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localratman · 20 days

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that moment when you finally get free of a months-long derealization episode and realize that everything around you is real and strange and beautiful and its own in some odd way and that everyone you pass, every scraggly, black, bird you see, every structure natural or not, exists and is beautiful in its existence. small nothings are everything. the world is beautiful. awful, yes, but so wonderful at the same time. kiss a dog on the tip of their nose right where their fur is the softest, coo at a bird as you pass by, wave at a stranger, cry over that damn two-headed calf poem every time it crosses your mind and then cry again for a different reason at the hilarious show you just watched.

live.

#i just snapped out of an episode and now am feeling Poetic #i cried over laika the space dog today #anyway #life is strange #but also #life is beautiful #experience for all the things that haven't been able to experience in the world

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localratman · 20 days

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have i told the world how much i love benji dunn? cuz i love him. you may as well make me do cardio and call me ethan with how in love with benji dunn i am. you go you funky little british man.

anyway, benji dunn appreciation post goes hard.

#im rewatching rogue nation rn #i love these two #but mainly benji #omfg i love benji dunn #only acceptable british person fr #benji dunn #ethan hunt #benthan #mission impossible

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localratman · 27 days

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i had more ideas

iroh has a tea shop in the village close by. it took a few years before he was comfortable enough to leave zuko to the lighthouse on his own

toph runs away instead of competing in earth rumble

cue zuko and toph sibling dynamic

toph showing up is also the thing that made iroh comfortable leaving zuko alone cuz he technically wasn't alone anymore and now had a surprisingly powerful guard dog/bully/younger sister to make sure he doesn't die

everyone in the village knows zuko is zuko despite his insistence that his name is li (or lee. idk. whats the canon spelling?)

they just couldn't care less

fire nation civilians love zuko cuz rumors of how he got banished spread like wildfire (pun intended) and i love when zuko has the support of the majority of his people

zuko can cook.

toph is not allowed in the kitchen, but goes in there anyway and encourages Bad Ideas ("if this takes 10 minutes at 350 it should take 1 minute at 3500" "ive never tried, but i can probably do that")

because of this zuko has almost been banned from the kitchen as well

zukka lighthouse!au

atla au where zuko was banished to a lighthouse at the edge of the earth kingdom (aka: far away from everyone aside from a small earth kingdom village) instead and one day sokka ends up washing up on his shores.

sokka might also be a selkie cuz im a sucker for selkies.

slow burn, lots of pining, awkward turtle-duck zuko, etc.

i have the brainworms rn, so im gonna be thinking abt this for a while lmao

#toph beifong #zuko #zukka fanfic #atla #avatar the last airbender #lighthouse au #au

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localratman · 1 month

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zukka lighthouse!au

atla au where zuko was banished to a lighthouse at the edge of the earth kingdom (aka: far away from everyone aside from a small earth kingdom village) instead and one day sokka ends up washing up on his shores.

sokka might also be a selkie cuz im a sucker for selkies.

slow burn, lots of pining, awkward turtle-duck zuko, etc.

i have the brainworms rn, so im gonna be thinking abt this for a while lmao

#zukka #zukka fanfic #well #a fanfic idea #atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #sokka #lighthouse au #selkie x lighthouse keeper #i have no ideas how lighthouses actually work but the *vibes* are immaculate #and im willing to research

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localratman · 2 months

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i redesigned the lightfury

did this movie come out *checks notes* 4 years ago? (also, 4 years???? wtf???)

yes

did i still make an (admittedly shitty) doodle of a lightfury redesign anyway?

also yes.

i heard somewhere that the lightfury was intended to be an underwater dragon, and regardless of if its true or not i decided to fuckin run with it. specifically the idea of the lightfury being a deep sea dragon.

extra things about my lightfury redesign:

super sharp teeth, like those wicked teeth that a lot of underwater fish have

<- like this bad boy, but even more

most of the more sharp/long teeth are retractable, but it always has at least one row of shark-like teeth

✨glowy dragon✨

glows to attract prey, as a mating behavior, and as a way to ward off threats

can create glowy patterns with their scales, which is how they differentiate between hunting glowing, mating glowing, and danger glowing

lots of frills and fins, some retractable, some not

not naturally wary of humans due to the lack of natural predators and almost no contact with humans

not great at flying above water due to fairly weak body, but incredible at swimming and one of the most dangerous water dragons

<- a handful of references i found on pinterest.

#httyd #httyd fanart #httyd dragons #light fury #light fury redesign

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localratman · 2 months

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mary shelly really just made a book about the consequences of mpreg and i think thats very sexy of her

#frankenstein #idk how but im back on my classic books bullshit #also can we talk about the heavy queercoding in literally every single victorian-era classic?#especially when its horror #like damn #these bitches gay #and incredibly surpressed #shitpost #i havent actually read frankenstein (but i want to)#but i HAVE read several fanfictions by now and watched overly sarcastic productions video on it #so obviously im an expert /j

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localratman · 2 months

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skybound Thoughts

sooo uh, im thinking about doing a rewrite of ninjago skybound.

im currently rewatching it because of this, and in case i never get around to actually writing anything, im gonna word-vomit onto this hellsite (affectionate) cuz im having Thoughts.

quick tangent though, skybound seems very similar to danny phantom (at least in how the fandom treats it) in the sense that, when you actually watch it, it's pretty tame and honestly kinda shit. but then you dig deeper. and you see the Implications and Possibilities, and suddenly it has you by the throat with all the ways this could have gone if it wasn't a kids show.

like, in skybound you get genuine torture and creepy implications on nadakhan's part (seriously, get away from jay and nya you fucking creep), and while it's never really explored since, y'know, kids show, it makes nadakhan one of the best and most terrifying villains i personally have watched in ninjago.

anyway, here are a couple of things i've been toying with in terms of a possible rewrite:

one thing im thinking about taking from various other fics i've seen (i think its mainly shown in bending but never breaking, which is an absolutely amazing fic and you should go read it but MIND THE TAGS AND TRIGGER WARNINGS PLEASE) is jay learning to use the electricity in his body, though obviously not painlessly

bonus points for his elemental power getting royally fucked up once/if the vengestone is removed, but in the sense of suddenly he is completely overwhelmed and his power is so much stronger and its a danger to both himself and others

queerplatonic jaya: i think in this season especially, nya felt very aroace coded (i might just be projecting as i myself am aroace, but that's the vibe i got) and so for a skybound rewrite nya and jay would have a serious conversation about how nya doesn't feel that way for anyone, even if she *does* really like jay

just general angst and torture

id rewrite jays obsession with nya, specifically his first wish (if i dont just jump right into him being on misfortunes keep)

i think id like to do something more with delara than just her being some dead girlfriend. i.e.: i'd make her fucking unhinged and the kind of person that would fall in love with and support nadakhan.

i really liked @cotidianoseeder's idea for canary!jay, so possibly something in that direction

i also really like it when people keep serpentine aspects in jays character, so some of that as well

fuck it, make him inhuman, y'know?

i'd age everyone up i think (i dunno how old they are in skybound, but a 17 minimum would be in my rewrite)

OH! i'd put bruiseshipping as a romantic relationship cuz i love them

nya would make the final wish, since a big part of her character would be forging her own story and taking control of her own life

zanes falcon would survive cuz i love that fucking bird

echo would be taken off the island post-rewind

what do y'all think??? i keep having more ideas, i might post them

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localratman · 2 months

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weirdly specific trope i love is when a doctor or doctor-adjacent character with a ✨dark past✨ and ✨trauma✨ and who ✨believes themselves to be incapable of love✨ falls in love, usually with the sunshine character, and instead of thinking they are in love their first thought is that they have an illness, developed a "sudden and intense allergy" to the person they love, or were poisoned.

#yes this is about vanoe #and yes i am reading a vanoe fic where this happens #“oh no what is this feeling in my chest?”#*looks at sunshine character*#*grabs them by the neck*#“YOU DID THIS YOU FUCKER”#it hits every time #vanoe #vanitas #noe archiviste #vanitas no carte #the case study of vanitas

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localratman · 2 months

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wait now i want a fic of this

Guys but what if Vanitas and Noé did meet when they were kids? People have brought up the possibility that Noe’s kidnappers were part of the travelling circus Vanitas grew up in. I know it’s said Noé was taken to the vampire world. But to be fair, Louis makes that assumption and Noé kinda just nods ahead. So I’m taking that with a grain of salt and narrator Noé ain’t telling or confirming shit.

But you know why I’m starting to believe this?

Remember how Vanitas acted towards Noé in chapter/episode 1. We know Noé is the one who insisted on staying with Vanitas till the end. But we need to remember Vanitas asked Noé to join him first. Why would Vanitas ask him that???

Vanitas the lone wolf, Vanitas “I hate everyone equally”, Vanitas “it’s my way or the highway”?? He hired Dante and while I think their relationship is more complicated. In Gevaudan he was fully ready to cut him off until Johann went sicko mode. It’s not that Vanitas is recruiting vampires for his cause. We never see him ask any other vampire to join him.

And Vanitas, while it’s hard to tell how much was façade, he was getting all close and sort of flirtatious with Noé. Until he found out he’s an Archiviste and was forced to keep some distance. The “are you interested in kisses” line was right after they fought Jeanne. I don’t think he knew yet. And there’s little moments where he is genuinely glad of Noe’s company. It’s starts to be contradictory when he starts refusing Noe’s help bc he wants to protect him.

But he wanted to be around Noé.

And when the Archiviste thing is revealed, obviously we know from his promise and self-hypnosis pact we can’t have Noé sucking his blood. But his reaction to this news felt less like fear and more so disappointment. As if this revelation ruined something. So I’m starting to think Noé doesn’t remember Vanitas at all. But Vanitas remembers meeting a face like Noé, let’s assume 10 years ago. He didn’t know his name or that he’s an Archiviste. Maybe they had a heart to heart moment, before they could exchange names Noe disappeared. And maybe that was the same night his father was killed. Even for Vanitas standards, him asking Noé to lend his strength from day 1 makes no sense otherwise. There’s some connection there has to be.

#vanitas no carte #the case study of vanitas #vanoe #vnc #noe archiviste #vnc manga #theories

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localratman · 3 months

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i already had more Thoughts

jay's moral compass afterward is fucked. like, full-on, he would punch a child and kill a guy if he felt threatened. he carries weapons on him because he didn't have his elemental powers for so long and he still doesn't always remember he has them

he's still a good guy fundamentally, but the moment his (or anyone else's) survival is put into question he goes completely fucking feral

he has tons of thoughts after the fact of nadakhan, including some fucked stockholm-syndrome esque ones that he tears himself up over afterwards because nadakhan hurt him and his friends, why does he kind of miss him????