#this is about the various series that have literally consumed my brain

[thewizzardwithin]

hate that when I come close to finishing a series I really, really like I stop consuming it as much. give myself a small trickle of it every other day or week. very, very slowly. the series can’t end if I never finish it haa hha

[nerdylittleguy]

Transformers Earthspark theory - how Knockout could actually be Mr Smelt

....or ideas about it, anyway. Enjoy my observations!

So uhh here's where the neurodivergent urge to consume media and hyperfixate on it has lead me! Please, feast your eyes on my flow chart/ mind map of madness™.

I know the text is really small, if you click and zoom it could be easier to read. I did try to split the original image into quarters, hope that makes it a little easier to read. However, if anyone needs a transcript I'll do my best to sort it out, my only concern is that I have no clue how to link ideas if they're just bullet points (the idea of having a way to link ideas is what lead me to make this in this format :) )

Perhaps a bit of an explanation as to what lead to this?

A few weeks ago, I saw the Earthspark season 1 part 2 trailer and hey... Who's that?? Breakdown?? Of course, I immediately wanted to watch what existed of the series so far, and imagine my pleasant surprise when I heard Knock Out's (tfp) VA voiced a side character!

Anyway, I started watching the series, finished it in 3 days, cried tears of happiness over Nightshade's pronouns (for those of you who say representation doesn't matter, it does. You probably just feel represented), fell in love with Megatron, etc etc. But imagine my absolute, brain-rotting madness when I couldn't find episode 7 on youtube!

Meh, like that would stop my theory brain. Using various episode summaries I found on youtube (first and foremost this one, as it was short and had good attention to detail! But if anyone has any recommendations for other good summaries feel free to let me know), I started to slowly make a mindmap. That evening I found @transformers-earthspark's blog and the where-to-watch resources... Firefly I cannot thank you enough!!! You're literally amazing!! You have no idea how happy I was to find ep 7!! You do so much, give yourself a pat on the back and a nice snack :))

Anyways, armed with my new access to ALL the earthspark episodes (1 - 10, anyway, as only they are available atm), I remade some of my mindmap, added to it, made more points. Over the last few weeks (aka less than two) I polished my mindmap, did some colour-coding, added images, links, details etc until it could apparently fit on an A3 sheet?? What??? So many ideas from silly old me??

Obviously, I don't think I'm completely right. As a matter of fact, I think I made many assumptions and links that were a very big stretch (blame this overactive imagination of mine. I keep thinking of potential plot lines and then forgetting that actually, I made them up and they're not canon). However, I hope I made a few points that will inspire someone to make their own theories, or just have fun thinking!

Apologies if this all sounds garbled or if it's difficult to understand, I am tired and I have two languages running around in my head (that I'm fluent in, I've also tried to learn 5 others. Lingual hell!!!)

Have a good day/ night and enjoy the theories!

Also a quick note and thing to add: I wrote this on Monday the 27th (I draft just about everything in my notes ok), before I woke up on Tuesday and saw the new images from the episodes, including the one with Breakdown!! AHHH!! /pos So I guess I was right about something? And I mean... Breakdown and a theme of racing in one episode? If this is a coincidence and Knockout is not chilling somewhere in the background then I don't know what to say.

[nataliaphantomhivesblog]

What are your current fandoms??

OH MY GOD!!! I WAS WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO ASK ME THIS!! LETS GOOOO🥳🥳🥳

1. Black Butler<3

It would've been incredibly distasteful to not put this beauty on top of my list. I have been a fan of this one since 5th grade, the literal backbone of my insanity.

I may complain monthly over the agnoizingly short chapters, but the narrative and storytelling in this manga is one of my favorites ever.

Although you didn't ask, I have the need to mention: Ciel Phantomhive is my child!!

And yes, I am still awaiting Prince Soma's return.

DISCLAIMER: I am not a sebaciel wierdo and my space doesn't welcome the romanticization of pedophila. "waah waah but it's fiction!" okay?? my account is dedicated on fictional stories and characters and I don't want your wacky shit here. Thank you in advance.

2. Bungou Stray Dogs!!!

What a crime it would've been if I didn't mention the reason my account grew in the first place!!

BSD has such a special place in my heart. Tbh bsd saved me during the downfall that was 2021.

I think people who aren't new to my blog know I'm a sucker for Soukoku. I've made extensive analysis on their relationships for 3 years now. When will this brainrot end!?!?

And oh, of course I am forever greatful to the lovely @ryuuaka713 for collaborating with me on various post, I couldn't have done it without her!! Hope life treats you well! You got a tumblr friend always rooting for ya<3

ALSO: If any of you ever want to ask me anything regarding bsd that isn't Soukoku, please do! I love bsd as a whole and would be happy to answer<3

3. Berserk

Let me make one thing clear!!! I am NOT a berserk reddit fanboy who completely ignores and neglects the narrative of this story in order to fill whatever inner void that needs to be filled.

I am suuuper passionate about the Golden Age Arc and the Pre Eclipse era of Berserk, it would be impossible to shut me up about it.

I could go on billion rants about Griffith's character and his actual complexities throughout the narrative. (no, he isn't emotionless, that would destory the whole point of the story lol)

Also I want to give a not-so-subtle shoutout to @bthump for validating every single thought I had while reading Berserk and always providing textual evidence. Thank you for being the light in the darkness of this fandom!

4. Death Note

sighs yes I am still in the fandom of an anime that has only one season and ended so poetically that it makes perfect sense that it doesn't have a continuation yet my brain screams for content when obviously it will never happen.

Before anyone asks, I am not team Light or team L, both of them are selfish people and used others lives in order to beat one another.

I am a constant defender of the fact that the Death Note consumed Light. Not only is it textually stated; but it's visually stated

(Light's eyes get wider and more innocent looking for a reason when he forgets the death note guys!!!)

Anyways, this story is absolutely awesome and I think most people can agree with that.

I don't rewatch this anime often, but when I do I get shooked by the big brain plans and big brain confrontations lmao.

5. Moral Orel

"MORAL OREL SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN CANCELLED!! FOOLISH PEOPLE FEARED IT SPOKE TOO MUCH FACTS" I scream into a void, tears fill my eyes as losing my religion by R.E.M plays in the background.

Seriously though, I love this show; a literal masterpiece. I don't think theres any show that made me incredibly concious of how my own family's dynamic worked as this one did.

Has amazing takes of the human condition and contains life long lessons.

I once made a long post about the generational abuse of moral orel if you want to check it out!

Anyways, if you haven't had the glorious chance to watch this masterpiece. PLEASE DO!! I BEG!!! The whole series is out on youtube!

we don't talk about the first 3 episodes!!!

6. Sonic!!!!

I never post anything sonic related on my blog, but I adore Sonic! Not only my childhood, but it continues to pump off amazing content and games.

Fun fact: I have a cute mini sonic keychain my friend gifted me, I take it with me everywhere!!

DID YOU KNOW THAT KELLIN QUINN FROM SLEEPING WITH SIRENS WAS INVOLVED WITH THE SONIC FRONTIERS SOUNDTRACK!?!?!? AAAAAAA I LOVE SONIC GAMES MUSIC AND ITS DIVERSITY

Nobody asked, but my favorie character is Knuckles and Shadow for anyone who wants to know! (No one wants to know but I HAVE THE NEED TO SAY IT.)

anyways yes, I love Sonic, I am at arms-lenght with the fandom since i'm... well... not much into the furry stuff that goes on. But theres lots of fanmade content out there that is super cool!

IN CONCLUSION!?!?!?

I have lots and lots of other fandoms im in but i fear i will go on forever if I keep on talking.

Thank you so much for reading all the way through and please, don't ever hesitate to ask me anything related to any of these fandoms above. Hyper analizing stuff is my speciality after all:D

[chemdisaster]

this is probably going to be an unpopular opinion, but some of you seriously need to relax and shut the fuck up about rpf.

i've seen an increasing amount of people in the hermitcraft and life series fandoms with "not the real people" in their pinned who seem to act like they're somehow better than those who do create/consume rpf. and you guys seriously need to get off your high horse right the fuck now and realise that when properly tagged and not forced on anyone, rpf hurts no one. and this goes for all art that commonly gets looked down on in this fandom, darkfic and non con and kinkfics and whatever else. if something is fictional, if it's properly tagged, if it's not forced on anyone - it hurts no one because it's fiction. more than that, it's art. you cannot and should not place boundaries on creativity. not only does that kind of thinking have serious real life consequences that i won't go into right now, but even within fandom spaces all you will end up doing is hurting the very people you often claim to want to protect.

most of the time i've seen this kind of attitude, it's been exhibited by younger people. and i would just like to remind you - you know how you can admit to writing fics and not be criticised and shamed for it? you know how fanfiction is a widely spread and common thing now? you know how nowadays you don't need to put an "i don't own x" disclaimer in your fic? yeah, the rpf people helped do that. obviously i can't speak for every community as i am just one person in my own tiny corner of the globe, but part of what helped me come to think of fanfic as something normal and not something i had to hide was getting used to the idea of rpf. it was frerard and those fics where someone gets sold to one direction and the normalisation of the 14 year old girl writing fanfics where she marries her crush and has three kids.

you people seem to view rpf as this big disgusting thing that god forbid anyone thinks i engage in or condone. and it makes me think of how i would write fanfiction about my swimmates and show it to them, and we'd all laugh about it. when i was a kid i would imagine myself being friends with celebrities and create fictional problems for them so i could provide emotional support. i still, on occasion, hyperfixate on real people and imagine myself interacting with them somehow. in fact, most of the time in my own head is spent daydreaming about various made-up situations including people i know or used to know, because that is simply how i deal with the real world, my form of escapism and just something i do to keep my messy brain occupied. what i'm getting at here is that rpf is normal. it's not this big awful sin. there is literally nothing remarkable whatsoever about the idea that someone would see something in real life and be inspired to turn it to art.

you get nothing from throwing other people also part of your community under the bus when there are those who would get rid of you all. you get nothing from being a dick, from spreading shame and disgust and assigning moral weight to things that cause zero harm. your knee-jerk reaction at something that makes you uncomfortable is not the end all be all of what's right and what deserves to exist. so i pray you, get over yourself, stop acting like you're better than everyone else and shut the fuck up about rpf.

[possumteeths]

2022 Writing Wrap Up

Tagged by: @screwyouflightlieutenant (thanks for thinking of me! 💖)

Total words published: 308,920 (christ???)

Additional words written:

Im gonna ballpark and say maybe 150 k other words with additional projects that arent fanfic lol (as well as fanfic wip)

Grand Total of Words: 458k ish?

Fandoms:

Various horror movies, Dragon age, Fallout, Mass effect, RDR, the boys

Highest Everything (raw kudos, hits, comments):

Unsurprisingly, its my the Boy chaptered fic Love Me Cancerously, This blew tf up and I really didn't expect it to. It is SO cool that other people like this not great movie and are so down for this rollercoaster i've been writing.

Highest Kudos to Hits Ratio:

It's still my Brahms fic, and the runner up is ANOTHER Brahms fic but that one's a oneshot.

New Things I Tried:

x readers! I never really liked reading or writing x readers ever until recently. I really like second person as a device and I just refuse to acknowledge things that use like blanks or the Y/N device lol. Realizing this totally changed the way I like to write. I think second person is excellent for storytelling. Leaving the reader insert extremely vague and writing from the perspective of the character is SO fun.

Fic I Spent The Most Time On:

Love Me Cancerously AGAIN lol. Usually I just kinda write things in one go, but for this fic I put it through multiple stages of editing.

Favorite Thing I Wrote:

This completely nonsensical fallout raider gangbang. I rarely enjoy reading or writing OC x OC works, but I really unlocked something in my brain with this fic. I am so in love with the characters, they still live in my head. I wanted it to be SILLY DUMB and it was just so much fun to write. This is the most "me" I think of anything I've ever written, and I fully just went balls to the wall ridiculously porny and it was so much fun.

Favorite Thing I Read:

dude ANYTHING by my buddy @ventiswampwater (here's her ao3) every single one of her fics make me INSANE. We have such similar ideas of characterization for this DUMB movie that for some reason we're obsessed with. I love cerebral poetic weirdo porn I just consume everything she's done over and over again. Seriously some of the best x readers i've ever come across.

@some27-url 's Deacon X SS series, I cant get ENOUGH of this fucked up dynamic. I gush on and on about this and I dont want to be annoying but I cannot shut up about how much I love this series

OH! This Yautja harem x OC work I found, literally I've never had the patience for LONG LONG fics before but I honestly wish there was MORE of this. I loved!! the characters and everyone involved, the story was so smutty and good. You dont need to know shit about predator lore this fic may as well be its own story. This fanfic is better than any smutty xenophilia/monsterfuckery romance book that i've ever read.

@brimbrimbrimbrim 's Vigilante x reader fic was so much fun, characterized SO well. It was silly fun and I loved it hahaha like I love this author but this fic really stuck out to me hahaha.

Writing goals for 2023:

I'd like to just bite the bullet and submit to publications as well as random magazine challenges or whatever else. I often debate whether I should or shouldnt for so long that I then miss the deadline for the actual challenge lmao! I submitted to a few horror magazines as well as some poems to indie publications asking for submissions this year but I'd like to just submit as much as I possibly can because fuck it y'know. This year, I got ONE poem selected to be in a book and then it was actually removed from the eventual publication coming out in 2023 so like... lmao?

New Works:

I've actually been editing my short story horror anthology off and on, cleaning it up and formatting it and all the boring shit. I'm looking to trad pub or at least submit certain stories to challenges. I'm also hoping to saddle up and adapt my raider gangbang fanfic into a more developed story that I'll eventually KDP publish. As for fanfics, I've got SO many fkn horror baddies x readers in the works rn, and like 21u314398240 90% done fanfics that I just need to edit and publish to ao3 lol.

tagging: @some27-url @gaeadene (girl I gotta know how many words u uploaded this year LOL) @ventiswampwater @korblez @wolfbirbisme @flaggermuser @butterbabyflapjack

Happy new year yall! Lets go full nuts and write WHATEVER ur silly lil heart desires. I declare this year the year of balls to the wall FUCK IT on ao3 lmfao

[evelhak]

Hi Eve! Hope it's a good day! I'm curious to know about your art process, where does inspiration come from for you? Lots of love 😘, V.

Wow, that's a big question. Short answer is everywhere but obviously that doesn't really say anything. This is hard for me to describe, so thank you for asking such a challenging question. A key feature in inspiration for me is that there's something I need to exist that doesn't exist. Before I start my fan art and fan fiction, a new project especially, I typically have gone through a lot of other people's art, not finding what I'm looking for, and eventually ending up with the conclusion that I have to do it myself. Like, I would be happy just consuming if what I wanted existed in the world. Maybe it's not quite so clear cut, but I think it's heightened on the fandom side of things for me. Yes, in my original work my initial inspiration is similar but I think on that side I would still have the need to create for fun even if I didn't think I HAD TO bring something specific that was missing, to existence.

So, when an existing story and characters are my inspiration it's things that come together in my head from various threads that are sort of just hanging or floating there in the original material that I see no one drawing together, and I get a little frustrated typically, because I realise these things are not going to come together and then I NEED to draw those threads together, because otherwise it won't happen, and I need it to happen. So, it's things like "Why isn't anyone writing this character in these situations?" "Why isn't anyone paying attention to this underlying pattern?" "Why haven't I seen this joke made before it's literally on a silver platter, why does everyone pass by it?" "Why is this character so underappreciated?" "Why isn't anyone talking about the similarities between this series and that literary work or a fairytale?" So, a lot of times it's that I see missed opportunities.

That's not nearly enough for me to actually draw or write something though, because my projects are just usually big because my brain is like that somehow, so they really have to be worth my time for me to start what I know will eventually be huge. And I think that happens when the things that I see mentioned above tie into a bigger context, a bigger theme that I think is important in the world and that it should be talked about more. Of course sometimes I just have fun and giggles within those projects but it's rare for me to start unless there's something in it that I feel is meaningful thematically and psychologically. Basically something that has the potential to heighten people's self awareness and understanding of the world, and the feeling of community. I know this is so abstract and broad but I can't really help thinking these things. It's not like I'm fantasizing about having a big impact necessarily, it's more like awareness of these things just affects my small choices in art and life.

So, um, I'm trying to give examples to bring this a bit more to the ground level.

In my She-Ra comics one big theme was Adora's abuse because it wasn't on the screen the way Catra's was (for a good reason, I mean that's the point), and I felt like some people were missing how important part of the original story that was, so I felt like making the effects of it visible in a way that a children's show obviously couldn't have.

In KnB a lot of my inspiration is things like... "Fujimaki is unknowingly representing something he doesn't understand at all so he's writing accidental minority characters and then he's using those qualities for barely more than running gags, while so much more could be done with these things and this representation could actually make a difference in someone's life if the angle was shifted ever so slightly".

Obviously I already love these stories, I am a fan of them and I think they are doing so many things right, and that's why when I see something missing or I see fandom interpreting things in a way that I think is mischaracterising something, or even toxic, I just feel like I need to do something.

In my original work the process is similar, just less specific in a way. It's a bit broader. Like, I feel like something is missing in the fantasy genre, or some relationship trope is too toxic and overpowering, or detective novels are the antithesis of everything they stand upon, or "not interpreting this fairytale in this way in this time and age is so tone-deaf". Ideas like that come to my head, so then I have to do something about it.

So. In a way a lot of my inspiration to do things is sparked by something being wrong or missing, which is a bit ironic because in the end my fuel for art has always been joy. I can't really do things out of pain like some artists can, for me it's always happiness that keeps me going because really I see no point without it. I suppose that's why my art is also all about growth, even though it deals with heavy topics, the point of it is always overcoming your obstacles and becoming a better and happier version of yourself.

I guess I could conclude with how I have this love and hope for the human nature, and I easily see the best version someone could be, mentally. I see them loving themself and seeing their own good qualities and treating others with respect and opening up to other people, and inviting the world in. I always have hope because I see that so clearly in everyone, in a specific way that is all about who they are as a person, so it's like... I wish that if I could write characters that people love, in a way that demonstrates that hope, and growth, someone who is struggling could be inspired by those characters. That those characters could help them see the way out of their misery and also call people out when they are treating others or themselves badly. Because the power of example is way more effective than telling someone what to do, because the individual has the freedom and responsibility of interpretation when it comes to examples. And really, I believe that's how it should be because we can't influence anyone who doesn't want to be influenced, no matter the good intentions.

That's... my inspiration, in (not so) short? In the end I'm just a naive idealist with a need to butt in, but with the added benefit of an adult's self-awareness and complexity of thought, haha. And I'm aware I'm a weird, reluctantly obsessive fan artist, because really I want to focus on my original stuff and I want to be able to live by my pen and be an "original" artist, but I can never give up fandom because that's where I feel my specific skill set is utilized to its peak. Because my art process is so source based, that obviously the more specific, the more well defined the source is, the stronger the impact of the things I can bring out of it is too, because I know how to use the reader's expectations and viewpoints way more specifically than I can know them in a broader landscape, such as a whole genre I might be writing my original fiction in.

And this is why things like Sherlock Holmes becoming public domain is like a lottery win for me! That's a very specific but also huge and incredibly complex and popular source that inspires me right now!

Thank you again for the ask, and I hope my answer wasn't too overwhelming.

[firjii]

Shoutout to the folks who can’t or don’t enjoy the media that other people deeply cherish.

Disney’s original animated “Alice in Wonderland” and “Snow White” invariably gave me a migraine when I tried to watch them (I didn’t know what it was at the time, but yeah, that happened, more than once). I was very open to those stories, but my brain or eyes or something literally couldn’t deal with it. I have never watched any form of remake, prequel, alternate version, or offshoot of them and have no desire to.

The original “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” movie kinda unsettled me. I have never watched the 2005 remake and have no desire to.

The “Matilda” movie was physically uncomfortable to me, as was the book form of “James and the Giant Peach” (never got around to the movie version, don’t want to).

I thought the whole Shrek series was...just OK, ditto various other late ‘90s/early ‘00s movies that some people around here completely adore. I don’t have objections to them, I just would rather watch something else.

Respect people’s boundaries on this shit. Don’t just say “you’ll like it if you try it again.”

I don’t care if everyone deems something a classic. I don’t care if everyone else in your generation likes it. You’re not a traitor if you’re an outlier. It’s OK if you don’t like it or if you literally can’t consume it for some reason. Even if there’s nothing inherently upsetting about something and it has good values and whatever the fuck other reasons people insist on watching something, it’s OK if you don’t want to deal with it.

[thewholedamnboulangerie]

5, 13, and 19 <3

Eee thank you Talia my beloved!! 💕💕💕

5) TV show of the year?

I think we can safely say that it was KinnPorsche The Series: La Forte!! The show that inspired gnome chat to greater heights of insanity than ever before during its runtime, single-handedly tripled the number of fics I have posted on AO3, consumed my brain from April until - well, it's still gnawing on there tbh - and brought me some wonderful new fandom friends. Yeah it wins 🥰🥰🥰

13) How was your birthday this year?

My actual day of birth was super chill and snoozy, it was basically just cake and a takeaway and finishing watching Wheel of Time with my housemates (who had bought me a cake, which was GREAT bc I'd also bought myself a cake. allllll the cake). The exciting bit was supposed to have been the previous day, as I'd had tickets to a play starring literally the man himself, yes you guessed it, Toby Goddamn Stephens, BUT the last three performances (including that one) were cancelled due to cast illness, so a last-minute replacement plan had to be made!! And since Austentatious (stand-up comedians improvising a Jane Austen play based on a title suggestion from the audience, I adore them) had a show scheduled for four days later, and they're a shared fave of mine and the friend I was supposed to see Toby Stephens with, we rounded up five additional friends for good measure and had a lovely after-work theatre outing the following week 🥰

19) What’re you excited about for next year?

Oooh a very interesting and difficult question, because the things I'm most excited for haven't been planned yet, and exist even in my brain in only the most nebulous of ways!! The most certain one is that I'll be spending a lil bit of time at home in the summer, because not one but TWO of my friends from high school are getting married within ten days of each other (insane of them); I think I'm going on holiday abroad with my parents in the early autumn, which will be very exciting if we ever decide on a destination; I will almost certainly be taking a lil trip down to London over my birthday weekend for various antics and shenanigans (again, if I ever get round to planning it); E4 next instalment (not to repeat myself AGAIN, but: if we ever plan it); and ofc IF there is a BOC world tour Europe edition. Well. It WILL be Going Absolutely Insane O'Clock!!!!!! So like. To sum up. I will probably be going places and having a nice time but also I don't have all the information.

...but what I DO know is that I will be continuing to go absolutely insane about the blorbos with all the little gay people who live in my phone, and I am ALSO very excited for that!! I love you all 🥰💖❤️✨🥰

[doomxdriven]

RULES AND SO FORTH

PREFACE

This is a low-activity, independent, crossover friendly multi muse blog that houses both canon characters (or canon-divergent I should say) and oc’s related to bleach! Do note that when I say canon-divergent for my canon muses, I really, really mean it in light of my headcanon-ing for those muses. Also, while the muses on this blog are from Bleach, I do not consider myself, this blog, or my muses to be heavily affiliated with the Bleach fandom itself-- love the series, but ultimately I'm going to write these muses however I want, and write them in whatever settings/au's/etc's that I want SFJHGSFDGHJ (love putting my muses in different worlds or doing crossover shit when possible so if you are looking for a purely bleach blog uh, this may not be for you)

With that out of the way: my name’s mark, i’m 26 years old, tired af, but most importantly, pleased to meet you! I’ve been writing on this hellsite for almost 8-9 years now, and here I am, finally deciding to cluster some of my muses together in the hopes of being more active DFGHSDGHJFGH but we’ll see! Thank you for checking out this page and reading this far, please continue on down below to check out the rules I’d like you to keep in mind for  this blog and it’s muses!

1. This blog is low activity, as stated above, meaning that my activity can ebb and flow but will generally be pretty sparse. I work a very time and sanity consuming job that, well, eats up about 80% of my week and my energy e.e but I will try to be here  as much as I can.

2. This blog is selective, and mutual’s only, a.k.a, I can be kinda choosy in regards to who I follow back, and I will only interact IC with those I follow back. If you follow me and I don’t follow you back in a few days, I’m probably not going to, sorry (unless i’m on hiatus or something in which case I’m not actively checking up on my blog or followers or anything sdfjhgsdfjghs). I generally follow back all types of blogs (canon’s/multi’s/oc’s/etc) provided I’m familiar with their fandoms and/or can see us interacting in some way. Deplorables please dni though.

3. This blog does practice mains, and exclusives, but the latter will only ever be used for my closest friends. The latter aside, I am definitely open to writing with multiple portrayals of a muse, though mains will get higher priority, should I have them.

4. GODMODDING/META-GAMING: Having to put this down as a rule feels so cursed in the lords year 2023 (almost 2024) like, you’d think most people would know this by now, but, for the people in the back I guess; don’t god mod or try to control my muse without my permission and all that!

5. REPLY SPEED/LENGTH: I can be the slowest writer in the known universe so please keep that in mind when you are writing with me. sometimes it can take me weeks, or even a month or more than that to get to replies. i know that isn’t ideal for some people, and if that puts you off from wanting to write with me i completely understand, but that’s just how my brain works. sometimes i can put things out relatively fast, but thanks to the various factors of my life, most of the time my writing frequency is sporadic and my muse for threads can ebb and flow, so [insert shrugging here] that just how it be.

When it comes to reply length, i’m a big quality over quantity person. I literally do not care how big or small your reply is so long as you show enthusiasm and give me enough to work with when it comes to my response. likewise, i’d ask that you don’t hold me to any certain ‘quantity’ when it comes to my writing. i’ll make an attempt to match your length, but at the end of the day, i might not always be able to do that. i will, however, make sure to give you something to work with, instead of leaving the metaphorical ‘ball’ in your court all the time.

6. NSFW?: I don’t expect a ton of sexual-esque NSFW stuff to happen on this blog, but with some muses I suppose it is more likely. NSFW of any kind will of course be tagged accordingly, and put under readmores, but as far as hard-core smut goes, I, do not see myself ever publicly writing that, so situations of that nature, if they do occur, will be taken down the ‘fade to black’ route.

7. SHIPPING? Shipping of the romantic variety is not a huge priority for me, outside of the ships I have with my GF’s muses. There are some muses on my blog that I am potentially open to shipping with in certain circumstances (with good ic chemistry, and proper ooc communication being paramount for such things) ofc, but we'll just have to see how that all goes.

8.  MUN SELF-CALLOUT: I suffer from crippling social anxiety and I’m horrible about approaching people first, so if you want to write with me, your best bet is to just hit up my inbox to talk about things! if anything i try to keep an eye out for starter calls but i dont usually keep up with the dash so, those tend to escape me unfortunately sdfkhjsdfhjksd. If I’m following you, chances are that I want to write with you, but if I haven’t approached you yet….. you know why: i’m too socially inept for my own good sdfkjhsfkhjsdfkhj

9. I prefer not to engage with callouts or drama, and would prefer to see you, as a follower of mine, not fill my dash with the latter and be wise about interacting with the former. I personally will reblog callouts if I find there is real merit in them and awareness to spread, but otherwise I will generally avoid such things if its over petty shit.

10. Please specify which of my muses you are interacting with when sending in asks or liking starter calls. I’ll of course make note of such things in the tags of things I post, but if you like a starter call or send in an ask and do not specify which muse you are aiming at, you will get RNG from yours truly!!

OTHER IMPORTANT TIDBITS

– I can understand on some level why some people prefer their new followers to send in passwords or asks or something but I’m just not comfortable doing that I’m sorry sfhjkgsdgh if i’ve followed you, you can be assured that I have read your rules, but if you absolutely require me to send something in to confirm that then uh….. sorry its not going to happen ):

– I don’t engage in fight threads TOO often but I love them and am definitely down for brawls between our muses! That said I’d prefer we as mun’s sorta talk about where we expect those fights to go, and be realistic about our muse’s capabilities and such, especially if its a fight thread that may wind up with one of our muses being seriously injured! – Mutual’s are welcome to ask for my discord, but I don’t talk on there very much or use it often-- it is a better place to contact me for plotting or other rp related things, though SFHSGHJDF WILL ADD MORE LATER MAYBE? THANK YOU FOR READING THUS FAR THO UR AWESOME!

[disregardcanon]

okay so first in the “toh analyzed in context of a world saturated by harry potter” series, let’s look at hunter and luz’s respective similarities to our golden boy.

DISCLAIMER: harry potter is, for better or worse, still a major part of our generation’s culture and an influence on works in the genre. though i refuse to give JKR money or consume further works in the series, pretending that the original 7 books and 8 movies and their influence on culture should and can just disappear immediately is... silly? puritan? reactionary? i don’t know.

harry potter is still there floating around in all of our brains and i think that the owl house is in a lot of ways working directly AGAINST it because it still has such an impact on culture. so

the harry subversion mainly belongs to hunter, but there are also parts that belong to luz. you know, our actual protagonist instead of her foil.

now my big thoughts of hunter as a subversion of harry himself are

1. terrible circumstances that the “mentor” specifically creates. in harry potter, dumbledore is the one that orchestrates harry being raised by the dursleys. the justification in universe for this is that he doesn’t want harry raised specifically as “chosen one” and assumes that the durlsey’s will be a loving family. but this doesn’t happen, and in effect raises a harry who is entranced by the wizarding world and has very little power or access to information in it. hunter was LITERALLY created by belos, most probably with the specific memories that he would use to manipulate his view of the situation- entirely fabricated since hunter is a fabricated person.

2. being beholden to the legacy of a person that you don’t really know or understand that has been specifically hidden from you, both visually and in the way that you act and view the world. in harry potter, harry is FREQUENTLY compared to his parents from both a visual and character standpoint, but given very little information about what they actually were like. he’s used as a level of replacement goldfish for both parents by various characters in the story expecting him to be more like james or more like lily, people that he never got the chance to know. and were explicitly hidden from him by someone with a strong but resentful tie to one of them (petunia’s envy and resentment of lily). she is also keeping him away from the thing that she couldn’t have and didn’t understand that she resented lily for.

belos is ALSO caleb’s possessive and resentful older sibling who has basically stripped away anything of hunter’s (read: caleb’s) to try to keep him from ever falling for the james character or really being swept away in the universe. hunter is kept from any trace of the person he is BASED on, but also held to a ridiculous standard of being him, like lots of the relationships with adults in harry’s life (snape especially with both lying his hatred of james AND possessive love of lily at harry’s door). harry ISN’T either of them, but he has traces of them that he is both praised for and derided without any real knowledge of them. which i think we would have seen more with belos and hunter if given the opportunity.

3. the “mentor” character who specifically wants to use the main character manipulates with the idea of destiny and is leading them to death- dumbledore as a means to an end and belos as a forgone conclusion because he ALWAYS kills caleb. every time. and both of them think that it’s justified- it’s just that in harry potter this IS justified by the narrative whereas in the owl house it isn’t. i feel like it would be more of a direct subversion if hunter destroying himself would have actually “helped” people, but i think that it’s still an interesting contrast.

in the case of hunter, i think that if the similarities aren’t intentional, they’re certainly TELLING. that dana terrace’s traumatized anti-chosen one (opposite of chosen one? fake chosen one?) is so... similar to harry potter as a character. the specific method of manipulations, the way that it ends with his head on a spike, the ways that others in his life view him only as a replacement for someone that they lost. the insular nature of his worldview and how tailor-made it is for manipulation. if you look at harry’s circumstances through the modern anti-chosen one trope- it’s a tragedy where the victim never realizes that they were one in the first place.

for luz, i think that it’s mainly just “protags gonna protag” but i think that the ways that luz does it in contrast to harry are very interesting

1. luz is the fish out of water placed into the world, but luz has no real “reason” to be there. she has to make the choice to be in the world (she doesn’t have powers or a destiny! she’s just a kid who likes it here!). harry was an abused and neglected child who was then thrust into the spotlight where he was suddenly A Celebrity Of Great Renown. luz is kinda infamous for being a human and her association with eda, but there’s never a weight of destiny riding on her back. (despite her hopes for that)

2. if you look at the similarities and differences between amity and draco malfoy... .hooo drarry shipper in me go YAAAAYYYYYY!!!!

[emeraldsandamethyst]

ghost pregnant au

since i have been consumed by danny phantom and this dumb AU i thought i might ought to make like, a post consolidating all of my ideas for it or something

fyi i started writing and posting the series before i'd finished watching danny phantom in its entirety, i have since seen it all

so the series happens but out of series order, phantom planet and Ghost writer's nonsense happen before Frightmare which then leads into Reality Trip as the s3 finale (credit to @kawaiijohn for this universe brain idea) in reality trip when danny fixes things he resets it all to no one but sam tucker and jazz knowing he's phantom

in this AU Valerie has some biases to overcome but she eventually accepts that it's super hecking obvious Danny Phantom and Danny Fenton are the same person but she doesn't actually tell anyone that she knows, she does stop trying kill/end phantom but she likes their fights so she keeps harassing him, until Phantom is obviously pregnant when she refuses any attempt on Danny's part to fight; this is because i'm a sucker for a fun pitch romance and val is liminal so she's getting ghostly emotions and pitch flirting and danny is too but neither of them know why they like doin this with each other specifically so much

so three years after danny becomes phantom is when this AU is set, danny and peers are 17

idk if i will write what happens to start the pregnancy thing but lemme explain the concept first so we're all on the same page

ghosts are a single sex organism that reproduce by chipping or cutting off a tiny piece of themselves(their core) and giving it enough ectoplasm to form a hard protective shell then incubate it. this is a new core, or baby, or egg, or what have you. then the ghost(s) involved (usually way more than two because of how hecking dangerous it is) have already discussed before hand how they are incubating this new core and there are many methods that don't involve shoving in your body for 12 to 18 months, because that's dangerous as heck for both the new core and the ghost host. they usually make an external pouch like a marsupial mammal but with egg or they make nests in a lair or lairs or haunt or haunts (depending on various personal choices of parties involved, moving the egg between lairs is common as is alternating who is carrying their egg around in their pocket)

because this process is so difficult and so dangerous for the parties involved, especially without any one with ghost medicine training helping, ghosts formed like this are, compared to living creatures reproduction rates, very uncommon.

ghosts be all about the babies. ghost love babies. any ghost that hurts babies is an unmade ghost that don't know it yet. most ghosts extend this to living babies but not all.

ghosts usually have many more than one or two parents, some ghosts differentiate ghost parents that were involved in creation from ghost parents involved in incubation and rearing. because depending on the situation dozens of weaker ghosts can contribute a tiny tiny bit of ectoplasm to one ghost that's strong enough to make a shard, and only a dozen or so ghosts would actively incubate and rear the baby, as an example

so for this and other reasons no one even suspects Danny has zero ghost parents and assumes he's just using english because he's a creepy halfa or whatever (he breathes, he blinks, who tf does that) and not that he's literally only being reared by jack and maddie; so everyone assumes he's been taught how to be a ghost and he's just a fighty asshole, but no, he is a feral noodle (and also a fighty asshole) eventually, Frostbite learns that Danny is legitimately an orphaned ghost which is an insane concept for any ghost (after Danny and Jazz leave that day, he gets a few stiff ghost drinks and brawls and feels a bit better)

uhh i think that's most of the explanation for that, but hmu if it's confusing

so in the summer before Junior year, Danny gets in SOME kinda SOMETHING with the GIW that leaves him so messed up his core is literally cracked and he goes to Frostbite immediately after he gets done with that mess. Frostbite tells him to get rest especially in the GZ or with a ton of ectoplasm and to NOT put ANY stress on himself or his core will chip or crack off a shard. Per above, Frostbite assumes Danny knows that this will form a new core and is extremely dangerous so he doesn't elaborate.

danny does not do that. surprise. and a very short time later he is training by himself on an obstacle course in the GZ and knocks himself tf out at close to mach danny and that pops out a shard.

and then he just, keeps Not Doing That (resting, self care, having a single microgram of self preservation) so the shard doesn't stay close enough to his core to heal back into him it instead gets bumped around enough that danny's core starts healing itself and it starts trying to grow and become a full core. this being Danny he is overpowered as hell so he just feels really shitty instead of becoming unmade and then around three months after the shard spawning he sneezes his egg down into his tail/belly and feels so much better he just decides it was some ghost flu, spoilers, it's not. it is baby. he has can become pregnant

there's more and also i haven't even covered the lore for haunts i'm playing with either but this is already so long

[cakesexuality]

Would you want to live forever? How about for a billion years, a million, a millennium, a century? What ridiculously time consuming hobbies would you master with all the leisure time that kind of lifespan would allow? How did you become immortal? Do you try to hide it?

Apologies for taking so long to answer this!! I wanted to take time to think about it but I still don't know if I can fully answer this

I'll start with: "How did you become immortal?" I keep thinking about this one and don't know the actual answer!! All I can think of are just the various ways to become immortal. It could be a vampire situation in which I don't age. It could be a Doctor Who situation in which I do age, but get to start over in a new body every couple of centuries, and how old I appear to be varies with each reset (think of Matt Smith regenerating into Peter Capaldi who, in turn, regenerates into Jodie Whittaker). It could be an Ellimist from Animorphs situation where some sci-fi nonsense occurs and I absorb countless other beings after my civilization gets nuked for having Twitch and I live for so long that I stop having a true sense of time and am so powerful that I can't even directly fight someone who's as powerful as I am or else the universe will get fucked up. It could be an I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream situation where my body has been horrifically modified against my will in order to punish me for humanity's wrongdoings. (Obviously the last option is the least ideal, but it's still out there as a possibility.) Edit: It could also be an In The Flesh/partially deceased syndrome situation where I'm not technically immortal, since I can still be taken out like a Resident Evil zombie and I can also "warm up" which would return me to my prior physical state, but I am still able to not die as long as my brain is intact and it also means that I don't have certain needs like eating... although the trade-off is the need to take neurotryptilin every day, which would get kinda annoying considering where it gets injected in combination with how independent I often am with my real-life medical stuff and also would get stressful considering that I don't stick to an exact schedule with my real-life medications, and another trade-off is that I first have to die and rise as a zombie and terrorize a small town and go to the treatment centre and be one of the lucky ones to respond to the drug and bla bla bla...

Would I want to live forever? In a realistic world (although, how realistic can we get if we're talking about fantasy and sci-fi?) probably not, because how I pretty much cope with the knowledge that my EDS will get worse is "just don't think about it" since it will inevitably get worse and I don't even know how things will be if I'm 50 years old, let alone, like, 300 years old. But in an ideal situation where the state of my EDS is frozen so that it never gets any worse than it currently is at 26 (this would probably happen in the vampire situation I suggested, or edit: it wouldn't even matter, at least for a little while, in the PDS situation since people with PDS have impaired ability to sense pain from being, you know, dead) or where EDS isn't even in the picture, then maybe!! Or perhaps not live forever, just live a few extra centuries

What would I do to pass the time? If whatever situation happened that caused me to be immortal also meant that I had no standard physical human needs to look after, such as eating or sleeping?? Let the ADHD and autism take over. I'll shut myself in my sewing room for literal days on end. I'll stay up doing non-stop gaming marathons of back-to-back entries of entire game series (serieses?) where I drink coffee and yell at Nathan Drake for significantly longer than Naughty Dog (or God) intended. Just doing all my normal hobbies, but doing them continuously for unnatural chunks of time without being interrupted. I'm sure I'll end up making more things than I know what to do with, since I already have this problem in real life from knitting too many hats and only being able to hand off, like, a quarter of them to other people.

[x-men-memes]

Hey just bc ur a comics blog wanted to say - wandavision and the mcu/xmcu depicions of the twins are vvv racist. In 616 the twins are romani Jewish and have been for like 40 years. The mcu cast them as Nazis (hydra volunteers if u look on any mcu source material). the xmcu cast peter as a kleptomaniac despite thievery being a negative stereotype against romani people.

I get a lot of people don’t know this but please dont contribute to the erasure here. Please choose to do the right thing.

I don’t know if you’ve actually gone through my blog or if you’re just sending this to various blogs, but I have a post (albeit, subtly) criticizing the MCU and its erasure of Jewish identities.

I never really got into it before on here because it’s mostly jokes on this blog, but I guess now’s as good a time as any.

((Kind of a rant on some of the antisemitism in both series below the cut. It’s organized into manageable lists.))

XMCU:

Erasure of Kitty Pryde’s (Jewish) Ethnicity

Casting white actors as Jewish characters (I love Ian McKellen so much, but like- still not a good look when paired with the fact that they never really say it outside of the context of Nazism.)

The WHOLE destruction of Auschwitz scene

Magneto getting his helmet and cutting himself off from Charles by using a piece of Nazi technology and figuratively saying he’s “become just as bad as them” when the WHOLE point of Magneto is that grey part between obedience and accepting that you have to wait for oppressors to magically stop being oppressors and going all out and making yourself into the enemy they see you as.

MCU:

More white actors as Jewish characters

Crosses in Wanda’s room on top of that, the Christmas portraits in Wandavision, the fact that Wanda’s favorite time spent with her family was watching AMERICAN SITCOMS-

Attempted Removal of Nazism from Hydra (Redskull being dismissive of Hitler instead of idolizing him as he does in the comics, changing of the salute, relegation of Hitler and Nazism to secondary Hydra definitions as opposed to being the core of their ideals- All of this is done to make Hydra more marketable in the literal sense to sell cups and shirts with Hydra on it and to make characters associated with it more likable... even though they’re STILL Nazis.)

Changing of Pietro’s name to Peter. Can we avoid changing eastern European names to sound more Americanized? Please? What producer do I have to show An American Tail (1986) to?

((Caption: A quote from An American Tail where Tanya Mouskewitz asks, “Papa, why’d they change my name to Tilly?))

All of this talk of casting Denzel Washington as Magneto

No listen- before anyone asks about this last one- I want to point out that I’m ALL FOR retroactive inclusivity. I would love a black Prof. Charles Xavier, Scott Summers, Jean Grey- pretty much anyone other than the few, precious Jewish characters left in X-Men. Kitty Pryde’s ethnicity has been all but forgotten, Wanda and Pietro are no longer canonically his children and their heritage has come under question again and again in that same canon, and I struggle to name another past Iceman who is also not a well known identity.

Imagine if, in making a live action Teen Titans, they wanted to cast one of the titans as Korean since none of them are canonically Korean and decided to take Cyborg- the only black team member- and made him Korean. That’s not even getting into that of COURSE the Korean man would rely mainly on the strengths of his prosthetics and not his physical body and that he would be the primary brains of the team in everything but social situations and battle.

That’s how I see casting the one prominently Jewish character we have left as a black man when that character is also literally a civil rights leader who acts using demonstrations of violence to gain a voice for his group. You really want a black man in that role in 2021?

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Anyway, thanks for giving me a space to air some of this! I hope that everyone on this blog is a critical consumer of the MCU and XMCU alike. Reactions to my “predictions” post only encourages that to be true. 

[thecrimsonjaguar]

A Short List of Adventure Time AUs

So I got a google doc of adventure time aus I’ve made over the past two or three years. Here are some of my favorites (and also the ones I came back to and edited)

If you’ve got ideas for an au or ideas to add onto the preexisting ones I’ve got here, please tell me! I’m always up for some au discussion. 

1.) Jermaine AU: Jermaine comes to live at the treehouse after his house blows up. This, unlike canon, happens rather early in season 3. The rest of the series mainly stays the same, except this time there's three brothers instead of two. He's a kinda anxious dude with demon hunting expertise and a painting hobby. He sometimes wonders if he made Dad disappointed by letting all his work explode. Finn and Jake help him out, and he helps them. Despite this, Jermaine is the only one with a brain, and Finn and Jake share exactly one (1) braincell that they trade every so often. Jermaine is tired. (Jermaine is the only one who tries to clean regularly, and he's also the one to keep Neptr, Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant, and a few others company. He's a bit of real wisdom the early series Finn and Jake needed.

2.) Melted Ice AU: Mid season two, IK is hit with something that de-ages him. He turns six. Maybe this mystery de-aging thing blows up the top of the ice mountain, who knows. Maybe he wakes up in the snow, with no memory of how he got there or why. No memory of the last one thousand years. Finn and Jake don't know about his backstory since that happens in season three. Simon is carried by a snowman out of the ice kingdom where he breaks down in the plains. Finn, of course, finds him and is ecstatic to meet another human. Completely missing the fact that this small child is, in fact, the Ice King, Finn declares to help this boy no matter what. That promise soon becomes difficult when people hear about the second human in Ooo, and whatever effect that's keeping him young starts to wear off. (Marceline comes to visit and has a heart attack)

3.) Adventure Falls AU: AT x GF baybee!! Seventeen year old Stanley Pines hops on the Stan O' War and sets sail when he's kicked out. Unfortunately, that boat is nowhere near sea worthy, and all it takes for him to go overboard is one sudden (magical) storm. But, miraculously, Stan doesn't die. He washes up on Ooo, the island of misfits. Where there's daddy issues galore and punching things and getting gold is a legitimate career. He's found on the shore by none other than Finn, who asks if he's okay and if a dungeon adventure would soothe his worries. Stan accepts, because that sounds awesome, and they maybe date. For the next ten years, Stanley is a professional hero. He travels with Finn, he lives in a tower with tons of gold, he's respected, adored, and has made a family for himself. Ooo has a habit of forcing traumatic therapy onto to people, so Stan gets (read: is forced) to work his issues out. And then, somehow, he gets a postcard from his brother.

4.) Young Pups AU: Jake's kids grow up fast- but not that fast. He stays with lady for a few episodes being Dad and when the Pups are old enough, go visit Finn and Jermaine. Also Jermaine is there when the pups are born that always bothered me in canon like what the fuck. This whole AU results in Jake the Dad being a better father than in canon, because he actually has time to make mistakes and learn from them. He sometimes shapeshifts into one of those baby carriers but suited for five kids instead of one. Finn and Jermaine fight for best uncle privileges. Finn is considerably more awesome but Jermaine's got magic junk and juicy stories about Jake. So far the votes are: FINN: Jake Jr, T.V.  JERMAINE: Kim Kil Whan, Charlie. Viola remains undecided.

4.) Evilgreen AU: Evergreen was evil. His idea to make the crown to stop the comet was actually a cover story to take control of all the elements and freeze everything. Of course the same thing happens here as it did in canon, Gunther gets the crown and wishes to *be* evergreen. This is bad. Very bad, so bad in fact, that things get FUnKy. A couple eons later, Simon gets the crown as per canon, and then things start to slide downhill. Since the crown is significantly worse, Simon tries to get rid of it. No amount of magic pull is going to get him to put on the eldritch hat. It teleports back. When things go to shit, the crown tells him he's got two options: He can either live, or he can live unwillingly. This all coalesces in super angst and mild horror as Simon has to fight off evil urges and somehow keep both he and Marceline safe. Things start looking up, though, when he summons Hunson Abadeer.

5.) Nightmare Therapy AU: Simon, now himself post canon, has some funky nightmares. Problem is: he's due for a visit from the cosmic owl due to some mystical bureaucratic bs. If that were to happen, Simon's dreams of Golb and Orgalorg and the world ending and everyone dying and maze would come true, without the veil of metaphoric junk dreams are known for (also due to bureaucratic bs). So, Simon gets a dream therapist. An OC, probably, that would fight off his nightmares when they came and talk to him about his issues.

6.) High School AU: Except they're all still magic and crap. Finn's a jock that's part of the LDnD club(Literally Dungeons and Dragons), Jake's got a job at a pancake place and hosts the Card Wars clubs on Wednesdays, Jermaine's in college and their parents were still detectives/demon hunters. PB is preppy/nerdy girl with weird fucking family and is absolutely a mad scientist. Marceline is still a demon/vamp (vampire biker gang, they all died, deaths pending) and her uncle is Simon. Simon is a history teacher whose ex wife might be an eldritch abomination (the students wonder, but there are no answers)((simon says cryptic things every so often that are the subject of much ridicule, but he's a nice guy)). Ooo High has all of the AT characters in some shape or form. Tree trunks is the lunchlady, Mr Pig is a janitor. Lemongrab is just there. LSP(Q?) is a teacher because that's hilarious. Hunson is dead along with Marceline's mom because fuck hunson. Magic Man is a hobo that snuck onto campus and can't be chased off (his brother is the superintendent, Glob). there's a lot more but that's for a different word doc.

7.) Back to the Future AU: So PB fucks around with time travel, right? For science. She gets sent back in time a thousand years, before the war. Now, she's a pink lady who can shoot jelly beans from her hands, of course needs to lay low. And of course she needs to get home, but she's in a Futurama situation where she only has one type of time machine; the one that can go into the past. Not to mention her own time machine got busted on her way there, so she's double screwed. But, she remembers something. There is an individual (two, actually) that knows about time travel in this time period. She knows him, and he's likely to help her if she plays her card right. She needs to find Simon and get back to her own time, preferably without dooming herself in the process. (perhaps she tries to steal the notes Simon has, and Simon's completely oblivious, except Betty can smell trouble from a mile away and immediately notices some pink woman trying to steal books and she goes ham. Perhaps she goes ham in such a way that Simon doesn't notice. Perhaps this goes on for seven acts.)

8.) Bread and Butter AU: Bella Noche during the episode Betty creates a huge black cube that engulfs all of Wizard City. This box acts as a cage and prevents Wizards from escaping the magic purge. Simon is unable to bring Betty back from the past, and he's fading fast. In a desperate attempt to stop things from escalating, Simon chugs a bottle of anti-magic like a fucking god. He gets through the cube that surrounds Bella Noche and knocks their lights out. He passes out, and when he comes to, the anti-magic he consumed as merged with him. This is because of a simple rule: Magic sticks to magic, anti-magic sticks to anti-magic. And since humans have always had just a little bit of anti -magic present within them, humans and anti-magic go together like bread and butter (badumtish) ((I have actually written a fanfic about this, you can find it here))

9.) Swapped AU: Through various shenanigans Ice King's and Magic Man's powers gets swapped. These shenanigans somehow land them in space as well. This happens before Magic Man's trial. The swapping of their powers results in Simon getting his memory back. It also gives Magic Man the Ice Crown, unfortunately for him though, it seems to hate him. Simon's glad to back, but quickly realizes one issue: He's still crazy. So the pair try to make it back to Ooo. MM needs his powers to swap himself with some other shmuck so he doesn't croak when his trial comes, but Simon's made it clear he isn't giving his powers up without a fight. The pair starts off rocky, neither trusting the other, but space trouble forces them to work together. Simon's a nice enough guy he wouldn't leave someone to die and MM really needs Simon alive so it works out. A weird friendship forms, and they learn get along. Just a couple of crazy space wizards. Then the crown is destroyed. MM is freed from the crown's control, and he's freed from magic. He gets his sanity back, just in time for his trial.

that’s all I’ve got for now!

[adultswim2021]

12 oz. Mouse #1: “Hired” | June 20, 2005 – 12:30AM | S01E01

Usually these write-ups include some long-winded story about my personal life and how it impacted my television viewing, using flowery language to describe my station in life (college aged and not having sex with anyone) or what the various comedy message boards I posted on thought of the each show when it premiered, etc. But I truly don’t remember much about the premiere of 12 oz. Mouse, and unfortunately all the message boards I used to post on turned out to be fronts for white nationalist extremists whose data was pulled from the internet by the FBI, so I can’t go back and look at old posts. Oh well! The truth is, I’m only MOSTLY certain that I watched this pilot on TV. But maybe I didn’t? I don’t even remember any hype around this show. Did it just show up one day? Surely it couldn’t have been a surprise? Was picked or panned in TV Guide? I simply don’t know! QUIT ASKING ME!

12 oz. Mouse is the absurdist misadventures of a crudely drawn mouse interacting with other crudely drawn characters (and the shark from “Kentucky Nightmare”, officially making this be a Space Ghost spin-off, you wikipedia wackjobs!). It was created by Matt Maiellaro, the co-creator of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. He’s the voice of the main character, Mouse. As for the rest of the cast it’s primarily voiced by people who were simply around the Adult Swim office; people whose voices you’ve heard pop up in other things playing minor roles here and there. Adam Reed is the Shark. Dave Willis is the bartender. Matt Harrigan is the liquor store guy, etc. The stories usually make just enough sense but the world of this show is so strangely dashed-off and certain things are left unexplained to affect a more surreal tone.

The show eventually veers into some heavy-duty serialization and world-building. I never really got totally into that aspect of the show. To be honest, this show has always been one that I appreciated more than actually liked. It has it’s moments, and good episodes, but as a whole I do consider it a bit of a chore to consume the whole thing. But, that might have to do with the fact that the only time I ever properly sat through the entire series was for the DVD “movie” edit, which stitches together the entire show as one long continuous story. This DVD was only available through the Adult Swim website and is way out of print. I had to sell it last year when my (and everyone’s) unemployment was about to run out.

At the time I watched said DVD version of the show, I was recovering from hernia surgery and on lots of pain killers so my brain was a little foggy, which sorta complemented the show’s own hazy reality. The only other thing I had to watch was Human Giant season one on DVD, which I also watched a fair amount of but had to stop because it was making me laugh too much and laughing was extremely painful. I literally stuck with 12 oz. Mouse because it DIDN’T make me laugh.

The show is sorta like Twin Peaks; It has a very specific, oddly pleasing setting with a small cast of characters where weird stuff happens. Also, like Twin Peaks, the show starts real strong and gets less interesting. But I can rewatch Twin Peaks and see it to it’s end because I love the world so much. I think you need to love the world of 12 oz. Mouse to hang with it. Also both of them had post-series revivals. Both of them use absurdism and reality-bending plots, etc. etc. You get it. This show takes inspiration from David Lynch! Okay! Fuck you!

The plot (there is one! please don’t let anyone tell you different): Mouse gets a job from a Shark to taxi a rectangular businessman to a meeting at Cheese industries. Mouse picks him up and takes him to a porn set, instead, and tries to coax him into making love with a doll. When he refuses, Mouse throws a bomb at him and blows him up. Mouse decides to rob a bank instead of work. He does that and celebrates by going to a bar and buying expensive beers. He’s gay-bashed by the bartender. Mouse hits on a woman, but comes on too strong and vomits on her. She transforms into a man and flies away. A giggly police officer questions Mouse, who denies being the bank robber. He gets the cop to leave him alone by telling him that the bartender called the cop a homo. So the cop goes over and shoots the bartender.

Mouse realizes that he and Skillet, (his chinchilla companion whom we first meet at the porn set) need to get jobs to cover up the fact that they rob banks. They go to a liquor store. Mouse drinks a $300 beer and leaves without paying. The liquor store clerk does nothing. Mouse then gets run over by several cars while a woman looks on, screaming “oh my god!” and other similar lines. Mouse inexplicably mouths the woman’s lines in one shot. Mouse deflects that he’s not hurt over and over, that he’s just drunk. He eventually goes back to the shark, who is disappointed with his performance but decides to give him another chance. Mouse meets his next client, an eyeball guy who over-pronounces any word that rhymes with “eye”. Mouse gets pissed off at this, show ends.

This might be my favorite episode of 12 oz. Mouse, though I can think of a couple more episodes after this one that I also like quite a bit. Hell, There might be some virtue in canonizing JUST the pilot of 12 oz Mouse and leaving the rest to the scrapheap. But maybe not. Honestly, I’m speaking in dramatic terms for no real reason other than to sound smart. Am I doing a good job of that? I guess we’ll see when the show actually starts up as a proper series in a few months, and I make it my business to not like it to artificially support this statement.

What’s good about the show is the low-key nature of it. It’s a good fit for late night TV. I used the phrase “dashed-off” earlier in this write-up and I don’t mean it as an insult. I believe that this whole show is built around the idea that it is in fact dashed-off. The voice-actors give almost nothing but low-energy/low-key line-readings. The giggly cop mentioned earlier sounds like the actor is stoned or at the very least has a case of the giggles. There’s all kinds of stuff like that in this show. The aforementioned editing mistake where Mouse inexplicably mouths another character’s line? So much of it is meant to resemble a mistake, but I have a feeling that most of these touches are carefully scripted or on-purpose.

According to the light research I did for this, Matt Maiellaro basically pitched this idea as something that would cost zero dollars and be easy to make. Instead of hiring character designers it sounded like he’d just whip up a crudely drawn character, go scan it, and send it to the computer animators as-is. There’s one scene where you can see the edge of a piece of paper where a background drawing was scanned (not sure if overscan was supposed to cover this up on a traditional 4:3 display, but it’s extremely there if you watch it on HBOMax). One character was drawn on the back of a script for Perfect Hair Forever and you can see the letters come through the other side of the page on the character himself. This was intentionally left in.

The opening theme is maybe the best ever to be on Adult Swim. In fact, it’s the one tangibly GREAT thing 12 oz. Mouse has going for it. It’s by Nine Pound Hammer, and it rocks, and it’s set to a cardboard mock-up of the town 12 oz. Mouse takes place in, getting exploded. The pilot originally aired with the 12 oz. Mouse title zoomed in too much so that only the words oz. Mo were on the screen. This apparently had to be changed as to not legally step on the toes of a British children’s program called Ozmo. This is fixed for the HBOMax edition. I’m pretty sure the “oz. Mo” version only aired once and was fixed way way back during season one.

Oh! There is one other scene I forgot about. When Mouse is on the ground after getting hit by multiple cars, a guy comes over and says, in a gregarious HOLLYWOOD way, that he’s “really something” and that he’d be “great in pictures”. I am noting this because I knew a guy who would quote this all the time. I’d come over to that guy’s house and try to make everyone watch Russ Meyer movies, and they’d usually be into them but they treated them hyper ironically and anytime a woman’s bare ass showed up they’d all act like it was gross and called it a “mom butt”. I never really understood what constituted a “mom butt”. These were all 23 year olds with 17 year old girlfriends and I guess if a woman’s butt didn’t look exactly like their girlfriend’s smoke show ass it deserved to be mocked. But I guess it was cool that they liked Adult Swim shows.

EPHEMERA CORNER:

MAIL BAG:

Another cool thing about the TGTTM episode Rats Off To Yah is that it features Stephanie Courtney (tv commercial's Flo from Progressive) at her peak ball draining hottest as the singer of the ROTY music video.

Thanks for writing but I need to tell you your disgusting sexist language is a serious turn off here. I have not watched the scene. I politely covered my eyes when she was on screen because I could tell it existed for the male gaze, and I will not partake in that sort of thing.

Also, Brandon, you keep referencing “ball-draining hot”, a thing I supposedly said once. I believe the line was actually “ball-achingly hot”, which I read in a torrent comment for the film “Under the Rainbow”, referring to peak Carrie Fisher. GET IT STRAIGHT, MATE

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Imposter: Coms

Part 2:Coms

An interactive bnha among us au:

Word count: 2,680

Warnings: This series contains descriptions of murder and dismemberment, Deception and morally questionable actions, Angst and betrayal.

Masterlist -> Here

Taglist: @redbeanteax​ @tspice283​ @kurinhimenezu​  @simpforeveryone @ queenlibra134 

           Shinsou looked at each and everyone one of you, thought creasing his brows. His eyes bore into you the longest, vibrant plum hues narrowed in frothy suspicion. Everyone waited with baited breath, suits squeaking as the lot of you shifted uncomfortably. A slow thick puddle of lead settling in your bellies at the thought of being in a group with a Sticur. There was no other sound on the vessel save for the whirring of machinery and the dull hum of the oxygen pump filling the ship with air.  

Remorse gripped at your trembling heart, there was a parasitic alien aboard. It had quite possibly slithered into someone’s body all because you forgot to throw out trash… You were slowly sinking into the quicksand of self-loathing only for your Captain to call you to attention. 

“(Lastname) You're with me and Bakugou.” He ordered. Bakugou nodded curtly, vermillion eyes lacerating your form, he didn’t have to speak in order for you to pick up on why his hues were so sharp. You felt your heart plummet when his fingers flexed over the taser, you eyes quickly shifting towards the grey flooring. 

“Hagakure, Kirishima, Kaminari and Shindo, your cafeteria. Make sure to clear the area and make sure there are no signs of another one.” 

“Sir.” They nodded. 

You heard the sound of their clunky boots hitting the metal as they walked towards the cafeteria, you had almost thought them halfway across the storage room when a heavy hand suddenly dipped your shoulder. Your feeble blood pumping organ almost lurched out of your throat at the contact but the sight of the hot pink suit allowed you to breath out a stream of air. 

“Be careful.” Shindo nodded, his dark eyes glaring at the Captain and the head of security. “Most of these people grew up and studied together so there’s no telling who’ll cover for who.” The last bit was spoken in a rushed murmur and before you could question him he was rushing off towards his temporary team. 

“Amajiki I’m going to need you to start setting up the lab, as soon as you get there you assess Midoriya and Mirio. The rest of us will follow as soon as we get done with our tasks.” Shinsou informed. 

Midoriya visibly trembled, his mouth moving a mile a minute as he thought of the current predicament. “Oi you're going to be fine.” Bakugou...Reassured. You’d be lying if you said that it wasn’t surprising. Shinsou motioned for the both of you to follow him and soon you were back in the communications room. 

“I need you to establish a secure connection to the tower.” He commanded, Your legs quickly carried you to one of the monitors in the room. 

“Sir the connection is stable but no one is picking up.” You sighed. 

“We’ll wait.” He huffed, crossing his arms. Static filled the room as you waited for those who were grounded to answer the distress signal. 

“Why the fuck aren’t they picking up.” Bakugou growled. 

“Lines are probably full.” You mumbled. “That and I gave Yaoyorozu an all clear before we found the...you know.”

Bakugou sneered at you, his lip curling to reveal his bared teeth. He was about to go off on you when you finally heard someone on the other side. 

“Alpha 251, what is your emergency.” The stoic voice was immediately recognizable and you shared a look with the seething blonde when your captain visibly stiffened. 

“Admiral Aizawa.” Shinsou stated. “There’s been a breach a Sticur has managed to get onboard.” 

“Fucking hell.” You heard the Admiral cuss, he called over a couple of people on the end of his line, he demanded information from them, nonsensical scientific jargon that you couldn’t comprehend. He asked you captain a plethora of questions from the time of the incident to any suspicious parties…. Unsurprisingly your name was mentioned along with Mirio. With a final sigh the Admiral gave Shinsou one last order.

“You are in the clear to use procedure AFO.” 

“Yes sir.” Shinsou sighed. 

You and Bakugou shared another look, his confused expression was all you needed to understand that he had no clue what AFO was. 

When the line cut off Shinsou motioned for Bakugou to come closer, you observed from behind the two of them, your heart hammering in your chest as Shinsou asked to see if the taser was in working order. 

“This.” He licked his lips in trepidation. “This is our only weapon.” His purple hues connected with both of you. 

“You can’t be serious.” You whispered. “Why is there only-

“To prevent mutiny.” Bakugou answered, attaching the item onto his belt. “....It was pretty 

common back then.” 

You could tell the blonde was holding his tongue, you were too, you had so many questions but your Captain was incredibly tight lipped. You only hoped he’d relay the essentials… 

The purple haired man motioned for you two to follow his cyan suit shifting as he walked out of the room and turned right. Your brows furrowed when you found yourself in the Shield’s room. Gloved fingers waved over a hologram and the image of the ship's forcefield enlarged. There were various shades of blue and red and a quiet curse word slipped from your superiors lips. 

“There’s a weak point near the Storage garbage chute.” He informed, WIthout a second thought he began to work on fortifying it. It looked like magic… the way he moved the holograms, he made them smaller, larger at times he’d vocalize a series of codes and you watched in mild fascination as some of the red areas bagan to turn blue. You watched him work until Bakugou cleared his throat, demanding your attention. 

“Don’t trust that Shindo guy.” He ordered…?

“And why not?” You scoffed. ‘He’s been a hell of a lot nicer to me than you’ve been’ is what you wanted to say. 

“He’s nothing but a no good liar.” He summarized. “I get that you might have gained a ‘liking’ for him but he has a partner back-”

“Woah, way to jump to conclusions.” You hissed. “First of all he’s not leading me on, I literally met him five days ago!? How the hell wou-”

“Would the two of you shut up.” Shinsou groaned. “..That’s weird.” He mused. “This looks like it was tampered with. I’ll have to check the logs.”

“Whose in charge of Shields?” Bakugou asked. 

“Midoriya.” Bakugou perked up at that. 

“Watch it, he’d never flub his job.” He defended, you shrugged. “That damned shitty nerd is great at his job.”

“What’s with you defending him.” You asked suspiciously. 

“None of your business.” He retaliated. You did catch him grumbling something about ‘being the only one who can come up with something to get us out of this.’ 

You shuffled awkwardly, the sound of Bakugou breathing and Shinsou working the only things audible above the usual spacecraft racket. 

“...Bakugou” 

“Hm” He grunted his gaze set on the long hallway behind you, the one you had walked down so carelessly earlier..

“A-aliens aren’t m-my forte, I only know that Sticur’s are parasites but what exactly do they do.. Well besides destroying their host.”

“Ha.” He scoffed. “They do so much more than rot you from the inside out.” He grit his teeth, his eyes boring holes into air. “Those fuckers are despicable. Once they enter your body it’s like nothing ever happened. Your memory of it slipping inside of you, gone. Once it’s inside it latches onto your brain and begins to absorb everything.”

You shivered at the description, you were about to comment when he continued. “They’re smart little bastards and they consume the host’s memories so that they know everything that the host has done, they can recall names, activities, faces, hell they take control and they act no different from the person they’ve overtaken.” 

“And that’s not even the worst of it.” Shinsou added, clapping his hands, his task finally finished. “They’re blood thirsty, once they’re in control they make a game out of killing any surrounding beings.”

“The motherfuckers don’t even need to eat so it’s all just fucked up fun for their kind.” Bakugou hissed. 

“T-then how do you know-”

“You don’t.” Shinsou sighed, beginning to walked down the corridor, “Well you can… but 

only in the first hours, while absorbing memories the Sticur will act unlike the host and throw up a disgusting gunk of putrid rot.” 

You thought back to the garbage chute. “Depending on the mental strength of a host the Sticur will induce vomiting a couple of times.” Your captain added. You couldn’t even begin to imagine that, having such a corrosive liquid bubble from your throat…. It sounded vile. Once you got to the end of the corridor your station opened up in front of you, the large windows allowing you to see the weaponry attached to the front of the ship. 

The lot of you didn’t dwell there as a symphony of voices rang in various tones in the cafeteria ahead. What threw you for a loop was that the rest of the crew was there, including Amakiki, Midoriya and Mirio. They stood helplessly near the other door as the four sent into the cafeteria argued. 

“I just want an explanation.” Hagakure huffed holding up a biohazard bag with more of 

the gooey rot. 

“Well what is there to explain?! It was obviously a set up!?” You heard...Kirishima shout!? You’ve never heard the lovable redhead raise his voice, especially not to Hagakure…

“Shut up Kirishima this doesn’t concern you!” Shindo hissed, stepping up closer to the burly man. Kaminari’s eyes were frantic, fear highlighting his golden hues. 

“Enough!” Shinsou shouted, stepping forward, he was quickly followed by Bakugou who wedged himself in between his friend and the aggressive brunette. “What’s going on?”

“We found more of this.” Hagakure answered, holding up the bag. 

“Where?” He asked. 

“In the Oxygen unit.” She replied. Your eyes darted to the last person you saw in there. 

“....Why were you in there? Your job was to check the cafeteria?” Your captain asked, His eyes darting to Kaminari as he clenched his fist at the implication.

“We decided to split up.” Shindo answered. “I remembered that there was a chute in the Oxygen unit and we left Kirishima and Kaminari here to check on this one while me and Hagakure went to check out the O2 chute.”

“I specifically told you to stay together.” Shinsou frowned. 

“It was better this way.” Hagakure added. “It’s a gamble but in twos it’d be easier to figure out who the imposter is. You know...If one doesn’t come back then it’s obviously the one who does.” She shrugged. 

Your captain mulled this over. And even you could agree that even though it was risky life it would work in weeding out the Sticur…. 

“And both of us came back, with this.” She continued. 

Kaminari hugged his mini-clone close, tears bubbling in his eyes at the accusation. “I-It’s not me, I swear it’s not. I-I was just cleaning out the filter. I didn’t even touch the chute.”

“...B-but what were you doing in the O2 room?” You heard Amajiki mumble. “You're an electrician…” 

“Shut the fuck up.” Kirishima seethed, startling everyone. “It’s not him! It can’t be him! And he was only there because he was assigned that task!” 

“Calm down.” Shinsou ordered, his eyes narrowing. “Before we continue with the accusations was anything found here?” 

“N-no it looks like this chute was emptied earlier today.” Kaminari sniffed, his eyes visibly red beneath his visor. Kirishima put his hand on the crying blonde’s shoulder, a heated glare set on those who were accusing his friend. Kaminari was openly crying now, and Kirishima’s hostile expression softened as he kneeled down to console him. 

“I still think it’s him.” You heard Hagakure whisper from behind you. You didn’t recall when but you had found yourself in the center of the cafeteria with your fellow crewmates. Silence reigned over all of you until Midoriya decided to say something essential. 

“We need to come up with a plan. It doesn’t matter if the Sticur knows our moves so long as we stick to it, we can wait it out until it’s host decomposes.” 

You way he dehumanized whoever was infected sat wrong with you but you were in no position to argue with one of the lead scientists. 

“Or until we get the test results.” Mirio added. That was all everyone needed to hear and slowly, you all walked to the Medbay and filed in. Blood was drawn from everyone, your eyes were peeled, wide and watchful as you tried to catch any odd reactions to the blood drawing. When all of the samples had been collected you all sat down around the room, some on the floor others on a cot. 

“I’ve decided our next step, this will be implemented until we catch the host. Hagakure and Shindo are right we can’t keep traveling in threes and fours, This ship requires too much maintenance for that. We’ll stick to pairs, everyone will know who is paired with who.” You all understood what that meant… But it wasn’t exactly comforting. 

“..W-what do we do when it’s caught?” Amajiki asked. 

“We eject the fucker.” Bakugou summarized. 

“You mean the airlock?” Kirishima asked, when it was confirmed he paled. “B-but what if we’re wrong? Aren’t Sticur’s supposed to be tricky? You know what’ll happen to someone who isn’t-

“We know.” Shinsou sighed. “I was cleared to use AFO, meaning all for one. HQ doesn’t care how but we’re not to advance or go back until the alien has been dealt with. It doesn’t matter who makes it back so long as it’s not the parasite.” 

It was then that the gravity of the situation hit you…. You could seriously die out here, If the alien didn’t get you, your own crewmates would literally shoot you out into the dust and gases of infinite space. 

“Wouldn’t the ejected body just stick close to the ship…” You mumbled trying to distract yourself from the thought. 

“Yes the ship’s gravity will have the body satellite the vessel, which is where you come in (Lastname).” Your captain replied. 

“What do you mean?”

“Once ejected, it’s your job as the weapon specialist to get rid of it, the vacuum won’t affect the parasite, so you’ll need to destroy it.” Your blood ran cold. “I’ve decided…. And it’s fitting considering that this is your fault. You’ll be the one to give the final verdict on who we eject, and you will end them. We’ll consider it a merciful death to those who might be unfortunate enough to find themselves thrown out, it’s better than the painful end they’d meet otherwise.”

“H-How can you say that?!” You shuddered. 

“HQ has abandoned us.. AFO is basically a last suicidal resort. So please (Name) please make the right decision.” He pleaded. 

You hugged your legs to your body, the cot you sat upon no longer feeling comfortable. In your hands were the lives of nine people. If you deduced who the Imposter was on the first go you’d all live. If not you would have killed someone innocent and if you don’t choose then the Sticur will pick you all off one by one…

Your eyes scanned the room, everyone's eyes were on you. You would hold off on using the airlock for now, you weren’t sure if you were ready to outright murder a comrade. And you weren’t sure if you had enough information to make the call. But there was someone you had in mind who gave you bad vibes and you discreetly stared at……

(Who did you stare at?)