Now I'm just thinking about mecha who have been through several frame alterations having kids who end up having traits that surprise everyone who isn't in on the in.
Like a Dratchet kid being born with yellow optics or a TFP MegaSound kid having Megatronus red highlights (which causes questions because everyone's giving Optimus funny looks because well red and blue kid and they're staring at the other red and blue mech on the planet "... Are you sure you didn't fuck Megatron" "I am very sure""what about when you had amnesia""The math for the sparkling is not conducive for that") or IDW Shockers having a kid through idk means yet and they looks like they went through a character creator randomizer or Tarn's kid popping out bright fucking orange and confusing the shit out of Nickel.
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Here's the fanart I drew for lassify's silly and wonderful fanfiction: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45282448/chapters/113923030
A "The Princess and the frog" damianya Au but like. Reversed. It's great
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I'm sorry, but I'm in the process of making a oneshot and this line has me cracking up every time I go back to read it.
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My favorite genre of Black Butler meme is Sebastian saying something modern to Ciel and him not having too much of a reaction to it.
Sebastian: This is just like that one time in Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
Ciel: What’s that?
Sebastian: A video game, my lord.
Ciel: oh, okay.
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Now you guys can say that you know this crazy silly Croatian girl named Blue on tumblr and that she taught yall how to curse in Croatian
Yall are gonna be the coolest kids in your place 😎
Hit them with "puši mi kurac pičko" and tell them it means "I love you" 😇
The more you know guys ✨️
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i feel like i've had the "kids can handle dark topics in stories" conversation on three separate occasions in the past month, what's up with that??? my impression of children's/young teen literature is that it's always been SURPRISINGLY DARK and that it FUCKING SLAPS.
like yeah, my trump card is that i can answer almost every "but what about [HEAVY TOPIC]" with "Animorphs did that actually," which makes animorphs sound super edgy, but the thing is... it didn't feel edgy? it felt like a substantial adventure with drama, tension, goofs, stakes, and a vibrant cast of characters. it was one of the first book series i ever read, so there was nothing that tipped me off that This Series Is So Dark And Gruesome - and i think it's because it wasn't, comparatively. one of my other early reads was Deltora Quest, and like, what school library didn't have Goosebumps? i never got my hands on warrior cats, but like, that series is just one installation in a WHOLE GENRE - the silverwing trilogy, wings of fire, guardians of ga'hoole... groups of animals dealing with war and exile and battle and grief and ridiculously tragic backstories and whatever was going on in these series, ripe for self-insert characters and scenarios for play pretend during lunch break. even the HTTYD books, which are completely different from the movies - they look childish, especially with the illustrated charcoal drawings - hiccup gets captured as a slave at some point, and there's a dragon rebellion that seeks to eradicate all of humanity. it has a lot of goofy moments and some incredibly over-the-top villains, but it doesn't flinch from how gruesome it gets, either.
i think kids genuinely love this stuff!!! not all kids, sure, but i definitely did!!! like!!! have you SEEN the edgy OCs kids and teens will make? the finely crafted horrific backstories? you know how small kids have traditionally played with barbies, right, with beheadings and torture and shakespearean plots? how a lot of kids and teens sought out creepypastas???
i absolutely think it's much easier for BOOKS to go into dark topics than visual media, and i think that's why a lot of people don't realize how much is happening below the surface. we live in a post gravity falls world now, so cartoons for teens are finally allowed to be a little more twisted and "wow i can't believe they went there," but ALSO... from what i can remember from being a Child, the most scarring and horrifying moments in stories for kids were not the existential concept of "oh no you're ten years old and bad guys want to kill you!" but stuff like, the groke from the moomins cartoon, old puppet shows, moments that were viscerally horrifying without being gory in any way...
maybe you don't understand all the Complexities of Heavy Topics when you're nine. but some things will stick with you, and as you grow older and gain more context and knowledge about the world around you, i think those moments can become very valuable. i haven't read animorphs for almost two decades and so much of it has stayed with me. maybe i saw princess mononoke a bit earlier than i "should have," but to this day it's still one of my favourite movies of all time, and my understanding of it grows every time i rewatch it. i don't think it's possible for every story to handle every topic perfectly or even well, but it might still be worthwhile to have engaged with it. i mean, that's the Discourse, isn't it, stories tell you stuff and we can't control what other people take from it.
anyway yeah kids crave blood and carnage and we should give it to them sometimes
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