take on it.

Whether canon provides input on them or not.

Through the course of all Madoka Magica related content - and as far as my memory serves me right -, Madoka Kaname and Kyouko Sakura are probably the pair that shares the least amount of time together. Since both of them usually (hyper-)focus on other characters respectively (or get hyper-focused on by those characters in return), they don't interact much. In fact, I would go as far as to say that they only really get to spend time together when ALL the other girls are out of the picture and/or not available.

For example, in the main story timeline, they only really get to talk after Sayaka had turned into a Witch. It's at this point that Kyouko reaches out, asking Madoka to conduct her plan to pull Sayaka out of her Witch form together - and despite the fact that they haven't had a direct conversation before, Kyouko must still have taken enough note to realize how important Sayaka was to Madoka (and vice versa) to confide in her like that. Then there is the scene in the last volume of The Different Story, where Madoka suggests for them to become "secret friends" until they are both "able to face their true feelings" - which refers to Kyouko's difficult relationship with Mami and to Madoka's inferiority complex towards (and feeling left behind by) Sayaka and Mami. And this is basically summarizes their relationship as a whole:

Under normal circumstances, they aren't familiar with each other and struggle with their respective relationships with Mami and/or Sayaka... And yet, there is this peculiar dynamic between these two that allows them to "see through" each other with surprising ease.

Where Kyouko usually upholds the facade of being selfish, rough and ignorant, Madoka recognizes this attitude as "you seem like a person who likes to pick on others, but that's not actually true". And with basically every other character, we can assume that Kyouko would initially have reacted like a cat thrown into a bathtub, lashing out at them for calling her out like that - but not with Madoka. Madoka is actually one of the few characters she allows herself to let her guard down with almost immediately - maybe because Madoka opening up to her about her own insecurities and complexes towards Mami and Sayaka (TDS) makes Kyouko feel like the Senpai for once. Either way, her offering a "tasty bar" to Madoka in the first scene they talk face to face without anyone else around, impressed by Madoka's sudden surge of determination - is a huge deal, as sharing/offering food is one of Kyouko's greatest love languages. And even her way of criticizing Madoka, telling her not to put herself down and to not rush becoming a Magical Girl before she finds something she really wants to fight for, is a lot softer than how she bickers or argues with the others. She also confesses to Madoka how much she used to love stories of Courage and Love succeeding in the end, getting nostalgic, chatty and even a little sappy; telling her that this is why she wants to believe in them being capable of saving Sayaka together (OG). Or how she feels like she can't get back together with Mami after all the damage she has done (TDS). There is a sense of... Hopeful honesty these two share with each other that is unlike any other combination in the Holy Quintet. Whether it's because they're not as close and thus don't fear getting hurt or judged by the other - or because their personality structures may be just what they needed in the exact moment their paths crossed, is for the viewer/reader to decide.

Another factor may be how their family dynamics mirror and contrast one another (thanks to @jamesthedigidestined who pointed this out to me once!). They're both big siblings, they're both idealizing and looking up to one of their parental figures... The main difference is that Kyouko's wish - made for the sake of someone else - caused tragedy for her family, resulting in her hardening up and secretly cursing herself for her choices and idealism. And even if she may deny it if confronted directly, it's quite obvious that those experiences are exactly why she cannot allow sheltered Madoka to sacrifice her loving, peaceful life for a half-baked wish. In no way, shape or form would she want Madoka to make the same mistake she made. Plus, Madoka being open about fearing to be a hindrance isn't just hitting close to home, but is also a much more genuine attitude in comparison to how the other Magical Girls tend(ed) to mask their flaws. That is most likely why Kyouko - while still being direct and to the point - talks less aggressively to her. In a way, she is projecting the Senpai-attitude Mami used to use on her onto Madoka - while giving it her very own spin.

Unfortunately - aside from the interactions they share in the games -, there isn't much else we can work with. Neither Rebellion Story nor Magia Record are providing much about them and the same seems to go for the other spin-off mangas (at least as far as I'm aware of). However, these moments alone are enough to show that there is a foundation between them. Even if you have to blink at times to find them.

Whether I think why and how they’d work.

While their signature colours pink and red do not clash as extremely as other combinations within the Holy Quintet, their personalities are still quite a contrast - and as implied above, in a way, that may be exactly why they could be good for one another: Madoka may need someone who's direct and harsh to encourage her genuinely (while not being as cryptic as Homura and not as "knightly" as Sayaka), whereas Kyouko may need someone gentle but honest she can take care of while simultaneously allowing herself to be soft around (without feeling looked down upon like she tends to do with Mami).

If Madoka knew about Kyouko's backstory (and drawing the parallels between their family set-ups themselves), you can bet on her own mother-hen personality bursting out of her (in ways Mami couldn't be more proud of). Madoka is a family person - she may have trouble believing in her abilities (or even herself) being anything special, but she has a natural affinity for praising and admiring others. And she's not afraid to push her mother out of her bed in the most loving yet strict way possible (in her Madoka-esque way at least). Thus, her wanting Kyouko to have a peaceful, happy family life (while encouraging her not to slack off) should be seen as a given - so she'd try her best to give her that.

Kyouko on the other hand is probably the only character who doesn't put Madoka on a pedestal: Homura is completely enchanted by (and biased towards) her, Sayaka and Mami do have their vulnerable moments around her and are also able to gently scold her, but also have a tendency to play "roles" in her company ("protective best knight-friend" and "perfect Senpai"). Kyouko absolutely doesn't have a filter, speaks her mind and right from the heart - and as tough as her words can be sometimes, she may also help Madoka's soft heart to get more resilient. For her to become more confident, outgoing, daring, to believe in herself - in the same way Kyouko would, as she could most likely sense Madoka's own sense of Courage and Love buried inside of her from the start. Plus, Madoka is capable of proving to her that a happy family life can indeed exist - so Kyouko would want to protect and preserve that as well. They do have similar initial ideals (fighting for love, the good in the world, to protect their families, friends, etc.). They just "represent" and deal with them in contrasting ways to the outside world due to their different life experiences.

Granted, this means they may have conflict potential as well - because a Madoka in a very insecure state (= too passive/selfless) and a Kyouko in a very overbearing state (= too aggressive/selfish) may not be compatible in a less favourable timeline. Kyouko may get fed up with Madoka's more fidgety attitude, whereas Madoka may not be able to deal with Kyouko's mean side. A lot of sulking and angst may ensue. Plus, as mentioned at the very start of the post, they do tend to gravitate more towards the other girls instead of each other - IF they are around.

However - their dynamic in the main timeline as well as in TDS have shown me that Kyouko can soften up + Madoka can toughen up for them to be on equal/compromising grounds. That's why Madoka can accept the tasty bar as a token of Kyouko's trust easily. They can be honest without judging the other for their differing ways. The time and place just have to be right for them to notice each other.

Whether I’d prefer them as platonic or romantic ship.

Honestly speaking, prior to conducting this post - and even after @jamesthedigidestined had rambled to me about it a few times before -, I actually hadn't taken note of them too much. I was familiar with these two major scenes and of their potential somewhere at the back of my head, but I actually wasn't aware of just how well the family angle allows them to have this complementary dynamic. One that is obviously severely overlooked - mainly due to their lack of screentime. And that's a bummer considering how they may potentially have one of the healthiest bonds among all of them.

Canon does imply that they bond over their shared adoration for Sayaka - even if that may only apply when things are not well between them, which is actually a shame, since it doesn't even allow them to function as a friendly trio; as we see in Rebellion Story, when they're on good terms, Sayaka and Kyouko are too intense and Madoka doesn't really fit in anymore (which is a similar scenario with Mami, Sayaka and Madoka in TDS).

So in a way, they may actually be destined to remain "secret friends", as stated by Madoka... But I'd say that, while I usually see them as platonic, this analysis definitely helped me to appreciate their romantic potential a lot more.

[browsing-and-anon-asking]

Hellooo first post

I was embarrassingly, watching back on one of my fav mlp redesigns videos and was like 'hey that would be cool... but with Fallout characters!!

Piper:

As you can see, I didn't mm change much. (Thank you Piper for your hate being easy to draw) However I assumed she's hot as fuck in all those layers and since she rarely goes out into the wastes, I thought of lessening the amount of clothing. Giving her a plain undershirt and jeans, her famous pretty jacket that has a 'closely matched' patch of cloth over one of the bigger holes in it. Also, all of her buttons are gone. So she has to have a belt to close her coat!

I also put her hair up bc I think she looks nice like that! Maid her hair a lil curly.

Gave her those belt bags to add on the 'women's clothes never have pockets' thing.

Gave her make up, since most reports before her wore it for charisma, I assume she picked that up.

Nail polish, I just think she'd like it to hide her dirty fingernails

Only does small smiles to hide her missing back teeth

Cait:

I changed a lot about her, bc honest!! I hated most of her design elements.

I forgot to put on her pit paint, so imagine this after going eirh sole survivor.

Took away her corset. Because I HATE that they would put a female cage fighter in ANOTHER unrealistic outfit. Let this woman breathe. Also, I made her tank top greasy because yes.

Made her more muscular, with more scars to show off. She's SO COOL!!!

Shortened her hair because hair is a BIG thing to grab in fights, and she's probably annoyed with how much people try to go for that. So she hacked it off! She did it herself!

I made her eyes a bit more detailed than the others to show off the drug abuse and trauma it left behind. It's not a lot, but it's a little detail, along with the needle holes in her arm.

So many missing teeth, and she's proud with a lisp.

Preston:

I love this man so much shut up.

Bethesda, let people of color have their hair! And have it be matted bc this man is too depressed to take care of himself instead of others

Made him less muscular and more on the skinnier side bc depression

Eyebags bc... depression.

I like his og coat, but again, so many layers are hard to run in, so I kept it to a minimum, like with Piper. His scarf, undershirt, slacks, and coat.

Give him more facial hair bc let that man actually look depressed bro.

Gave him earnings bc it just looks pretty on him. Small face scars he's clearly ashamed of and has tried to hide with makeup.

I mean, every word I said beside his head, they could change each other. For the better or worse

Thanks for reading! I'm gonna do a poll of other compainions to see which three I should do next :3

[aluminumneedles]

The Great Knitted Christmas Gifts Bonanza of 2024

(Working title)

Besties and beloved mutuals, welcome to the chaos.

This will be wacky. Zany. Incredibly boring at times and possibly excessively dramatic for no reason at all except my (and hopefully your) amusement. We will laugh! I will cry! We will perhaps commiserate over things and also I will aggravate my carpal tunnel! I will ask for advice on things I don't know how to do! I will make polls because audience participation is enrichment for me! Good shit good shit let's get started

At the time of writing it is September 18, 2024, also known as 98 days before Christmas Eve, which will heretofore be known as The Deadline™️. I have, at present, four family members for whom I am making gifts. Now you may be thinking "Kay, that's only four people. That does not warrant a big post." But I'm making one anyway so here we goooo

PERSON #1

Mom. I already decided on my mom's gift, she's getting a shawl. It's my first shawl and I'm kinda geeked about it. It's the Cosmos Textured Knit Wrap from Mama in a Stitch

(photo taken from Mama in a Stitch's website I hope that's ok??)

Yarn is Red Heart worsted weight acrylic in Royal. Now here's the situation: I haven't made a wearable with acrylic yarn in awhile and I wasn't a huge fan of how it felt last time. But I know people do it literally every day, so: when the time comes I will be soliciting advice on how to make it soft and comfy. Plus I hate blocking and I'm gonna have to block this so yay growth!!

PERSON #2

My sister. Adorable, likes a pastel, super long hair, so I was thinking...scrunchies? And then I was thinking scrunchies are not necessarily on the level of gift I was aiming for so I thought...scrunchies + matching leg warmers (babydoll goes to the gym sometimes so i thought it would be cute)? And then. AND THEN. Was scrolling Pinterest instead of sleeping and I found these!!!

Now there are pros and cons

Pros:

I have been wanting to knit lace

I have been wanting to knit socks

Cons:

I have no experience knitting lace or socks

Oh well f*ck it we ball! Will still try to match the scrunchies to the socks. Send thoughts/prayers/advice/yarn recs, because idk what I am doingggg

PERSON #3

My brother. So, at the first of the year I started knitting a blanket kind of just because--I really liked the pattern and I wanted the feeling of starting something new in the new year. In April I decided it would be a gift for my boyfriend at the time, in May it became too hot to knit with wool, and in July the relationship ended. My brother has expressed interest in a blanket from the same pattern and has offered to take this one off my hands. I'm about 3/4 of the way done. Should be an easy gift, right? Maybe I'll throw in a matching pillow?

However, I once promised to make him this sweater:

(image snagged from the MomentsinTwine Etsy shop)

I bought the pattern, I bought the yarn, and I never delivered. (I started it and frogged it twice because my gauge was so so off.)

So uhhh PLEASE do the poll I need help deciding. Yarn would probably be a golden yellow wool blend, because that is the color he wanted 3 years ago and if I ask for an updated color choice he'll know what I'm working on 😭

PERSON #4

My dad.

Y'all.

I have no idea what to do for this man. He is a very classic "I don't want anything" person, and I am a classic "Must. Give. Gift." person. So already, times are tough!! What am I supposed to knit this man???

So I was thinking slippers-- I found a pattern for Woodland Loafers on Ravelry (pattern by Claire Slade) and I thought they were adorable. But then I was thinking why not make a whole, like, cozy care package? So I thought slippers, mug rug + mug cozy, maybe something else? He likes music, he likes to relax and watch his lil shows, he likes M*rvel?? Open to so many suggestions babes.

So...yeah. That's the show. I'll update as I go along, and if you're ever curious about how things are going or want to bully me about not making progress, please nudge me!! Sorry this was so long okay bye

[hazzybat]

That poll was surprisingly unhelpful but it did push me to start on the Drag Queen/bartender AU and because I need external validation I'm gonna post what I have here. Hopefully this is interesting! Please let me know!

(Basic plot of the whole fic is Bojan is a drag queen, Kris plays in the house band/maybe manages stuff, Jan and jure and bartenders and Nace is a sober barfly who's totally not in love with anyone. Eventually they'll probably all end up in drag somehow lol)

Fic snippet below the cut

"You're starting on one hell of a night!" The bartender called out, pointing behind him to a little corridor where some beaten up lockers stood. Jure quickly shoved his bag inside one, already overwhelmed by the long line in front of the counter.

"The cocktail recipes are over there. That's all this crowd drinks aside from maybe some Jack and Cokes for the straight friends they've dragged along." The bartender grined and raised his eyebrows in jest, pointing to a few laminated and stained pages.  Jure took a deep breath and stepped up to take the next customer's order, thankful he had at least enough experience to ring everyone up without too much assistance.

"I'm Jan by the way." The dark haired bartender said as he raced past him, a tray of multicoloured shot glasses in his hands.

"I'm Jure. Is it always this busy?" Jure asked, his pulse quickening as he tried to remember if the customer had asked for a vodka redbull or a vodka soda.

"Only when Stephanie is on!" Jan called back playfully, handing over the drinks and calling for the next customer.

"Who's-" his question was cut off by a voice echoing through the PA system and the techno music silencing.

"Wonderful people welcome! You better pay our bar staff well because the more you drink the prettier I look! The show is about to start so find your seats or a generous lap, that's a great way to make friends by the way, say hi to our baby bartender tonight and if someone wants to get lucky with a cock in a frock they can buy me a drink after the show!"

Jure's eyebrows rose in surprise at the announcement. When he'd taken this job he hadn't exactly got any details about the show or the crowds but now the fishnet shirts, rainbow prints and copious amounts of glitter made a lot more sense.

He smiled shyly at the gaggle of men who cooed at him thanks to the mysterious announcer. They tilted their drinks in acknowledgement and ran their eyes over him like he was a particularly delicious looking lollipop.

"They're harmless, unless you *want* them to bite." Jan told him as the last few customers paid for their drinks and found their spots just as the lights around them began to dim.

"You're in for a treat newbie. I'll let you watch his first song this time but after that you do have to actually work." Jan flashed him a grin before going over to a rather broad man that had been sitting in the corner of the bar most of the night. Jan placed a glass of coke in front of him and began a hushed conversation while wiping down an already clean class with the rag that had been resting over his shoulder.

Jure's eyes were drawn away from his new work colleague when a spotlight suddenly shot on the closed curtain. A voice began to sing, the same one as before, sweet and sexy and the crowd burst into thunderous applause. A shover went down Jure's spine.

A leg appeared from behind the curtain, covered in sparkling rhinestones and at the bottom was a foot, shoved into the highest heel Jure had ever seen. A gloved hand joined the leg, teasing up it's length until the curtain was suddenly pulled back right as the into of the song stopped and the first verse began.

There was Stephanie Von Tease, decked out in a sparkling, skin tight green dress, voluminous blonde wig and enough make-up to frost a wedding cake.

Jure didn't know much about drag queens but he knew that this one was damb talented if she was actually singing and not just lip syncing.

[sigdatingsimofficial]

Welcome!

This is the official blog of the Studio Investigrave Dating Simulator (for which we're probably gonna come up with a shorter name sometime), a game made by SIG fans for SIG fans!

There are two people working on this project, mod Carrot and mod Cyanide - and between the two of us, it's me who's mostly making this post! (take all the credit ch ch ch) (You stfu I wrote like 90% of this thing you go and uh- idk finish Vincent now shoo) (fyk I already did so like days ago, so watch your tone young lad)

This game is our love letter to Studio Investigrave, and we hope to make this game enjoyable for any and every SIG fan that have ever dreamed of dating one of the characters - while trying to keep every character's personality as close to canon as possible.

In this blog we will post updates, ask for general opinions, and probably show some of the silly stuff we do while trying to figure our stuff out.

QnA, tags and details below!

Tags:

#upd : any kind of update we share with you - be it writing, programming, art, or something else entirely - you'll find it under this tag.

#announcements : under this tag will be all different kinds of important stuff - like this textpost, or like when we'll be seeking playtesters!

#goofing around : when we post bloopers, out-of-context texts, or anything of the kind - they'll all be tagged with this one.

#questions : anything we answer (inbox is always open, by the way!) will be tagged as this.

#opinions: any polls we might post in the future will be shared with this tag.

#Carrot yaps : anything I post will have this tag.

#Cyanide yaps : similarly to mine, my partner will also have her stuff under this tag.

# : all posts will have all mentioned characters tagged, so you can see easier the news on your favorite game.

Anything that would have potentially triggering content (e.g.; blood, wounds, gore, etc.) will be tagged properly.

There's a good chance more tags will be added in the future as we progress with development.

Not sure how your favorite character/game is tagged? Worry not - this post has all of them tagged the way they'll always be!

About the creators:

mod Carrot - programmer, artist; mainly she/her, but they/them and he/him is also fine

I was the mastermind behind the project originally, and started it as a joke, but then it grew enough that I couldn't consider it just that anymore. I like to keep stuff organized, and so I will be colorcoding things a lot - I'll also be most likely the one who answers, asks, and keeps the blog running. (I'll be helping with that too) (I didn't say you won't darling)

mod Cyanide/Cyn - writer, programming assistant; preferably she/her

Hi :3, since I didn't really have any other opportunity to say hi.. I'm like a wingman for this project. I'll be writing the dialogues and interactions with the characters, mainly planning the outcomes and choices. And of course, trying to help Carrot with everything I can. I feel like she will be needing some help with the programming (dw, I trust in her skills, it's just gonna be a LOT), so Ima be petty and change my title to writer and programming assistant just in case

QnA:

Which characters will you be able to date?

That's the good part - anyone! We plan on letting you date anyone from any released game's main cast!

This means:

Angelica and Forcas from Eloquent Countenance

Augustine and Winnie from Cold Front

Protagonist, Coworker, Normal Guy, Antagonist (Doppelganger Protagonist) and Colleague (Doppelganger Coworker) from Elevator Hitch

Rody, Vincent and Manon from Dead Plate

Bok-Su, Da-Jeong and Myeong-Hoon from Married in Red

June, Ryan, McCoy, Vonnie and Carmen from Rot in Paradise

Will you add the characters from games that release in the future?

That's the plan, yes!

(Although I still have to convince Cyanide somehow to let me add Jackpot Crash Course right after the first chapter, and not only after all 3 chapters have been released-) (We are nowhere near finishing even one game; we'll get there soon.)

Will I be able to play as a character from the games?

Sadly, the answer to that is no, you'll have to play as yourself. It would be way to complicated to make any character playable. You'll be able to choose your pronouns tho!

How far are you in the development/When will the game most likely release?

We are only in the early stages of development, only clearing up the concepts - the earliest it could release is probably late fall of 2025, but it's more likely for development to take around a year time.

What programs/platforms/engines will you be using?

For planning, we use a shared google document. For the game itself, I'll (we'll ;3) use Godot (4.3), for art we'll most likely use Krita! For writing, crazy I know, but I'm probably gonna use the same google document. (or maybe my notes or a random paper.. writing is crazy)

Do you have the permission of the owners of these characters?

Rachel herself has stated, I believe, several times, any fangames are fine, which means yes, we do!

Will the game be free/Where will it be published?

Of course, just like every official game, we will release this game and all of it's content completely free of charge! It'll also be on itch.io, just like the official ones, so it'll be more easily accessible.

What will the gameplay be like? Just a visual novel?

No! I will try to make it feel like a Studio Investgrave game as much as I'll be able to - and that will reflect on the gameplay too! I hope to take inspiration from different elements of currently released games for different parts of the game.

And I'm gonna try to make your choices matter as much as possible to create routes that heavily rely on the built-up personality you give your character by choosing from options.

Can I help somehow?

We're always happy to hear you guys out - after all, this game is made for all SIG fans! You can always drop your suggestions and asks in the inbox, and we'll go through all of them!

Voting on future polls and sharing them with the right audience will also be big support - and when we reach that stage we'll also need playtesters, so make sure to check in every once in a while!

Still got something to ask? Reach out to us through the inbox - we will read every question!

[afterthefuneral]

BobxBeetlejuice is real and you should know

Not gonna lie, a little disappointed in my last poll, I thought more of you would see the light that Beetlejuice and Bob have indeed explored each other's bodies. So perhaps I need to explain?

The look of forbidden love

Let me get into it. Beetlejuice has admitted in the first movie that he's a self-proclaimed incel, being that it had been 600 years since he got his dick wet. And you know after all that time he's had urges. He's more than likely tried to get with women but unfortunately, he didn't succeed with his award-winning looks and personality.

Bob probably took this picture.

The man has urges, and without touching on his love for Lydia you know he's had to act on them. That's where bob comes in.

Tissues and lotion not pictured.

For at least 36 years Beetlejuice worked as an afterlife care manager performing bio-exorcisms to ghosts in need. He formed his own business to show he is a reliable man, the kind of man that can support a wife and stepdaughter, but this isn't a Beetlebabes post. You know that Beetlejuice has had romantic urges and probably done things to himself that are specifically against Catholicism at his desk with her picture in hand.

The scariest thing in the Tim Burton director's cut.

We know he's done these things in full view of the shrinkers without shame, thinking he's being sly about it (I've illustrated this but it's far too hot for Tumblr). Their unblinking eyes can't look away and they have no mouths to scream, and when they hear the zipper they hide under their desks. Except for Bob.

It must be torture to be a bottom with no mouth.

Here's where it gets kinky. I strongly believe that Bob is straight up gay with both a submission and humiliation kink. It's the reason he's put up with his boss' shenanigans for so long and is always willing to do whatever he says without wavering. He's absolutely a bottom. For decades he sits at his desk pining for the soft, moldy, hairy, dominant body of Betelgeuse but is unable to vocalize his feelings. At home he keeps a shrine to Betelgeuse out of his used cigarette butts (Like Helga from Hey Arnold), and other things I'll touch on soon. The mouth sewn shut is a metaphor for living in a time period when open sexuality could get you sent to the stocks or worse. More on that in a bit.

But what about Betelgeuse? We've only seen him openly lust after women (I personally do not take the musical into canon, but I won't get into that here). A lot of people have the belief that Betelgeuse is absolutely not straight. I've heard that he's possibly bisexual/pan. I personally believe he's more of the "any hole's a goal" type of guy and will fuck anything with or without a pulse. At one point he probably noticed Bob's lust, which he used to his advantage. Both in order to make him his personal slave, but mostly his "right hand" man.

If you know, you know.

I believe they fooled around casually for years. Bob probably caught feelings (who wouldn't) and Beej just saw him as a substitute for Lydia. I won't get graphic as to what they did, that's for fanfic writers out there to write about.

Use your imagination.

But then Lydia came back into the picture. When Beej realized he had a small window to reunite with the love of his afterlife he had a sudden realization that word might get out about his homosexual liaisons with Bob. Remember what I said earlier about Bob coming from a time when homosexuality was a punishable offense? Betelgeuse was from that same time, and probably is deeply closeted. He lives (uhh...or un-lives) under the assumption that Lydia might think he's "less of a man" for his activities with Bob. Plus he wants to show her he's done with his exes and she is his only obsession. And it hits him. He has to get rid of the twink.

"Listen Bob, it's been fun but I'm getting back together with Lydia. We probably shouldn't do mouth and hand stuff anymore."

I believe he openly and deliberately put Bob in danger to hide his secret. He damn well knew Delores would suck his soul and he manipulated Bob into sacrificing himself. He even straight up said "she'll suck your soul instead of mine."

Ready for a con.

The Beetlejuice "disguise" wasn't something Beej came up with, with his powers. It's something Bob had lying around as part of his submission/power kink. When he went home at night he put on this costume and acted out scenarios where he was the powerful ghost with the most in front of his stuffed animals on his bed. Betelgeuse may or might not have been aware of this, he did seem a little shocked when he first saw his costume. But in the end, Bob openly gave his life For Betelgeuse out of pure love. He never snitched and stayed loyal and true, perhaps he knew all along that Betelgeuse loved Lydia and that no matter what he did, he could never compete for her in his lovers eyes. Maybe he knew his boss would be happier with Lydia? Maybe it was a sacrifice of pure love? Justice for Bob indeed.

All of this is laid bare in front of us, and if you can't see this, you're ignorant and suffer from "jealous whore" disease for not recognizing my genius...just kidding. I'm just having fun with this crack ship. I was going to make this post for April Fools but got distracted with life. I hope you have as much fun reading this as I did writing this. You have to be honest though, it makes about as much sense as "dreamverse" and is leagues more coherent.

What started out as a joke on discord among friends kind of snowballed into a schizo theory. You have to admit, BobxBeetlejuice yaoi is hilarious. There should be more of it.

Knock yourself out fanficiton writers.

[mandatory-blog-stop-asking]

fuck it, a post about how brazilian politics are dead and we can't resurrect them easily

edit: olá amigos e amigas e amigues e tal, eu só quero deixar bem claro que sou brasileiro, aparentemente isso não estava claro e falar inglês na internet pelo jeito é coisa de gringo. fique calmo e relaxe, saiba que escrevi tudo isso com uma tapioca com carne de sol numa mão e uma caipirinha na outra, num sol de matar com um cachorro caramelo latindo do lado de fora da casa.

So as hypothetical polls start coming out and people start talking about who they're gonna vote for, I'm reminiscing about a thousand years ago last week when I said I had a lot of thoughts about the death of Brazilian democracy and how it's turbo fucked to the point where there is really no good way out of either a collapse or a slow death by a thousand needles, either way leading to a complete overall; probably for the worse. I'm adding the break here just in case this isn't interesting to you, just know that I'm mad and this is a big rant.

Also, why am I not writing this for a Brazilian audience? Because I'm fucking tired of talking about this to Brazilians only to get a "yeah well it is what it is" response, and also because I'll be real most people I talk to here can't roll their Rs.

Look at this dude, his name is Lula. His name is Luiz, but people kept calling him Lula (Portuguese for squid, it sounds better than it translates as I swear) so he just added it legally to his name:

This dude has been the president of Brazil for two and a half mandates by now, albeit not all in a row. This shouldn't be legally possible, but there's some reasons why it's happening.

We had a pretty brutal dictatorship back in the 20th century, but it was a pretty unique dictatorship: we actually had political parties and elections, the brutal military regime just kept winning them (since they were all scams, as a dictatorship will ensure), and electing different military personnel to be the "president" every once in a while.

This meant that contrary to a lot of Latin America that unified around one single family or one single guy, we had a plethora of dictators all of which had unique approaches to appeasing the army and the population. Some were worse than others but overall it meant Brazilian politics in the 60s-80s were a rather unique, vibrant mixture of horrible, depressing abuses of human life and thriving counter-culture movements that aimed at destroying the oppressors.

From Soviet-sponsored yet frustrated communist coups to protest songs that are still sung to this day, we have a lot of big political personalities in our history. After the mid-80s when the dictatorship officially ended and democratic processes became the norm, we had several would-be politicians trying to grasp control over a very young, very fragile democracy.

Enter Lula. A radical, a socialist, a loud man who spoke about the plight of the proletariat, the rise of the working class and the dominant class, the oppression of the rich toward the poor, etc etc you know the drill. He never won an election like this. We instead kept electing demagogues and idiots-- we had our first impeachment almost right away against a loser and a thief who elected himself by appearing in political ads dressed like James Bond in jetskis, shooting guns at signs saying "INFLATION", it's.. it's a colorful democracy, is what I'm trying to establish.

(i unfortunately do not have any visuals of Collor in a stupid James Bond suit because those have apparently been scrapped off Youtube, just, please believe me, shit was wild)

So, Lula spends some time away from the limelight after his second or third defeat in a row, goes abroad a bit, learns some real politik tech from the French, and comes back a changed man. A calmer man, a nicer man, a man who speaks slowlier and who seems less concerned with aggressively dragging the country into a socialist utopia and more concerned with putting food into poor people's tables. This is a good objective to have and would bring Brazil into a level of unprecedented wealth and social comfort.

I'm talking lower and middle class going to Disneyland for vacations, I'm talking a complete overall of the concept of social class as we move from a 3-tiered pyramid system to using the entire alphabet to denote someone's social class-- with sociologists quickly realizing how fucking useless it is to say someone is in Class H as opposed to Class F. We're talking success the likes of which economists dream of. One real was nearly equivalent to a dollar at some point. Not exactly only because of him, but he definitely maintained it.

But then the systems began to become complacent, people in power started wanting more money than their salaries warranted them, and old habits came back into vogue. Mid-late aughts Brazilian politics were famously corrupt and Lula absolutely had a hand in maintaining it-- if not being an active accountant of dirty money, at the very least not stopping it when he definitely knew it was happening, and definitely knew who was behind it.

I'm not covering that for the purposes of this dumb little big rant, you can look up books about OPERATION CAR WASH for a police-sponsored, government-approved account of the biggest political trial in the history of the continent, as our judges and federal investigators managed to accrue enough evidence to persecute dozens if not hundreds of politicians for money laundering, stealing, thieving, extortion and overall being bad guys. And Lula was among them, which meant he went to jail for several years.

Enter dumbass number two. Here's this guy, he's called Bolsonaro.

If he looks like he's in pain in this picture, don't worry; it's because he's in the process of being stabbed in the intestines. Anyway, this enormous piece of shit fascist racist son of a bitch -- allegedly, of course -- has been a pain in the ass in the military for decades. He has at least one court martial against him because of one time he tried to bomb his superiors. The military judge ended up having to drop the charges due to lack of evidence, but not before making sure to add to the record: "Bolsonaro shouldn't even be in charge of a kitchen, much less any part of the military".

So this guy becomes president, right? He becomes president and he ruins everything that wasn't already ruined. I'm talking "Trump of the Tropics" type ruining everything; I'm talking tanking the real to the point where it never recovered, I'm talking buying 20 houses for himself with government cash and never having to give back a single one of them, I'm talking over half a million dead from COVID because he kept insisting people take fucking horse pills--

It is a genuine worst case scenario for a relatively young democracy. He was not running against Lula, who is, again, in jail by now, but he came after both Lula's impeached protégé and the guy who tanked the economy after we took her out of office (probably on fraudulent charges too, but, oh well). There is a definite feeling that the history of new millennium Brazilian democracy begins with Lula and ends with Bolsonaro, because we really, really didn't resolve this problem. We didn't come up with a way to make sure our democracy was free from clear bad faith actors who were in cahoots with foreign powers to undermine our processes. We didn't figure out shit.

What we did was we took Lula out of jail and made him president again. And like, was that the best thing we could do? No. Was that the best idea for the sake of the constitution? No. Did that irreparably destroy our democratic processes and set us back to an era of dangerous precedent that had previously been used to justify horrible abuses in similar democracies? Absolutely.

But, look, I gotta make sure you understand, Bolsonaro really sucks, and we were in a real bind. We have since made sure he can't legally run for election for a few years and we are in the process of persecuting him (post-failed impeachment, too, which mean it's already a kinda humiliating runback) so he dies in prison. But that doesn't matter as much as the fact that now Lula is halfway through an experimental, unprecedented, legally hitherto thought impossible third mandate as president.

And I woke up to Datafolha, one of our best polling and data publications, telling me that if he runs for a fourth, this should be the result.

And like, again, look.

Is this the worst case scenario? No.

Is this the worst chart I've ever seen? No.

Do I want Tarcísio, a previously unmentioned dumbass -- allegedly --, a feckless Bolsonaro minion who's complicit in genocide -- allegedly -- and doesn't seem to have a single thought that isn't related to the military and conservative values in his empty little head, to be president? Holy shit no.

But, so, like, okay, a fourth Lula term. Maybe one that he gets to with 50.2% of votes, again, like he did for the third time.

What the fuck, man?

These are much more accurate than your regular voting numbers. While in North America and several European countries only about 25% of the population vote, voting is mandatory in Brazil-- you have to at the very least legally justify why you didn't vote in any of our elections in order to stay in good standing with the law. That kind of is a good measure of the country's will, and god damn it shit fuck, a marginal error is no way to elect federal office.

We are in the nightmare that the United States like to pretend they are, in which while they pretend that there is a whole half of the country that adores Trump and fascism and oligarchy, we actually have tangible, reliable measures that this might be the case. That the actions of bad faith actors have degraded our education, maintenance and government apparatus to such an extent that it's not just a few 20% of the country who actually show up to vote that are making the world a worse place, it's, oh god, it's literally half, it's half on like a mathematical ideal of what half is.

And the more I think about it the more I realize that there is no way out of this situation. Lula is the single politician in the business who anyone cares about that isn't also a blatant nostalgia grab for the dictatorship era, and he's ailing and aging and weak. His third mandate has been marked by economical mistakes and a lack of will of seeing things halfway, because then they wouldn't be perfect. He's not the same guy he used to be back in the 80s, he's not even the same guy he used to be back in the 2000s, but he's the only one people give a shit about. Democracy has decided he wins the popularity contest.

And like, how could he not? The options are the son, wife, or any other protégé of a loser -- allegedly-- who wants to suck Trump's cock-- erotically-- and is deathly afraid of rotting in jail, giving interviews about how it isn't fair that the consequences of his actions landed him in the same place he used to mock Lula for being in. And I don't even need to add an "allegedly" to that one, because that's all matter of public record! He has begged for amnesty from the same dude he said he would bring back the death penalty so he could pull the trigger himself on! Begged!

This is not what democracy should be. We should not be immediately back to these populist false choices just because they're comfortable. Every aspect of political life has devolved into a Lula-core or Bolsonaro-core choice; every mayor, every governor, every god damn deputy aligns themselves with either of them. The Centrists align themselves with them. The neutrals align themselves with them. The fucking clowns and cosplayers, who are legally allowed to run as their characters (I'm talking literally Batman here) have aligned themselves with them.

In less than half a century we are stun-locked into a political tug of war between a man who can only stay in power if we completely ignore the Constitution and what it stands for, and a man who wants to rip the Constitution in several pieces so he can use them as napkins for a few weeks before relinquishing control to foreign powers. The population is utterly bored of politics and basically doesn't care. The walks and protests for and against either of these sides are marred by uninterested parties within and without, and both fake news media and conservative covers that make them all sound the same.

There's genuinely no way out of this through the tools we have been given. There is no third option, no attempt at getting at one, and no grassroots movement that is worth any salt acting anywhere. They have successfully made a 200-million-people strong country, one of the biggest in the world, utterly indifferent to what happens to it in the next five years.

And, yes, I understand what the US is going through is somewhat similar-- trust me, you people imported a lot of this situation to my place while I used to live there, I know it's similar-- but what you don't understand is that contrary to the US, we have suffered through a dictatorship. We know how bad it gets when people lose all faith in a government and leave it open to attack by organized bad faith actors. Fucking hell, you all have seen I'm Still Here! You celebrated those fucking Oscars with us! You've seen what our artists think of that time!

There is no real end to this rant. I just got thrown into the spiral when watching those numbers. We're gonna have a mediocre Lula presidency until he dies from a fall in his bathroom and then the military are taking over. It's so fucking busted and there's really nothing anyone can do about it because the government is so corrupt.

please feel free to share this post as something to laugh at and point to every source as to why the brazilian democracy is actually stronger than ever and not at all at the end of the process of destroying itself, i would adore to be convinced otherwise.

[bokettochild]

⭐️ Crown Admist Courage ⭐️

I'm really enjoying the story so far! 💕🥰

Oh boy!

So, obviously, I REALLY like the Prince Legend trope, yeah?

This fic was mostly born out of a need to write a Legend centric fic again after not having written him a long-fic of his own since, what, Feathered? I mean, other than ABFHP, but that is..... we don't talk about that...

*goes and sobs in unfulfilled ideas and a writing style changed by a years work and no longer what it was for that project*

*ahem*, anyways! Clearly, I wanted to play with something, and I don't remember what it was precisely, but for ages now, I've had this thought in my head of all the knights just...finding out legend is royal and losing their shit. Not gonna lie, the thought of him perched on a throne (not sitting properly on it because he's just Like That) while the rest stand around with swords drawn and Legend smirking his freaking face off at the camera has been haunting me for the last few years.

I like the idea of Legend eventually weaponizing his status when he needs to, although I doubt it will ever actually appear in a fic. That said! After writing Legend as a prince in ABFHP, the idea of playing with it again but this time in the boys' home environment (AKA the outdoors) was sort of itching at my brain.

Honestly, it was probably someone in the LU-Legend community here on Tumblr that inspired the actual fic with some sort of post about Legend and knights or something, but my brain got to working and thinking and eventually I decided to make it an official draft.

I actually put it up to a poll to determine what my next fic would be, and ACAC was one of like, six options I put out there for my next major fic. I think the other ones were a Warriors dies/is forgotten, the boys get trapped in Time's world post LU, and a mix-and-match fic where the boys get separated and paired off with a random princess and have to find each other across time and space again; but now with said princess in tow. ACAC won the poll though, and so I started writing it- um...... *checks calendar* almost six months ago?!?!?!?! Holy cow? Like it's the start of a new month but sweet snap-dragons!!!!

Anyways!

Starting a fic is generally torture for me, at least when I know it's going to be a multi-chap/longfic. The first chapter sets the mood for the whole thing and establishes the interpretation of the characters and all that, so I was wracking my brain for what to do to get this thing off the ground. In the end, I ended up opening a random google-doc and just writing whatever my brain would spit out, wondering where to go and what to do and just rambling out every concept I could think of.

I debated so hard on whether or not Legend would actually know about his heritage or not, but since Feathered used the approach that he was in the dark, I thought it would be fun to do one where Legend's known all along, is totally aware of where he comes from and the history surrounding it, and it just stupidly ignorent to the fact that everyone around him is slowly figuring it out.

I knew we'd have some angst, since the royal-prince theories have been pretty dark since I first entered the fandom, so, for a bit of humor, I decided to go the route of "everyone eventually knows but also assumes they're the only one that knows", so, to any readers who were hoping that the boys would compare notes and use their brains, sorry to disappoint! Nobody is likely going to share their knowledge on purpose. if anything, I think it will be Legend that eventually 'outs himself', but only after everyone already knows. Until then, we'll just have all the boys convinced they are the sole knower of a very important and dangerous secret that they cannot share with the rest of they want Legend to stay alive.

That in mind! I had to start the fic I a way that wouldn't start it too slow, nor too fast.

The first draft actually was done in an echo of Feathered where I would recount about how Legend learned the truth, ages and ages ago, but it set up the imagine of a very innocent, sweet, baby-fied Legend (who, to be fair, would actually have been like nine at the time so it's not too bad) and it would make transitioning to the actual plot really tricky. That, and it just felt like a cheap knock-off of my previous works, and I didn't want that. So, instead, I tried to figure out a way for somebody to learn about the truth, and Sky ended up being the one I wanted to find out first.

I ran a few scenarios in my mind, but in the end, I decided on using the temple/Palace of Hylia plotline that we see in the fic. I figured that having Legend interact with ancient artifacts meant for the gods alone might set it up nicely, and putting them in an ancient building meant that I got to have written explanations dotted about for Sky to see for himself, and read, while the rest likely wouldn't be able to.

Sky coming to grips with the situation, with Sun's help, had many versions. I had them flirting and teasing and assuring each other in every direction, but very little of it was consistent with the point I was trying to drive: Legend is connected to Hylia somehow. I ended up cutting a TON of Sky/Sun interactions/moments in order to stay on track, including a chapter from Sun's perspective on the whole matter. I do like what I came out with though; it feels like a good balance of the plot and some character/dynamic building while also providing substantial lore to set up the story the way that I wanted to!

I was not actually intending on dragging the boys all the way to Warriors time so soon either, because I wanted to have them explore the surface village and meet people, but in the end I ended up cutting that too because it felt more rambling, and really could just be boiled down to a single paragraph instead.

Fun not though about their entrance into the captain's world! The portal is actually made by Lana! Technically speaking, the boys were yoinked across time and space because Lana needed backup and just summoned the first person that came to mind, and he ended up coming with eight other heroes in tow! I intended to make a note of this or otherwise touch on it in-fic, but, obviously, there was a lot of exposition happening and I couldn't find a good way to make it come up naturally. It might still be brought up, but I'm not sure.

Now, obviously, if you've been watching my Tumblr, you probably know that I put out polls to see who would find out next in any given update, and I wasn't actually planning on it being Wars, but what the people wanted, the people got! The appear of having knight drama was just too strong!

Initially, I was planning on leaving it at Warriors seeing the vet use similar magic to Zelda and putting the pieces together and just leaving it at that, but then, while making dinner one night after a few rounds of HW, I ended up just.... accidentally imagining/daydreaming the whole bit with Impa explaining things to Warriors. No lie, I did not plan a single line of that! I thought it and then grabbed for my computer and started typing as fast as I could while the spark was still there, trying to cover everything from the imaginary conversation in my head. In the end, I had to cut the scene in two because it just was so MUCH, but I loved the ideas I came up with there. it is, by far, the best theory I have come up with in regards to the princes' of Hyrule and the royal family as a whole, ever! Enough so that I've started referencing it in other fics too (although to a lesser extent, but TBoHH now has nods to it now, and I'm sure it follow elsewhere as well, going forwards .

Warriors reactions are made to be sort of a mirror to the way that Wild used to act in the memories we see in BOTW, and I actually really wanted to include a scene that sort of mirrors that first memory we locate where Flora yells at Wild for following her everywhere. Chapter 12 was supposed to include Legend shouting some very similar choice words at Wars, but I ended up scrapping it (and the whole chapter draft) when it kept petering out and rambling off into nowhere. I still intend to touch on the parallels there though!

Speaking of parallels, I am loving getting to play with the Flora & Legend parallels! The first time I ever compared them was actually in the OG TBBU series, where Wild observes to Warriors and Time that Legend is very similar to his princess in many ways, and that comparison has stuck in my head since. I have intentionally played into it in this fic, from the first chapter where Wild lends Legend his slate to the present one I released this weekend. The purpose of this is to mess with Wild's head but also to sort of endear Legend to him so that he's not just being a knight, like Wars, but actually uses his experience from being Flora's knight to navigate his supposed duty to the vet better than the captain is. For example, rather than acting stiff and soldierly, he's being friendly and appealing to Legend's interests so that he can manipulate circumstances to let him stay close to the vet and thus protect him better.

Honestly, I love the dynamic potential between the two of them, and having Flora as a sort of a base model for Legend's behavior makes it easier to write him in this AU where he's experiencing things that JoJo's Legend would never actually even see, realistically. It also makes for some great Wild angst/character building, because it plays into his memory loss and issues regarding failure, while also giving him context for new situations and ways to help.

Legend's Magic

I had no intentions of bringing Legend's magic into the fic at all, save a single throwaway line to reference my theories about Legend post-Koholint (do NOT ask me about these unless you want an angst-fest that may or may not have wrecked more drafts than I care to admit, and which might go on for hours/pages). For spoiler reasons for several fics now, I can't explain the magic thing in full, but I really just meant it to be an explanation for why Legend's not freely using holy magic left and right, but you guys seemed to really enjoy the concept, so I've been leaning more into it!

The heart issues are actually a side effect of his magical condition, and I like to think Legend's had poor health his whole life as a result of his magic being too strong for his physical form (much like how Impa spoke about in fic). Being that he's a twin, he's actually the weaker/smaller sibling, and sue to the conditions he was raised in, that was aggravated by a lack of food, medical care, and his early start to adventuring, all of which contributed to making his body weaker even as his magic continued to get stronger.

None of this is the fault of the vet's Uncle, but because Legend's parents died when he was very small, Uncle was left providing for him single-handedly, while trying to fly under the radar of the crown, so they were pretty poor all around and genuinely couldn't afford what was needed to help Legend grow up properly. In contrast, Zelda did have these things and thus doesn't suffer the same issues.

The Plot Going Forwards

Again, I did NOT intend to really delve into Legend's magic in this fic, not much, but I realized over time that, once the boys all find out, it might be nice to have an actual conflict for them all to face, legend of course being at the center of it, and it would be pretty cool if magic/godly heritage ended up being a major plot point. And yes, this line of thought can be blamed entirely on @weepingtalecowboy, who has been flooding my brain, and the LU-Legend community, with killer ideas about the vet and who kindly gave me permission to try my hand at some of them.

Currently, the idea appealing most to me is the boys being stranded in Hyrule's era and having to deal with some cultists, because I've never really played with that before and it would be so fun to really hurt them all via ritual sacrifice and torture >:)

Of course, things might change, and I have no set plans for this fic and really am just going where it takes me.

Epona

Legend's a horse girl and I feel it is a great crime that we haven't touched on this fact more My man used to be able to speak to animals just passively (as per the OoS manga/his games), and while it is hinted this is part of his magic, and thus no longer something he can do in this fic, I really wanted to touch on it.

I fully intend on playing with Epona more in the fic and making her relevant to the story in some way, although HOW, I'm not yet sure. As a result though, I think Twilight might be next to learn the truth about the vet (also because I desperately want to use a fun line/reference in the fic but it only works with Twilight)

Trivia

Legend honestly has so much random trivia related to him that your average LU fan likely doesn't know about. From his knowledge of telephones to the fact that he's canonically a boxer, there are so many little asides, characters, facts, traits, and skills that I so rarely see in fics, and I'm making an effort to lean more into the Legend lore in this story and include them!

So far, I've gotten to include the factoid about Legend's ability to speak to animals, his boxing skills, Ghanti's whole existence, and, of course, the whole technology thing! I want to toss in a few details every few chapters, and maybe bring in a few characters we rarely see in fics, but there's no promise that I CAN. (I will be trying though)

The Princesses

So far, only Sun has really gotten any spotlight, but I do want to include a fair bit about the princesses where I can in this fic, making them actually plot relevant rather than just passing background characters who show up just for a cameo and then disappear again, like they have in my other fics. Again, I have no concrete plans and am sort of winging this whole thing, but I do enjoy having the girls play a role of some kind. I was hoping to have Artemis involved more, before, but Impa ended up taking over instead.

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And that's it for now! We haven't gotten all that far in the story, technically speaking, and only three out of eight have figured anything out!

That said though, I am just here for the ride, and have no clue where we're going, so who knows what's next and who knows how close/far we are from the end LOL

I wanted to thank everyone who's been reading and commenting though, for their kind words, fun ideas, theories, suggestions, and general encouragement! It's been fun and I hope it continues to be so!

[rheiple]

Attention Seeker

-OneShot

▪︎SUMMARY↦ Why is he following and helping you around with every chance he gets?

▪︎WARNING/s↦ None

▪︎CHARACTER/s↦ Eclipse, Reader

▪︎AUTHOR'S NOTE↦ Gago ang tagal ko nang hindi nagsusulat,, well anyways this the Eclipse wanting reader's attention, the first thing I needed to do at the poll.

I'm not really satisfied with the out come, but I wanted to post it not instead of letting it rot in my notes, and also I might not do the other fics I've planned at the poll, if i did write them then its gonna be for a long time

I've noticed that whenever i write, when I'm passionate about something I noticed that my writing looks good(?)

But when I force myself to write its basically shit, and this Fic is probably one of the few sjit fics I've written

So yea I hope you don't mind

“…It’s really dark in here.. Mind if you shine your eye lights over here bud?”

The sound of metal clinking represents the movement of your very tall and lanky companion.  With it’s big bright eyes, you’re able to be see the injured Helpy trying to move it’s way towards a vent.

Here in the storage room, it’s very hard to move and see with how many piled stuff are stored in this small room. You’re surprised that He managed to cramp himself inside here.

Eclipse, your ‘new' friend has been tagging along with you ever since your shift has started.

You don’t really know why- or maybe you do. Perhaps it’s because he’s still new with his surroundings in this Pizza Plex. Couldn’t really blame him, and it’s not like you mind his company anyways. You just found it a little strange.. and maybe cute.

You went to carry the small bear in your arms, you heard a little hiss coming from the taller one. You eyed him as you put Helpy on a table.

Noticing you making eye contact with him, he grinned from ear to ear, he lets out a creepy glitchy giggle. It’s like he’s drunk on something.

Honestly though, you want to have a taste with whatever he’s drunk with. It’d be a good stress reliever for at the moment. But oh well, no matter, you have at least 30 minutes until it’s your break time. You could pull this through.

Just like what you keep saying to yourself for the previous days.

Holding the hammer up high, you gave Helpy a little warning. Knowing he’s been given the ability to feel pain and all. It’s creepy and sad knowing this bot's cursed ability is used to train newbies. You also wondered how on earth are they able to program that.

“All right Helpy, I’m not gonna sugarcoat this and tell you it’s gonna hurt just a little. It’s actually gonna hurt really bad but I need you to be brave for me ok?”

He's shaking, but he nodded his head.

“…Ok, on the count of one… two…”

You aimed the hammer a little close to his knee.

“And…Three-"

Eclipse hold the back of the hammer.

“Wha- Eclipse? What’s wrong?”

He gently took the hammer out of your hand. His other hand softly patting your head.

And immediately slammed it on baby bear bear's knee.

“OH MY GOD!”

While Helpy screamed because of the sudden pain, you screamed in fright because of how loud and painful Helpy's scream is. Eclipse took care of the situation by putting some kind of mask that emits special smoke to calm him down, and put a bandaid on his knee.

His other hand went to give him a lollipop.

You only looked at him flabbergasted. And he only smiled at you.

“Work is over.. Break now..”

One of his hands took yours and led you to the cafeteria.

.

.

.

Well this is humiliating.

You ignore the stares of your co-workers, glaring at them if they ever so much as chuckled at your current predicament.

He held the spoon filled with fried rice and chicken, the lunch you packed for yourself and tried to feed you. He’s making you look like a baby god dammit! You glared right up at him and gently smacked away the spoon. “Eclipse, you’re kinda making me look like a fool here…”

The celestial robotic tilted its head, he slowly brought back the spoon close to your mouth. His other hand  holding your chin, trying to pry your mouth open. “…ahh”

You took a grip on his hand and lowered it down where he couldn’t reach your chin once again. He didn’t seem to mind, as he gladly took your hand and intertwined it with his slim fingers instead. He began to rub your hand with his thumb as best as he could.

With a sigh, you took the spoon and placed it on your lunch box. You look at Eclipse and hold his other hand. His rays slowly started moving at the initiated contact. “Look man..” You start off, letting out your thoughts and feelings was really hard for you. You’ve never thought you’d even do it to someone like Eclipse, considering he probably doesn’t know the most of what your saying unless you explained it but.. At least he had sympathy, you wouldn’t be able to find that in most people nowadays. That’s probably why you feel safe sharing your thoughts and feelings to him.

“Eclipse…You know I really really appreciate you helping me around stuff n all but. I kind of feel like you’re just… Babying me at this point.”

He emits a low mechanical whine, you could feel the slight tightness of his hands. “…Not intentional.. wanted to help you… get work done…”

“Awwe, thanks buddy.” You gently squeezed his hands and did the same thing Eclipse did with your hand earlier. “…But are you sure that’s the only reason? I noticed that.. You’ve been a little passive aggressive with the other bots.. Whenever I focus on them instead of you.”

With your confrontation, he looks to the side and whistled out some playful toons.

You confirmed that being rough with Helpy earlier was intentional on his part.

You let go of his hands to put yours on your hips. Giving him the all knowing stare, you called to him in a accusing manner. He only grinned widely at the mention of his name. You guessed that scaring a robot wouldn’t really work considering with looks alone, he’s the scary one than you.

“…Are you jealous?”

“…no..”

“You’re lying.”

“Not lying… only fibbing.”

You scratched your head and raised a brow. “But why? Why are you jealous?”

The tall robot leaned in to hug you. You went to sit on his lap. His faceplate rotated from left to right. “…love your eyes. Better on me.. than on them..”

You snickered and brought a hand up to your face. “Oh my god.. you wanted my attention?” You  seem to get the memo as he purred in delight at your question. “..Oh Eclipse.”

You pry yourself off to stand and look at him, cupping his face with your small hands. As expected he leaned in to your touch. “You didn’t have to go through all that way just to get my attention you know that?” Seriously, he really shouldn’t have.

He caused hell to the other bots, he’s scary when he’s jealous.

“If you wanted my attention, you could’ve just asked! You know I wouldn’t say no..”

He took a hold of your hand with his, and looked at you with bright purple eyes.

“May I… have your eyes on me?” You grinned and kissed his teeth. “Of course..”

He began to stand up, surprising you by picking you up. You didn’t know where your going, but you assumed in one of the dark places where no one could find you. You’re glad you play a vital role at your job, or else you would’ve been fired with the amount of time you’ve went missing during your working hours.

You didn’t noticed, but Eclipse surely did, of a certain robot hanging from the ceiling observing him with envy.

The moon themed animatronic crossed his arms. “…So this is what our star has been wasting their time on..”

‘No fair, no fair! Why spend time with a bootleg version of us?!'

It’s as if Eclipse heard their thoughts, one of his hands gave them the rude gesture from behind.

Moon clicked his tongue. “So…that’s how you want to play…”

He’s been playing unfair for the past few days! Always sabotaging their plans so he could have you in his arms! They tried so, so many times to get your attention. Like making so many messes in the Daycare for you to help them clean it, they made gifts so they could see your flustered face, and they even broke themselves for you to fix them.

Not only did the metal prick cleaned the Daycare, fixed them instead of you- which they much rather prefer,  he stole their gifts, lying to you that he was the one who made it instead of them! He is such a big fat liar! A phoney!!

He could imagine his Sunny counter part walking around and huffing in annoyance. ‘Oh the nerve of him to do that! When I get my hands on our star once again he’ll be begging us to let him see her! And even then it’d be over my shut downed body if he ever thought I’d agree!'

The lunar jester is pretty sure the Eclipse would just control their minds to scrap themselves up, before they could even think of hiding away their star.. As much as he wanted to, he and Sun knew it’d just make you sad if you found out they’re not on good terms.

So they’re the ones who tried to give them the time he needed with you but, they’re just abusing their kindness at this point. They need to hatch up a plan to have you back in their arms sooner of later.

The moon slowly backed away by crawling. “…Hoping to see that soon…” He went back to his patrols for now.

[pencilofawesomeness]

Fairy Tail Febuwhump 2025 Voting

I'm doing something different for @febuwhump this year and that's crowd-sourced mini prompts! Whoo! Now everyone gets to participate with me in my favorite activity of whacking characters with the Sad Boi Stick.

How this is gonna work:

I shall throw a few characters on a poll for each prompt, chosen by me and/or crowdsourced by my comrades on the Guild Awards server. I'll do seven at a time (so bear with me as I reblog this post a few times) and the polls will stay open for a week, and then I'll start voting on the next batch. The character that wins each poll shall be the focus of the prompt (and most likely the one getting whumped the hardest), although that won't stop other characters from making an appearance once I start writing. They will probably be open-ended but mostly canon compliant (maybe). Ideally all of these are going to be short since I'm going for "fun lil scenario" and not my usual trap of 5k+ oneshots this time. I'll post all of these to a drabble collection on AO3 come the posting days in February.

By the way, feel free to comment propaganda, or character suggestions for upcoming prompts, potential ideas for prompt fills if a certain character wins, etc. I'm only guaranteeing that I will use the winning character for whatever I come up with, but I am crowdsourcing in general but I think it'll be a fun challenge for me, and maybe mix things up from my usual habits lol.

Now for the first seven—

[aspho-bell]

I'll developp under cut

LUCIAN : Ok, from all the characters I have cited ( let alone Ifan's supposed wife ) Lucian is the man I ship the more with Ifan. Because Ifan is inherently rootless, and I headcanon him as always trying to find the place where he belongs ( tbh it'd need a post for itself ), because he is not an elf, but he is no human either. And he seeks that place. And we know that he was very close to Lucian, so maybe what he felt for him was not only friendship, but also admiration, even some kind of love. The kind of love you feel when you idealizes someone, and when this someone makes you feel at home. I will dig into that later, but I headcanon Ifan to have a one-sided love for Lucian, as the man was like, father of two children.

As for Lucian ? Ifan's love wasn't that one-sided, after all. I talked a little about Lucian's tragedy here, but I imagine there is some kind of feeling of desire for Ifan. Desire for his humanity, his golden heart, as he is, maybe, Lucian's idealized reflection. There is some complicated feelings he feels, feelings he cannot understand. Lucian does not love him like a human could, but he defintly loves more than a god should.

I think it makes Lucian's betrayal all the more tragic.

ROOST : I say dark romance because there is no way Ifan could love that man and not suffers from it. Well, if we follow the idea that Ifan longs for human relationship, then Roost is the perfect candidate after Lucian. He's very human, and like Ifan, has nothing left. He's a Lone Wolf, and the way Ifan speaks of him, he was a good friend of him. They may have shared something more - and that something would be horribly toxic. Roost is a cruel man, and Ifan probably had closed his eyes more than once instead of confronting Roost's horrible deeds. The violence flows between both of them. That's why it would be toxic. That's why I say : dark romance forever.

HIS DEAD WIFE : It appears from the alpha version that Ifan was married and father of a child, and I saw people keeping that idea of a dead wife. And I like it ! I always like when characters don't meet their first and only love in the course of the story, meaning that they have a romantic backstory, before the actual love interest. Moreover, his wife's identity ( whether she is an elf or a human, or her job, her personality ) can give some interesting headcanons about Ifan's background. Of course, it's a matter of interpretation, but I think we may have something here.

SEBILLE : From all the origin companions, she is the one that strikes as the most coherent one for a potential lover, due to all the parallels between both of them. Both outlaws, both raised by the elves, both rootless since the tragedy, both having unwillingly commited great crimes against the elves. They would certainly understand each other's suffering, and have their redemption arc together. I am no convinced myself, as they are too similar, but this is a coherent ship I can't deny.

NOBODY : To be honest, if there is no customed godwoken, I tend to ship Ifan with nobody. Because his final journey is, for me, a lonely one, and Ifan has so much good dynamic with the origins characters as friends.

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the post i'm currently writing is taking longer than expected, so I give you that while you're waiting for it. There is actually no good answer for Ifan, but personally, I think his relationship with elves and human men is to be developped. This poll is a way for me to see what other people think about Ifan's relationships.

I also invite you to share, if you want so, the way you consider your ship between your godwoken and ifan, or any ship you have between ifan and someone. it may be a good way to see different people's vision. might even do this myself.

Anyway, that is all. Until I post again.