#other than shadow tbh

[lymooniee]

OK THATS IT IM GOING OFF ON A SPECIAL INTEREST!!!! N's theme in black 2 and white 2 NEEDS more recognition i swear, it's so beautiful and really encompasses everything i love so dearly about the Unova region and N as a character in general. Gosh, the way it starts off with his theme that he had in black and white but then suddenly you hear this more uplifting tone and how you can just FEEL his character growth. He no longer let's what the past affect him as a character anymore and he can feel free and happy, as he's able to share with us (the player), his new found love for training pokemon. He doesn't try to change you or force you to follow the fabricated lies that Ghetsis led him to believe of the world of people and pokemon anymore as he now follows his own path and dreams. He now has an open mind and heart and has moved on from what Ghetsis has done to him. N is such a brilliant character in the pokemon franchise and I'm so glad he's as popular as he is. From his design, dialogue, and characterization, how much it all tied to the themes these games represented TO HOW MUCH DETAIL IS WITHIN THEM UGHDHDH. I could go off about him in so many ways. I love N and I love his music within the soundtrack DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED ON EMBRACING ONES DUTY UGHHFHFHHFJFJDH SO SOS OOSSOOO GOOD. FsshajsldjHhdhdksa I love N

I had to ramble I just literally if i sound like i was spitballing I WAS HAHSHA SO IF IT MAKES SENSE BUT NOT AT THE SAME TIME I APOLGOZIE- IM SURPRISED I HAVENT SAID ANYTHING ABOUT THE POKEMON GAMES YET IM NGL HAHSJA

#pokemon is something so dear to me if you cant tell heh #pokemon black and white #pokemon black 2 and white 2 #pokemon N #i love him so much #N is just ugh #He is by far my favourite charactsr from any franchise i have to admit #other than shadow tbh #both of them #and well theres some other ones from my other special interests #but i guess i just grew up with shadow and N the mosf #IDK BUT LIKE #PLEASE DONT MIND ME AS I LITERALLG DROOL OVER THIS SOUNDTRACK AND JUST #ADMIRE HOW AMAZING IT IS #embracing ones duty now that one THAT ONE IS AMAZZINNGG #also wvrryone has heard one song at least from this soundtrack and its driftveil citys theme #SO UH YEAH THAFS HOW GOOD THIS OST IS #Youtube

[ineffably-human]

I don't think the Shadows writers forget about major-ass plot points like the Van Helsing thing or the entire season's worth of Baby Colin. (or the djinn, for that matter.) these things just come up when it's useful to the story for them to come up.

for instance: Baby Colin's been something they never even mentioned all season. episode 8, we need reasons every single character thinks that Laszlo might be upset that are actually about their own self-absorbed vibes (because that's how everyone in the house is). so Nadja thinks it's because of the hex that's consumed her life (while visibly doing nothing to her because it doesn't exist), Nandor thinks it's because of what a great place he's in emotionally (while constantly, obsessively thinking about Guillermo), Guillermo thinks it's about the failed experiments.

and because we don't have anything for Colin, who tries to stay out of everyone's craziness, he starts remembering the years he spent as a baby - and that's so we, as the audience, will wonder if that's why Laszlo is upset.

and in the end, Laszlo isn't upset about any of those things! he's just having a huge hyperfixation moment, because that's a much funnier joke. but now we've brought Baby Colin back up and maybe we can play with that for any future episodes, because now was the organic time to mention it again, without forcing Laszlo to be paralyzed with depression the whole season.

What We Do In The Shadows: Sometimes It Really Is That Deep

but also What We Do In The Shadows: Sometimes It's Just That Stupid

#fandom: wwdits #what we do in the shadows #wwdits #i am a meta gremlin #i always have fun messing around with what's watsonian and what's doylist in my head tbh #i think it's a lot more useful for predictions than fixating on random details #because there's always some new information or other that we don't know

[cottoncandysprite]

Listen. I want Guillermo to have his hot vampire summer as much as the next guy. He deserves it. But one of the main points of the show is that vampires are just as human as we are. They are, inherently, Just Some Guy but with immortality and powers. Therefore, for true equality, Guillermo needs to be just as much of a cringefail loser vampire as the rest of the house. He may put on a front of sexiness and power, but at the end of the day he needs to stay just as much of a dork as he's always been. Thank you for coming to my DED talk

#hehe pun #but yeah the whole point is demystifying the vamps #if Guillermo is anything other than a loser after being turned ill be a little disappointed tbh #wwdits #what we do in the shadows #guillermo de la cruz #ramblies

[neometalsilver]

you ever think of sonic growing up in the woods alone and fighting eggman regularly since the day he was 8/9 years old and then think about how he’s been raising tails since he was a 4 year old fox kit. like sonic not having a childhood and making sure that tails does no matter what because he knows what it’s like to have to be an adult before you’re ready.

knuckles losing his childhood to protecting the master emerald and growing up alone on angel island with a destiny and burden he isn’t even old enough to comprehend yet. meeting tails and while he’s not sold on sonic yet, he knows he’s never going to let this child experience the same crushing demands that he had placed on him by a tribe that wasn’t even alive to explain.

shadow only ever getting to experience fleeting moments of childhood when he’s with maria, and spending every other moment being tested and experimented on by scientists and doctors for a cause far beyond both him and his sister. meeting tails, who has grown up surrounded by danger and violence and war yet remains soft and kind and gentle despite thanks to his older sibling. shadow thinking about the trauma he had already experienced ten times over by the time he was tails’ age and feeling just burning hot jealousy and rage for the childhood he never got to have, the only source of peace and happiness he had being shot in the head in front of him while he was stuck behind a wall of glass. shadow meeting tails and wondering why he gets everything he never got to have.

#does this make sense #i could go on and add for silver and amy but that’s a lot of words for a post tbh #maybe later #but yeah tails. #he is CHERISHED AND LOVED!!! BY THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM #also i need fox hunting to make sense other than it being a funny bit #bc shadow does not need to have this much beef w tails let’s be real #UNLESS….he does… #sonic #sth #sonic the hedgehog #tails the fox #miles tails prower #knuckles the echidna #shadow the hedgehog #shth #unbreakable bond #does this count as wholesome sonic and tails wednesday #bc it’s a little wholesome but also uh. not

[sonknuxadow]

hey guys look what i found in my drafts. from a few days ago .

#sorry i think its my fault that this happened #still unsure if The News is actually real or not tbh since no official sources have said anything about it as far as i know #and i hear the hollywood reporter is usually right about this stuff but idk #the fact that there are no actual sources or evidence for any of this other than ''just trust me bro'' is a bit suspicious to me #+ the fact that theyve been keeping the development of sonic 3 very quiet and secret #yet shadows voice actor. which is one of the biggest topics of discussion surrounding the movie. just. happened to leak somehow ? #but . the timing on this is kinda funny . and very tragic. if it is real #i said it already but i dont get why so many people are celebrating this. from what ive heard he doesnt fit .... #and it feels like another case of casting a random celebrity over an actual voice actor just to have a big name attached to the project #regardless of if theyre really the best choice. #which i thought everyone agreed was a shitty and annoying practice especially if its some iconic video game/comic/whatever character ? #but maybe i just havent heard the right specific voice clips that make people think its a good choice i dont know .

[comradekiwi]

i’m gonna be honest. and I might get shit for this. but. out of everyone I probably ship kaminari with tokoyami the most

#their colours match it’s so cute #and they’re soooo supportive and sweet with each other in canon #band buddies? guitar buddies? emo-adjacent buddies? broooo #those scenes in season 6 of the anime really got me I love them together #a whole ass MONTAGE of their friendship that’s bkdk level haha fumikage you gayass #and he had so much faith in kami… and was so proud of him… #and they’re just plain cute together lolll #yellow and black friend of jack hehe whoops sorry that was the autism #anyway #lightning and thunderclouds?? #lightning and shadows????? CMONNN #yk elemental pairings always get me #sorry shinsou and jirou and kiri etc etc those are cute too but they just don’t hit for me #jirou would if I didn’t hardcore ship her w momo tbh like I like momojiroukami more than kamijirou #kiwi talks #tokokami #fumikami #kamiyami #that’s ADORABLE

[sage-nebula]

I think one of the reasons I don't vibe with theories or headcanons that make Sonic out to be anything more than Just A Guy™️ is because it sort of . . . cheapens his story, to me.

I feel like we have an oversaturation of Chosen Ones in popular culture. We have so many characters that are prophecied or reincarnated or Actually Not Ordinary, and that's fine . . . but it's also a.) a little boring by now, and b.) not very inspiring. Because we, the audience, aren't Chosen Ones. We aren't aliens or reincarnated heroes or lab experiments. We're just people. We're just guys.

And stories where that's enough? Those are the stories that really matter.

Don't get me wrong, I love Chosen One stories too. I've been a Zelda fan since I was nine. And it's true that Sonic has super speed and can use the Chaos Emeralds to go super saiyan. But considering that other characters can go super using the Chaos Emeralds, and that other characters have above and beyond abilities as well (e.g. Knuckles and Amy have super strength, Tails is a genius who can fly), those don't disqualify Sonic from being Just A Guy™️, a normal hedgehog. After all, when everyone is super, no one is.

But more to the point: we might not have superpowers, but all of us have skills that we can use to make the world a better place. Even though we are only human, some of us have linguisitic or artistic or mathematical gifts that we can use to make a difference, if we choose to.

And stories like Sonic's promote that idea, if he is also just a regular person with a gift. If he just decided one day to stand up and say "no" to oppression. Not because he's a Chosen One, or an alien, or an avatar for the planet. But because he's a person who was born on this planet from two parents, and so he fucking lives here and would prefer for the environment to stay nice and people to not be oppressed. And if he can do it, so can you.

If Sonic was a Chosen One, or the planet itself or whatever—well then, of course he stands up for environment and against oppression, that's his role. That story isn't special. But if he's Just A Guy™️, then it's a conscious choice he's making to do the hard thing instead of the easy thing, because it's the right thing to do. And that makes his story, and his character, so much more special to me than it would be otherwise.

#apropos of nothing i was just thinking abt it #i know that there's the Angel Island mural of Super Sonic but tbh I've always hated it lmao #its only use was inspiring Gerald to make Shadow hedgehog shaped #Sonic is just a person who exists bc a male hedgehog and a female hedgehog got busy w/ each other #and then flounced off to parts unknown or died or smth #and so he - as a person and guy - just lives here now #nothing more complicated than that #sonic the hedgehog

[sophbun]

shadow wouldnt have known what other mobians looked like on the ark and being the ultimate lifeform he thought hed looked a lot different to them so he was taken aback when he met sonic bc they were basically the same

#tbh i hc shadow as always seeming a little off as a hedgehog #some things dont add up #but him thinking hed be taller and coller than other hedgehogs n all he got was red streaks #soph posts #hcs #shadow the hedgehog #sonic the hedgehog

[mephiles-the-jester]

created a sonic oc in my head thats such a bitch i gotta actually design him virtually so i can envision what he looks like when the narrative (shadow the hedgehog) blows him up

#ill share him later but in short he is shadows ex-husband #ex because shadow divorced him after he tried to turn sonic into a mindless weapon #for no reason other than he was cucked by a hedgehog fandub eggman style #all my ocs are insane fun fact about me and tbh that was not the worst of the problems between their relationship

[todayisafridaynight]

fym mid june next year i need him NOW

#snap chats #'mid june' more like sexy june amirite ladies #oh my good it was so much cheaper than i thought itd be im so happy #ignore the old many yaoi in my cart right under this. ichi dont look at that. #ill prob post that when i get it tbh it's supposed to come mid december </3 #can it come now let me read mfer my fave artists in there #anyway. give me him NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #and the aoki plush supposed to ship in february... THATS WHEN THE SONIC MOVIE COMES OUT #im taking aoki to watch sonic and then he can see shadow and i can traumatize him #maybe i should take daigo instead.... i can take them both but then mine's home alone... #and i dont trust leaving aoki and mine alone... what if they kill each other and leave a mess... awful... #ok im done talking about my night bye LOOL

[diabetesnscoliosis]

Yeah lore olympus has many glaring issues but i think some of you also have poor reading comprehension and refuse to create your own thoughts and ideas based on what's presented

#and honestly if you hate it that much just go read something you like... #like dont get me wrong i hate read shadow and bone but then i read the other books and actually enjoyed them #not literary masterpieces god no but theres some good odeas presented throughout #besides persephone being a borderline mary sue for most of it is the LEAST of my concern in fiction and tje least of my concern woth what lo #explores #of which it should be read as a text to do woth generational trauma #woth how mothers treat daughter and the flow on effect #and thats the exploration i find compelling tbh even if its not presented the best way #like i said LO is more ablut the authors wants and wishes than an objective take on society and misogyny or even as an essay on it in fl #fiction form #i do disagree with the whole 'good/bad dichotomy' w the characters tho like i said i think youre just bad at reading

[acoraxia]

Yo rhy

As a shadowpeach king, what do you think of the new ship going around called sunstone?

Swk x the azure lion

i feel like if i answer this i'll get swarmed and anons will start going off in my inbox about things..

but i don't like it. like at all.

idk

#like.. idk honestly fandoms have ruined ships for me - THIS one specifically #like i genuinely cannot enjoy a ship other than Shadow//peach bc of it and yknow what im glad #lowkey tbh #because i dont KNOW what swk's dynamic with this guy is #idk if theyre brothers or just friends or whatever and im waiting for the dub to come out but im also lowkey petty and want it to be #confirmed that they were only friends/that the uncle line stays in #like... idk dude i like one ship and i dont like any other ships all that much #sorry #lego monkie kid spoilers #I GUESS?

[m1d-45]

i’m having shining nikki sagau thoughts everybody beware. so first of all like i remembered that elves canonically exist in miraland (idk if we ever mentioned this before) and there’s elves or at least elf-like creatures in teyvat…… i’m connecting the dots (<- they’re not connecting shit)

second of all. the new skins. “sailwind shadow” and “blossoming starlight” are SUCH designer’s reflection names like if i opened up shining nikki and saw those there they wouldn’t even be out of place. idk about everyone else but i think it would be cute if sailwind shadow was bandit. i have more to say but i need time to put my thoughts in Order - teddy anon

shining nikki!!

honestly despite red being in my head on and off, i didn’t even CONSIDER sailwind shadow and that is a tragedy. i have his skin but didn’t do the quest relating to it yet (it’s a costume he wears for a play right?) but the entire thing with this event. god he’s so perfect.

blossoming starlight is probably just klee but higher energy and less fear, and while i don’t doubt the power of klee dps i do doubt your conscience allowing you to bring a child into battle, double so after red split. she’s just. a little girl. so we move on.

sailwind shadow. i’ll choose to interpret him as a mix of the dagger bandit and kaeya himself, which makes for a fun little guy in my opinion. always trying to sneak you off to somewhere “more interesting than sitting around all day, no?” and thinks that the others are being far too uptight. does he understand the gravity of the hunt? absolutely. but whereas red (and the two archons) want to keep you safe in the cave you’ve made home, he’d much rather whisk you away down a path in the forest.

less for combat, i’d imagine, leaving that to nikki and the others. has quite a few stories to tell, most made up but some gathered from his weak memory. dislikes kaeya, but less so than red, surprisingly. he seems to view him as having no other choice, that he’s “already conflicted enough without that fake touting him about as their sword.” he views kaeya with more pity than anything else.

he and red have a.. strange relationship. at their cores, they are diluc and kaeya, but that affection is hidden beneath the several layers of trauma painted over. they both worry for the other in their own ways—he checks red for injuries from afar when you all regroup after a fight, and red makes sure to make chicken mushroom skewers when he’s having a bad day—but it’s still a tough trial. it’ll probably go quicker than diluc and kaeya, but you’ll have to wait a while before they connect properly.

in his early stages, he’s not all that dissimilar from red. clingy and always hesitant to leave, but does do more to try and keep your attention on him. he’s kaeya at his core and the costume is from a play, so he’s got quite a few tricks up his sleeve to prolong his stay.

(these tricks commonly include starting to tell you a story only to reveal that the ‘ancient artifact’ is one of fischl’s arrows, or red’s rings. your laughter is enough to keep him stealing them back—anything to be the source of that shine in your eyes.)

less prone to violence than red, and definitely safer to take out in public after everything’s over. at worst, he’ll make a passing comment, but is too worried about his image. what if you see him sneer, or if the other person sees and tells you? no no no, it’s far safer to just pull you away again, even if he has to lie as to why. you’ll understand if the crowds are getting to him, or if he feels trapped indoors, right? you were meant to be amongst nature anyway, so if anything he’s just doing you a favor, surely.

(he doesn’t often leave your side as you sleep, but he did see red in the middle of.. taking care of some things once. while he prefers to keep his hands clean—it’s awfully hard to lie to you, and he doesn’t think he could stay quiet if you asked—he doesn’t look down on red’s choice of problem solving. he recognizes the person beneath his boot anyway, hands slightly twitching at the memory from earlier today. when the two of them return to camp by morning, he lets red do most of the talking, only adding in the small half truth of “just having some fun” when prompted. he did his best to wipe his sword clean of any unsavory stains, but does keep it safely in it’s sheath whenever you’re around.)

however, just because he’s less violent than red doesn’t mean the source of said violence went away. he still gets jealous, and if he finds his theatrics don’t make you laugh as much as they used to, he‘ll begin to panic. are you growing bored with him? are his stories getting predictable? do you look down on him for running away with hunters with you instead of staying like the others do? he promises he’s not just dead weight! please, what does he have to do? do you want him to be more like barbatos? he can’t quite help you fly like he can, but he can try to pick up a bow! do you like red more? he’d really rather not get blood on his outfit, but anything for you. anything, anything at all… just keep your attention on him for a little longer. please?

#m1d : [chats] #teddy anon #and teddy!!!!!! #the shining nikki saga #kaeya is so whimsical we love men haunted by the horrors of their past #sailwind shadow… literally What Is His Name #i keep defaulting to ‘shade’ but idk if that only sounds good cause i chose it- #he’d literally lose his shit if you wanted to give him a name by the way. red would rationalize it as for convenience and not think of it— #cause he’d hate to be a problem and changing it once he could speak would just be more problems—but shade? loses his mind #reads into it 10 times over #still replays that memory sometimes as he watches you sleep #he doesn’t sleep btw. always watching you; either to make sure you rest easy or for his own enjoyment… unclear. the others are too afraid to #ask at this point tbh. he probably needs to but the occasional nap when one of the others takes you out is enough for him #he’d normally hate to see you walk away from him but you’d worry if you saw him looking sleepy so for these select times he allows it #worse attachment issues than red. red would be fine if you disliked him for his violent acts and would be content knowing you’re safe #but shade? not a chance in hell. if you show the slightest signs of thinking anything less than highly of him it’s like his whole world #falls to pieces. his first days—when he was conscious but couldn’t let you know—were literal hell. #being dismissed? you might as well have ripped out his nails; it would have hurt less. #once he managed to convey to you that he was also splitting it was a lot easier. he couldn’t talk yet but you were holding conversation with #him anyway (nikki had told you this made the splitting process easier and you were inclined to believe her). #he is. so pathetic i love him. god he’d probably cry if you even suggested he was doing something wrong. #sailwind shadow #he gets his tag :)

[dramaism]

saw jesper and wylan kissing on my screen with my own two eyes now i need 5278262 business days to recover from this

#my friends I've only read like 1/3 of crooked kingdom and I didn't now if they would have kissed in the book or not #so I'm very surprised #idk they just gave me that funny warm feeling i love it #i also didn't finish the season because I'm afraid of everyone's reactions and i don't know if i want to experience the finale myself #but as a person who only read shadow and bone six of crows and 1/3 of crooked kingdom i feel neutral? #like yeah the crows won't have any logical plot in the s3 at all because there'd be no reason for kidnapping #amd i kinda don't see what they'll do with alina and co next but i feel normal not outraged #aaaaand i kinda like that they included 2 alina books in 1s idk i like the flow #but for the crows it's surely confusing #jey talks #i really consider to finish crooked kingdom first and them finish the season lmaoo #also malina well i felt alright about them in s1 but now.... they're not good with each other and tbh alina has more chemistry with genya #than with mal lol

[heartman]

I'm really upset I donated my copies of the shadow and bone series I loved it but I genuinely don't have the space andy situation rn doesn't allow me to get new ones I don't think I'll be able to replace them for a while but at least I can borrow them from work and I can catch up with the show

#shadow and bone #grishaverse #sophia talks #tbh I've reread the first book so many times it looks way older than the other two #despite my reading it for the first time a week before netflix dropped the show #books

[oatmeal2321]

this is one i finished a few days ago! im pretty happy with the posing, its the first time ive properly drawn anything under the shoulders in a while(i suck at anatomy)

i dont actually know how fabric works either, i hope it looks ok

also, this is the first time ive done a proper bg in ages, so apologies about how shit it looks lol

#i dont know what's happening with her shadow #im pretty happy with the hair and shading and stuff other than that tho #i think shes kinda sitting on the edge of a road or something but i dont really know tbh #oh well #original art #art #drawings #digital art #illustration