#I have a whole explanation for this one

[chaos-potat]

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And that's all for this one! A real shame you guys got the bad ending though……

If enough people want it, I can draw the good ending, it won't be cannon to CD

THAT'S RIGHT, this whole thing is cannon to Childhood Dreams

Good ending (not cannon) Main story Masterpost

#I have a whole explanation for this one #It'd take too long to explain so I'll keep it to myself hehe #childhood dreams tmnt au #tmnt #tmnt 2012 #tmnt 2012 au #tmnt donatello #tmnt casey jones #tmnt donnie #tmnt 2012 casey jones #tmnt 2012 comic #tmnt 2012 donnie #tmnt 2012 donatello #my art #casey jones tmnt

[bluegiragi]

holding back (part 2)

early access + nsfw on patreon

#just captain/lieutenant things #ghost and price are an on-and-off-again thing #they take care of each other when it comes up #and sometimes to just relieve stress #they have shared trauma from the loss of price's wing #and simon's whole...wraith business #they've known each other for a long time #and were getting closer before simon's incident but afterwards sort of hurtled into each other #it was really intense and co-dependent for a while but it's levelled out now #one day i will do an explanation post on all the dynamics of poly 141 in this au #in the meantime just enjoy price taking care of his hoard #monster 141 au #ghostprice #captain john price #simon ghost riley #cod mw2 #giragi art

[aroaceleovaldez]

Nico and Percy's dynamic through the series is eternally funny to me, because it's just. like.

Percy's having a constant mental struggle between his fatal flaw of loyalty with a promise he made to Bianca to protect Nico, versus his Big 3 kid desire to maim other Big 3 kids / Poseidon descendant urge to totally maim Nico specifically. He hates Nico so so much. He thinks Nico's annoying and weird at best, and creepy/sketchy when he's older. The only positive thoughts Percy has towards Nico are "He's Bianca's brother and Bianca was my friend and I owe her/He's Hazel's brother and Hazel is my friend and would kill me if I was mean to him," "He's a powerful asset and useful ally (if questionable)," and "He's kinda pathetic and I feel maybe a little bad about it." Percy has multiple occasions throughout the series where he strongly considers - and on one occasionally actually goes through with - throttling Nico.

Meanwhile, Nico is following around Percy like a lost puppy. He explicitly can never bring himself to even dislike anything about Percy no matter how hard he tries. He has a whole bit in BoO where he's mentally going "UGH he's so stupid BUT IT'S ENDEARING HOW DARE HE." He's totally smitten. He's making deals with his dad for Percy. He's making convoluted plans to help Percy stand a chance against Kronos. During the entirety of BoTL it's like he's playing tsundere - "I'm helping NOT PERCY SPECIFICALLY with this quest! Me helping Percy would be SILLY because I DEFINITELY HATE HIM." Then he proceeds to show up to Percy's birthday party to basically ask him on a weird date and spend the entire next book scrambling around trying to help him or protect him or impress him. And Percy could not give less of a shit.

Just. That dynamic is so funny to me. Percy is the founder of the Nico Protection Club in that he's the one they're all protecting Nico from and meanwhile Nico is throwing himself at Percy to the point where the literal god of gay love calls him out on it.

#pjo #percy jackson #nico di angelo #Percy shows up at CJ and squints at Nico like ''hm. why do i feel like i hate you? like i just wanna punch you in the face?'' #and Nico just immediately goes ''huh no idea anyways i have to go-'' and jumps into Tartarus #but not before he gives Hazel essentially a detailed explanation of ''this is Percy i cant say much but please dont let him die <3'' #and Nico's whole Tartarus trip was basically a whole ''im doing this so no one else has to'' #only for Percy and Annabeth to fall in like one book later and Nico proceeds to spend the next book internally screaming about it #and then Cupid calls him out on it and the next book #Nico's just like ''at this point im hoping i keel over within the next week just so i can force this dumb crush to chill the fuck out'' #Nico staring pointedly at Will: ''For my own sake i need to form another crush RIGHT NOW so i can finally get over Percy.'' #''this has been so bad for my health'' #Nico's crush on Percy is just too funny to me. horrible pick my guy. terrible job. love that for you. he could not be less interested. #Percy LITERALLY TRIES TO KILL NICO and ditch him in the underworld and Nico is somehow STILL like ''but i love him'' #Percy basically chokes him. beats up his dad. tells him ''go get smited by your dad for me.'' and ditches him. #and Nico's opinions/crush on him DO NOT CHANGE #though also Nico's reaction to Percy beating up his dad + skeletons is SO funny. his jaw is on the floor. he's flustered about it. #he just witnessed Percy be incredibly hot and proceeded to go ''yea i'll do anything for this man. collect reinforcements of 3 gods? sure'' #nico you absolute DISASTER with HORRIBLE TASTE. you can do better. raise your standards. #which tbh is funnier when you factor in sun and the star. Nico just wont stop crushing on guys who dislike him and everything he stands for

[iwasbored777]

Why's it when Miles accidentally pulls half of Gwen's hair out it's funny cuz he didn't do it on purpose which is the truth but when she opens the packaging of his toy she should burn in hell even though she didn't get the idea why he kept it in the box and wouldn't do it if she knew what was the reason????

#i actually have a whole analysis in drafts about gwen's moment i didn't want to post it maybe i will one day cuz It's a perfect explanation #why do you keep attacking her and everything she does both scenes were made for laughs but it's just that girls get different treatment #gwen stacy #she deserves better #leave her alone #miles morales #spider man into the spider verse #spider man across the spider verse #into the spiderverse #across the spiderverse #spiderverse

[front-facing-pokemon]

#galarian articuno #yeah. bet you forgot THESE guys got galarian forms‚ didn't'cha?? well. heh. i didn't. i remember them #even though everybody else on the planet forgets them since i'm pretty sure they're the only legendaries to have. regional forms #which like. what the hell was the explanation for that?? huh?? usually it's like. pokémon go to other regions and they evolve to adapt #evolve in like. a science sense. not pokémon sense #because like. evolutionary adaptation across many many generations or whatever #i assume‚ at least. so what the fuck is this??? this is a legendary. they're not like. reproducing. they just. exist #are these just whole-ass DIFFERENT legendary birds and they just got named after the original ones in kanto because somebody in galar #was like. heh. yo. three legendary birds?? kinda like zapdos/moltres/articuno LOL!

[divorcedfiddleford]

it is friday my dudes (little hearts added by @tazmiilly)

#sorryyyyyy for not posting ... please accept these as compensation #gravity falls #fiddleford mcgucket #artwork of the damned #tales of the wild zeep #ummmm ok context for the first one should be mostly self-explanatory #i purposefully left the person he's calling open to interpretation #however for the record i will say i am a 'fiddleford was divorced before he came to gravity falls' truther #but that does not mean he would never call back to cali to check in on his son or anything #so take that as you will #uhhhh everything else is pretty silly and doesnt require much explanation i dont think?? #i dont draw pre-college fidds a lot even though i literally have a whole backstory written for him LOLLLL #also i have a whole complex where when i draw a character pre-transition i feel embarrassed #sort of like i've walked in on them in the bathroom or something. like 'whoops sorry' and i politely look away #want to make it VERY CLEAR i dont think theres anything wrong or bad about drawing someone pre-transition!! #it's just a weird thing ive noticed about myself that i'm trying to deal with #and it literally only happens when i'm drawing. not when i'm writing

[blueskyscribe]

truly I think that Knock Out only joined Team Prime at the end of TFP because the writers knew the fans would riot if he died and truly that makes me love him even more

#TFP #Transformers #Knock Out #Transformers Prime #I do not have an explanation for why Shockwave survived #that one scene made it seem like he was going to get torn apart by undead Predacons #but then he shows up at the end?? #and dips #I have to assume there was an early draft where he died #anyway I was very excited to see the final episode of TFP (before Predacons Rising) but also was tense the whole time #because I did expect Knock Out to kick the bucket #I cheered when he made it to the end of the episode

[mispelled]

Ty I am saying it! He's also half demon . I present to you Hermie's full natural form

#half asian and half non euclidean trickster yesBUT JODIE IS LEGIT KING OF DEMON HELL JDKSBFKSND #guys. guys guys guys if youre drawing NICKY. you must also not forget that they are BOTH HALF DEMON. YES nickys other half is just human and #YES hermies other half is trickster thing. but they should have the same amounts of demon traits !! #here ill explain real quick. i posted a separate explanation about my demon designs so im not going to go into really deep detail but #basically for herm the black eyes wings and horns are the demon traits and the double ears and extra eye (and eyelash marks) are likely ones #nicky only has the demon traits obviously #anyway i have this whole headcanon about how Hermie's natural form starts to emerge as they travel to his dimensions of origin #taylor too actually but his is less dramatic #anyway herm shifts away most of this on a regular basis but thats the fun about shapeshifting! #anyone who complimented me on my hermie design : ty it changes every single time i draw him fksbdibdksbd #mispelled draws #misp draws #dndaddies #dndads fanart #dndads s2 #dndads season 2 #dndads #dungeons and daddies #hermie unworthy #dndads hermie #hermie the unworthy

[millenari]

whatever the hell is going on here

#cats the musical #mr mistoffelees #rum tum tugger #tuggoffelees #this is us tour 5 but this one performance is just bizarre and has no dancing #idk what the explanation for it is but the audience seemed to be into it? #its honestly kind of funny bc they cut the dance-only parts like the beetles tattoo and the ball #and in most of the songs they just kind of stand around-- think bustopher's number. thats the whole musical #and in misto's number i guess they replaced misto's choreo with [checks notes] misto and tugger playing gay chicken #honestly bc its us tour 5 i have to assume something shifty is going on here #they were trying to skirt around some labor law or contract thing or smth thats my only guess #cats fan on main

[bookwyrminspiration]

the criminologist urge to completely ignore and restructure the dracula gang's understanding of dracula's motives and behavior because the idea of biology as the root of deviance--and specific to Dracula, Lombroso's theory (published in 1876) that criminals were primitive, ape-like, and an earlier stage of evolution--has been widely abandoned as incorrect and stereotyping criminals and replace it with more modern theories for Dracula's behavior

#dracula daily #listen. I only study criminology but I know enough that reading today's entry the whole time I was vibrating #it's the same with the blood-typing thing #like yeah I /know/ they didn't know better #I /know/ biological deviance was the explanation at the time stoker was writing his book #but also it's no longer 1897 and have you considered conflict theory #that's a well known one we can use that

[sonknuxadow]

you know i do wonder how many sonic characters actually have living parents. like knuckles is the last of his kind so obviously his parents arent around anymore. both guys who could be considered shadows dads are 100 percent confirmed dead. sonic is canonically an orphan im pretty sure. and on the other side of the coin cream is like the only character in the game cast who has a living parent we actually see onscreen. but what about everyone else i dont think theres a straight answer for any other character. other than rouge's mom being mentioned a couple times i Guess but we dont even know anything about her or if shes still alive just that she existed at some point. are these kids constantly putting themselves in danger because they dont have parents around to stop them or because their parents just dont care

#like what about tails. im guessing he didnt have any sort of family he was attached to if he left to be with sonic so quickly #but that doesnt really mean he didnt have parents at all. maybe he had parents and they just sucked i dont know #what about amy. what if she had parents this whole time we just never see them. #what about blaze. considering shes a princess id assume she was born into that role #but i dont know if her parents are ever actually mentioned #maybe theyre dead and there was no one else to take on their role and thats why blaze has so much responsibility at such a young age? #silver . he was born in a wet cardboard box all alone i cant really imagine him hvaing parents sorry #considering charmy is 6 and living with vector. an adult whos obviously not his biological dad. #i feel like something probably happened to charmys parents #espio i dont really question as much #becuase it feels very common in the sonic universe for teenagers to have more freedom than would be expected in real life #or maybe its not that common and the teenagers we're actually following are just living the most fucked up lives ever. i dotn know #but either way. espio where are your parents buddy. are they still alive. vector where are YOUR parents are they still alive #i dont know if i actually want canon explanations for all this though #because its kinda fun not knowing every detail about every characters life and being able to speculate and insert your headcanons n stuff #to be clear im talking about game canon #i know stuff like archie sonic and the sonic movies and the 90s cartoons will sometimes give characters new family members #or talk about their family situation even if the games dont say anything about that sort of thing

[eldritchdyke]

The recent Signalis anticommunism discussion on here made me stumble onto your take about it from last month, and while I do believe that Signalis is very... normie anticommunist (you seem to disagree), your post made me really curious, but at the same time it was very vague, and a lot of people interpreted it as "Signalis isn't anti-communist, it's anti-authoritarian". Would you be willing to elaborate?

Oof didn't realize there was more discussion to it than I thought so I won't wade into the whole of that cuz that wasn't what I was responding to at the time. Also just to preface two things; for one I am a communist myself and that did effect my reading of the text a great deal and for two I didn't say anything about the "Signalis isn't anti-communist, it's anti-authoritarian" thing myself that was a later addition from other people (personally I don't like the term "authoritarian" as a way to analyze the faults of certain socialist states but that's neither here nor there).

What I was driving at is the idea that the DDR imagery (and beyond that, as others have pointed out it isn't solely pulling from that) is doing a lot more than simple condemnation or any sort of post-war triumphalism over "dystopian" socialism. We can read a lot based on what was given attention in the text, and I think the ways that DDR imagery show up in the game are shown with a rather loving, even reverent light at times (you don't create a bunch of intricately designed DDR robot girl ocs and name some of them after historical DDR special forces units because you totally despise everything the DDR stood for). This is intentionally contrasted with the rotting and decayed state we actively find a great deal of these things in, which provides a great deal of contrast between the lowercase i ideal and the reality of an execution which was tainted by the literal bleeding psychology of collective trauma and the attempts at domination of individuals.

What results is less a coherent world as such that can be dissected as one might dissect typical worldbuilding lore and more an emotional portrait which depicts a sense of portrayal at the way the history of the DDR played out, and you may disagree with parts of that (I do with certain parts as well) but it isn't intended to reflect a dissertation on the flaws of the DDR. It's an emotion first conceptualization of tainted Ostalgie and the hauntological traces of a future which was not allowed to be for reasons internal and external, through that lens it is, to me, quite ambiguous over whether or not the source object was a negative or a positive. Instead its a truly conflicted portrayal of the emotional state one is left in after both the (again lowercase i) ideals of that revolutionary state and its practical execution, warts and all, have passed into the realm of cultural memory.

(I'm sorry that's probably a whole lot of words to not fully answer your question but tldr I don't think Signalis is as anticommunist as a lot of people think it is, I think people are generally reading the diegesis too literally and not really delving into the full emotional depth going on with how communist imagery is used in the game)

#eldritch asks #signalis #it's also super late where i am so i'm a bit fried but this is my best stab at an explanation #without writing the whole essay of feelings i have on the topic #this isn't even getting into the additional context of how the Eusan Nation is 1. described first and foremost as a nation #and 2. contrasted with the Empire or 'Reich' which is intentionally not depicted #and the additional meaning that lends to showing the Eusan Nation in the state we see it in #also obligatory 'i cannot read the devs minds and i very well might just be a communist projecting a better read than the one they intended

[bayesiandragon]

Not sure I care enough to engage with the post, but to read SVSSS + extras and come away with the interpretation that SJ doesn't care about why YQY failed to save him, just that he did fail, and therefore would never forgive him or change his behavior towards him if he learned the truth, feels off-place to me. It seems to lean into the view that SJ doesn't actually care about YQY, just sees him as a useful tool, and thus couldn't be hurt by the supposed abandonment - with that interpretation it would then make sense to think he would neither care nor change his behavior (towards YQY) upon learning what actually happened.

#generously put - I suppose it's not an interpretation that the text of svsss completely forbids #but I don't see it as the most probable interpretation by a long shot and it doesn't explain their interactions or themes well at all #given that Shen Jiu eventually canonically forgives YQY even without an explanation I don't see why he wouldn't if one was earnestly given #I could see SJ continuing to throw some lingering degree of fit if he learned that YQY had indeed tried but failed #(and YQY honestly doesn't need to elaborate on the whole trauma only the important part - that he set out too late) #but I really don't think their relationship would have been anything like how it turned out in canon #no real comment on how SJ's actions would change on ~everything else~ since it's so counterfactual after that point and we know he's a git #I do honestly feel that the novel bolsters this idea with the whole thing at Maigu Ridge #where SY learns of YQY's tragedy and immediately sees what he has to do to avert the same with LBH #he saw how important it was to explicitly let LBH know how loved he is even if he can't explain everything because it CAN change things #and it does for them #the responsibility part is... well everyone is responsible for their own behavior - including SJ #now I don't have strong opinions on this next part #but regardless of trauma or his right to remain silent - YQY has some responsibility for the ~direct~ consequences of the choice he made #namely referring to SJ's belief that he was callously abandoned and his pain and anger over it #but he is absolutely not responsible for SJ's “everything else” #idk just had some thoughts

[flashanimated]

BEEN DOWN THIS ROAD BEFORE,

ALREADY KNOW THIS STORY.

#sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #silver the hedgehog #explanation!! in tags. since i don't think my composition got my exact idea down #but this song is one of my fav sonic (as a character) themes. what it tells us about sonic. and this lyric especially stood out to me #we don't really know much of sonic's past (as of current game canon) or real feelings on most situations. to get them in character themes #like this is wonderful. and for so long i keep thinking about how like #i really truly think. when you really think abt it and consider them all as characters within canon #especiallyyyy the 1998-2000s games. sonic has more similarities to shadow and silver than what's been shown or what most have known #originally this was going to just have sonic and shadow but i always have to throw silver into things #but i wanted to potray a sort of sympathy from sonic as well as sense of understanding #being the hero of the whole world saving it many times and fighting insane things as a 15 year old little animal's gotta be a lot #& anyway i like to take baby game seriously just a little bit

[sugarless5]

“What if I told you that some part of me still hungers after suffering?”

Alex didn’t flinch. Of course she didn’t. It wasn’t in her repertoire.

“I’d tell you to keep your shit together, Darlington. We all want things we shouldn’t.”

-Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

#q #hell bent #hellbent #leigh bardugo #alex stern #darlington #THIS WHOLE SCENE #darlingstern stans screeching WANT THINGS WE SHOULDN'T?? ALEX? ALEX! in the distance #(it's me. I'm the one screeching) #(But I also just love this response to him admitting he learned to crave suffering in hell) #alex all unimpressed like 'well you and half the professors on campus - no other explanation for having to read foucault' #get your shit together and bury it like the rest of us darlington #god I love her so much #she's the best person to tell not because she's morally gray and doesn't regret killing assholes but bc she's spent her life around drugs

[chi-the-idiot]

I'm playing through Chapters 2 & 3 again, and listen I really love Kaneeka, but I dunno, sometimes she gets on my nerves a little?

Maybe its because I really like Tabby?

And listen, I get it. Absolutely I do. She is justified in her dislike. For fucks sake Tabitha literally implies that the kids yearn for the mines

But like, the whole thing at the mines made me really angry, because Yes, Kaneeka, of course I'm going to call Tabitha, it's her property and it's her fault if something happens to the kids under her watch, she deserves to know, and just because you don't like her doesn't mean you should be irresponsible about this. It could really damage her, both the business, the jobs of her employees, her mental state. AND Tabitha is the best person to call in this case because she's, again, the OWNER OF THE MINES, meaning that she knows how to navigate them. I doubt Neeks, being claustrophobic/afraid of them, would be of much help inside them, especially in a situation of risk.

And the gull to then say in chapter 3 that Tabitha just "escalated things" by her mere presence, when that presence is LITERALLY REQUIRED??? Like, again, I agree that Tabitha was wrong, about a lot of things, but to imply that the damage caused in the mines wouldn't have been that bad if she wasn't there? I'm not even going to get into what she could be implying in the routes because I may have understood incorrectly, but the way she shuts herself up is kinda weird to me, I dunno.

I am a Kaneeka supporter under all and any circumstances, but the mines make me angry.

(apologies for being overly aggressive when writing this, I've been wanting to talk about this for WAY too long)

#scarlet hollow #kaneeka forsyth #tabitha scarlet #listen Im not asking them to be best friends forever #but at least be civil to one another #Im not complaining that much about Tabitha because she's like that with literally everyone and I do think that she was right in this situat #but lemme be clear that I also have my gripes with Miss Scarlet herself #Oscar being at fault according to her is an example in which i heavily disagree #her immediate mistreatment of the main character upon arrival #she also treats Kaneeka incorrectly #The whole thing with Charles #The Reese thing #and so much more #but with Tabitha we do get a sort of explanation as to why she's like this to everyone she meets #aka Pearlanne baing the worst mother ever #But as for Kaneeka the only justification we get for not wanting to call her is that she doesn't like her