#and so ignored

[thelediz]

Sonic Underground 11: The Last Resort

I’m watching Sonic Underground in search of inspiration to finish a fic I’ve been writing forever. It’s a sad state of affairs. See the recap of the first three episodes here, if you're interested!

The plot (for want of a better word): Once again on the run from Robotnik, the triplets stumble across a beautiful resort town in the middle of nowhere. Finally feeling pampered, and with a new beau to romance, Sonia is tempted to stay in this idyllic paradise! But is everything as it seems, or are Sonic’s suspicions right about this mysterious place?

HAVE I MENTIONED HOW MUCH I DISLIKE SONIA’S CHARACTER TYPE YET.

Cracking open the cider today, friends.

Aleena tells us that “a thing of beauty should be cherished and protected”, but getting too protective of it will lead to “betrayal and ugliness”. Because this was written in America, and despite not coming from the 90s, it’s an American 90s cartoon, kids.

Also, YOU’D KNOW ABOUT THAT, WOULDN’T YOU ALEENA.

So we are once again immediately starting off with a reminder that Sonia hates getting dirty, Manic is comfortable in dirt and naive, and Sonic is highly suspicious of everything. Because these episodes might not be in order and you might not have spent the last ten episodes getting to know them

Hey, an orange item in the middle of a Boss Arena! This is surely not Dingo!

What, it’s Dingo? SHOCK.

Okay. So. They run out of the city after the SHOCKING ambush, and in the morning, they’re driving through a canyon, and Sonic is basically lost, despite the fact that they didn’t really have a destination in mind. Whatever. Sonia then gets on both boys’ case because guys never admit when they’re lost. What Manic did to annoy her, we don’t know. Probably just exist. It’s more reason for her to just be generically annoyed this episode.

And they stumble across the resort town, which Sonia announces “is like all of Mobius before Robotnik took over”. Sweetheart, you were barely born when Robotnik took over. You don’t know what it was like.

So this is Lake Valley Resort. And I immediately remember why I made Stripes a Nice Guy TM.

Because THIS FUCCBOI.

Sonia immediately falls for him, and in two sentences, fuccboi has the charm on ten. “Very pleased to meet you… and your brothers” indeed.

And Sonic’s back is appropriately up, because he, at least, remembers that not everyone is on the side of the Resistance. Manic does not understand this. Sonia is too thirsty enamoured with the scenery to care right now.

And so Stripes immediately reports ‘two’ strangers in the valley, because fuccboi wants the girl is not actually a bad guy, he’s just keeping Lake Valley safe. Which I get. It’s more of that delicious world building that I love about this series. People make sacrifices and give up their morals to maintain their lifestyles. This is a thing that happens.

EXCEPT STRIPES IS A FUCCBOI SO

Sonic once again reminding Manic not to steal, immediately telling us that Manic’s kleptomania is going to make an appearance.

Sonic implying less than 100% American heterosexuality +1

Manic looking shady as hell +1 (not actually a tally I just felt it needed mentioning)

Fuccboi up to his fuccboi games. And Sonia is falling for it because she is a basic bitch like that the writers need a romantic conflict in a female-focus episode.

Sonic playing tennis against himself. And arguing with himself for being a sore loser and a crappy umpire. Some things will never change.

Manic on his kleptomania. But luckily Lake Valley doesn’t work on money somehow. But then Manic runs his mouth about being part of the Resistance and the world building is back with the mob saying the resistance was responsible for what happened to Mobius! Again, legitimate propaganda tactic! I LOVE IT.

FUCCBOI. “I’ve always thought the valley was beautiful, but it’s even more beautiful now that you’re here” COME ON.

Sonia and Stripes get into a fight when she accuses him of being afraid—which he has every right to be—and he claims to only be trying to save his home by making a deal with Robotnik. Again, so legit. I love it.

The Song: Listen to your heart. A rare Sonia lead! And a samba, which is an interesting choice, but sure. Basically it’s about girls recognising fuccbois when they see them, and choosing her brothers over the boy she met literally twelve hours ago…

Once again, Stripes reports in Sonic and Manic, but not Sonia. But this time Sonic’s listening in, and we get Robotnik revealing to Sleet and Dingo that he’s only letting Lake Valley remain as it is because he was hoping the triplets would go there and fall into Stripes’ trap. Once the triplets are captured, Lake Valley will be destroyed. SHOCKING. Not how it would work in a real dictatorship, but we deal. Stripes needs motivation to go good.

Sonic reports in to Sonia, who has a mini-explosion about how Sonic was ‘always’ scared she’d want to stay, which is… what? WHAT? You’ve been here for a day! And you’ve barely seen Sonic for like twenty minutes of that day. WHAT.

So in this episode, the robotociser can be destroyed. It couldn’t be, last episode.

And as soon as the Valley is under threat, everyone’s pro resistance.

“Man can you dig the cymbal-lism?” ah haha. I see what you did there, Manic.

But seriously. Not in this episode. You fumbled the symbolism so I resent your pun.

Also, Sonia, you were not interested in being friends with the fuccboi, stop lying to the children.

Okay. Okay. Let’s real talk for a second, because again, the legit world building has been ruined by the requirements of children’s programming.

In the real world, Lake Valley would remain untouched as proof to the overclass that if you play ball, Robotnik will let you live your life. It would be a beautiful oasis that you can visit, that you can live a perfect life in, a reward for good behaviour. But, in contrast, every infraction you commit takes you further away from Lake Valley – it’s your fault and your poor behaviour that confines you to the wasteland you live in now. Good citizens get beautiful things and safety and peace. Bad citizens slave away in industrialised capitalism.

And Lake Valley would not respond to this situation by taking up arms. They would blame the Resistance for bringing the war to their doorstep. They could have continued, they could have stayed safe, if only those damn hedgehogs had stayed away. Clearly the only way to survive is catch the interlopers and re-establish their deal.

But that’s complicated and dark and I wasn’t supposed to notice the real world comparisons, STOP NOTICING THE WORLD BUILDING AND MOVE ON.

The counters:

Sonic implying less than 100% American heterosexuality: 4

Sonia in love with Bartleby: 1/37

Sonia in love with someone who is not Bartleby: 1/37

Sonia’s got super strength: 3

Manic’s thieving Is A Problem: 2

Come back tomorrow if you're interested for more!

#sonic underground #lediz fics #sonic the hedgehog #sonia hedgehog #manic hedgehog #the red flags are so impressive #and so ignored #but the worldbuilding! #I love this shows worldbuilding so much

[amygdalae]

Me in 2018: I can't thirst post that's embarrassing

Me now: I know he nuts loud and abundant

#if any of the ppl i know irl are reading this im so fuckign sorry please ignore this

[ciearcab]

gouache falin

#dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #falin touden #chimera falin #traditional art #illustration #gouache #i haven’t touched my paints in so long! i made this a challenge for myself to work with all these reds and get something cool out of it #ignore how messy my edges turned out - my tape roll is like 7 years old and barely sticks anymore #unsure if i should tag for nudity to be safe but also i’ve seen her shirtless more times on my tl this week then anything else ever so.

[deadeery]

whips my neck so fast u hear an audible crack. did someone say dungeon meshi

#dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #laios touden #marcille donato #chilchuck tims #kabru #izutsumi #trying to crack to code of laios’ essence.. im close #ik not everyone in laios’s party is here but my doodles were piling up #i cant render armour so ignore if it looks bad wahh #my art

[artkaninchenbau]

A h-heartfelt reunion..?

Bonus

#Sir Crocodile #Monkey D Dragon #Emporio Ivankov #Dragodile #Crocodad #My art #One Piece #We're not gonna talk about the work I should be doing rn I have Severe Procrastinitis and I'm doing my best okay #Alternative version where it was both Crocodile and Garp beating Dragon's ass before Iva-chan joined in but that was too much effort lmao #I'm a believer in Dragon being a Wind Logia so don't worry guys he is 100% taking this beating intentionally #He knows what he did and he's dealing with the concequences of his actions. With grace. #You know I realize Iva-chan should be two whole meters taller than Crocodile but we're just gonna ignore that #Look Iva-chan taking Crocodile's side and being like ''Crocoboy is right you fucked up bad Dragon'' brings me joy #And for real I've been wanting to draw this for months. But never did because I had other shit to do. Which I still do #But. You know. Sometimes you need to draw a shitpost. It's ✨ self-care ✨ #And appearently One Piece shitpost comics have become the thing I draw for myself on occassion

[shoomlah]

Everyone saw Crowley dressed up as Nanny Ashtoreth and wondered what she'd look like as a mid-century pinup, right, all of us, not just me 😬

#good omens #gomens #crowley #femme crowley #Nanny Ashtoreth #feeding the presumably VORACIOUS Nanny Ashtoreth fandom as one does #apologies for the tonal whiplash with my gomens fanart but the sketch for this was sitting in my Photoshop file for the kiss sequence #I could only ignore her for so long

[boltlightning]

in every workplace there should be a secret button you can press and if everyone presses it the workweek immediately ends and you can go outside and play instead of sending email

#it has been. A Week. i would like it to not be so #🥴 #ignore me #containment breach #notes #1k #5k #10k #15k #20k #25k #30k #40k

[counting-stars-gayly]

I’m actually LOVING how Rick Riordan, and the other writers of the show, took his initial concept of a Percabeth rivalry fueled by that of their parents and kind of turned it on its head?

Now, instead of Annabeth being wary of Percy because he’s a son of Poseidon, he’s wary of her because she made a callous impression on him. They get off to a rocky start even before finding out who Percy’s father is, and when they finally do, Annabeth doesn’t care. Instead of them fighting because of who their parents are, they’re fighting over their own opposed worldviews.

Then, instead of them arguing over which of the gods is cooler and who was right in the story of Medusa, they realize that, just like Medusa, Annabeth is a victim of her mother and that, unlike Medusa, she is a far kinder and stronger person, unwilling to repeat the cycle of hurt. They realize that, like his father, Percy often acts without considering potential consequences and that, unlike his father, he is a far kinder and stronger person, willing to step up for someone he wronged and whom he cares about.

Instead of Percy and Annabeth’s rivalry being focused on that of their parents, it’s focused on who they are, themselves. But the path to friendship is still the same: a realization that they have each other’s backs, no matter what, because they’re not their parents after all.

#i kind of typed this in my essay voice because I knew it would be long so ignore that #also I don’t actually know which of the other writers are playing big parts in percabeth’s story so threats why I put a focus on Riordan #that’s* #aaaaanyhoo if I’m being honest I definitely prefer this version of percabeth #AND I like that Medusa said ‘‘we are not our parents until we choose to be. you three have chosen’’ implying that she thinks they’ve chosen #to be their parents only for Percy to reveal in the next episode that he’s chosen to be better than his father. #that was a really nice touch 👌👌👌 #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo #pjo disney+ #percy jackson disney+ #percy jackson #annabeth chase #Percabeth #rick riordan #Medusa #pjo tv show #pjo tv series #pjo tv spoilers

[felucians]

Nex Benedict's death wasn't just for being transgender, it was for being native too. 2 Spirits are revered in many native cultures and it is a native-specific identity. This wasn't just a hate crime against trans & NB individuals, this was also a hate crime against Natives of Turtle Island.

You cannot separate Nex's trans identity from their native identity - this is a case of MMIWG2S (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2 Spirits).

Native children being killed at school is nothing new, so it's equally important to talk about Nex's native identity and being intersectional, this is a devastating tragedy for indigenous people, the queer community & especially those of us who are both indigenous and queer.

May Nex rest in peace 🪶

#too many people are ignoring their indigenous identity and how that plays a role in what happened #because 2 spirit is a trans AND indigenous identity - you cannot separate the two #and it is a disservice to Nex and all other 2 spirit to do so #as a queer indigenous woman my heart aches for Nex and their family #we as indigenous people have lost too many children to violence at schools #and we as queer people have lost too many to the rise of transphobia and TERFs and their attitudes #nex benedict #mmiwg2s #2 spirit #indigenous #queer #indigenous & queer #intersectionality #racism #transphobia

[serialunaliver]

seeing anyone praise biden right now after the horrors he saw and dismissed with his own eyes for so long is disgusting. the only reason he's speaking up is the US government would lose credibility with allies from this specific incident of aid workers dying - he certainly did not mind all the aid workers dying before...it has to be "close to home" enough to cause a PR crisis for the white house for any concern to be expressed by his administration. and "threats" are not action. has the money flow to israel stopped? has the consistent military support? he could completely denounce israel and it would mean nothing when he's still aiding the genocide

#so fucking ignorant to claim he has any good intentions or redeemed himself #but i've seen liberals use this to say he's not that bad #seriousposting

[nessieartss]

Another sibling au featuring megumi (they finally met and sukuna already made yuuji cringed)

Also happy new year!

Part 1 | Part 3

#jjk sibling au #student sukuna au #sukuna #ryomen sukuna #yuuji itadori #megumi fushiguro #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #jjk fanart #sukufushi #please just ignore the food #I can’t draw them lmao #and yes yuuji is wearing I’m kenough shirt on the 3rd image #thank you so much for all the loves and comments on the first part! #didnt think it would blow up #this au is really fun #my art

[treacherous]

#just thought of this so if it doesn't get any notes ignore me HFDSHDH

[unpretty]

the thing about having been really broke. averaging $500 a month in a good year broke. using a gamestop credit card i shouldn't have qualified for to buy taco bell gift cards for food broke. is that i am SO bad with money. i have a degree in accounting and i am so bad with money. i do not think of myself as superstitious at all but money feels so cursed. not in a spiritual way, i mean literally. practically.

having 'too much' money feels so bad. money is a thing you spend as soon as you get it because it's so cursed. the more it is the more cursed it is. i save too much money and bad things will happen that cost all my money. money is a thing that summons expenses. if i have no money and the car breaks down i find a way to make it work. i scrounge and resell and pass the hat and talk to my mom's friend's friend who knows a guy and in the end i'm so relieved to be right back where i started. but if i were saving my money for a new computer and then the car broke down, the money is just gone. i spent the money i saved for a thing i wanted on a thing i needed instead and after all that hoping i'm right back where i started.

i get a windfall and i set the money aside because if i'm careful that's enough to pay for gas for months. but then i need to pay for heat and i apply for assistance and they look at my bank account and see i have money and now they won't help pay for heat. soon it's just a habit. i get the money and i spend the money. immediately, as soon as possible, get this money away from me. don't even save enough for cigarettes. i can find money for cigarettes, somehow i can always find money for cigarettes. cigarette money is a weird magical fake money i summon from dark corners whenever i run out of cigarettes. i don't know how it works either. i've tried to summon the cigarette money for things that aren't cigarettes and it never works. just get this out of my bank account. get it out of here before something notices there's money here.

anyway i'm working on it but god it's hard

#original #i think i've made this exact same post before but everyone politely ignore that my memory is bad #i was doing better and then it all crashed and burned in the last couple months #and i'm fixing it but god it feels so stupid #i'd finally worked my way up to having Savings. Any Savings At All. where did it go. #how did i spend that much on pennywhistles and moonpies #that shouldn't be possible that's illegal

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF movie Mike is suspicious of Lefty…

#myart #chloesimagination #comic #mike schmidt #fnaf puppet #lefty #michael afton #fnaf #fnaf 2 #fnaf pizzeria simulator #fnaf movie #fnaf fanart #five nights at freddy's #LEFTY MENTIONED 🔥🔥 #after drawing the puppet I knew I’d eventually have to draw lefty #I just gotta do not separate lefty and poopet pff #I’ve actually always loved lefty they are so spooky #I like how you’re given little to no info about em but they give off this like #violent energy ITS SO well done #I can talk in circles around pizza sim being peak #mike is obviously unnerved immediately by lefty #Michael is just being a good business man #simply ignore the haunting 👍🏾

[opikiquu]

#★ arin rambles #★ my art #art #honkai star rail #hsr aventurine #hsr #So basically me and my bestie have agreed that aven has a priv twt acc and its terrible #yheres only like 1 follower (and its topaz) shes sick of it cuz he posts at the dead of night and its such drastic changes #Like he’d post ‘Sometimes I think about how I’m older than my older sister now.’ #and hes So Sad #and then like 12 minutes later post something like ‘staring at ratio’s cleavage rn not listening to a word hes saying’ #Also ratio isnt allowed to know abt it cuz hes gushing about him constantly like a schoolgirl #anyway so this is Not That. this is the trash he posts though #ignore that one normal cat it was genuinely too cute i didnt wanan erase it .

[tofixtheshadows]

Sorry but Kabru is so fascinating to me as a character, in a pure mechanical sense, because of what Ryoko Kui does with him. Everything about him is a red herring. He's deliberately introduced as some kind of rival for Laios, a party leader who is hopeless against monsters but absolutely brilliant with people both in and out of combat, and who has good reason to oppose him.

By the end of chapter 31, you might even think Kabru's going to end up as some sort of anti-villain, an antagonist with the best of intentions who nevertheless tries to foil our hero's plans. He wants to defeat the Mad Mage himself, he suspects Laios of being too irresponsible to be trusted with control of the dungeon, and his crew even thinks that Laios's party stole from them (and they're kind of right!). All signs point towards an inevitable showdown.

And then ... none of that happens.

Confrontation over the stolen treasure? Kabru is literally too smart to fall for the classic miscommunication trope and correctly decides it's not worth making a big deal of.

Kabru's deadly PVP skills? Aside from trying to take down Falin, he never fights another human again.

Wanting to be the one who defeats the dungeon? Turns out he was only doing that because he didn't think any other adventurer would have people's best interests at heart, and he's more than willing to play a support role in the whole affair.

Thinking Laios is up to no good? He really did just want to get to know the guy more. He has his misgivings, but ultimately ends up trusting Laios with his life.

Is Kabru going to get some sort of comeuppance for hating monsters and not appreciating their ecosystem? Well no, he has good reasons for hating monsters. He ends up wanting to learn about them through Laios's eyes, but he's never forced into any "Wow, guess I was wrong about them!" revelation.

Hell, even his implied ladykiller ways, which might lead you to think he'll end up being the stock "chivalrous lech" type of character, don't really manifest. He has a lot of opportunities to act flirtatiously around women, but doesn't. He's just a guy whose natural charisma makes him into human catnip.

And that's all hysterical to me, to pull it off. It's a fascinating way to tell a story. To introduce a character explicitly as a rival, potentially even a villain, and instead make them a deuteragonist. It's like a magician making a coin disappear, then slowing down their trick to show you the misdirection. "Did you see what I did there?" they ask with a wink. "The coin was in my other hand the entire time."

#Dungeon Meshi #Kabru #Dungeon Meshi spoilers #I will say that for the people who come out of the manga still thinking that Kabru hates Laios or that he's a bad guy in any way: #you were so busy staring at the hand where the coin disappeared that you ignored the magician explaining the trick #and yes I do think that Kabru and Marcille are the deuteragonists to Laios's protagonist #we see more of Kabru's interiority than anyone else. if you don't think he's a main character? idk. see me after class. #musings with Dea