finally, my raszageth visage design!

and some flat color / lineart for reference. :) really hoping we get an official design one day, but maybe this will satisfy me for now.

Some twst siblings

I wonder what some twst family members actually look like... These are just what I imagined some of them to be, so you could say it's oc(?) art.

And!! I'd really love to see the twst boys interact with their families more. I can almost see my brother and myself in Trappola siblings - Ace's brother must really have the typical-insufferable-elder-sibling energy, but I bet he loves his sib with all his heart. <333

*crawls out of a hole.* Hi guys.

my dream blunt rotation (but I'm the blunt) ✨️

one bi-coded pale af skinny tall guy who's a fashion icon 💅

one tan buff golden retriever who everyone thinks is gay 🐶

& one tall ass shy halfie with the voice of an angel 👼

besties, I got the flu now 😩

Happy New Years, and this is what happened to you in hunger games

💀

Damn.

Okay let’s close the tab I had open, STARLINE ANAYLSIS/RANT.

I honestly find it hilarious that there are people who actually wanted Starline to win in issue 50 (particularly the league of “professional” Flynn hate-readers,) because they clearly have no real understanding of his character OR his arc. They agree/follow along with everything he says because they don’t understand what it means.

Starline’s DEFINING CHARACTER TRAIT was, in fact, "I believe I know way more than I actually know.”

Everything Starline did, everything he claimed to have known from “diligently studying” the heroes and villains, was based on surface-level assumptions - Pontac and Graff-level assumptions. Surge and Kit’s personalities are twisted and ruined mockeries of Sonic and Tails’ from the outside, but as far as Starline knows or cares they’re exact 1:1 copies. His entire plot to take over the Eggman Empire was built on the assumption that Eggman ONLY knew how to use brute force, ONLY KNEW HOW TO FIGHT SONIC, and would be completely helpless against another “genius” or having his technology hacked. (And Starline assumed that doing this would immediately humble Eggman and cause him to forgive him for everything and finally offer to suck his dick.) Even his methods of controlling Surge and Kit had absolutely zero backup plan - he considered “constructing a bit of backstory,” but never went through with it because he didn’t consider it important enough.

Even DURING the Metal Virus, BEFORE Starline was supposedly “derailed,” he brought in the Deadly Six under the ASSUMPTION that him simply HAVING the Cacophonic Conch would render them his loyal servants forever. The entire final arc of the saga, Eggman ultimately TRULY losing control of the virus and having to team up with the heroes, was SOLELY Starline’s fault, and he never acknowledged this, because he couldn’t possibly admit he was wrong about anything.

Even outside of Starline vs. Eggman, Surge and Kit were doomed to lose as well. In spite of being built to kill Sonic and Tails, they only knew how to fight robots and Badniks - they had NEVER fairly fought a living, breathing opponent before, especially someone with Sonic or Tails’ experience. Starline also clearly never expected Tails to know how tech like Kit’s backpack worked, going on how he only gave Kit surface-level tech knowledge and MASSIVELY prioritized his sidekick role. Bring up their fight with Metal Sonic? Not only is he still a robot, but he was thrashing Surge’s ass without Kit backing her up - they had to fry his system with a combo attack to beat him. Sonic and Tails were 1v1 fights against living creatures with more skill and knowledge than Metal. As much as we all wanted to see Sonic get a giant slap of “reality” to the face right away… looking at everything realistically, this wasn’t it.

Starline’s instantaneous mental breakdown when Eggman revealed the truth was his immediate reaction to, in layman’s terms, having his head pulled out from so deep in his ass it had popped back out of his own mouth before being slammed to earth from his space-elevator high-horse at terminal velocity. He had only become more delusional over the course of the arc as more and more of his plan succeeded - I’m pretty sure he was dreaming his entire life by the time he actually uttered the phrase “Starline Empire.” Most of the people treating his beliefs on Eggman and Sonic as gospel were already reading solely to insult the comic and its character portrayals. As far as they cared, the characters in IDW were already boiled down to the flat stereotypes Starline proudly declared them to be. But they weren’t. Starline was just fucked in the head.

The entire point of Eggman utterly obliterating him was to show what Starline’s entire plan, Starline’s entire character really looked like from the outside. Everything involving Starline up to that point, from comic stories to SOLICITATIONS, had been told from Starline’s own POV. His own twisted, deluded POV!

(Hence the hate-readers I’m flogging basically appointing him as their self-insert, and then complaining about him being “derailed” in Imposter Syndrome when the comic actually made it clear that he, and subsequently they, were wrong about everything.) 

And that was the one and only reason for the constant grating affirmation that EVERYTHING in his plans, before and during Operation Remaster, was ABSOLUTELY PERFECT and COULDN’T POSSIBLY FAIL. Because if you look at anything involving him from ANY perspective other than his own, ESPECIALLY from that of a veteran villain like Eggman… you see Swiss cheese.

He wasn’t above it all. He wasn’t a philosophical mastermind. He wasn’t a superior villain to Eggman. In the end, he was nothing more than a sociopathic, child-abusing yandere who believed he could walk into the Sonic series out of NOWHERE, take over the world with his SUPER COOL EDGELORD OCs, and make Eggman his trophy husband, when his only actual knowledge of the characters came from browsing Wikipedia for 20 minutes.

And that’s exactly what Ian Flynn intended for him to be.

He was a great villain, and we all loved to hate him, and still do. But in spite of the “Sonic Cycle” being a thing… Dr. Starline was WRONG.

The funniest thing John Flansburgh does is say "This is going to sound really 'OK Boomer' of me, but--" (says a Boomer thing)

So yknow how we all got those ideas where you just wanna spill them all out like a volcano, but then you cant since your indecisive. AND YEAH UH. I MAY HAVE SOME DIFFICULTIES CHOOSING WHICH THINGS TO FOCUS ON

I don't think I should but I'm gonna rant here. He's the one I feel the most comfortable with. And I've been crushing over him since school and the day we first talked it went for hours. He makes me feel as if I'm the most important person in his life. And I have this habit of sending notes and really long paragraphs instead of sending line by line and he stays there online, without switching between apps or people and listen to all the things I've to tell. He tells me that I'm cute and that he likes my voice. And then he ignores. He doesn't open texts for days let alone reply. But when he does it seems like he's being genuine and that he just doesn't talk much. He is understanding. We have a great bond. But sometimes, it feels like he's there for me just for the sake of being there and that he doesn't actually have any feelings for me. We are good in terms of relation but I don't know. Sometimes, it doesn't feel like anything real. He confuses me.

idc if it's unpopular I hate forgivness as a given in a character arc, esp when the abuser dies and they leave some shit note like "I wish things could have been different" because guess what, they could have been! you could have just not been an abuser, sought help, and been different, then things would be different

forgivness is often used in a guilt trip too like "she was your mother and she loved you!" when we have seen that this character clearly did not love her child but it's so imprinted in society that parents do love their children even when they get drunk and beat them and dying makes them angels ???

rereading the silmarillion and kind of don't understand how people derive any sort of sense of a second age "Canon" that must be religiously adhered to from this lol...

for one thing, tolkien repeatedly affirms that the works contained within the silmarlion are legendary works, that deliberately tell the stories in different ways, at different scales, or sometimes contradictory to each other - in the way that real myth and legend exist

(and that applies to the hobbit and lotr too! they're told from particular perspectives as historical/cultural works within the universe)

but secondly the events of the rings of power comprise a handful of pages between the silmarilion and the appendices.. there's barely a sketch of the events. like, it's clear that some very dramatic stuff happened but any adaptation of these events would have to wield some imagination...

which is exactly what tolkien wanted! he wanted a legendarium that had some filled in parts, and some sketched out parts that people could add to.

anyway long story stan rings of power

I wanna say something else on the topic of rude comments on AO3. I know a lot of people just choose not to respond to trolls. I also know it's probably a waste of my time to respond. But I have a sliver of hope in me that people genuinely don't know why what they're doing is fucked up. And I lean on that sliver and I reply, yes perhaps a bit snarkily or rude. But all the while telling them why what they did is wrong. That being said, I will not stop deleting comments. That noise doesn't belong on anyone's fic, not even mine.

I'm not a fast writer. I'm not a prolific writer or a popular writer or even a particularly GOOD writer. I'm aware that sometimes my verb tenses are bad or my characterization off. I have a lot of words I overuse or awkward wording patterns I can't leave behind. But I get a beta to fix what can be fixed, then publish it.

I'm not a good writer. I write because I have ideas that I would rather have written out than have live forever in my head. I write for fun. I write to see the representation I want to see, even if I write it badly.

I repeat. I am not a good writer. However I am a stubborn writer. I am a resilient writer. And I reply to the people who think it's okay to criticize fic writers because I can deal with it. Because I don't care. And because I know it hurts others. And I hope, desperately that they do so unaware of the effect they have. Because that means they might be willing to change.

There seems to be a bizarrely short logical jump from "unasked for criticism is okay" and "telling people to kill themselves is okay." I don't write particularly problematic ships. No judgement or shame, I just don't.

But every fic is problematic under a bad faith reading. If you don't like something, it's a very short leap to "problematic." It's like that one post said: coffee shop AU? Workplace harassment. Genderswap? Transphobic. Queer relationships? Fetishizing. And if all someone needs is not liking something in a fic to begin criticizing an author or accusing an afab queer person of misogyny and homophobia... Well. It's a short leap from that to telling someone to kill themselves, isn't it?

And I may seem strangely fixated on the "kill yourself" angle. But I remember just a few years ago. People were doxxed. Lists went around of blacklisted individuals, and blocking them was a way of virtue signaling. So was using that blacklist as a mailing list for telling people to kill themselves. People were in my friends' ask boxes telling them to commit suicide. My friends who were not always in the best mental space. Over fanfiction. Over problematic things in fanfic. When I insisted that perhaps it is inappropriate to leave such comments, several other people stopped talking to or blocked me simply for saying "telling someone to commit suicide is inappropriate" and being associated with blacklisted individuals.

Of course, escalation isn't necessary to make it harmful and inappropriate, on a lesser scale. What was it that one particularly dense person said? Something about my characterization. So what if my characterization was bad? Back button exists for a reason! Don't waste either of our time reading it! "Don't like, don't read," dldr -- there are whole acronyms about it! You would think the point has gotten across by now. I am a self proclaimed bad writer. You're right! I don't always get Bucky's characterization right. A cis white ex-military man has immensely different lived experience from me. Hell, I've never even handled a gun before. Sometimes that means what I think makes sense for his character... doesn't. But also consider: I didn't ask; therefore, it's inappropriate and not "concrit" as some people like to call it (which I also have opinions about).

Someone commented after I posted about people leaving rude comments that I was how was it phrased? "Crying on tumblr," I believe. I'm not asking you to specifically stop commenting on my fic, I'm asking you to stop entirely. I'm asking you to take a step back and consider the real life effects of sending anon-hate or leaving unnecessarily critical comments on people's works they are making available to you for free. And if you're still under the impression that you are in the right to leave these kinds of comments... This is not me crying on tumblr. Let's be perfectly clear: this is me calling you a bitch on tumblr.

I want to leave on record I am actually extremely petty and grudgy

People gotta stop putting angry, raging DNIs in their blog desc, then liking/rbing posts directly from blogs that are obviously on that DNI lmao.

And um, the number of minors I see doing this is really scary? These people have zero idea how to function on the internet. First: putting the onus on everyone else not to interact with them is super not okay and it doesn't work like that, it's gonna end in disaster.

But on top of that, interacting with people without even looking at their blogs to confirm if those people are on their DNI in the first place is just a big sign that DNIS are legit useless. Even the people who have DNIs will forgo those very DNIs if they're feelin lazy.

So if the person w the DNI can't even abide by it, how tf are other people supposed to??? And it's just mcfucking awkward. You tell people to 'stay the fuck out of your space', then go into their space intentionally anyways. They get excited to see a note or something but then when they see your blog, all they see is a 'foad' DNI or some other lovely message?? The heck is wrong with people.

Division 3 Are Absolutely the Bad Guys

Yep, another post of me being baffled by Legion’s writing choices from the end of season 2. 

Sydney literally falling down the rabbit hole (white rabbit and everything), being told by Farouk!Melanie that David is evil, is somehow supposed to be the truth? Sydney absolutely believes her, and for some reason we are supposed to believe her. Even though (while David has definitely been becoming increasingly withdrawn), we’ve seen nothing to suggest that David really is evil. Even the scene used to show Sydney David is now evil is taken out of context and is completely justifiable to the viewer. And in spite of the fact that Alice in Wonderland motifs are used exclusively for things that aren’t true (hallucinations, dream sequences, etc), Sydney’s actions based on this scene somehow aren’t the result of her being manipulated at all. 

(Yes. Yes they are).

(That is literally what the cinematic and literary techniques the show is using are saying is happening). 

(Noah Hawley you literally show her being brainwashed! You can’t say that this is all her choice, and the correct one!)

Then we have Ptonomy. The last time we see him in season 2, he still has his own separate consciousness and being fully on David’s side. Then the next time we see him in season 3, he is being used as the vessel for the Vermicelli. Kerry at one point asks Ptonomy if he remembers being their friend, which means we know they at least hope Ptonomy is still in there. And when we do finally see Ptonomy again, when he realises what they’ve done, he is horrified. 

And of course there’s Switch, who Cary forcibly abducts under the guise of ‘saving her’, in spite of her protests. She is then put in a vat, something which she wakes up from, again, severely traumatised. 

Yet the narrative only shows them as being in the right. Yes, you can try and argue that this is what they were going for, that just because characters are called the good guys doesn’t mean they are the good guys. But, as with all unreliable narrators, there are ways to convey this to the audience. Legion never even attempts these things, and we know, because David is getting Take That’s and Reason You Suck speeches left and right in season 3, so we know that his perception of events is no longer accurate. Even in the finale, when they’re finally helping David, they still say that their David is irredeemable (Kerry even suggests killing him as a baby, which...). Syd’s revelation is not that any of her actions have been wrong, but that David deserves a second chance at life like she had.  

At some point, it just becomes bad writing.