#just rambles

[kjarlmarx]

margot robbie is for real turning your kids gay like tell me why i’ve seen barbie with different straight girls 3/5 times and all three times they kept gasping and whispering in my ear ‘omg she’s so pretty’

#like…. woah #barbie turns straight girls and gay girls double the lesbian #smiled connivingly and mischievously everytime #i did the same thing to them whenever america ferrera came on dw #barbie #glorbie #just rambles

[cunning-of-crab]

Ok so i’m still keeping track of character details for the albatrio

and I don’t know if there’s ever been a more bizarre moment in my life than when I had to write down the words

“chip tramp stamp”

#jrwi #just rambles #reevaluating what led me to this point #chip jrwi #jrwi chip #jrwi riptide

[dr3smile]

The whole Daniel/ Michael situation is going to be so awkward. To me it’s clear that something happened with them since last year. With that whole rumour about Daniel having to go to the fia about his weight and Seb getting involved?

They’re of course going to be professional about it all but it’s probably going to be awkward. I mean Michael wasn’t invited to Scottys wedding and they were close friends and did a bunch together.

Just my opinion though. I could be completely wrong, something just feels off with them. 🤷‍♀️

#daniel ricciardo #danny ric #dr3 #ric3 #my thoughts #just rambles #michael italiano #what are your thoughts? #TW weight #TW eating issues #TW food

[dansendjumper]

okay my theory (maybe) with this sims stuff, maybe they say the ceiling leaked on to their harddrive and erased the sims so they have to completely have to start over from scratch and they just go fucking demon mode in that game. only to (of course) have the sims on a separate drive and upload a regular episode for the next video 🤡

#dan and phil #amazingphil #dnp #daniel howell #april fools i don’t trust them #and maybe they will keep it smaller audience wise and just have something on the channel #just rambles

[norma-lly]

not done with the upd8 yet, but terezi breaks my heart. all anime addiction jokes aside, the description of isolation, of being alone with the robot & madman father daughter duo is heartbreaking. always saw her as somewhat immune to despair through her wackiness & intensity as a character but these first interactions between her and the strilondes as well as her moral (or mortal??) dilemma are just so so sad.

#homestuck #homestuck^2 #strilondes #terezi pyrope #rosebot #dirk strider #upd8 #just rambles

[sasslett]

I just want to throw out there that

There's nothing wrong with having cliche/OP/Mary Sue/"boring" OCs, what matters is that you like them. If you're trying to become a best-selling novelist then sure, start thinking more critically. But for 99.9% of us? Just fucking have fun. My OC isn't going to win me a Pulitzer but I also don't give a damn because that's not why I write/draw/create. I do it for fun. And if being OP is fun, then be OP. If having a cliche backstory is fun, then write that cliche backstory. It literally doesn't fucking matter what anyone else thinks, and anyone who thinks so critically of someone's fan work/original hobby content can go touch grass.

Your blog is YOUR BLOG. Post what you want. Do what you want. Spam what you want. Because you know what? If people don't like it, they can leave. Then can unfollow. There's no algorithm forcing your content into their faces. It's on them if they continue to see something they don't want to see. And don't worry about losing them as a follower - someone who doesn't want to see you at your best doing what you love isn't someone you want around you.

#Just rambles #Be yourself and don't be scared

[sketchstudios07]

i really love imagining little situations (i guess if they were written they'd be fanfics) for the cubitos i like but i always get scared of posting them bc i don't wanna make the character innacurate

if anyone has any tips, i'd appreciate your comment!

#qsmp #just rambles

[islands-0f-violence]

So fucking excited right now!!! I’m going to see Beetlejuice the musical!!!

Kicking my feet and giggling rn since I’ve been dying to see it and now I get to on Halloween!!!

#i0v #just rambles #been waiting for this tour for a while!! #beetlejuice

[bora-in-tamriel]

Fantastic day today, saw that one pink doll movie today n ate too much but all in all a successful birthday cheers

There's balloons everywhere (except tumblr) n i even got a happy birthday from my eye center which was cool Actually didn't draw anything this year for the occasion but it was nice to instead leave the house lol

#just rambles #feeling v good today #hope everyones having a wonderful day or at least a nice one #cheers

[cunning-of-crab]

I’ve been making more note of any big scars the Albatrio get just because I think it would be interesting to include in character designs

Anyway, I’m watching Ep 63 right now and Gill was just STRUCK BY LIGHTNING and got a big lightning scar up his back (around 56:00

These kinds of scars are called Lichtenberg figures (named after the guy who discovered them) and are the result of the lightning moving toward the surface of the body

This is how they look:

(Not on a person obviously but I didn’t want to put a picture of someone’s scars here)

Not much else to add I just thought that it would be really cool to see in a character design and I might use it myself sometime :)

#jrwi podcast #jrwi riptide #riptide #just roll with it riptide #just roll with it #gillion tidestrider #gillion #jrwi gillion #gillion jrwi #jrwi pod #just rambles #jrwi

[bagel-n-bagel]

I had the Moby knit from the Splatoon zozotown Collab proxy shipped and it's finally HERE but I can't pick it up from the post office until after work, this is about to be the longest shift of my life

#Splatoon #just rambles

[catalystcreature]

I think my only dni would be ai art users. honestly fick that shit im tired of it

#just rambles

[a-mess-of-a-crow]

I'm bad with emotions so here are some specific kinds of emotional situations that don't have a specific word for them (i think?) and giving them a made up name

1.The pain of wanting a pet so bad and watching YouTube videos about it and just crying because they are so cute and probably loving and you just want to take care of them = Animal despairing

2.Finding a really tiny thing, just an adorable little thing, like a mini duck figurine or something and wanting to dedicate my life to it = Tinyamouring

3.The struggle of wanting to do something but also feeling absolutely exhausted from just thinking about doing it but you really want to do anything because you want to be productive = Intensive work-lazying

4.Struggling to find a word for your emotions and just making incomprehensible, but somewhat understandable sounds/ motions indicating your emotions = Emotion-word-blabbering

(for example:"I'm feeling bleh"=bad, but like sludge;"I'm just so ᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉʰ today"= excited, but tiny; "Ehh, I'm just *violently shaking hands chaotically*" =weird)

#just rambles #New words #It's probably a neurodivergent thing

[jimothystu]

I’m so happy rn

I had a great evening drinking and chatting with my best friend then my sister impromptu picked us up to see fireworks and while we were trying to leave the parking lot after we just fucking belted throwback songs for like 20 minutes

A+++ night

#just bc it’s good to share your joy when it happens!!!! #anyway my friend is great my sister is great and my dog was happily waiting for me at the door when I came home 😌 #just rambles

[doegraham]

i really like that people are sharing their experiences w/ hyper empathy on here but i see a lot of the same stuff. its not necessarily bad, yk, but i feel very alone when i look for stuff abt hyper empathy and find 20 memes about crying over stuffed animals, while im going through a depersonalization episode because i spent too much time talking to one friend about their problems and i forget who i am. my empathy makes me sensitive, caring, compassionate, and gives me a drive to help people, but its not all stuffed animals and crying when people raise their voice. i forget my personality, my wants and needs for someone else's, i trade my thoughts and emotions for those of people around me, i get exhausted when i interact with people because of everything i read on their faces. empathy is a double edged sword!!!

#can yall tell why i like hannibal so much now #empathy #empath #hyper empathy #hyperempathy #will graham #hannibal #my therapist told me that its a gift and a curse #but it really really is a gift #even when i literally forget who i am. like how anoyying is that #girl help !!!! #just rambles #me when my mirror neurons r hyperactive 😍😍

[yumikeki]

How I'd go about reintroducing Mephiles back into Sonic lore(sorta)

So this isn't going to be super structured, its gonna be really rambly but its basically cuz i'm repeating the whole thought process I had while looking stuff up, brainstorming etc so sorry if it gets a bit long, so I'll put design stuff and the whole thing under a keep reading link. Got it? Good. Lets uh, do this.

So to go back to the very beginning, the sonic channel poll. That was a wild time haha. When i first saw it I wasn't initially interested in Mephiles. I would've voted for Vector or Sonicman tbh. But seeing people talking about how cool it would be to reintroduce a character that got wiped out of existence made it a bit more entertaining to me. Which made it suck a little more that he didnt win. But hey, im not complaining about Sonicman, good for him. But that got me thinking about how difficult it would be to reintroduce Mephiles. After all, he came from a very infamous game that still leaves scars in Sonic's history, and having him just come back when his whole story revolved around a game that ppl do not want back is tricky. At least with Silver they rewrote his future a bit, and Blaze already had lore. Elise might still exist but they can mention Soleanna without having to explore too much of its past game story. Mephiles was pivotal to a plot that Sega does not want to bring back. So, i don't think they'd want to bring him back in his initial form. I also think they're trying to stray from the god stuff Sonic 06 brought into the series(besides the End).

But then I thought about IDW's canon. Where its almost sorta filler, it'll acknowledge the games but the game will only reference its characters and story in passing(so far). IDW would probably be the best place to put Mephiles so that he gets an arc without it affecting the mainline games, but still exist. Still I think we need to go further in. Solaris was not only killed in the future, but erased from existence in the beginning. Existence was rewritten to what it is now, how to you bring back a character that was not only killed, but erased? Well for the killed part, what about reincarnation? Weakened to a mortal form with lesser powers(still reminiscent of the past, but not to the time manipulation powers it once was. Essentially, mostly just the shadow powers with some new perks, but no time travel or time god powers). There can be many ways to introduce a reincarnated character, but I have an idea in mind ill elaborate on later. Next, for the erased part. Well, my idea was, why not use Null Space? Maybe what Eggman assumed was a realm created by the Phantom Ruby was actually a pocket dimension where things that didnt make sense in the new reality were put into. It has so little lore and its not very explored, rewriting it a tad wouldn't be a big deal. There was things in Null Space, despite it being described as a place of nothingness. Everything that was from the 06 reality that couldnt fit neatly into the new one was put into this pocket dimension that's essentially the void. Thats where "Mephiles" has been this entire time.

Back to the reincarnation bit, having a character like this means that while this character is in fact Mephiles, it also sorta isn't. I think this grey line where it brings back Mephiles but can be its own character in time would help ppl feel more confident in bringing him back. He wont be 100% the same, but he still has those qualities that made him seem so cool in the first place. Cold, manipulative, and destructive. Trying to always be one step ahead of others.

My idea of bringing Mephiles back would be in the form of a child. Why? Well when I think of being reverted to a weakened state, i sometimes default to children. Children also represent untapped potential, the ability to grow and change, and be easily influenced by their environment. For a character that beckons to the past but also has the ability to grow beyond it, being a child makes sense to me thematically. Also the idea of the edgy, cold merciless personality being in the body of a child is endearing to me. I actually designed a hedgehog form for this character that's supposed to harken back to Mephiles' initial form, but look like his own person. Its not what I think is the ideal form for the character, but hey i tried. My tablet broke tho so its only a doodle.

I like the straightjacket look of it, and it's loosely based on the scepter of darkness because this body is a mortal cage for Mephiles' soul. Its supposed to look like a creepy edgy kid, Mephiles himself is kinda offputting in that way anyways. Might simplify the little thorn spikes from the shoes or waist, or remove em entirely. The coat is also supposed to cover his body markings, in case one would want to keep his identity a bit of a surprise, initially. The claws are summoned, not inherently a part of his body. Looks like Mephiles' hands, just bigger. Also partially inspired by Sig from Puyo Puyo.

Since this is Mephiles-but-sorta-not, he needed a new name. I wanted to keep it close to the original Mephiles while still having its own identity, so I did research. And uh, it was probably very obvious for most but he's supposed to symbolize both God and the devil? So Mephiles is short for Mephistopheles from Faust, which also became another name for Satan. Iblis was a demon in the Islamic tradition that is also another name for Satan somewhat. And Solaris, which is a name that harkens to the sun(being a sun and time god), also harkens to Satan's original name Lucificer(meaning light-bringer/bearer, keep that in mind). Plus with the 6's of different features in the first phase and then turning into an angel of light in the final, its kinda obvious who Mephiles is supposed to represent. Well, besides also being a fusion of the concept of God, for relating to light and time. On a side note, looking into a game ive played but had no interest in, Sonic 06 really was supposed to be such an ambitious game. It had all these plot intricacies, metaphors, and the weight of fighting a god was supposed to be really heavy. It was supposed to be the biggest fight in Sonic history. The biggest bad who ever bad-ded. It was meant to be so important. It was probably obvious to most, but it was only by looking into it that I got an appreciation for 06. Its just a shame that it ended up how it did. But anyways, back to names. So I wanted to follow the same theme as Mephiles, Iblis, and Solaris, being that they are all names for the Devil. Lucifer was considered the original name for the Devil, but I dont want to be that obvious. Well, i looked into the name, and Lucifer actually had greek origins with i believe the God of Venus. Well, another name for the god of Venus was Phosphorus(which guess what, also means light-bringer!). So i shortened it, and behold, the new name is Phos. So we have a design and a name! Whats the story?

Well, I don't have everything planned out, but I did have a few bullet points I'll post here:

Reincarnation of Mephiles, stripped of divine power but has his shadow manipulation still 

Lives in the Null Void from Forces(the Null Void is actually a pocket of space created when the original reality deleted itself.)

When Sonic enters and escapes Null Void, Phos leaves as well. 

Has no memories, bumps into sonic and co 

Wants to learn who he is, gets attached to sonic due to familiarity

Hates shadow, like original counterpart

Shadow does not trust him at all, and Sonic is suspicious but hey, they dont know who Mephiles is anyways. The kid looks sketchy but hes also abandoned and amnesiac, it would feel pretty bad to beat up a child. Maybe not for Shadow lol.

Has extreme empathy, but no sympathy: Is able to read people to an inhuman degree and reflect their emotions like a mirror due to lacking individuality(initially)

Starts off as cold and emotionless, incredibly manipulative due to the ability to detect the feelings of his target. 

Ends up living with Vanilla and Cream as compromise(its really funny that Cream befriends a demon baby)

He does good things and makes friends not cuz he wants to, but because he figures making allies and doing what he can so they dont kick him out will help out more in the long run. When he messes up and his morality is questioned, hes able to barely stay by putting things in his favor and talking it out.

Maybe initially tries to manipulate Sonic, but later learns of the strength of his character.

Gradually not only understands the emotions of others, but begins to absorb them as well, gaining his own feelings based on the ideals of the people in his life, primarily Sonic, Shadow, and Silver(the three who killed him in the first place)

Eventually learns about the truth, plots to regain his other half and reach his deity status somehow

Maybe ties into targeting Blaze for her fire powers? Could be related to what happened to Iblis after the reset.

????

When he realizes he wants to be his own person and choose his life, its too late and he's becoming Mephiles. 

Sonic and co go to save him, fight ensues, Phos helps from inside his own shattered mind, and is eventually able to revert back to normal, keeping his weakened powers but is not inherently evil or empty anymore. Still kinda cold and crafty but he's doing it for good(or what he believes in good, kinda stubborn like Shadow).

Joins the cast as a regular character. 

So for his powers, I kinda simplified them into a few things:

Shadow manipulation powers. Absorbs shadows, can merge into shadows to hide or teleport between them. Maybe the shadow balls come back, not sure. Can make shadow-y clones too.

Crystalline powers. Harkens back to his past body. Is able to make claws out of a crystal like substance and slash at things. Maybe can shoot them like projectiles too.

Idk if he'd keep his ability to morph into other peoples appearances though. IDW already has that one guy and its not like Mephiles made exact copies. Plus he already has his own body. Considering that Phos is meant to be somewhat empty inside and reflects the emotions of his peers, it could be fitting. Maybe when he becomes more introspective he shifts into the appearances of other characters when he thinks about them. idk.

But uh yea that was everything i had written down(i made notes based on the late night brainworms I was getting that lasted a couple of hours. This was the fruit of that labor haha.) I'm not saying this is the perfect way of bringing him back, its possible people will be upset with this version or not prefer it, but hey i like it so its gotta mean something. Technically by writing this down it kinda guarantees SEGA would not use it anyways, so its not important anyways. I might keep this as my own oc and doodle more concepts of this schemer demon baby in the future though, I think it's really neat. The idea of having a powerful small child with emotionless whims that you pray stays on your side is very cool to me, and this whole thing was fun practice anyways. I hope you guys have a good one, if you have any critiques or ideas you'd like to share id love to hear it. Just uh, be nice to me please lol. I'm trying my best. But yea that's it, thanks for entering my brainstorming personal hell.

#sonic #sonic the hedgehog #mephiles the dark #just rambles #this was really fun #i enjoyed the brainworms #i even made a playlist of edgy vocaloid that inspired me for this story