cowboy asmo but hes an infamous bandit coming to rob ur small towns bank and its the 1800s

KURURIN MIRROR CHANGE !

CURE PRINCESS !

what i find so funny about that ben shapiro clip is that there is a specific type of dudebro exactly like that that permeates this fandom. like their entire world view does not make a lick of sense as apparent by their takes on this series. they applaud the quality of being willing to use “necessary violence” in tywin & etc, and they seem to only understand the nuances of the use of necessary force when it is used for things it shouldn’t be used for (like sustaining a corrupt regime). they throw fits about dany navigating a situation where radical change is required in order to dismantle a system of slavery that perpetuates endless violence, and write a million thinkpieces about it and how it shows her madness or incompetence, but then they turn around and applaud this psuedo utilitarianism that they project onto other characters that are playing the game (especially ones with atrocious motives) because they want to live out some sort of hard and seasoned male leader competence fantasy. it is so fucking funny like:

use of “needed” force for subjugation = good

use of needed force for emancipation = bad

they would rather applaud a ruler that builds on violent subjugation than abolition & radical change. one is considered a clever and competent utilitarian, while the other too brutal, too far gone, and too idealistic

BYE I DIDN'T KNOW WHICH ONE TO SETTLE ON SO NOW YOU GET ALL FOUR AND DOODLES @smilesrobotlover

Me as I catch up on the latest chapters of for the nights and days of life writing essay length comments about how Tsantu should have gotten the death penalty actually and cancel culture isn't going far enough and how can he be an ambassador when if he was on Earth after this he wouldn't be allowed within 300 feet of schools.

@mochalottie I now have a bone to pick with u and I've gotten carried away. These are not the notes these are bonus notes of melatonin fueled incredulity.

Thinking abt the time travel fix it fic I have spinning around in my head. Unfortunately for it to work I have to kill off basically every single character of importance which is all well and good it just feels kind of brutal

Coming slowly to know his evil, or being catapulted into it ... was all the same. I wanted none of it finally. And, deserving nothing better, I closed up like a spider in the flame of a match. And even Armand who was my constant companion, and my only companion, existed at a great distance from me, beyond that veil which separated me from all living things, a veil which was a form of shroud. (IWTV, 1976)

Sonic the Hedgehog movies AU where the times Knuckles and Sonic respectively arrive on Earth are reversed. Five-year-old Knuckles, searching his village for useful supplies after realizing that nobody is coming back, discovers the distant planet Earth marked as important on a map of likely locations the Owl Tribe may have hidden the Master Emerald. With nothing left for him in his homeland, he takes his father’s bag of portal rings and steps through. He is taken in by the Wachowskis first. Four-year-old Sonic meanwhile grows up alone, travels the galaxy and initially appears as an antagonist.

Right now I can think of two main plot divergences beyond that. Firstly, complicated but interesting: Knuckles doesn’t stay hidden, as he’s trying to find the Master Emerald and also with his code can’t resist rushing in to help when sees Tom in need, so he gets unofficially adopted practically right off the bat. He then grows up the best kept secret of Green Hills. His parents adore him, but he’s still kinda an outcast from the rest of human society, because he’s just so different and potentially dangerous - he struggles to take the necessary care with his strength and suffers from the same loss of control of his Chaos energy when deeply upset that canon Sonic used to. The townspeople see that he’s a good kid and they can’t speak ill of their upstanding sheriff and vet, but they don’t exactly trust Knuckles either. Not feeling like he’ll ever fully belong, afraid of causing more damage and not having processed his grief for his birth father and people and everything he knew before nearly enough, he develops strong tendencies to isolate himself and bottle things up in shame. And, oh yes, he still hasn’t completed his mission to retrieve and protect the incredibly powerful most sacred object to his lost culture. He fears that at this rate he never will. He feels very guilty about all of this.

Repairing his strained relationships with Tom and Maddie is a key part of his arc in the first movie, alongside learning to accept, forgive, trust and be kinder to himself. He ultimately decides that the Master Emerald is evidently safe enough for now and his mission can wait until he’s older and wiser. His current focus shall instead be being a normal teenager who Has Fun and Likes Himself.

Secondly, Sonic’s antivillain personality would not be a dutiful, honourable warrior genuinely believing he’s in the right. No. How does his literal theme song go again? “Long as the voice inside drives me to run and fight/It doesn’t matter who is wrong and who is right”. This Sonic, pre-second movie, is a cynical, untethered pragmatist who cares only about his own survival, benefit and freedom; a notorious thief and swindler sly and swift enough to get away with anything. They call him the Blue Devil. Where Knuckles had an excessive sense of responsibility, Sonic has all but suppressed his. The only person who mattered was Longclaw and she’s gone. What’s the point of getting attached to other people? They’ll all leave too. But that won’t need to hurt him - he won’t hurt them - if he follows his mother’s advice and never stops running. Yes, deep down he blames himself for Longclaw’s death. He has better social skills than Knuckles, but not his principles. Is Robotnik mean and shady? Absolutely. Is that Sonic’s problem, when he’s confident that he can either stay on the doctor’s good side or outrun his bad one? Nope! Getting to kick an echidna in the nuts with super speed is a nice bonus.

But beneath that arrogant, apathetic facade he does have a conscience. His character development starts with it slowly dawning on him how much worse than him Robotnik and big of a deal the Master Emerald are and he begins to take the stakes seriously. If Robotnik wins, innocent people will die. This entire (admittedly very beautiful) planet could be in danger. None of his crimes have risked going this far before. Does he really want to be an accessory to the rise of an actual tyrant and supervillain who wants to murder a teenager? So he begins to hesitate about aiding Robotnik. Next Knuckles notices that they’re about the same age and empathizes with him, knowing from the previous film what it’s like to be a traumatized, terrified, self-loathing fifteen-year-old in over your head; that they lost everything on the same day just draws more attention to their similarities. Tails curtails that conversation, but it remains the first taste of empathy and connection Sonic’s had since he was four. That’s pretty enticing. He saves Knuckles’s life to not be in his debt (ostensibly at least), and the rest is history.

Knuckles’s arc in the second movie is learning what it really means to be a hero and leader, after idealizing the concepts - and his parents, who are his heroes - his whole life. He’s internalized that he’s a kid and is allowed to make mistakes, but can’t reconcile that with now being responsible for an innocent and younger friend, Tails, and having to complete his Heroic Quest for the Chaos Emerald much sooner than anticipated. Surely a Hero has to be perfect and a leader has always know what to do. His birth father seemed that way, after all. When his moment comes, he can’t afford to fail. Learning that his beloved dad, and generally the echidnas, were responsible for Longclaw’s death and Sonic’s trauma shatters that idea. He eventually resolves that he can be a hero and his imperfect self simultaneously and his team are his equals and able to cover his weaknesses.

Also, Knuckles still speaks the same while Sonic absorbs modern slang and speech patterns like a sponge. This is crucial. When Knuckles calls his parents Mum and Dad at the end of the first movie instead of Mother and Father, it’s a huge affirmation of intimacy.

Now I just need a name for this AU. Any ideas?

love it when my sister acts exasperated when i repsond to her after she lashes out at me for no good reason.....ok! yes! surely i am the problem here!

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Me watching tv shows in english audio + english subs: Wow look at that I'm so good at listening now I don't even need to look at- oh, I missed that world, well that's what the subs are for, haha!

Me watching the same thing but with spanish subs: That's... That's not what they said, wait- that's not- That's NOT WHAT THEY SAID WAIT IT'S NOT WHAT THEY'RE SAYING-

replaying rf3 through special is so fun cuz 1) i forgot how good raven/shara is. like??????? oh arms weak knees spaghetti. they talk about e/o a decent amount...... 2) sofia/karina/raven RAAAUUUUGGGYHHHHHHHHHHHH 3) i wont rb that one sofia/karina art again but i think about it ALL the time 4) i forgot sakuya and pia...?? grew up together???? shino calling them both her daugthers ;_; i need to get to their stories more cuz i rly do adore them and i lov sibling content,,,,,,,,,when ur sis is a mermaid who loves fishies so u have to sneak around to eat ur sashimi

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Anyway fuck timothy federle or whatever his name is because in MY head Gina went to L.A. to film her movie (bc that was a thing apparently?) and had to enroll in school for a bit which is how she reconnects in person with Nini. The two get closer because they both v much enjoy being friends & Nini is a stable rock for Gina to lean on and vice versa. They drive to go see Kourtney at college every chance they get because duh. Nini helps Gina rehearse for her movie and Gina helps Nini with her songwriting and boom we get an exact S1 mirror plot except this time it’s Nini and Gina and we get one of the sweetest “enemies” to friends to lovers plots.

Smth abt the concept of marcia having been like 6000 times more visibly autistic before the whole. Supreme custodian/double assassination thing. Hm. <3

thinking about thor telling odin "the jotuns must learn to fear me just as they once feared you" while loki looks on silently again.

like. there is of course the surface level. loki has *just* discovered that he's jotun, and that he might have very real reason to fear thor. fucked up thing to hear then.

but also... this is about thor taking over as king, and this film is always blurring the line between king and patriarch and drawing parallels between the structure of the kingdom/empire and the family.

thor already outranks loki, but becoming king will give him the level of power over loki that their father has always had. and, whatever thor says, odin is perfectly happy to keep both his subjects and his family in line through fear. and thor has already both been very sharp/dismissive with loki multiple times, including explicitly pulling rank, and outright threatened him once.

this line might as well be thor declaring that he intends to be just as abusive as odin (if not worse) the moment he has the chance.

(not saying thor himself really *means* this line this way - he doesn't even know loki has non-petty problems with his leadership yet! also not saying thor is intentionally cruel or malicious - i see him as, like, trying to be noble in a deeply misguided big-picture kind of way. [although that is also odin behaviour.] but... still. the underlying logic. the Ideology. is there.)