#this isn't canon anyways i made this crap up

[emeraldotter]

shore

#just pretend they're random furries ok #doodle #crappy art #its archivin time #this isn't canon anyways i made this crap up #like i've said before. elias is just a ken doll i slam into walls #really wish jon had ANY interaction with the lonely beyond martin #like. the intersection between voyeurism and isolation. outside looking in. etc. etc. #sorry i'm so cringe lately and i have no idea why

[moon-thething]

Hey, so I had an idea again. I mostly just thought of this because I was curious though.

Perhaps Kevin x Reader has where he's married to the reader? Or has of how he'd be if he were married to someone, anyway.

- Kevin Anon

Hello again Kevin anon :) sorry it took me this late to reply 😅 but I hope you like these head canons anyway :)

Romantic or platonic?: Romantic

Readers gender: gender neutral

Type: Fluff

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Kevin's proposal would be an absolute disaster. And I don't mean that in a mean type of way

He would pick to be in a saluted area, maybe like a woods. He would set up a picnic, romantic music, he even has a movie ready on his phone!

But would be stuttering ten times more than usual and he almost dropped his ring once when he was checking if it was still in his pocket

But, after all of that embarrassment he would finally get down on one knee... And say the most cringe and corny crap possible. It came from the heart though! Eh.. kinda

"Y/n." Kevin sighed, looking deeply into Y/n's eyes as he felt his hear flutter. He got down on one knee, grabbing a small black box as you gasped, your hands flying to your mouth

"I may not be the richest, but I promise to love you richer than anyone else. Will you marry me?" You stifled a laugh as tears rolled down your eyes

"Yes!"

He may or may not have made your proposal a joke, but you'll never know

Your proposal wouldn't be anything too big, just a couple of friends and family members, nothing too special. Although Kevin does go all out, ordering decorations and food for the wedding he even paid a professional painter to paint a portrait of you to

But when the wedding is over you best believe he would cuddle you to death when you're finally in your home... Not gonna go into further detail since this is supposed to be fluff

He would be the type of husband who wakes up really early just to make you breakfast. Would make your favorite meal at least once a month

My guy works at a candy shop did you expect a Gordon Ramsay level dish? Nah, you're getting cereal for breakfast, toast if you're lucky that day

I can see him just sneaking up behind you when you're doing dishes and sneak in a dirty plate. You always catch him but it makes you smile when he thinks he managed to go unnoticed and laughs evily while running out

He wouldn't be always like that, if he wasn't tired that day from work he would do everything and let you rest. And when I say everything, I mean everything. Do the dishes, the laundry, clean the bedroom, clean the bathroom, everything that comes to mind, although he lets you cook lunch and dinner since, gonna mention it once again, he only knows how to make cereal and toast

He has a little booklet for every event since he is forgetful. He makes something special for your anniversary, and by special I mean he either takes you to a diner, a carnival or the place where he proposed to you

Same goes for your birthday, he would buy you simple gifts suck as a necklace. Or if you saw something in a store a couple of months ago he would memorise the exact object and buzz it for you

If you have a sweet tooth he would sneak candy out of his workplace at least once to twice a week. No doubt

When he has days off he would either spend the whole day with you or lock himself in your bedroom and sleep, half of the time he cuddles with you

Your marriage isn't completely a bed of roses, you do get in fights but not that often. If you two did fight it would be over something serious, not gonna list of the things but you get the idea

Now, for the apologizing it really depends on who started it

If Kevin started the fight he would apologize when he calmed down enough and when he knew you were calm enough

But if you started the fight he would lock himself in your bedroom and won't get out untill you knocked on the door and apologized. More often than not, he would accept your apology and you two would hug it out and he'll give you a peck on the lips. But if he didn't you would just leave him alone for him to calm down, he would feel guilty after a while and would leave the room and just hug you

But over all, he really loves and appreciates you, 10/10 would recommend

#spooky month #spooky month x reader #sm kevin #sm kevin x reader #sm kevin x reader romantic hc #gender neutral reader

[lilithfairen]

Another RWBY "fix", another impression on my desk (CW: suicide!)

So I recently became aware of yet another RWBY "fix", this one purporting to resolve all of the supposed problems of the series with just one change. And having read numerous RWBY "fixes", including by the same creator, and seeing how every single one of them is motivated by wanting to diminish the roles of anyone who isn't a white dude, I expected this one to suffer from many of the same shitty writing flaws that they all do.

So like any intelligent person who knows they're wading into crap, I decided to watch that video. Hey, I may be stupid, but at least I'm not stupid and pandering to misogynists.

Anyway, the premise of this "fix" is that supposedly it makes Team RWBY more proactive and makes them the main heroes of the story. Let's see how well it accomplishes those goals, shall we?

(Spoiler alert: of course it doesn't~)

The "fix" starts off as usual, except instead of Glynda Goodwitch coming to Ruby's aid, it's Cinder Fall! Because in this "fix", Salem is the Headmistress of Beacon and Cinder, Mercury, and Emerald are teachers' assistants. (The fourth member of Cinder's team is Trivia, a.k.a. Neo.) They talk with Team RWBY instead of the teachers during their character-development stuff in Volume 1. Also, instead of Team SSSN being involved with Blake's arc, it's Team CFVY. Just because the author likes Team CFVY. Torchwick and Neo are the ones who break in and plant the virus in Volume 2.

Anyway, the only change to involve the main characters comes when, instead of the scene about Pyrrha being chosen as a new Maiden, Qrow talks about making Ruby a "Guardian". Qrow teaches Ruby about calming her emotions, because every "good" RWBY "rewrite" revolves around men telling the main characters how to protagonist. Anyway, it's revealed that Salem built the schools and Vaults and apparently the God of Light made very difficult trials to retrieve the Relics. Salem has her own "Witches" as equivalents to the Maidens. But the Relics aren't in the Vaults anyway. Anyway, Salem is considering Pyrrha, Weiss, and Velvet as "Witches" because of reasons entirely unrelated to any willingness to fulfill whatever objective Salem has.

Anyway, instead of Emerald using her Semblance to cause Penny's death, Penny gets hacked instead and that leads to her death. Everything happens as in canon, but when Ruby shows up to confront Roman and Neo, Qrow shows up! Because instead of Ruby outsmarting Neo and the rejection of Roman's nihilistic worldview, this scene is about Qrow going "we'll explain everything" and Ruby just going along with it. Neo makes Ruby look like Trivia, they go into the Vault, there's a random fight, and Ruby randomly uses her Silver Eyes—which accidentally kills Pyrrha, because Salem was grafting Grimm parts onto Pyrrha. Which comes out of completely nowhere, incidentally.

Everyone wakes up at Patch. Team RWBY doesn't get separated, because what are character arcs. Because this is a scene with a bunch of women, the author decides to have them all start screaming and throwing stuff around. I'm sorry, what the fuck?! Anyway, Ozpin finally shows up, and they use the Relic of Knowledge (which Qrow has on him) to show Team RWBY the whole backstory of this rewrite.

...wait, if this is all stuff Ozpin and Qrow know, why are they using the Relic of Knowledge to show Team RWBY this?!

Anyway, tl;dr: Salem made kingdoms, trains Huntsmen to find Relics, wants to destroy world, Ozpin planned the attack on Beacon to cut off global communication and turn the Huntsmen against Salem—

I'm sorry, what the fuck?! Your idea to get the Huntsmen on board with you and against Salem is...a terrorist attack on one of the Academies and destabilization of global society by knocking out communication capabilities? Which, yes, means that Ozpin was responsible for Penny's death? This is fucking stupid.

But anyway, Salem let Ruby into Beacon because she actually wanted to get Ruby killed, but didn't realize Roman was working for Ozpin...because of fucking course he is. Make the shitty white dude into a protagonist, why don't you. Fuck you. Anyway, Team RWBY question his story, but Tai and Qrow vouch for him. So this rewrite about supposedly making the heroines of the story more proactive has them immediately quiet down when told what to think by men.

Then, to prove he was cursed with reincarnation, Ozpin kills himself.

WHAT THE FLYING FUCK

Note that there's no content warning of any sort for her "fix" having a character casually kill themselves just to prove they can reincarnate.

But more so, it highlights how every RWBY "rewrite" and "fix" is so incapable of coming up their own story that they need to leap giant and stupid distances in order to have events correlate with 99% of canon anyway.

So this leads to Team RWBY setting off to fight Salem. And the author claims this "fix" achieves her goals of making Team RWBY more proactive because now they will have to travel and fight against enemies like the Grimm and Salem's minions and Team RWBY are labelled as wanted criminals. You know, like they do in the show. She also claims that this makes Team RWBY "the main heroes", supposedly unlike the show, except now we've established that Team RWBY is firmly following the yoke of Ozpin, Qrow, Roman, and the rest of Ozpin's psychotic murderous terrorist conspiracy against Salem. Rather than emphasizing how Team RWBY themselves makes the choice to go out and discover the truth, they're just spoon-fed it all, effectively given their mission by male characters, and forced into working with Ozpin due to the male characters' actions.

The author also claims a "plot hole" of why Salem didn't do anything until the present, except the canon story constantly insinuates that Salem was responsible for various past conflicts. She also thinks it's a good thing for Team RWBY to have to work with Roman and Neo instead of other Huntsmen, because simping.

At this point, the author just starts rambling about vague ideas, having no concrete storyline beyond V3. Most notable is when she gets to Adam Taurus, whom she describes as wanting the Relics to help his people. (Of course.) This then leads into plenty of rambling where the author talks about everyone else's roles in the story aside from Team RWBY, which really highlights the fundamental problem here:

This is a "fix" that, like every other RWBY "fix", is for people who don't give a fuck about Team RWBY themselves.

Contrary to the creator's claims, this is a "fix" about making Roman and Neo into protagonists. This is a "fix" about making the main characters more obedient to male characters. This is a "fix" about randomly changing the roles of just about every other character except for Team RWBY themselves, where female characters put into different roles simply follow the same story but male characters put into different roles drastically reshape the plot around them.

Because that is your brain on RWBY HTDM logic: a fundamental understanding that, no matter what you claim about the show and its supposed flaws, you're fully aware that you're pandering to an audience that's motivated primarily by really fucking hating women being heroes.

#rwby rewrites #misogyny in hatedom #cw suicide #tw suicide

[silver-wield]

I haven’t played the rebirth yet. So i’m very confused about the alternate timeline. When Zack met marlene, and Marlene said Aerith likes Cloud…isn’t in that alternate universe Cloud and Aerith haven’t met before?? Both are unconscious. And why did Marlene already stay with Elmyra? Since Cloud and the gang haven’t teamed up and met Elmyra and/or Aerith??

So I was just talking about this after sitting through the most boring part of the game ever! I mean I thought it started slow, but jfc this went on without end 😮‍💨

Anyway, getting to the point about "multiple timelines"

It's not.

It's more like a what if, so not like multiple timelines but multiple choices, like the game mechanics.

Zack basically spells it out in the tunnel. The choice he made affected his future and Biggs and the other choice disappeared forever. There's not some alternative Zack taking the left path. He made his choice and has to live with it. Like Aerith said "the past is forever".

What Sephiroth wants to do is merge all choices and all life into one entity, himself. That way he exists forever across all time and space.

So, the premise is whoever comes into contact with Aerith or Sephiroth can see the whispers and get some inkling about fate. Marlene hugged Aerith and saw her death. Because of that her impression of events is skewed. She likely saw choices that she didn't understand and that didn't happen. Marlene is staying there because she was left there by Barret in Remake, so she only knows soldier Cloud and not the one who's in the wheelchair.

And during the "dream date" Cloud makes it clear he's not romantically interested in Aerith. He's angry he has to give her a reunion flower pin because he knows it's for lovers and he doesn't like her like that. The candy tastes like crap. The photographer says they don't look like they're on a date but at a funeral and refuses to take their picture. He doesn't know where "their spot" is either, and when they eventually get there he calls her a friend.

And before all that at the GS Aerith asks him if he was dating Jessie and he says they were friends and she calls him dense. So even if she thinks it's a date, he doesn't. And he says as much several times throughout the game. Aerith is the one desperately trying to make something happen and he ignores her or changes the subject.

Anyway, the whole premise with Rebirth is to show player choice, but also denote the differences between those choices. You can force Cloud to date someone he doesn't like, but he won't be happy about it and won't kiss someone he isn't interested in. Eventually the choices merge into one canon path and become irrelevant.

That's why this isn't an alt timeline deal. It's a what if with the choice you make erasing all other possibilities because alts the future is unwritten, the past is forever. And Zack is dealing with the consequences of some choices crossing over because the place where he is, is a kind of convergence, like a crossroads of fate where several choices intersect. He doesn't know that and is just confused, but I'm sure it'll all unravel by part three.

And I hope we get less of the rainbow sparkles because that shit was sooooooo boring and cringe and jfc did it have to go on for 30 minutes?! It felt like it never ended!

#FF7Rebirth Spoilers

[singlecrow]

I'm going to treat myself and do that thing where you write about your five favourite stories of your own (of the moment). why the hell not.

everything we do is sewn with this colour [DS9] A late-seasons DS9 Julian/Garak story with a very simple premise: Garak teaches Julian to sew. It takes time for Julian to learn, and during that time, the two of them go from being awkward and unhappy friends with benefits to being in a functional romantic partnership. The idea, of course, is that Garak can sew - he's a tailor, he runs a tailoring business, people get married in the dresses he makes - and in a way, this is the only way Julian can be sure Garak isn't lying to him. If Garak teaches him to sew, then it's because Garak really knows how to teach him. It's my only real Julian/Garak, and honestly I don't think I need any more: this is how I see it going. It's also got Miles, Keiko and Kira as a functional triad in the background, because I know what I like. My one grief about this story is that I don't think Phoebe, purplefringe, my beloved Julian Bashir superfan, ever read it.

some things you just can't speak about (wherever they come from, they'll never run out) [DS9/MASH] This is the most fun I've ever had writing anything, ever. Like, somehow I'd never done a MASH Star Trek AU (I have Star Trek AUs for nearly every non-SFF fandom I've ever done, including Sports Night and Master and Commander), but it didn't click until I realised it was a story about the Dominion War, and then suddenly it's a DS9 AU and it's my two favourite things mashed (lol) together. So this! Hawkeye, though not the protagonist, is very much the main character: they're a nonbinary half-Betazoid, still bipolar, still brilliant, still a walking fuck-you to authority. I made no changes at all to the canon version to make them nonbinary, or an actually-psychic empath. (The screaming! I think some ppl thought I had made up the scene where Hawkeye screams in their sleep enough to wake up everyone in the habitat. Nope, the tv one does that, and he isn't psychic.) The only real change to this Hawkeye is that they're ship's CMO - so they do, sometimes, have to give orders. They don't like it, but they do, and in so doing have to betray their competence (love ppl being competent). And also, they wear the Starfleet uniform dresses, because I could not with how cute that would be. I never said in the story that they were afab, but I assume they were just so they'd be shorter than Margaret.

The other thing here is, the tension between Hawk and Margaret in the show is gender. Margaret would thrive, if she could do what Hawkeye can do - if she could be a soft-edged man who gets respect from nearly everyone for his ability and competence, who sleeps around nd never has it damage his reputation. But he can do that, and she, a woman in the 1950s, can't. Instead, she gets harassed and socially punished every time she steps out of line, though fundamentally she's nothing different from him. But Star Trek doesn't have that gender tension, so instead we have Margaret as Bajoran, who doesn't have Hawkeye's privileges as a Federation citizen. And it's the one rift in their otherwise extremely loving best-friends-with-benefits relationship. (my fave! their canon relationship, my favourite in fiction, probably).

BJ, bless him, is exactly unchanged: his role in the story is to observe the others. Even Potter, a female half-Vulcan who tolerates no crap who I enjoyed enormously. Anyway this story is 40k! longer than any other fanfic of mine and probably always will be because I can't imagine anything else being as fun.

a girl wild and unwished for [MASH] Ah. So, it's 1957 and it's not fun. Hawkeye is in his mid-thirties, and he's fine, except one night he's not: following an intense depression, he tries to commit suicide and is stopped barely in time.

Which is a hell of a beginning to a story, and honestly I feel a bit conflicted about it; I've been unhappy for years about how (some bits of) fandom went from to "you should content-note this content" to "you shouldn't make this content". When this sort of thing is so often my subject matter, it often does feel like fandom doesn't want my fiction and it legit was part of the reason I shifted towards pro. But that's by the bye, and I'm trying to write what I want to again. So in this story, Sidney is so worried about Hawkeye's mental state that he persuades him to try psychoactive medication for the first time. And the story becomes, in its way, a retelling of The Bell Jar with Hawkeye in place of Esther Greenwood: so about life and friendship, about New York in summer, about Hawkeye's work and place in the world, all muted and sharpened and modulated by the effect of the drug. Of course it's about Hawkeye's manic depression, but it's also about who he is; about what he can concede of his mind and personality, and what he can't. I was really pleased with this one. Despite the description, it does have jokes in it.

who were captured, who would not yield [Good Omens] A Good Omens story written just after s1, in the summer of 2019. That feral Good Omens summer! That summer where everything was still perfect and beautiful! I remember writing this by hand on the train to Cardiff to Vidukon, to P's endless amusement. The story isn't a romance - Aziraphale and Crowley have sex in it, for purely pragmatic reasons - but a story about what they do now they're not on opposite sides or on sides at all. Like in all my GO stories, they go to Waitrose, as follows:

Everything is fine. Crowley is definitely not having a breakdown in Waitrose.

“Crowley,” Aziraphale says, by the self-service checkouts. “You were supposed to get an avocado pear.”

“Damn your avocado, angel,” Crowley says, trying not be actively diabolical in all directions. The next customer is buying strawberries, whipped cream and WD-40 – it’s a Friday night – and Crowley can make out the scent of unhappy dairy. Everything’s fine. He’s definitely not having a breakdown. Much more of this and there’s going to be an unexpected fire in the bagging area.

in the chillest land on the sea [the Magnus Archives] Until recently this was my longest story on the AO3, because it was co-written with dearthoughthenightisgone (imperfectcircle on the AO3 because of their godawful brand management). It's a very complex Magnus Archives story, where the basic premise is that all the while Jon is accumulating the statements belonging to the fears to go into the Archive, there is one additional power that we don't see: hope, at the bottom of Pandora's box. So every so often he gets a hopeful, happy statement, and eventually - the day in the Scottish cabin where it all goes wrong - the assistance of the hope power makes things go a little differently. I love this story. We had to write the statements! There are five of them and each one is a little standalone work of original fiction. And the two of us are pretty good at jamming together our disparate styles and themes and doing something good with them, but this one was hard - they wanted a happy ending, I wanted a bleak ending, we had to thread that needle. But I think we did it well, because this is the story where I get the most consistently overwhelming and sweet comments, people who read the story while a beloved family member was ill, or when locked down with covid, and took a little comfort from it. There was fanart! It was something special.

meditations ex post facto [Guardian] This is allegedly a Guardian AU. (Guardian is a fantasy cdrama about a guy called Zhao Yunlan who runs a paranormal investigatory agency, and his lovely boyfriend, who is both a local academic and, uh, a mysterious ancient ghost king.) What this is actually is a romantic comedy with lawyers. It's all I want in life. I wrote the entire first half of it in the Apple store in Covent Garden waiting for my updates to install. This is the best bit in it.

Zhao Yunlan can’t actually blame her, because he’s never been any good at hiding his feelings and he’s kind of composing an email to Shen Wei in another window. Deaaaaar Professsssor Sssshen, he writes. The spilled latte from the other day has made itself at home in his keyboard. Zhao Yunlan painstakingly scrolls back and deletes all the extra letters. I reaaaaally want to see you again pleaaaaaaassse come to dinner with me.

Not at all weird. 

Shen Wei, I was planning to go for noodles tonight. Perhaps you’d like to accompany me.

Weirdly formal, but better. He presses send before he realises that “planning” still has two extra As and a stray Z.

#mash #deep space nine #good omens #guardian #the magnus archives

[70svampyr]

Billy Lenz (1974) Headcanons

what the title says. this is a pretty long list, some of the headcanons are pretty detailed, so if that's annoying I'm sorry </3

WARNINGS! descriptions of abusive family members, these honestly center more around what I think a "lucid" billy would do, but insane murderous billy is mentioned. 2k+ words.

here are some of my very own hc's of the attic dweller, the weirdo, the rat, the man that needs mountains and mountains of therapy.

anyway. moving on.

headcanon temp credit belongs to writingraven!

billy strongly dislikes dogs. even the exceptionally soft, teddy bear-looking ones. he thinks they all resemble ugly beasts, just waiting to pounce on him and rip him apart as if he were a stuffed teddy bear. they're a bit of a fear of his, I want to say. billy has no trouble looking directly at one or moving towards one, but if a golden doodle were to sniff his pant legs, he'd recoil and shuffle away. he'd also give any passing dog he sees a childish glare.

this man cannot sit still, he has to be bouncing off the walls every second of every day. you'll have to physically force him to stay still, cause he will not be paying any heed to your warnings or requests to just sit in a chair like a normal person. (he's not really that normal though, is he?) I also like to think billy can be pretty flexible, acrobatic stunts are sort of a knack of his. it was actually one of the few things he was complimented on during his childhood and teen years. of course, I don't think he was like crazy flexible, but just to the point it was admirable. also, fidgets with his hands a lot. he has a bad habit of biting his nails and skin sometimes, usually in situations where he feels a deep trench in his stomach, swirling in a substance of anxiety.

used to adore pigs as a kid. for the very few times either of his parents took him to the zoo, or perhaps he saw the fat pink animals lazing around in the pastures right next to his house occasionally, he would coo at them and take mental notes on the noises they made. this is where I think he got his line "pretty piggy" from, also reenacts their "oink" sounds because of this.

billy is a sarcastic little bitch, and I will stand by this. he seems like the type of person who would scoff at someone for asking a slightly idiotic question. "what year is it again?" "1456." "wait what" "the year is fucking 1974 you dumb fuck." yeah, I headcanon him being pretty mean, even when lucid and not having murderous intentions. although, I do think he isn't always like this. if you were to ask him for help on a math problem or something he may or may not make an effort to help you. it kinda depends on what state of mind he's in that day. a relatively good one? sure, ask him away. feeling like crap and the urge to spill blood all over the walls? don't talk to him. in fact, get out of there.

I wanna think this man has a few light freckles that dot his nose and face. he's a bit insecure about them, but on some good days, he likes to look in the mirror and think of them as like a constellation.

not a huge fan of cooking, but he does like to occasionally bake, particularly cookies. gender bread cookies are his favorite to ornament, with all the cool designs you can do with them. however, his favorite cookie to engulf has to be those girl scout lemon cookies. he distinctly remembers the first time buying (stealing) a box of them during his senior year of high school and absolutely salivated at the taste of them. billy uses baking as some kind of coping mechanism, I believe. it's comforting and calming for him, keeping him from going berserk and leading a blood trail in his wake.

billy has some concerning coping skills, although I do like to paint that he also has some frankly normal ones. s^x is one of them (don't know if this is canon or not). this kind of correlates to his hypersexuality. during the time of cooping up in the sorority's attic, billy collected loose/lost rubber bands that the girls owned. picking them up from the empty hallways at night and early mornings between the couches. with them, he liked to snap them against his wrists when he felt like he was on the edge of slipping into an indistinct state of mind, snapping him back into reality. yet once he noticed the vibrant red markings beginning to appear, outlining them, he began to intertwine all the rubber bands to shape a ball. with it, he would squeeze it whenever needed. (I don't wanna get into what I think some of his unhealthy coping mechanisms are just yet, as afraid I'll explain them wrong, so that's all for now.)

billy honestly wishes every day that he worked as a sculptor. it was a strong passion of his ever since seventh grade when his art teacher began the unit "the art of sculpturing". he found it so fascinating and tried his very very best on the project they had to do for the unit. it wasn't very often billy took pride in his work, but for that particular project, he felt proud of himself once he finished it, even more so when his teacher came by to check on his progress and made a good note on it. once high school started, billy saved up the money he gained from working shifts in a coffee shop, and bought sculpting classes to take. it was hard to manage, however. he didn't want his parents, god forbid his mom, from knowing. so every time he was getting ready to leave, he'd come up with some lame lass excuse. however, it wasn't much since his parents were neglecters, so thinking back, he could've probably easily walked out the door without anyone saying a thing.

comes from a very abusive and neglectful family (canon...i think). I like to think that 1974 billy's past wasn't AS BAD as 2006, but still pretty traumatic. his mom never paid attention to him or his health, his dad was a misogynist and some of the comments he made regarding women got into billy's head and rotted it a bit (his phone calls). his parents were the type of people who lost their cool easily, one mistake and a loud 'smack' would resonate the room, a bright red handprint now marking his cheek. he had learned that from a very early age, unfortunately. so by fourth grade, billy had learned his manners and to be extremely cautious of his word choices and body language. his brain developed severe anxiety at the age of twelve, gaining a bad habit of bouncing his leg. the sound of his father's heavy footsteps and his mom's loud shrieking voice always stirred a panic attack within him, even if none of the tributes were directed at him. his parent's violent behavior gradually rubbed off on him, and that's one of the reasons why billy has now such strong murderous cravings. it only got worse after he had killed them.

I like to believe this man would absolutely worship hippie 70s fashion clothing. tie-dye shirts, homemade accessories (beaded necklaces, bracelets, etc.), vests, collard shirts, all that good shit. the only thing remotely close to hippie fashion that he owns though is his turtle neck and bell bottoms. billy only actually got into this sense of style when he was already in his early twenties and running around Canada with blood tainting his skin. his dress attire during his childhood and teen years mostly consisted of plain long sleeve shirts and blue jeans with a pair of snow boots. not much of a fashion icon, never had the money or skill.

hates loud noises. hurts his ears and it's one of the reasons I feel he hates going out in public so much. people. they chatter all day, practically screaming in a mile-foot radius, without even considering those around them. billy fears one day he'll be caught and sent (back???) to the mental institution, where they'll plant needles into his skin, and billy detests needles. out of the very few things he was grateful for in his childhood, was that he was never taken to the doctor, so he never had to experience the pain at an early age. a part of him feels a smile creep on his face whenever he occasionally walks down the streets of Toronto and sees a happy family all cuddled up and smiling. he feels happy for them, glad that they have a functioning system, and feel content in each other's company. yet, the angry side of him is crammed with enviousness and hatred. why did they get the smiles and laughs? what made them so deserving of a cheerful family? no neglect present, no sharpening glares, except playful. his eyes begin to burn and he quickly looks away, shuffling back to the sorority where he was not welcomed.

actually has some pretty decent handwriting, not like cursive or anything, but readable and pleasant looking. (this is so random but I wanted to include it.)

besides killing and harassing women over the phone, billy fairly enjoys baking as mentioned, and drawing as a hobbie. he's not the best at traditional art; sculpting consumed him in high school, not leaving much room to practice his traditional art skills. but whenever he feels like it and a drawing utensil plus a piece of paper is near, he likes to draw whatever comes to mind. whether it be one of the girls or Claude that sits up in the attic with him a lot. also enjoys reading, I imagine billy is a fast reader and can read over complex sentences quicker than most people can complete a tongue twister. his favorite genre is murder mystery, he finds the questionable type of books fun and amusing. just sitting on the edge of your seat as you wait to unravel the one behind it all.

billy has pretty dark humor, he's one to probably accidentally offend someone with a joke that slipped out.

unexpectedly, billy has some decent hygiene. he cuts his nails when they end up getting too long and makes sure to file them down. sometimes likes to steal barb's lotion that sits on one of the bathroom countertops. (this man truthfully has some nice hands, so this might as well be canon /j) whenever the girls are asleep or out of the house, he sneaks out of the attic door and slides into the bathroom, taking quick showers to rid himself of grim and dirt. he hates the feeling of it sticking to his skin for too long, although, over time he's gotten pretty used to it. still doesn't like the cakey sensation of it all. not great at remembering to brush his teeth, but when he does he does it thoroughly. every day he gives his hair a quick brush and nothing else.

billy enjoys sitting by the fireplace and reading a book when he has the opportunity. especially on cold winter days, when the snowstorm outside is just bashing against the wood and rattling the panes of the windows. the attic is arctic once winter hits, a large disadvantage for billy sadly. so whenever the girls are cooped up in their beds or out of the house (again), he snatches the occasion up and dashes down the staircase simply to be able to feel the hospitable heat of the radiant embers and relish in a good book with a soft wool blanket draped over his shoulders. (and perhaps a small snack or heat-up leftovers)

neither a morning person nor a night person. or an afternoon/evening/dawn person. this man just does not care about time unless it benefits him.

billy enjoys listening to classical and jazz, majorly jazz, however. I imagine a favorite song of his would be "Love Will Bring Us Back Together" by Roy Ayers. But, for more of his "go stupid go crazy" side, I believe he would appreciate surf rock as well, religiously listening to "Alien Blues" by Vundabar if he were set in modern times. "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen would also be on his list.

partakes in poetry to a certain extent. I think he would understand why people seem to love it so much and spend their free time or take on it with their careers, however, he can't really find himself eventually adoring it the same way. it's just not much of an interest to him, but he does like some poems, mostly ones from Edgar Allan Poe. (yet he does have a habit of disparaging the poor guy occasionally when he's in an asshole-y mood, poking fun at how 'depressed' his written pieces are)

billy has so many regrets he can't even count them all. his biggest has to be what he had done to agnes, his own little sister, marking him in crimson blood and a face of a killer. he often has nightmares of her sullen frame stabbing him repeatedly in the chest, or yelling and cursing at him for what he had done to his own family. spouting out what he always seems to spout in his deranged phone calls. "filthy billy! you don't deserve to live! you should've frozen to death on those days you had nowhere to call home! filthy, disgusting billy!" and he agreed to every single word. these dreams always resulted in him waking up in a cold sweat, the tears of shame eventually beginning to fall down his cheeks after catching his breath, just to trip it up again.

this man has scars EVERYWHERE. well, maybe not every crevice, but he has at least fifty in total. burn scars and stab wounds littered his back, and the blemishes from gnawing on his skin due to anxiety covered his hands like wrapping paper. most of them were from getting stabbed by prior victims, others from accidental falls or remembrances from his childhood.

did partially well in school, didn't get to really graduate due to the massacre, but billy had much more important things to worry about than a piece of paper that read "congratulations!" and a cap. he mostly struggled a bit due to his home life and this resulted in a few minor failing grades, but I think this man had always done his best to bring them back up because he had a goal in mind (that he sadly never got to achieve).

billy doesn't like television. I don't know, he strikes me as the type of person who would just not really know any movies or TV shows at all. y'know, when Kourtney Kardashian said, "I don't watch tv"? that's billy.

lastly, he's a light sleeper. can probably hear you walking down the hallway or Claude rummaging around the attic even when he's in a dream state. it gives him a bit of comfort, also an advantage to him in case someone were to try and enter the attic entrance. saves him enough time to hide or kill that person.

remember, these are my own personal hc's and it's okay if you don't agree with them! I hope I did this right? I've never made headcanons before so. may or may not do a part 2 of more insane/movie shown billy, who knows. -cora

#black christmas #black christmas 1974 #billy lenz #billy lenz 1974 #billy lenz headcannons #nervous to post this 😭 #my second post LMAO #doing these made me realize how little I know this man

[fizzingwizard]

Time for some semi-ritual bitching about one of my favorite bitch-worthy topics, Yugioh

Why couldn't they have just done Memory World properly

Why make us suffer through Doma... and especially KC Grand Prix, a single episode of which is more boring than filler in any other fandom... and they made an entire filler arc out of it! Like Doma has lots of faults but at least it tried to do something interesting. It tried to develop characters, which proooobably shouldn't have been undertaken by a filler arc with no canon script to follow, but gold star for trying! Had a shitty finale not remotely worthy of its awesome beginning, but did we really expect any better? lol. KC Grand Prix tho, no. That's just there to Idk be mean to men with pink hair and dumb names?? In the ridiculous hair dumb names anime???

cut because Fizz has the curse of long-windedness thanks my evil fairy godmother

anyway back to Memory World, maybe the issue was the story in the manga still lagged behind where the anime was. I don't remember. If so I guess there was no choice but filler. Still, did they have to blow the budget on it? They lost most of their good animators during Doma, where they also introduced a couple new crap ones who stuck around till the end of course -___- And no doubt the animators were getting paid peanuts for long hours of work, and if they'd run out of budget to even pay that... well clearly the show should have been shorter. Like two whole filler arcs shorter. Just take a break, take a pause, come back when you're ready to do Memory World the way it should be done. Back then no one took breaks, "The fans will forget us," nowadays TV shows just up and away for multiple years at a time x'D before returning suddenly with a new season.

The reason I'm still salty and plan to be salty to my grave is just this. Memory World is the one and only YGO arc since season zero that was not explicitly about card games. They'd been dropping hints since the first that we could expect ancient Egypytian shenanigans in the finale. We were supposed to find out about Atem's lost memories and recover his name. That was the driving force behind everything that wasn't filler. I specifically became a fan as a kid because I enjoyed reading about Ancient Egypt and thought the idea of a millennia-old feud between a pharaoh and whoever Bakura really was sounded neat. So I watched hours and hours and hours of card games all for the sake of making it to Ancient Egypt.

(don't get me wrong I enjoyed the card games lol. Never ask a YGO fan to explain how watching characters stand around and yell "Pot of Greed allows me to draw two cards from my deck!" for hundreds of episodes somehow stayed fresh and interesting)

So we reach Memory World at loooooooong last and. And the animation is the worst. Atem falls off a cliff it's just like "ow." Bakura isn't have as intriguing anymore now that he's a poorly drawn anime guy with scars. He arrives toting Atem's father's mummy it should be scary. It should be shocking. But instead, for some reason we watched dancing girls of questionable historical accuracy repeat the same frame several times, while Atem makes a face like a baby trying his hardest to go number two in his diaper. In the manga this scene is really funny, with Siamun being Sugoroku in every way, and Atem in his awkwardness being more Yugi-like than we've ever seen him. In the anime they are just going through the motions. There's no life in anything.

The one thing the anime version got right was understanding that this was the one and only opportunity we'd have to learn about Atem. You know, half of the main character for the whole show. Even the manga is really so busy doing plot stuff it kind of forgets to make us care about the ancient Egyptian cast. The anime took advantage of the need for pacing to give us a couple low key moments about Atem & Friends, but for some reason it decided we should 1) know what Atem looked like falling flat on his nose as a toddler, and 2) show us that from a young age he was making grand progressive speeches about equality. Seeing Atem portrayed as a nice guy who cared about people gave me mixed emotions after watching him struggle for seasons with the possibility that he might have been a bad king and not remember it. Because we got a whole season of him making mistakes and disappointing fans in Doma, and now in Memory World the final answer to what kind of person Atem was is just "well he's a good guy in the modern sense of the word lol" and then we move on. Also, neither that speech, nor Doma, are manga canon, but fans on the whole remember Doma much better than they remember nice guy baby Atem. Which is so very nice -.-;

So Memory World could have been so much fun, exciting, adventurous in a way you can't always be when you have to stay put on a holo-duel stage (card games on motorcycles hasn't been invented yet!), and insightful about a character who has been the central point of everything yet whom we knew next to nothing about. Instead it was a poorly animated clusterfuck of battle scenes that were difficult to make sense of. The Bakura stuff was the best. The Kaiba-insert filler was the worst. I was disappointed with Set's arc in the manga as well, another thing that had been built up for years and years and ended up more about the mysterious waif-like dragon girl than Set vs Atem. If the anime changed something to add in Kaiba, I wish they'd have rewritten the Set vs Atem duel so it was mildly interesting, and Idk maybe Kaiba could have teamed up with Atem against his past self, which would have aggravated him to no end? Instead of just wandering around insisting none of this could really be happening. Or he should just not have been there at all. Personally I go the DSOD route and pretend Kaiba was never in Memory World, same as the manga. It's not like erasing him from the anime version has any impact on events bahahaha. He was included for MONEY MONEY MONEY popular character NEEDS to stick around even if he has abso-fucking-lutely nothing to do because MONEY MONEY MONEY

I love DSOD to pieces. But my own dream for the anniversary project was a remake of Memory World. Even if it had been a 90 min movie version instead of several episodes, as long as it was better quality, and invested in Atem as a character instead of simply as a pawn in a game, I would have enjoyed those 90 mins better than the entire Memory World season. Doma and KC Grand Prix were a mistake if they played a role in how awful Memory World was.

But they did the Millennium Duel well. Not astonishing, but really, except for useless Kaiba being there, it was more than adequate. (And although Kaiba himsefl was useless, it was cool seeing him rejected as an opponent for Atem in favor of Yugi. Actually I kinda wish they'd made a bigger deal out of that...) Kid me cried buckets (actually I must have been well into my teens by then bahahaha. I def cried though). Thanks to those final two episodes, the series send-off didn't leave me with a bad taste in my mouth. If it had ended with Memory World it would have been an even bigger disappointment to me than the finale of Bleach. And I despise the finale of Bleach x'D

#yugioh #youre never too old to be salty about cartoons amirite little kuriboh

[trainsinanime]

This is explicitly not a whole philosophical/moral framework, just an observation (that isn't even original), but:

It will never not be strange to me that people harass fanfic writers over things that are literally canon in Game of Thrones.

And there are a lot of things that are canon in Game of Thrones. Basically, if somebody has ever had a debate here about whether it is okay to write "X" thing, then with very few exceptions, it has actually happened in Game of Thrones, which was, for a while, the biggest TV show on the planet. And I don't really think that this "normalised" any of the things shown in that show. If it did, we'd be having very different conversations these days.

I've seen some people say that there's a difference between literature and fanfic that's supposedly just there for unsavoury reasons, but Game of Thrones oscillates wildly between these, and there are plenty of times when really nasty stuff happens for no reason other than to shock and/or titillate. Any argument that can be made against fanfic can be made against Game of Thrones, the whole TV show, and if you start doing that, a lot of these arguments start seeming very silly.

And, again, it was a big deal. Plot events took over Twitter for days. People mentioned the latest twists and turns on late-night TV. If Game of Thrones can't normalise all the things it portrayed, then I'd argue fanfic won't either.

The final and biggest thing for me is the concept of "irredeemable media", i.e. media that is so bad in what it depicts that, I dunno, it will warp your very soul or whatever. It seems like Game of Thrones should be an obvious contender for inclusion in these lists. It did fucked up shit for good narrative reasons, it did fucked up shit for bad storytelling reasons, it did fucked up shit and then pretended it wasn't fucked up, and it did fucked up shit just bizarrely badly at times.

But what you actually see on lists of irredeemable media on DNI lists are things like Steven Universe. My belief is that if your DNI lists includes Steven Universe but not Game of Thrones, that means you haven't heard of Game of Thrones yet, and that informs my opinion about the value of your media criticism.

Anyway, as I said, this isn't a whole moral framework, it's just interesting to see this huge void in these discussions. Game of Thrones isn't even the worst/most extreme show in that regard, almost any that are set in Ancient Rome are much more intense. I'm just picking it as an example because it was such a huge phenomenon at the time. If you have such strong opinions about niche media like fanfic, but aren't even aware of the stuff that's super popular all over the world, maybe learn about it? Seems like it's a very useful perspective to have.

In short: Yes the final season of Game of Thrones really is as bad as everybody keeps saying, holy crap.

#not saying you have to watch that show! plenty of good reasons not to #just saying if you want to talk about weird stuff in media it's useful to know about it and what's in it #now let's all hum the theme tune together #daaa-daaa-dadada-daaa

[afniel]

Nevi Infodumps Upon Request: MMX2

Because god damn let's just make this its own thing and stop doing it on some other poor bastard's post, what did they to do deserve me happening to them.

Also I have to make a correction! There is no Z-Saber in X1, I just remembered that goofy. Zero doesn't give you shit if you upgraded your arm parts, he just dies. It doesn't even exist until X2. I have no idea why I thought that considering I played it recently enough but despite appearances I'm not known for my great recall of chronological order shit.

THIS IS GONNA BE A LONG POST AND I HAVE REMEMBERED THAT "MANNERS" EXIST SINCE YESTERDAY SO. I am using a cut. And lowering my voice. This too is "manners."

@longshotlink I have done the thing! It does not stop from happening.

OKAY SO TO RECAP.

Mega Man X1: *slaps X* this bad boy can hold so much survivor's guilt and self-loathing.

There, that's it, that's the recap you get.

My second favorite game in the series is X2 and you're about to find out that I like them in the order they came out in, so this is going to look chronological. It is not! Not really. This is a coincidence.

Six months after X got PTSD real bad from everyone he knows dying/being killed by him (except technically Dr. Cain I GUESS, I forgot he existed for a moment there) he's still tracking down Sigma's followers and presumably shooting the hell out them. He goes to an abandoned reploid factory with the Maverick Hunters, where Green Biker Dude dies after a glorious ten seconds of doing nothing but popping a sick wheelie on a Ride Chaser and getting shot to fuck.

Rip to a real one, I guess. Pour one out for Green Biker Dude while we're here.

(Because we source our art here, this is by Springqueen on DeviantART.)

X tears through the factory and kills a huge-ass mechaniloid—wait, you say, the hell is a mechaniloid, we got reploids but that hasn't come up yet? Well, see, there's normal robots, and there's people robots, and mechaniloids are the normal robots who aren't really self-aware, and you literally cannot predict who the fuck is which:

This is a sentient being, with a rich inner life and emotions equivalent to a human's! (Only the C-15 model from X1, though, after that they're mechaniloids.)

This man is just a really fancy computer who can't actually feel anything!

I am not even joking. This is canon. Figure it out! I sure can't. It is a mystery. Nothing makes sense and everything is confusing and quite possibly bad.

There are three dudes ominously watching X and talking about some kind of nonsense bullshit crap, and these guys are Agile, who is tall, smirky, and pointy; Serges, who is short, Dr. Wily, and pointy; and Violen, who is huge, dumb as a sack of hammers, and pointy.

No really, they're all kinda pointy. For some reason they specifically have pointy feet. And they're talking about 'the control chip' and being all m~y~s~t~e~r~i~o~u~s but let's just get it out of the way. These mofos are reassembling Zero for nefarious reasons. Why? Well, you see, when you're Keiji Inafune and you just made a game, even though you teased a sequel in the post-credits, you totally did not think this through (because you have never thought anything all the way through in your life and you are not beginning now!) and now you're stuck, because you WANTED to make Zero the main character, got talked out of it, and then somehow ended up killing your intended main character. And everyone else. The only surviving named characters are X and Dr. Cain, and like...now what, right? Shit. Fuck. You fucked it up. You were supposed to leave some guys for the sequel. Well uhhhh they're all robots, just...reassemble someone real fast. Like Zero. You wanted him to be the cool one anyway, let's try that again but not wrong this time!

But never mind that! It's all fixable. Everything is fixable. Even Zero! Well, no, X isn't fixable, he's a goddamn mess, but details, man.

This gets a LITTLE fucky to summarize because there's some branching paths, so I'm gonna flip back to the actual game side for a second. X2 actually fucking slaps as a game. It's got an extra math coprocessor in the cartridge! Did you know that? The Cx4 chip showed up again in MMX3, and was the reason X2 suddenly had WAY more onscreen sprites, transparency effects, and even 3D wireframe enemies. This shit was amazing on the SNES.

Also, X2 is another case of "oh no, these Mavericks are ex-Hunters again," so like. ACAB. Not all of the Mavericks are, but still more than none, which you'd hope would be the number. They have not learned shit about shit for vetting members. The call is coming from inside the house, guys! Maybe Hunter HQ should think about the implications of the fact that—*I am shot in the head by Keiji Inafune, who has never once thought something all the way through in his life and is not beginning now, killing me instantly*

In X1 there were basically three kinds of defector:

I'm So Bored Please God Kill Me Now

I Just Love Hitting Things

and

Whatever You Say Chief!

Well, and Storm Eagle's unfortunate little thing of

I Got My Ass Beat To Hell And Back Until I Said Fine I'll Kill The Humans With You Just To Make It Stop And All I Got Was This Terminate On Sight Designation T-Shirt

X2 is a little more varied than that. You now have the new exciting backstory flavors of

I Love Money More Than My Life And This Guy Promised Me A Raise, Sooooo... (Bubble Crab)

The Bad Guys Are Somehow Less Ableist Than The Good Guys (Overdrive Ostrich, who USED TO be able to fly, lost the ability in an accident, and retired because the Hunters were kind of treating him like damaged goods and he was over it. Editor's note I do not blame this dude at all, what the fuck!)

BLOCK OUT THE SUN (Flame Stag)

I Love Trash (Morph Moth, who was not a Hunter)

Idk I Was Already Doing Crimes, Might As Well (Crystal Snail, also not a Hunter)

Sigma Is My Literal Dad (Wire Sponge, made in one of Sigma's reploid factories. He came out wrong even for a Maverick. Good job, Sigma. Great quality control.)

There's Still No Virus In The Continuity But I Sure Caught It Somehow Anyway?? Help Me (Magna Centipede, who used to be in Zero's unit, but got 'brainwashed' somehow.)

(This happens a lot. This will keep happening. Zero collects subordinates who are just WAITING for an excuse. Also this will make a whole lot more sense once they retcon in the Maverick Virus and then MORE sense once they retcon in that it is coming from Zero specifically but we aren't there yet so right now it's just weird and kind of unfortunate!)

And you still have at least one I Just Love Hitting Things (Wheel Gator).

Also why are so many of these guys invertebrates? This is like the invertebrate game. X1 has two, but X2 has five of these things. (X3 has three, X4 has two again, X5 has three again, X6 has three, X7 only has one, and you will not see another game with five again until X8, the last one. I don't know why I went to count that.)

After X whacks a few of the Maverick stage bosses, there's a little cutscene at Dr. Cain's lab. The three shadowy weirdos from the intro call Dr. Cain to say like, "Hey, X, we named ourselves the X-Hunters for reasons you'll never be able to guess, and also we have Zero's parts. Meet us at the wherever the hell on the map we visibly teleport to after this in fifteen minutes for an ass-kicking." They hang up, Dr. Cain is like, "Well, it's fine, we still have Zero's control chip here and they can't really resurrect him without it, plus this is obviously bait, so maybe don't do anything too hast—"

X declares he's got to get Zero's parts back at any cost and runs the fuck off, because he's fine, okay. He doesn't wanna talk about it.

This scene is way more interesting in Japanese, where Serges and only Serges slips a bit and calls him Rockman X, which is sus, because nobody really mentions Rockman in the games, except for some reason Dr. Cain in English who calls him Mega Man X. Dr. Cain has actually read Dr. Light's notes so he's got at least a historical reason to be doing this, but Serges wouldn't know that shit, right? It is definitely unrelated that the Japanese materials describe Serges as having comparable intellect to a certain unnamed mad scientist. It is also certainly coincidence that despite Zero being an absolutely undocumented black box of a Wily creation, Serges somehow knows how to upgrade him too.

Let's assume for the plot that X does go through and collect all of Zero's parts, which is his head, torso, and legs. Now correct me if I'm wrong but his head did not actually fall off in X1...but meh, details, right? Once you have all three, Dr. Cain says he needs a little more time to get Zero's control chip installed, so go deal with the other Mavericks until then. Then, once you do that, he tells you it's going to take even MORE time, but hey, the X-Hunters are hanging out at the North Pole, like some kind of shitty dollar store Santa Clauses who come down your chimney and murder you. So X fucks off to the North Pole to do some violence, and shoots the hell out all three of the X-Hunters, like you do. In Japanese, Serges is kind of pissed that "Light's memento robot" defeated him, which again...yeah, that seems normal, nothing to see here!

Once X murderhobos his way through the rematch fights, he gets a random zoom call from Sigma, who invites him to come to the central computer in fifteen minutes for an ass-kicking, and once there he gets a nasty surprise: his buddy Zero is there, chilling, and Sigma is like, "Lol he's so mad that you let him die. Look at how upset he's getting. Look at his fists. They're balled. He wants to beat you up so bad." Except, assuming you collected all of Zero's parts, this is a shitty dollar store Zero with a palette swap, and the real Zero is offended as shit and shows up and kills the fuck out of his copy, saving you a fight. Sigma is like, "WHY are you not on my side though man you should be. You should totally be on my side and fighting him instead, it's your destiny." Zero's like, "Maybe so, but I still don’t like you!" <- Unlike almost everything else I keep putting in quotation marks, that's a real quote. I'm not making that one up. It's even better in Japanese because it's SO DISMISSIVE the way he says it. It's literally, "It's because I don't like you," but you'd almost have to localize it to something like "It's because I don't like your face," to convey the don't-give-a-singular-fuck disdain. He's just like, fuck your stupid destiny thing, do I look like the kind of person who cares.

I feel like this game is just kind of less interesting at the end than X1. Sigma did actually run off to Magna Centipede's level for his final stage for some reason, which is unusual. A lot of the implied angst in the first game exists, and X basically ignoring Dr. Cain's attempt at warning him to be careful because OH MY GOD WHAT IF HE CAN FIX THIS ONE THING AND MAYBE AT LEAST ONE PERSON HE CARES ABOUT WILL BE OKAY is pretty good. And once you blow up Sigma, he does have a little foreshadowing about Zero being "the last of the doctor's creations," or MUCH more specifically in Japanese, being "the last of the Wi...num...ers..." aka the Wily Numbers, aka Dr. Wily's robots, which is like...where'd you hear that, hm? Were you talking to that shady Serges guy again who was also basically your lieutenant? Couldn't be he's someone from the past who would know all this shit.

But I'm not gonna touch the epilogue just yet because let's say X decided that actually he should focus on the mission at hand and ignore these guys clearly trying to goad him into doing something stupid. Good call, X! You have finally learned a little self-preservation. Except, this goes badly actaully, because the X-Hunters will break into Dr. Cain's lab, not butcher him for some reason even though that would have been the logical thing to do if they really wanted to fuck with X and hamper his efforts, and steal all of Zero's parts, including his control chip.

I have a little headcanon about the reason they didn't bother, but I'll save that for a second or three later. For now...

X fucks off to the North Pole as before, deals with the X-Hunters (who are now shitty dollar store Santa Clauses who come down your chimney and STEAL YOUR DEAD FRIEND'S LEGS??), meets Sigma at the central computer, and Zero is there, only that's the real Zero, and X has to fight him. Maybe for the first time, but not for the last time, because reasons! X wins, which apparently slaps some sense into Zero, who for some reason apologizes for causing so much trouble (probably having been resurrected, reprogrammed, and then kicked in the head by your bestie until you're unreprogrammed makes you stupid) and says he's going to go destroy the main computer.

Wait, what main computer, like do you mean this entire stage? When did we ever establish about there being a main computer that needed to be destroooooh fine whatever go destroy the main computer and X can just fall down this hole where Sigma is. X is like, "Take care of yourself, Zero. I don't have time to put you back together again," and once again that's a real quote and I'm not just being flippant. Was that an attempt at humor? In Japanese it's just, "Do you intend to die?" which is like. God damn, X. I know this is the point in the game in which Zero exploded himself last time, but he JUST got here, he's not going to Death Hug the computer too. But ya boy is evidently having a flashback.

From there things proceed as normal, X defeats Sigma, and this time,

Two of them.

Joined by his friend Zero, Mega Man X gazes out over the sea. Sigma has once again been destroyed, but X wonders if the fighting will truly end. Was Dr. Light’s dream of a world in which Reploids and humans lived together in peace merely a dream? The price of peace is often high, X thinks to himself. Who or what must be sacrificed for it to become a reality? And when the time comes, will he be able to do it? The future holds the answers or…

It's a lot less of a downer than X1 was. The music is tense and kinda gloomy, but it's not the endless despair party that X1's ending theme was. X is like, okay, maybe this will work out. Sigma's defeated again, this sucks and all, but he's clearly the bad guy in this situation so there's less of an internal conflict about Was This The Right Thing To Do. Obviously so! It's less, was this right, and more, can I do this? And Zero's back, so maybe even some of the mistakes are fixable. It's not going to be easy, sure, but it at least feels possible.

Or maybe it's hopeless after all. Will the fighting truly end?

Haha, no. But don't tell him that right now, I don't think he could handle it. Can you imagine. Let the poor dude rest for five minutes. Just let him have this one little victory. God damn.

Anyway, let's leave those guys on their cliff and go over here instead for

HEADCANON TIME oh boy let's do it!!

So, it is not at all a stretch to say that Serges is probably some kind of AI incarnation of Dr. Wily. The game is not explicit about this, no, but it's heavily implied in the Japanese version, and Keiji Inafune, who has never thought anything all the way through in his entire life and is not starting now, is on record as having left it intentionally vague so that you can draw your own conclusions. Weird thing to tease, if there weren't a little truth to it.

This takes some of the later games' plot existing to make sense, but I don't think the X-Hunters really exist to be subservient to Sigma and just carry out his funny little genocidal reploid rampage. It's established that Zero was created by Dr. Wily, and if there's one thing that you can count on with Dr. Wily, it's that he is the kind of guy who will create a whole guy whose personality is summed up by, "I exist to kill this other guy and then after that I have no idea." He definitely did this with Bass. He definitely did this with Zero. In fact he went so overboard with Zero's Kill A Guy programming that Zero wanted to kill EVERY guy upon activation, which Sigma had to beat out of him (X4), making him weirdly normal.

(In fact the original recipe Maverick Virus was just a day-one patch for Zero's omnicidal bullshit tendencies to make him fucking stop it, dude, you have things to be doing that aren't creating new Pollock works all over the buried lab every time like a rat or something wanders in. But then because Wily is kind of a shit programmer but a really good scavenger of other people's shit, the day-one patch went, fine, you suck, I'm doing a world tour and getting stronger and coming back and FIXING YOU. Maverick Virus out.)

Now if you were some kind of AI version of Dr. Wily watching this—your favorite and final murder machine that you made specifically to kill Dr. Light's little baby-boo-bop hugs and love machine—and he is NOT doing that, he is in fact BECOMING BESTIES FOR LIFE with his enemy, this is not cool! This is just more proof that you are a bad programmer. Or, your original meatsuit self was a bad programmer, and now YOU are a program made of and by a bad programmer, which is arguably WORSE. It's enough to give a guy a FUCKING COMPLEX. Which is also a common thing to happen to any given Wily creation.

So your goal, here, because you think you're Dr. Wily or close enough to count, is to manipulate the situation into getting Zero to remember that he's supposed to be biting X to death with his teeth, not whatever the fuck pattycake he's playing with him right now, what the FUCK. WHAT the FUCK. Ahem.

If you have the X-Hunters kill Dr. Cain, well, that's not going to incentivize this happening at all. X is going to be so mad he kills you, and that's not optimal for shit. So fuck that guy. We ignore him. Unused variable. Just get Zero's parts and scram, because the important thing is rebuilding Zero, not fingerpainting with the innards of some human. (Even if Violen would probably be into that, but he's an idiot whose text box dialogue even appears more slowly than anyone else's, you can't listen to him if you want to get ahead in life.)

Sigma is really secondary to this too. He's very conveniently placed, and kind of easy to manipulate: just tell him that you know all about Zero (which is true) and that he's supposed to be on Sigma's side (which is close enough to true that he won't question it) and you can make this happen (you think you can. IT SHOULD WORK. Dammit. How bad of a programmer was your mental predecessor, anyway?). So Sigma kindly sets up everything for you, and you do your thing.

And they fight! Finally. It is glorious. Of course you are dead by the time this happens, probably, but maybe you aren't, because you have probably vacated your trashed-ass body into some other convenient system. (You will definitely not show up in X6 as some guy named Isoc, who upon finishing his work, goes absolutely inert like his whole-ass self just left his body, which you have definitely not just done and will not do again.)

EXCEPT GOD DAMMIT ZERO X HIT YOU IN THE HEAD HARD ENOUGH YOU CALMED DOWN AGAIN. GOD. DAMMIT. WHY THIS. FUCK. Okay, yeah, you're leaving. See y'all in X6, this sucks.

Anyway the real takeaway here is that Dr. Wily was just such a big fan of percussive maintenance that Zero occasionally needs to get beaten in the head with a wrench for a bit and then he's great for a while. If he starts twitching, that just means it's Wrench Time.

Anyway, that's X2, my second most favorite one.

Wire Sponge is a luffa, by the way. Loofah. However it's spelled.

This thing. That's what he is.

And I will not stop calling centipedes 'hyakuleggers' now because Magne Hyakulegger is way funner than Magna Centipede as a name.

#long post #I have been asked to infodump and SO I HAVE #Mega Man X2 #mmx #mega man x

[justasmallbloginabigklainefandom]

@buddieunite replied to your post “@buddieunite replied to your post “ANYWAY, LONDON....”:

HAHA yeah that is true but any day now ;) But yes we are in season 7 and buddie is not canon yet BUT there seem to be good signs for it happening soon. Could be wishful thinking though ;)

​OH BUDDIE (that's what I've started calling you since your URL change) LOOKS LIKE TODAY IS THE RIGHT DAY TO REPLY TO THIS.

No, but, for real. I follow some more Klaine-turned-Buddie blogs so obviously all I see from 911 is BUDDIE, BUDDIE, BUDDIE. And a while ago (I think the premiere of this season) I couldn't sleep so I saw y'all liveblog this show and I saw something about Eddie having a girlfriend (???????) and I was so fucking confused cause y'all have made me believe for years that these two dudes are in a loving, committing relationship. AREN'T THEY RAISING A KID TOGETHER? CHRISTOPHER LOVES BUCK, RIGHT? (Buck is the one who isn't his dad, RIGHT?)

So, damn, can't believe I got gaslit by you all. Jk. Jk. ... Unless?

And now I wake up and you're telling me this Buck dude had his first kiss with a guy. HIS FIRST. I even see crap about people posting stuff like "damn, I must admit I was wrong, this wasn't queerbait after all" and ????????????? THEY WEREN'T EVEN CANONICALLY QUEER TILL TODAY?

Buddie, my friend, what the hell. I am BAMBOOZLED.

#buddieunite #replies #you are allowed to laugh

[mth-emma]

What's the status on siiva canonicity? like do you guys just come up with ideas and decide to just Make It A Thing One Day sometimes? can Anything become canon to lore if someone on writers just decides it's a good idea? Idk how to phrase this question correctly tbh you can just go off on this one

at this point there's established parallel universes and alternate timelines so honestly anything is canon. i was putting together a chart linking different stories at some point when i got to halloween 3 and it was like "wow woodman sure bought this mansion with the money he made from his movie he made in ccc universe, isn't that cool unregistered hypercam 2? holy crap it's john notwoodman" so like we are long past the point of having a solid canon anyway so ppl can just kinda do whatever yeah

#siivagunner #ask

[misseffect]

read your garrus/miranda piece it was AMAZING omg you have such a way with descriptions and details!!! do you have any thoughts abt how that relationship might play out for the rest of ME2 and 3?

hi anon!!!!!!! thank you so much 🥰🥰

I was actually sketching out up to the end of ME3 when I first started working on the prompt and have been chatting with @otemporanerys about it since.

Under the cut because I have Long Thoughts

(y'all can read The Woman In White here)

For Garrus, the initial shock is sort of eclipsed by the whole Shepard thing and then by the whole rocket thing, so the first time they really talk is when he's already on the Normandy.

He goes to her office after he gets out of the medbay, metaphorical cap in hand, to thank her for putting him on the crew.

M: if I'd had my way you wouldn't even have made the shortlist. get out of my room. G: aaaaand we're back to normal

Miranda stays juuust on the professional side of openly hostile from then on. Shepard picks up on the rancid vibes (obviously) and Garrus comes clean about the job.

S: you helped send experimental super-weapons back to cerberus?!? G: I didn't know she was cerberus S: give me strength

Out of sheer necessity, they end up doing each other's loyalty missions because Shepard is too paragon busy, and that's how things start to thaw.

M, realising G wasn't just on some kind of blind, ego-fuelled vendetta and actually really cared about his squad: .....shit G, realising M isn't the heartless, unattached shell of a person he thought she was and actually really cares about her sister: .....crap

Garrus even offers to set Ori's family up with some cyber security stuff; Miranda's looking for an ulterior motive like

They sleep together again before the suicide mission, obviously, because they learned nothing from the last time they thought they'd never see each other again.

This time Miranda doesn't leap out of bed immediately, and after a moment or two Garrus realises she's fallen asleep on his arm and - crap - if that's not the most disarming thing that's ever happened to him.

G: maybe we'll both die in a hail of bullets and I won't have to deal with the fact that I'm maybe possibly slightly in love with someone who hates my guts Narrator: they did not die in a hail of bullets

They go off to do their separate things after ME2. Garrus is on Palaven writing and deleting a hundred variations on "still finding time to date now the universe is ending?" and each one sounds worse than the last. He's not sure he'd like the answer anyway.

For ME3 I think their overall roles are still as per canon (Garrus on the Normandy and Miranda is sneaking around after Cerberus) so they just kind of stew until Sanctuary.

Miranda gets injured during the fight with Kai Leng (Shepard didn't pass along the warning so Garrus did it behind her back) and Garrus, feeling a Very Normal amount of fear as Miranda bleeds out on the floor, shoots Henry Lawson in the face. like he deserves.

They evac back to the Normandy and Garrus spends the next few days trying to figure out what a non-suspicious amount of time to spend in the medbay is.

Shepard: just so we're clear I do not want her on my ship and I'm doing this as a personal favour to you G: to...... me? S: I'm a pretty busy woman vakarian and even I can see you're in love with her G: * spluttering *

And that's how Miranda gets invited to the party at Anderson's apartment (never let it be said that Commander Shepard is a bad wingman) and they end up on the balcony, a little drunk, talking about ✨the future✨

Garrus doesn't want to assume, but he's getting That Night In Luminesce vibes.

M: there's going to be a lot to do, even if we win. I'm sure I won't be short of work G: that's it? just more work? M: * shrugs * G: hey, maybe you could get that cat you always wanted

And Miranda - drunk, sad, exhausted, and standing next to this person who, for whatever reason, keeps insisting that she deserves good things - bursts into tears.

She comes clean about the men she was seeing on Omega and future she desperately wants - which isn't achievable and never will be, whether they survive the war or not - and that's about when Garrus realises he's completely and utterly fucked.

I'll speed through the rest because this is getting l o n g SO

1. they bounce to go and have a lot of intense and entirely-too-sincere sex in a hotel room (again)

2. Garrus tells her he loves her (sort of by accident but not really) which goes about as well as you'd expect

3. They're both too stubborn to reach out first ofc but, facing down the final run to the beam, Garrus leaves her a heartfelt voicemail and she misses calling him back by all of 5mins

4. They make up over Shepard's now twice-reassembled body (thanks Shep) adopt a few kids, and get then set about the serious business of getting old and hot together

FIN

#lawkarian #ily anon and i'm sorry this took so long to answer!!! #ask #the woman in white #which i realised over the course of this post abbreviates to TWIT which is. something

[justagalwhowrites]

Hey Bestie! Thanks for the chapter! I saw it when I woke up, and you made me start the day brighter than I had planned. It was perfect!😍 I read it way too fast. Not even 10k words would have felt enough. It has everything! The tension between them, that lovely slow burn you've created, and some FeralJoel! Could we ask for more? I'm giddy about the smut, but the progression between Joel and Bambi feels so right I don't miss it that much (or at least, that's what I tell myself, lol🤣). You can feel the yearning between them, in how they touch and care for each other. And don't get me on the part of Bambi waiting for him in the stables and how Joel says let's go home! Like home is each other!🥰😱

Tommy might hide it better, but he's as feral as Joel when needed… which easily translates into when someone threatens his family. And Bambi is one of his now! If it wasn't something so innate of the two brothers and the world they live in, it would probably raise some warning flags, but it feels comforting (I'm not crazy, right?). At least they'll be safe for a while now.

I need a favor, just a tinny thing if you don't mind. Bambi still has Nike after twenty years, and now you've introduced dogs in the shot while the shadow of the raiders grows closer, which worries me. If what you've planned for their demise is somehow graphic, could I have a warning? I know I'll read anyways, as I'm a sucker for angst, but at least I'll be ready about it because f you give me an animal suffering, I cry nonstop. Thanks! I hope you're having a lovely day!♥️

Hi Bestieeeeeeee :D :D :D

AHHHH thank you so much! I'm LOVING the smut that isn't smut with them, honestly!! It's so fun to write and to think about ad the gradual build up feels very true to the characters. It's also been fun exploring a different kind of intimacy with this, the closeness they find through simple touch has been lovely as a writer. And YES EXACTLY, home isn't really a place for either of them now, they've both lost so much. The person is so much more than the place.

And YES FERAL TOMMY! I feel like he takes after his brother so much in that way. Hell, look at how he got picked up by the cops the night of the outbreak, defending a waitress from an infected person. I think he's someone who tends toward physicality and protectiveness and that's going to come through the most with his family, Bambi included. These two are going to continue to poke at each other like siblings throughout this fic because that's really what they're becoming. And not crazy, it's very comforting! Especially in that reality.

I will definitely put distinctive warnings for any and all violence, especially against animals as that's not really as canon-typical (and I'm sensitive to that, too!!) I always feel bad for animals in stories like this. They get all tied up in human's crap and it's not their fault when they end up collateral damage.

Thank you, as always, for reading and for reaching out! I love hearing your thoughts!! My day was long but not bad. I hope yours was good!!

Love you!!

#fanfic #joel miller x female reader #kit answers #send asks #yearling

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Chapters: 7/10 Fandom: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Todoroki Shouto Characters: Bakugou Katsuki, Todoroki Shouto Additional Tags: Bakugou Katsuki Swears A Lot, Todoroki Shouto Swears A Little, Angry Bakugou Katsuki, Protective Bakugou Katsuki, Bakugou Katsuki is Bad at Feelings, Bakugou Katsuki is So Done, Sassy Todoroki Shouto, Todoroki Shouto is a Dork, Todoroki Shouto Needs a Hug, Todoroki Shouto is Bad at Feelings, Todoroki Shouto Has A Stalker, Escalating Behavior, Todoroki Enji | Endeavor's Bad Parenting, Todoroki Enji | Endeavor Being An Asshole, Canon-Typical Violence, Dekusquad (My Hero Academia), Bakusquad (My Hero Academia), Bakusquad Adopts Todoroki Shouto, Only The Very Slowest Of Burns, Bakugou Katsuki Drops Precisely 754 F-Bombs Summary:

Todoroki Shouto has a stalker. Of that, he's fairly certain - years of illegal, excessive training have honed his instincts, after all. The signs are small at first, easy to ignore, but the stalker gets increasingly more invasive as time goes on. Except Todoroki has gone his entire life without asking for help, and he's never really learned how to.

Fortunately, someone else has noticed. Todoroki's not the only one with heightened instincts; even Bakugou Katsuki notices that something strange is going on. He tells himself it isn't his problem, yet he finds himself involved anyway. Which is good, because sometimes even the strongest heroes have things they can't handle alone.

Katsuki immediately opened his mouth to protest. "I'm not hiding sh... anything," Katsuki said, in as tame a growl as he could muster. "It's just not my place to talk about someone else's crap." "Not your place?" Aizawa said, his voice as close to a hiss as Katsuki had ever heard it—at least, aimed in his direction. "I think you're past that. Don't think I haven't noticed how close the two of you have gotten." "We're not close," Katsuki rebuffed instantly, reflexively. It was his teacher's turn to remain silent, raising a skeptical eyebrow in Katsuki's direction. And even as the words had instinctively left Katsuki's mouth, as easily as they would have so many weeks ago, he knew that they didn't necessarily ring as true as they once did. Something about this whole stalker shit show had made it so his denial almost felt like a lie, and Katsuki wasn't a damn liar. Something about the previously non-existent relationship between Katsuki and Todoroki had changed, something fundamental and nameless. Something Katsuki knew was important, but he couldn't quite place. He wasn't sure if he wanted to. Even top fucking heroes needed preparation before facing a villain, and Katsuki was not prepared to face this just yet.

#boku no hero academia #my hero academia #bnha #todobaku #tw: swearing #tw: mental health #tw: violence #fanfiction #fanfic #todoroki shouto #bakugou katsuki #fic: chasing ghosts

[e-adlirez]

I find it very funny how almost every one of Vi's near death experiences in the Special editions ends with Colette saving her lol

Power of friendship? More like power of gay love

HAHAH TRUE THO

They keep pushing Violette as a ship for some reason, but there's not much meat on the bone besides pictures of them standing next to each other and every cheesy-ass scene where Colette ends up saving Violet. At least with how Scholastic edits out micro-scenes of the girls being girls for the sake of fitting the book under a ridiculous page constraint, almost none of the Violette scenes that could've been present in the original Italian books are left in the English translations we read. I still stand by this, I feel like if you can't bring me food that isn't just the two sitting or standing right next to each other very closely, or looking at each other very closely, then I think you're compensating for something very hard.

I do know that there is some Violette moments in canon (the rivalry scenes in the early books do exist, after all), but most of it is just friendship prophecy bullcrap. Lookin' at you, Treasure of the Sea and Land of Flowers. If you want me to be convinced of their friendship saving each other (mostly Violet), then don't just do the MLP shnit of saying "oh it was the power of our friendship that saved you from getting sucked into Tartarus and losing yourself forever and falling 20 feet off a magical staircase". The way Cloud Castle did it was perfect: they simply had Violet save Pam from getting her dreams stolen, and when asked why she performed such a heroic sacrifice, Violet responded with "the eagle was going to attack you, I couldn't let that happen!"

Gets the point across, makes sense with their characters, the French translation of this scene is better than the monotonous crap Scholastic made of that scene just to say "YOU GET IT??? SHE-- SHE SAVED PAM BECAUSE SHE-- SHE SAW THE EAGLE WAS GONNA ATTACK HER, AND SHE COULDN'T LET THAT HAPPEN!" They grammar-corrected that scene for some reason? They grammar-corrected it, and the result was it made Violet's dialogue sound stiff and forced. Which kinda makes sense since in this moment she's prolly numb as hell but I digress--

Comparison time: the one on top is the English, and the bottom is the French

English: "Because the eagle was going to attack you, and I couldn't let that happen."

French: "Because that creature was attacking you! I couldn't let it do that."

Anyway off-topic ramble over. Scholastic translators and editors, please get good. We need this food, dammit, and you're depriving us of it already as it is. And on top of that, the little food you give us is crappy already :D Please get good

Annyyyywaaaayyyyy uhhh yeah same goes for Violette shippers. Please get good, if you want me to believe in your ship, then you're gonna have to give me more than just pictures of them standing happily next to each other, because it makes you look like you're grasping. Give me moments where they interact with each other in the text, illustrations of them hugging! I don't care, just please, give me something that isn't them just coincidentally happening to stand a few inches of each other! The Special Edition scenes are kinda good but also meh because they're friendship preaching, but eeeeeeeeehhhhhhhh actual substantial findings are very much appreciated.

Also I'm of the belief that Nicky saves Violet more and gets less narrative credit for such just saying-- /hj

#thea stilton #thea sisters #questions with e #it turned into a ramble but I have no regrets

[arttrampbelle]

Ok huge vent ahead.

Cw:vent

If you dont wanna read vents or hear me being pissed at NRS and some fans. Plz scroll. Plz ignore. Thank you.

Srry your fave being edenian,a lover of that particular part of mk lore. Really don't make you special. In fact it makes you look like a haughty asshole.

Look they are great. Dont get me wrong. But.....acting like they are the best,greatest shit since sliced bread is kinda irritating.

Especially recent iterations of that part of the lore. Urgh .

That was supposed to be a mysterious and not in the forefront of mk. The forefront being the tournament itself.

The realms are a minor background flavor.

And there is more realms than "eDeNia" a small part in outworld (which is huge and made up of other smaller realms btw) and earthrealm.

Plusno offence. Kitana isn't you special uwu princess. She is a warrior and heir to a kingdom first and foremost.

It isn't some dumb western biblical story. That pisses me off. Idgaf what nrs is feeding y'all.

To me i would rather take it more as eastern myths and legends n beliefs of heaven,the nine immortals,mythos,etc

Because im sick of y'all thinking eurocentric shit when it comes to asian cultures. Even fictional based ones.

Like idgaf if edenia isn't based on one group or is fictional. The fact y'all defult to Christian-europian type of religious imagery is disturbing.

Like if we dont get enough implications in canon that edenia was colonized.

Like srsly tho. I'm kinda sick of some peoples stupid hot takes on kitana. Like my girl is asian. Deal with it!!! Mileena is her cloned sister. Also asian.

Sindel? Asian. Shao kahn? Part Dragon AND ASIAN! Maybe Mongolian if you wanna be specific.

Hell even the shokan can be asian cultures based. They are part dragon. No not the "typical" western European dragon. (Sick of people thinking that thats the only kind)

Jade? A beautiful dark skinned Indian woman, WHICH IS ALSO ASIAN BTW!

Skarlet? She is half edenian,so part maybe part asian. Either way. I want edenia to be a hodgepodge of ALL asian cultures and based mythos. Because fuck you,we need more positive asian cultures representations thats why!

Nor is it palatable or likeable in a story. It's 3rd grade lvls of writing to a point where i find better shit on wattpad then in canon. some fans(not all) dont help the matter.

Like they could be done so much better. The characters within that part of mk could be done so much more justice. And make it less nauseatingly and eyerollingly typical.

I wont apologize for being pissed. Because it is a problem. And has always been a problem in mk. 30yrs and they continue to ignore it. Fans and game writers alike.

But like can't edenians be better? Like making them like elves or the "special people" isn't good writing nor is it likable.

It's boring and making them mary sues of mortal kombat isn't helping. Like nothing was corrupt before shao kahn? Bullshit. Yiy know damn well there was. They aint pretty perfect. So stop acting like they were or are. Its not realistic even for a FANTASY world! Like canon and fans alike do not write world buliding very well. I know,i know what you're gonna say. "But thats not the point of mortal kombat,its a fighting game" yes true. But it established lore and a story for years and then took a huge dump on it because $$$. And fans buy into it anyways because they dont actually wanna properly give a critique where it is needed. And if we are gonna actually call out the bullshit,and the bigotry,and the sexism. ACTUALLY CALL IT OUT WHERE IT IS. AND ACTUALLY ADDRESS THE ISSUES. you can still love mk,WHILE ALSO calling out the crap that the company nrs,boon,and the writers pull.

Look not all fans are like this. Most are great. But it grinds my gears when i meet or see a few that miss the fucking point of why 11's "interpretations" of the characters were so assbackwards. And why it pisses long time fans off

#vent #mortal kombat