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autisticlancemcclain · 2 months
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fic rec friday 58
hello and welcome to fic rec friday! where, on friday, i rec five of my favourite fics.
The Value of a Moment by @a-fools-errand
When Lance’s previously obsolete skills in language suddenly become very useful, he finds himself wondering why aliens can’t account for the fact that humans, particularly him, need sleep and would prefer linear timelines. (Or: an Arrival AU because I love that movie)
yall OBSESSED does not begin to cover it. i have never read a fic where lance was so goddamn cool. and in like. the insanest of ways?? like of course lance is a polyglot but THIS....this is a whole new level. i havent even finished it fully yet but like god this thing is so fucking cool. if ur looking for a longfic stop looking
2. Rest Stop by @flaming-potato-arsonarson
Lance wasn't like the rest of the world. And he had never had a loving mother tell him it made him stronger for it. So he told himself, gathering up his courage and grit to face a world of winged humanity, when he, in fact, has no wings and turns into a mermaid instead. A world that wants him to die. So he'd keep this secret like a knife in his boot, a sharp weapon until he died on his own terms. Not because of who he was. Except, Team Voltron isn't so sure why Lance is all rough edges and sharp points about showing off his wings. Or acting like a member of the Flock in general. It's clear he cares for them, but he's never shown an intimate part of him. Until he has to.
oh god this has gotta be one of my CLASSIC fics. read it a few dozen times. i read it right when it came out, six ish years ago (goddamn), i can remember curling up in my old bunk bad and eating this up as the hours ticked by. i was HOOKED. my jaw was dropped my eyes were glued. could not get enough. if youre looking for mermaid lance with a twist....brother this is it
3. Looking for Rain by @thewriter2
Like most things, it starts with the little things: his smile, his confidence, his talent. Eventually, all these little things add up to one big thing that threatens to crash over them like a heavy rain. But, maybe that wouldn't be a bad thing. Maybe something beautiful would come from it. A 5+1 (really a 10+1) of Lance and Keith falling in love.
oh god guys..... @thewriter2 knows how to fucking haunt you. if a 10+1 (!!) isnt enough for you, i want you to know this line has been echoing in my head since i first read: "He looks at you like you’re a storm and he’s a desert desperate to drown." UM??? EXCUSE ME???? SIMILE OF ALL TIME ACTUALLY???? keith being so so visibly obviously in love with lance is my actual roman empire shit never leaves my mind
4. Astronauts by @thewriter2
When they entered the Blue Lion, Keith was Lance’s rival--the person Lance was working so hard to surpass. But slowly, Lance found himself thinking of Keith less as a rival and more as something close to a friend. So of course, Lance’s traitor of a heart decided that it would be Lance’s kind of friend that it would fall in love with.
tags to sell you: "keith is a dork but lance loves him anyway" (dorky keith my beloved), "hunk is an a+ friend" (yes he is), "lance is a lovesick fool" (yeah), and "allura is older sister goals" yes yes YES you get it. and like....while keith pov is my favourite to write by far, lances pov as he realises he is in love....that will always hold such a special special place in my heart
5. his own worth by frogsterz
In the middle of the conversation, Lance stops talking and no one notices. It’s not like he had been leading the conversation, for he hadn’t been, but somehow the fact that his lack of input or opinion isn’t noticed tightens the grip loneliness has on his heart. He looks down at his food, his face burning, his throat tightening up.
now usually anything but team as family isnt my deal. im not big on classic langst. but keith as a knight in shining armour.....what can i say i am weak willed. deeply. also " It’s what made it worse. I miss home and I miss being held and the rain, and I loved you. I thought you hated me." got me so bad got me WEAK like i have never recovered from that line and i doubt i ever will
that’s it for today!! i’ll see y’all back next friday for the next fic rec post!!!
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psshaw · 1 month
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You have been one of the most unapologetically yourself artists Ive come across and I dont mean that in the cliche way I mean like... your idiosyncrasies seem particularly unstifled. Your art is purely yourself and the mainstream isnt gonna go for it but the audience you do speak to gets to feel like an alien finding someone else from their homeland. AI image gen feels like a beautiful cake with flowery frosting and when you cut into it its actually frosting all the way down and has nothing of substance. I obviously can speak only in metaphors lol so I just wanted to say I appreciate reading your thoughts on AI and tho I feel strongly abt it I have a hard time putting exacting words to what about it is so worrying to me. As an artist it energizes me when I see artists who are wildly unique and expressing themselves without a care to their skill limitations or personal strangenesses (read: mainstream unmarketability). Manga artist ONE and his charming and funky style is a great example. Anyway I love your thoughts and wanted to say thanks and also throw words at you
FUCKIGN DAMN DUDE, ARE YOU TRYING TO MAKE ME CRY? Why is the weather getting misty on my face specifically. Thank you. My most contentious trait is that I keep forgetting to care what people want from me.
It's really interesting following people who are very honest but more mathy than me, because the way they talk about art and AI lately has gotten... increasingly callous. Even bitter. It's partly justified, because artists tend to suck at defending themselves charismatically. ("AI art isn't real art"; the "AI can't do hands" thing was always destined to age badly) But also, I can't stand the sheer selfishness of people who claim to be rational but don't seem know how to investigate what art at its best is for and why they view it the way they do. When I read "AI is great for hobbyists" I'm like. 95% of the time, I'M A HOBBYIST... I would never generate a script, or music... javascript maybe, but I'd feel guilty about it... but the excitement? I think some guys are just looking to suckle on a feeding tube. Cos they were done a disservice by thinking they had to stop visual art after fingerpainting!
I don't think AI NEVER has substance, but the type of person who gets excited about AI doesn't tend to do interesting things with it. And what really bothers me is that I can never tell exactly WHAT they did, versus how much was a coin flip. This is useless for understanding your voice as an artist. I don't care to see more by you.
ONE is a perfect example. His style MAKES that story. The manga and the anime feel so different. That's why I hate when people say that hating AI is discriminating against people who can't draw, cos like... if you can't make something intentional and real without using what's functionally a search engine, why would I believe you're having ideas worth the cliche conceptartdotcom overrendered AI polish at all? Not to be a dick, but like. In terms of rate of return on my attention investment, so far I'd do better by sitting at a craps table.
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silenthillbunni · 14 days
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i rlly do wanna die tho. i am broken, i will always be broken. if i'd even have any kind of chance to live somewhat normally w this disorder, i'd need years of extensive therapy. rn even tho im begging for help, they all dismiss me nd say they cant do anything for me. im irrepairably nd fundamentally broken. no aspect in my life is smooth or good. i cant do anything, im completely useless nd worthless. my entire existence is pointless. i dont make an impact on anything or anyone nd if i disappeared rn it wouldnt make a difference. it wouldnt even be noticed. it's just so frustrating bc im so fkn broken. no matter how hard i try to explain myself or try to connect w ppl it never works. im way too broken to be understood. im too much too handle in the way that im not worth it, im not worth any amount of patience or effort. im not worthy enough of salvaging things with. if i do one thing, bam im completely written off. whatever i do, whatever i say i remain unheard. it's been like that my entire life. nobody ever truly sees what i do or why i do it. nd that is more alienating nd isolating than anything. sure i can have shallow conversations but my soul craves deeper things than that. but thats not possible bc i am broken. whenever i think of myself nd my life nd how little i have i feel such intense dread for the profound loneliness that hangs over me everyday that i just wanna die to escape it. even if i did get therapy, how tf could they make me not lonely? how tf could they reverse all the damage thats been done to me to ruin me this way? i am a lost cause. the fight i'd have to keep up for the rest of my life..... is not worth it. i dont want to. bc the one thing i want is the one thing i'll never have bc im too broken for it. and truth be told if i cant have that i dont want anything. nothing even comes close to it and nothing can make up for the lack of it. i dont find anything worth living for. nothing. the only thing that keeps me tethered to this existence i was never meant to come into is the overwhelming guilt of the grief i'll cause my mother. i just cannot bring myself to do that to her. but i want to. i want to...... it doesnt matter what anyone says. no empty positivity platitudes matter to me. i just want someone next to me, holding my hand, listening to me, not judging me, not hating me or getting mad or disappointed with me for being what i am. i'll never have that. because i am too broken!!!!!!! i am broken, that's rlly all i can say. there isnt even rlly any treatment for this disorder lol, it's just all empty promises. i'll never heal this. it's impossible to heal or treat. and it took away the thing i want the most... companionship. no one can ever know me and not want to turn away from me. im doomed to a life being suffocated by the darkness crying hugging my knees rocking back nd forth and dying a slow death all on my own with no one to hold me and thats that on that
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hi this was Forever ago but i submitted Glitch of the Ben 10 reboot here and i was looking thru the comments and i wanted to respond: i watched every episode i was legally able to. the cartoon network site forces me to "sign in with cable" to watch and i cant afford cable anymore and i didnt feel like the show was worth the virus risk of finding a pirate site. maybe i will try again though idk.
i know glitch can fuse with the other aliens. thats neat as a concept but it isnt character development, it's a design gimmick to sell more toys.
i had multiple reasons for calling it a bad show. they made max a brainless chauffeur with no motivation or personality other than "i do literally whatever my 10 year old grandchildren tell me" —in fact, i should have submitted him here, too. in the original series, his motivation was the struggle between keeping his family safe and keeping the world safe (knowing he doesnt have the ability to get the omnitrix off ben, thus forcing him to acknowledge that ben is often the only person who CAN save the world, but he's also an immature child who needs structure and discipline so he doesn't turn into a monster. reboot max lets him do shit like watch cartoons for 30 hours straight while gwen doesn't even get a turn with the remote, or trusts him to just hang out unsupervised in a giant department store for hours while max wanders off to go eat normal hotdogs or whatever. original ben wouldve just started straight up stealing shit like when he went greymatter to search for sumo slammer cards in cereal boxes)
also many of the villains felt weak. the cockroach guys' motivation is basically "there was a lab accident and we're evil now." (contrast with the original show, where that one bug guy's motivation was "my house is being torn down, i don't want to be homeless, and insects are literally my only friends why does everyone keep KILLING MY FRIENDS? IF YOU KILL MY FRIENDS I'M GOING TO KILL YOU"). the rich kid's backstory is just that he's a rich kid. zombozo isn't scary enough AND hes incompetent now. they kind of fused kevin and albedo into one character which was sort of interesting if taken on its own but immensely disappointing if you know the originals.
the vil and gax thing was interesting but it makes the timeframe of the show confusing and inconsistent, because (in the original) vilgax was the whole reason the omnitrix landed on earth, but he can't have done that if he's just reduced to a shambling husk of himself with no warship or army. and yet in the timetravel ep with the rich kid, it's implied the omnitrix still landed that way in the same place? so they half imply something different happened and half imply the same thing happened, and just never bother to explain how the hell ben GOT the omnitrix in the FIRST place.
also this is the least important of my complaints but they just made all of ben's aliens bipeds. why are they so scared of alien bodytypes? why does stinkfly just look like some guy in a bug costume now? where are wildvine's five vine legs? what happened to wildmutt?
Oh this is juicy
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sara-likes-things · 6 months
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The first time Steve saw Billy Hargrove he thought he looked like an asshole, the first time he got to interact with him he found he was right. Then after starcourt everything changed.
The things is, Billy Hargrove is the type of asshole Steve hates, the loud cocky kind, almost a mixure of king Steve and Tommy worst traits but in a better looking package.
Steve disliked lots of things about Billy but the most annoying one was that just because Hargrove is from California he gets to walk like he is the best thing to ever happen to Hawkins, and sure, Steve is confident too, his confidence comes from growing up wealthy, there's a certain pride only rich people have and Steve has no lack of it, his parents might not always be there for him but they taught him that he deserves good things above anyone else.
And sure that might have led to king Steve and he was an asshole too but the difference is Steve will never lose this confidence because no matter how popular or not he still is or how many times he gets beat up Steve is going to walk like he is the coolest guy ever, he has killed aliens for gods sake, of course he is cool. The only thing that sometimes makes him waver is that Steve doesn't understand as quickly as others (they all are nerds on his defence so sue him for not getting it as fast as them) but Steve knows he is charming enough to make people ignore that. And if his parents and their rich friends have teach him something is that charm goes farther than smarts, you only need to be charming enough to get to the top and then hire smart people to work for you.
But Steve is not an asshole anymore, he grow up. Finding about alien dogs from other other worlds does that to you.
So he is not surprised that Billy changed too.
Yeah, Steve hated the way Billy acted till he gets to really see who Billy becomes after the whole starcourt fiasco.
(Maybe he was always like that, Steve isnt sure).
What Steve is sure about is that Billy confidence is more of a bravado, sure he's loud and cocky because Billy knows he is hot and that his good looks help him to be popular but Billy also knows that he has to mask his personality to make the good looks really work, and none of this really matter when the most important person on his life makes him feel so small, like he is a nuisance at best (Steve hates Neil Hargrove but thats another thing).
Steve can notice how Hargrove gets tired of pretending everything is okay and gets lost on his head when he think no ones paying attention, all that loudness dissapearing behind sad glassy eyes.
Steve can see how Billy gets self-concious when people notice his scars, as if people noticing them erases his good looks and with that all his worth(Steve thinks they only make him look cooler, like an actual action movie star but in real life).
Billy after starcourt is quiet.
So when Billy sometimes acts the way old Billy acted Steve doesnt hate it anymore, he craves it, almost as if behind that survivor guilt there's a will to live and not just to perish.
A will to bring the old Billy back.
Because Steve knows about being cocky and acting like you're above the rest but he also knows about survival, and after learning about the real Billy how can he hate someone for trying to live.
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cronagorgonzola · 1 month
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Ok so Star Trek: Enterprise really seemed to be improving in season 3 ever since they abandoned the shapeshifting lizard people as the series villain and stopped trying to put T'pol and Archer together but then we came across an episode last night that baffled us so thoroughly we stayed up for an extra hour just yelling into the void about it
So, Enterprise comes across this destroyed insectoid ship. The crew are dead and most systems are down and they dont know why. And then on the ship they find a hatchery of insectoid eggs. Babies. It's the most fortified section of the ship and the only section that still has life support.
Turns out, the crew cut power to their own life support in order to keep the hatchery running. They sacrificed themselves to save these babies. Phlox analyzes their anatomy and learns that they reproduce asexually, concludes there is likely a hatchery like this on every insectoid ship. So now we know two things: these children were loved, and the crew of this ship was not especially negligent for having them onboard, because this is a normal practice for their people.
Archer says "we gotta save these babies." The crew is skeptical, because saving the babies would take a lot of resources and put Enterprise in danger. For once i agree with Archer - they gotta save the babies. He makes a lot of really good arguments, like "we have a chance to show the Xindi that we're not the monsters they think we are," and "if this was a nursery of primate babies, you wouldnt think twice about saving them." That good Star Trek shit. No one actually directly refutes this argument, they just say they dont want to save the babies.
The whole episode goes on like this, with Archer fervently trying to save these babies while the rest of the crew stands around saying "idk i think the captain's going crazy." T'pol refuses a direct order to help with saving the babies, so Archer relieves her of command. This is seen as evidence that Archer is going crazy. Another insectoid ship shows up, and Reed blows them out of the sky without even attempting to communicate, so Archer relieves him of command as well. This is further evidence that Archer is going crazy.
Then the senior staff fucking mutinies. They say, "captain, youve taken this whole 'save these babies' thing too far, let us kill the babies." The babies have started to hatch and Archer is getting weird with it. They drag him off to sick bay and scan his brain - turns out, he was infected with some kind of alien pheromone that gave him an irresistable urge to protect these babies. He was not, in fact, following a moral code that compelled him to protect innocent life, or trying to set a good example for humanity as they join the interstellar community. He was just crazy all along! No attempt is made to refute the (very good) arguments he made in favor of saving the babies, the viewers are just meant to accept the premise that saving the babies isnt worth it actually, because it would take a lot of resources. Archer even says "yeah if i was normal i wouldve just let the babies die" and leaves it at that - no slow zoom in on his face as he realizes what that means about him, no speech about how humanity needs to outgrow old prejudices to see the sanctity of diverse life, the episode just leaves off on "those babies were creepy it wouldve been fine to kill them."
But the episode still makes a point to tell the viewer that the babies will survive, because the writers understand that when you put a bunch of babies in danger, people will naturally worry for their safety. Not the crew, though. It's super fine and normal that they were totally willing to let those babies die, the captain was definitely the crazy one for trying to save them.
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luveline · 11 months
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hi jadey 🐱🐱🤎 the one anon that mentioned how they’d exclusively have to go for guys written by u is so so sooo very true…i’ve never been in a proper romantic relationship before but if it just isnt akin to ur beautiful amazing jaw dropping drool worthy killer characterization then it is just out of the question…ur work has elevated the bar so high but i am very thankful for it because it used to be alarmingly low. and for u to even mention that u take reference from real life examples !!!!!!!! it made me so warm and happy lol, i hope one day haha < 3 i hope for everyone on this earth (and otherwise…aliens….) who is willing to find love, to find a jadey kind of love
I'm not trying to make out like I'm some perfect girl or anything, just most of the stuff I talk about, like the feelings, thoughts, the patience, are things that I've felt or strived for, and things I have seen other people do, so I have to believe that there is somebody out there who will love you for you at whatever stage you're in. I know that I don't talk about fights or misunderstandings very often in my work but when I do its the patience we have with each other that I emphasise, I know that life isn't so simple and perfect or whatever, but I also know that if you give your very best (while looking after yourself, I'm not saying give every part of yourself to everybody) someone will be willing to give that back to you. I'm very lucky to have loved the people I've loved and to have been able to do it with my whole heart
Not to go on a silly social media is evil rant but I really think that spending time in the world and watching the people around you is an opportunity to become more hopeful. If YOU are capable of loving so earnestly, and trusting, and being as patient and kind as you are, then it means someone else is too, cos almost none of our experiences are unique to us and we are all worth loving
I know there's more factors involved than that, people can be shallow, cruel, etc, but those aren't the kind of person you want to be with anyhow!! The most important thing to me is a shared fondness for the other person and you often can't reach that level without knowing one another (insert a speech about how beautiful the mundane is, body hair my beloved, grossness etc) so unfortunately you have to put yourself out there. But it's OK if you can't right now, because all the love that's waiting for you isn't going anywhere !!!
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princeseerow · 1 year
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so okay ive been thinking a lot about the post war animorphs
in universe and in the fandom, everyone says that cassie is the only one who made it out of the war the most well adjusted and "normal", which does seem to be true in the sense that she's able to become a functioning member of human society (jake) and not milking her celebrity for all that its worth (marco), but i also wonder if that's only because she's throwing herself into her work to avoid having to confront her own trauma?
i mean, overworking oneself is not an uncommon coping mechanism after all
we dont know the intricacies of her schedule or anything but in the short few years since the war ends, we do know that cassie is an environmental/alien affairs activist, eventually given a spot in the president's (sub?)cabinet, and taking veterinary school night classes. thats a lot for anyone to take on in two/three years' time, much less a 16 to 19 year old ex child soldier who's seen and caused more death and destruction in three years than most people see in their entire lives.
im just saying, maybe cassie isnt that okay
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omi-papus · 1 year
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I realized that Robin inngame becomes infinitly more tolerable and fun if you just think of her as kind of a dumbass. Like ok listen I dont know what the fuck is up with her voice lines. Like hers specifically. Everyone elses dialogue is pretty alright and even great. But something about Robin just does not click. Shes presented as this badass, marvel esque strong female character tm. Not to an unberable degree. Shes fine. But I feel like when I first played I only tolerated Robin when Al-An was stuck to her, because she would bring interesting things out of him. And it felt off sometimes. The worst bit Id say is, "How do humans cope with the loss of memories? Like forgeting someones birthday?" Like girl, this is clearly some existencial shit this man is on, get a grip.
Now, everytime I play and she says some shit like that, I go, "Sure sweetie. You go do that" And thats what got me to like her. Like to just think shes as a person is just out of touch as fuck actually makes sense with everything a lot more. Like yhea shed yeet herself into an alien planet with no way out just to comfirm a suspicion because she dosent like a company and cant accept the idea someone she loves isnt a perfect angel. All her brain holds is plant facts, you think she can make good choices? Yhea shed really just recite poetry to an alien expecting him to understand, without even knowing the damn thing in full. Girl is 90% pure unfiltered emotion and cant explain abstract concepts worth shit. Homegirl will really meet an alien thats like, "I wont explain who I am or my intentions but get me out of her real quick" and INSTANTLY be like "Bet, get your ass in this iPad". (Granted she didnt want to go as far as she did with the whole brain situation and she was rushed but still, not even panic.) Shed be the friend that everyone goes to when thyre in truble, because shell agree to murder without asking question if she digs your vibe. OF COURSE Robin will genuenly unpromted go "Hey that new body of yours in kind of making me feel something, Imma just give you the rest of my life and follow you into the void of space, leaving everything else behind k?" Bitch has never had a plan in her life, you think shes going to start now? She sees some alien ass and all else is irrelevant.
It also works with the gameplay, cause like idk about you but in Below Zero it felt like everything was yelling, "Hey, you have 30 seconds of oxigen. How about you go into that cave at the bottom of the ocean floor I bet theres cool shit in there." And sure enough I did.
And like, you have any idea how little self preservation biologists can have? Robin is the girl that will lick the frog to test if its poisonous, shes the one that does the pain tests for insect bites. She can and will manhandle a hipo because she wants to see the inside of its mouth.
This is so not what the game intended but I love waterlogged brain Robin and I will deny canon til the end of days.
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realmflora · 17 days
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pinkeoni · 8 months
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I dont want to milk the discussion to death but i am writing this after reading the post and comments under that post on reddit. You dont have to answer i am just writing it as an observation.
Its understandable why people do not see Will's importance or role. What the writers did with him wasnt just holding the spoiler for the finale. After all you can still pull a plot twist while revealing some of the stuff or putting more setup. But theu revealed basically nothing with litte to no setup. In Will's case it doesnt help bc they also sidelined him way too much and separated him from the main plotline. That is just a writing mistake and admitting its not hating on the writers.
I dont want to sound rude. And Whenever i have this discussion with people i tend to keep an open mind to the both sides. Overall though i tend to agree that if your writing is pretty much alien to most of your audience then it is bad writing. This show isnt written for a selective part of the audience. I wish people would realize that. If i go to twitter, reddit, insta, tiktok or other sites that make posts and analyses about ST and i see the majority of people call Will unimportant then the writers failed at even hinting at his importance. People shouldnt be saying he is an irrelevant or unimportant character that doesnt do anything. It is not just El fans who say this, its the majority of the audience. It was the writers job to stop this accusation by putting more setup and adding more screentime for him before the finale season rolls, even if they want to pull a plot twist in St5.
People also dont like plot twists that has little to no actual setup. That is why plot twists are tricky. Also keep in mind that the same thing applies to byler going canon... i dont want to sound like i dislike the show because i dont. But i have to admit that they flopped the writing. I genuienly think that once St5 rolls people will realize this more. Heck even some Will fans themselves think he is not that important and what happened to him were all coincidental. Can we blame the overall audience for thinking that way?
My problem isnt that i think Will is unimportant but rather how the writers approached it. It is full of bad decisions and lack of good writing. And whatever plot twist that they may pull might not even have a positive pay off at the end due to how they have been writing things. In that case is it even worth to pull a plot twist if the pay off also flops? Imho the Duffers dont realize that their setup for a potential pay off is built on a weak construction site but they like the element of twists so they dont care about the coherent build up and progression.
Will the audience's response to what happens in St5 be "Wow this is so true how didnt i see it coming" or will it be majorly a reaction like "This is bullshit there was almost nothing that suggested this"? Because the latter one seems more likely to happen, unfortunately.
Anyways this was all over the place but admittedly i wrote it after reading the comments on reddit as an overall afterthought. I respect your opinion but in think there is a major disconnect btw the writers and its audience here in terms of writing imho.
Hello anon,
Decided to go to sleep before answering. No, I don't think you're being rude, and to be honest I agree with a lot of what you said. I think that the points we disagree on we may just continue to disagree on 😂🤝
I don't think you are hating the show for pointing out flaws in the writing, and in the post I just made about this I do at least try to acknowledge some of their shortcomings such as— shafting Will's presence and not balancing the supporting casts' storylines. I do agree that, like you said, that Will's role in the story could have been emphasized more.
The thing that I do disagree with, and maybe we just won't ever see eye to eye on this anon, is that there wasn't any setup at all, especially concerning his role in the supernatural plot. I listed off the evidence and gave my reasoning in my post, so I won't repeat here as to not sound like a broken record.
I also agree that no, the show isn't written just for the over-analytical people like me, but I think surveying reddit isn't an accurate depiction of the general audience. Granted I don't see much of sttwt, tiktok and insta so I'll just trust your word for it. But in that specific reddit thread, it seemed like fans who were adamantly trying to deny Will's importance, using faulty evidence as proof. It's interesting because these aren't really fans who watch from a surface level, they actively participate in fandom and willfully skew their perception of the text in order to fit their vision of things.
I think when it comes to revealing Will's importance and having it not come out of nowhere, it will all come down to execution in this final season. If the show reminds the audience of some of the hints leading up to it, then maybe they won't feel so vexed when the reveal happens. If they throw us in the deep end and start pulling out new details then it would definitely feel out of nowhere. It'll be a fine line for them to walk for sure.
But anyway that's where I'll leave it anon. I appreciate you sharing your opinion, although I still maintain some of my thoughts on this and I think you will too and that's okay 🤝
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butchyena · 28 days
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i know i make this post like every three months but what are you supposed to do when something is upsetting you but isnt worth talking about because theres literally nothing to be done about it and nothing anyone can do or say to make you feel better because again theres nothing you can do and talking about it will in fact actually upset and alienate other people but also its going to gut you every moment of every day if you dont do something (nothing to be done). quickly.
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birdsareblooming · 2 years
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Could you tell me some fun facts about sonic if you want? I only have passing knowledge of some things but it seems to have a lot of fun stuff.
Sonic is Santa Claus
Tails has a body count (of at LEAST one maybe more)
Knuckles was microwaved as an infant (archie canon that no one uses) this caused his parents' divorce
just read a wikipedia page on Sonic Underground it's so funny. none of it is canon
Eggman and Sonic seem to canonically share a birthday (June 23rd)
Sonic had an adopted robot son in one game that appears to be fully canon just not as well known. he showed up in Sonic X but with a very different story either because of time or they didn't know what it was yet because of release dates. anyway there is a specific reason Sonic's robot son isnt used anymore so watch Sonic Battle to find out its great and in my top two games
Shadow the hedgehog has two dads
Sonic has befriended 2 deities and beat the shit out of 4 (if you want to use the split ones instead of their full forms he's befriended 2 and beat the shit out of 5)
Chaos is an interesting case, apparently somewhere it says he's a mutated chao however I have yet to see the sourse and if it's trustworthy, but he referred to as a deity in Sonic Adventure.
Tails has a dead girlfriend (and her infant child)
Despite SEGA not talking about their exact ages a lot, there are very few important characters whose ages are completely unknown. The two biggest characters this includes is Dr. Eggman, Cream's mom and Sticks
Ian Flynn has confirmed that Tangle and Whisper are dating
Amy can summon her hammer out of no where, other mobians have had a similar ability as well with different things
There is never a Sonic Says that says not to do drugs. There is one about not taking other people's medication, not smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol, but nothing about drugs.
Across canons Sonic has had 6 mothers (including adoptive/figure ones) and 5 fathers (including adoptive/figure ones) the amounts do not overlap as much as you would think, Sonic only had both a mother and father so far in 4 canons, one of those canons his father being dead, and then getting a father figure. one of the canons has two adoptive/figurative mothers. In multiple canons he's had an uncle (Uncle Chuck) as well or instead.
In almost every canon Tails has had a past of being bullied, whether it be for his physical mutation or his smarts. We barely have ever seen it happen, however, the one time i can think of is the flashback to Sonic and Tails meeting in Sonic X, when two kids physically hold him back while they break an invention of his. It is implied that his bullied past contributed to his self-worth issues.
Rouge has mentioned having a mother twice: "Oh, great. Mama always told me that one day I'd get stuck in an alien dimension without a change of clothes."&"Mama told me there'd be days like this."
The only character in the main group with a confirmed alive parental figure is Cream, who has Vanilla (her biological mother). It is implied Vector is in a paternal relationship with Charmy and Espio but nothing is confirmed. As mentioned before Rouge mentions a mother but her living status is unknown. Specifically in Sonic SATAM Tails mentions once having a mother that is no longer around, she is never mentioned again or in any other canon.
Archie Sonic gave lots of Sonic characters biological parents, but due to copyright they have never shown up again, and because of how the stories generally are they haven't attempted anything similar since.
The only characters with confirmed dead parents/parental figures is Knuckles and Shadow
In at least two canons Sonic raised Tails from infancy, and it's implied they've known each other long enough in modern canon for Sonic to raise him. "Well, he was practically raised by Sonic, and he's not known for his patience..."
Rouge had a female partner in Sonic X and they were heavily hinted to be romantically involved. Rouge's first words to her upon being arrested is a bdsm joke, and later Topaz gives her a bejeweled ring asking her to promise not to leave. They are seen hanging out just the two of them outside of work, specifically once when they were eating together. When Rouge goes back to her dimension she gives Topaz a giant gaudy jeweled necklace, and after she left Topaz fell down sobbing.
Tails has had the most age variation when it comes to canons. Modern settled on 8 eventually. In Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog he starts at 4 1\2, the show takes place over 2 years as we see 2 of Sonic's birthdays, so he ends the show at 6-6 1/2. Sonic Satam (which ran at the same time) had Tails as 10.
Multiple Sonic characters are coded as specific races. This includes but is not limited to Knuckles and his tribe who are coded as Jamaican and South-American, Vector is is black-coded, and Espio and Whisper being Japanese-coded. Sonic in 2 canons has had Egyptian or Egyptian-adjacent ancestry, both of these canons while he was voiced by a black man.
The oldest character in the Sonic friend group with a confirmed age is Vector at 20, however Vanilla is of the characters whose ages are unknown and she has a 6-year-old child. The youngest i would put her at is 22, She is probably closer to 24.
The youngest in the group being Charmy and Cream at 6
It's hinted at that Shadow was based on carvings and art of Super Sonic seen in echidna and non-specific ruins. This is hinted at by a copy of the Master Emerald shrine in the ARK, as well has Shadow himself having a recolored model of the original Super Sonic from Sonic Adventure.
Blaze is from a mirror dimension, having their own emeralds, (Sol Emeralds) their own Sonic, (Blaze) Their own Eggman, (Eggman Nega) and their own Tails. (Marine) Specific locations seen in Sonic Rush Adventure are similar to locations in past Sonic games from his dimention.
Eggman Nega is one of the modern characters with conflicting canons, being either from Blaze's dimension or from the future. The other character is Silver.
For Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Robotnik was voiced by Long John Baldry, who had been out as gay for 20 years before the show. Silver's theme song (Dreams of an Absolution) was also written by a gay man who admitted to writing the song about a recent breakup.
Blaze is a princess of an empire meaning when she's old enough she'll be an Empress. The status of her parents are unknown however Sonic Rush Adventure states that she has a family line that protected artifacts, as well as everyone (except Marine) recognizing her as the princess. It is also heavily hinted at in Sonic Rush that she had a rough childhood, and one where she was not around other children and had to learn to control her flame ability.
There's a reoccurring theme of Sonic's opposers being red. Most notably Eggman, then Knuckles, then Shadow, and most recently Infinite. Even if the enemies become friends or allies they remain red. Despite this, the opposite of blue is actually orange, which Tails is.
Tails being yellow or orange has been a debate. Orange is a color that easily changes in lighting so in most circumstances it's hard to tell. In some canons and lighting he's very orange while in others he's very yellow. The wiki lists his fur as "Amber"
Sonic takes a super-esk form in Sonic and the Secret Rings called Darkspine Sonic, the design and name are very similar to Dark Sonic from Sonic X, who only ever appeared in one scene but is still a fan favorite super form. The coloring of Sonic the Werehog is also similar to Dark Sonic.
Knuckles has been hinted to be gay, specifically for Sonic, in multiple canons, this mainly appears in Sonic X.
Sonic killed the time god in 2006, and it is heavily hinted at that he's the only one who remembers this.
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sir-sunny · 4 months
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can we hear more about cosmo?? he's my fave character from your cartoon even tho i dont know a lot about him 😅 he seems like a mess (affectionate)
he IS a mess <33
SO BASICALLY cosmo is very much an outcast. he's odd and eccentric and overbearing and just a bit of a creep, right ykno how it goes. he has a very unhinged obsession with conspiracy theories. he's always spouting off nonsense about whatever and as such, people find it hard to hang around him askjdfhaskj
at the beginning of his story, he works at a job with both lisa and bobby who both just barely tolerate him. its worth noting that he sees the two of them as his close friends. this guy isnt great with social cues <3
SO on the faithful day where helix comes to earth, cosmo is actually the very first to encounter him. unfortunately he quickly scares helix away because of his very uhh energetic reaction to seeing an alien. helix runs away from cosmo and doesnt see him again. later that night, lisa and bobby come across helix and take him in
for helix's safety, bobby and lisa agree not to tell ANYONE abt helix. including poor, poor cosmo who swears up and down that he saw a real alien. of course his peers dont believe him. and his two "closest firends" dismiss him without a second glance. it makes him lose his mind
and he's not entirely clueless, he knows that it all boils down to those two. he knows that theyre hiding something. he knows that theyre lying to him to everyone. all he needs is proof.
hes so determined to prove to everyone what he saw that he becomes even more of a reclus and a conspiracy nut. he stops coming into work, he spends his days furiously researching alien sightings, anything to confim his story. he even goes as far as to visit the sighting locations himself, collecting any data or clues that he comes across
and as time goes on he gets more and more desperate. he gets more reckless, he's determined to get evidence no matter what it takes.
basically, he breaks into a top secret facility (yea like area 51) and he finds alien dna which he very much intends to steal until his plans are thwarted by the pesky authorities. he gets shot right in the hand thats holding to dna tube and his wound is exposed to the alien dna and bada bing bada boom
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mutant abomination alien babyyyyyyyy
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narwhalandchill · 4 months
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ive seen a few comments on the narwhal along the lines of people seemingly thinking that its all oh omg its mourning A World (singular) thats dying/dead and waiting hidden inside of its stomach to be revived and it needs to eat the life force of A World (singular) like teyvat to achieve that and its just like... oh sweet summer child thats. not. A world.
its the entire universe.
the narwhal isnt trying to bring back one world or two. its not mourning one lost civilization or one lost planet.
its been traveling through the cosmos bearing witness to world after world every single one brilliant and brightly lit aflame in its own way. and seen the inevitable decay and loss of each and every one. it does not weep for any one world over another. but all of them.
its weeping for every single spark of life that has ever existed and that will ever exist. for every act of fleeting yet ultimately meaningless rebellion the universes most improbable of miracles have mustered against the unfeeling omnipotence of entropy one after another. for every flicker of life that dares to raise its head in defiance against the cold, unforgiving cosmos.
its not trying to save A World. its trying to save Everything that can ever be saved from the heat death of the universe.
because like. thats what tears among the stars is talking about. dont let the fantasy lingo get it twisted and trick you into any other conclusion. the inevitable end to the stars and an executioners blow to extinguish even the slightest of chance for any living world to ever be born again. its the heat death of the universe. thats the true endgame. the true source of its despair.
and it is for the finality of this knowledge that the narwhal has been weeping for so long. because its not enough for every wonderful and beautiful thing that has sprung into existence in this cold lonely cosmos to be doomed to death from the moment it came to life in a time ultimately worth less than a blink to the universe itself. for its every joyful encounter with life to be just as quickly stained in sorrow and grief. no. no. for it knows that even that is but a fleeting, lovely dream compared to the nothingness that will inevitably follow it.
nothing will move. nothing will live. no light will remain. the stars have been extinguished. all is lost and never again will anything ever be born again. nothing will remain, not really.
...except for the narwhal.
and just. imagine that existence for a moment.
the never-ending mourning of a bleeding heart so alien that all it knows is its grief for worlds innumerable and the ever-growing blind determination of having to do something. anything. because you are not content to simply weep in vain. to allow the end to be the end. all will end. but you will remain.
what do you think?
in the end, was the matter of the 'price' it would cost even a question? why do you think its so desperate that every action it takes appears but a blind rampage to us? the annihilation it leaves behind a mere afterthough for what matters most is not what the inhabitants of the worlds whose amniotic fluid it consumes will see as the end of their world?
when the universe has become too cold to ever host the hopes and dreams of a living world again.
all you need is to simply become that cradle in its stead. to rival the cosmos itself.
"and then there are so-called 'gods' that are determined to save everything worth saving, and devour everything that should be devoured.
until the end of time, until the sea of stars recess into nothing but dying embers, until a newborn 'world' moves for the first time in the stomach of the whale."
just... picture that for a moment.
the world has ended. the stars gone dark, lost to their hollow graveyards.
time has lost its meaning.
all is still.
in a dead universe.
a newborn world shudders into motion within you.
in a dead universe.
a newborn world-
lives.
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pulchrasilva · 1 year
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Ok so i was listening to the roleslaying playlist (because I'm always listening to the roleslaying playlist) and I was just thinking. I originally thought Hercules by livingstone was about Roman but after chapter 3 I think it's about Noise and Youngblood. There are some lines where the link is more obvious and some where it's a small stretch but like
"Now I’m alive but I’m lonely" Noise survived the burns and the bard kings cruelty but they're lonely :( also Youngblood escaped the bard college and isnt going to be forced to become a weapon but he's all alone :(((
"I’m not the child that you showed me to be" Noise obviously lost a lot of childhood innocence after everything. Or maybe for Youngblood, Noise was the person he could be "a child" carefree and joyful around rather than being The First Chair, and now that he doesn't have Noise he's almost lost that entirely
"I'm terrified cause you know me better than I know myself" Noise and Youngblood both start out trying to antagonise each other but they both knew that it was more than plain anger, and they were almost afraid that the other would know that underneath the aggression they still missed them
"Nowhere to hide or to turn to" Noise is the first chair under the goddamn bard king they're having an absolutely terrible time and unlike while Youngblood was first chair, they don't have anyone to fall back on for support/comfort/distraction
"Ships in the night where I found you, now it's city lights where I'm finding myself" Noise is in Neon, he's the first chair and is (at least supposed to be) coming into his own as a bard and leader
"Send me a sign and I'll come back" they're separated by bad blood and the circumstances they found themselves in, but it only took a day for them to reattach to each other - as soon as they each realised the other still missed them
"Give me a chance to bleed" idk like Noise not being able to show vulnerability for fear of disappointing the bard king? The two of them needing to air out their grievances before they could really be close again?
"I cant be Hercules" maybe refers to Youngblood's power, how the Bard King expects him to be a perfect weapon but he can't really control his power and more importantly he doesn't want to be that
"Now I’m gone" self explanatory, Youngblood is gone, big sad
"Sold my heart to still not know what I’m worth" a reference to them coping with the grief of losing each other by becoming angry, to try to pretend the other never really cared about them even if they kinda know that's not true?
"What is the point of changing if I only lose the one I love" Youngblood changed when he became first chair, becoming more serious probably very stressed etc. It was for the sake of doing well in that position + a consequence of the pressure on him. And that only alienated Noise further from him, as they had already wanted to be first chair and now he's not quite the same person anyway
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