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spoonicksmaximus · 1 year

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Big the Cat Isn’t Real in Frontiers

In regards to Sonic Frontiers, something has been eating away at me since I completed the game, and I couldn’t find anyone else talking about it, so here I go! I understand that there have been comics released surrounding Sonic Frontiers, but I have yet to look into them, my analysis here is from the game itself, the animated prologue, and technically the Twitter Takeover, though they don’t mention Big at all from there. Sonic Frontiers Spoilers.

I legitimately believe that the Big the Cat that appears in Frontiers is not real. When Sonic first meets Big, he’s already in cyber space. Upon this encounter, I thought his random appearance was a reference to Adventure 2, in which he’d randomly appear in strange areas. Still, Knuckles, Amy, Tails and Eggman are all trapped in cyber space throughout the game, so surely Big must also be trapped as well, correct?

Sonic: “Big!? What are you doing here? HOW did you get here? What even IS here?” Big: “I dunno. I was looking for fishing spots and wound up here.”

Seems like a simple enough explanation at first. In character, at least. On top of that, much like everyone else (excluding Eggman), he has his own “memory tokens,” which in this case translated to Purple Coins, solidifying he was definitely, probably, trapped in cyber space.

Yet, by the end of the game, I couldn’t help but notice that Big was not with the cast of characters leaving the island.

In fact, we never saw him get sucked into cyber space in the first place. There’s proof that everyone else was seen in the PROCESS of being trapped, except for Big. Eggman went into a forest, did a thing and it immediately backfired before the game had a chance to begin, Tails, Amy and Sonic were all on the Tornado when they got trapped, and Knuckles got his own animated prologue justifying his reason for being here.

Big, on the other hand, did not. All we get is a line of dialogue claiming he did.

It also became known to us that cyber space is a collection of data pulled from the users’ memories.

Sonic: “Yo, so did Cyber Space actually interact with my brain?” Sage: “It was designed to catalogue neural networks, among other things, so yes.” Sonic: “Alright, hear me out: do you think all those locations I visited were pulled from my memories?” Sage: “That is plausible. It imported the data of your memories and applied it to your surroundings so you could comprehend them.” Granted, Sage is technically speaking hypothetically herself, but knowing how Sonic lore works, we have to take this as canon information. Taking this at face value, we have to assume the cyber space we visit as Sonic is pulled from his brain.

Which is why it’s strange that at the end of the game, or DURING the game, Big is never technically mentioned outside of his fishing spaces. It would also explain why things like ring boxes

or springs

appear in the virtual lake at all. These are from Sonic’s memories!

You could also argue that being the reason why some of the things you catch look... well...

... strange, to say the least. (Sega’s turning the frogs gay, huh?)

If this is still all in Sonic’s perception, it’d also make sense as to why the blue-ringed octopus or the anglerfish look radically bigger than their real-world counterparts.

Could it just be that Sega didn’t do their aquatic homework? Like they didn’t do their basic research on hedgehogs or on geology/astronomy? I refuse to believe that completely preposterous outlook. Sonic saw a picture of an anglerfish and an octopus, and just like ME at AGE 5, assumed they must be the roughly the size of a bear. (Side note, I’m aware that some anglerfish can grow up to 3 feet, and Sonic’s 3 feet, but this is still an absurd size comparison).

That said, there are still things like the Hermit scrolls that occasionally show up, and Big literally sells you Eggman’s diary memos. One could argue, those things literally couldn’t be in Sonic’s memories. However, cyber space is a communal space. Apparently you can find out information from just about anyone in there.

Tails: “While you were online it opened up a flood of data. It was way too much to process, but I did get a glimpse of the Ancients’ personal data.”

Based on this evidence, we can turn to Big, and question his role in Frontiers. He’s a merchant, he’s kind of a punchline, and he provides a break from typical gameplay (also a way to skip obnoxious memory token grinding sessions).

There’s... no reason for him to NOT leave cyber space. His presence in each fishing spot doesn’t suggest he is benefitting from his stay, nor is it assumed that he enjoys his time there. So why doesn’t he leave with them? Big simply tells Sonic that he was looking for fishing spots and ended up in cyber space. However, cyber space recreates itself for Sonic so that he could comprehend it. The Big we spend time with is very likely to be Sonic’s idea of Big, his memory of Big, or cyber space’s excuse to grant Sonic data. It could even be The End/spooky sky voice’s way of forcing Sonic to progress, disguising itself as Big, however my only evidence for that claim is during Sonic’s corruption, Big is not seen anywhere trying to assist Sonic. Even Eggman was there, not helping, but present.

Other than that, that theory is a stretch, even by my standards.

In any case, it was odd to me that Big was totally ignored throughout the game. He’s by no means the most popular character, but if we are to assume it IS the real Big, why would they leave him in cyber space? Why wouldn’t Sonic attempt to free him as well, or at the very least talk about him with other characters?

It may seem like Big is just a wacky character, who just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time as usual. But if that was all there is to it, why is this such a... Big... Mystery? Thank you for reading out my entire existential crisis. Please have a wonderful rest of your day. Play Frontiers, it’s fun.

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himbo-in-limbo · 10 months

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Has any Yautja come to love a human?

Canonically speaking? Uh....it hasn't outright happened like we haven't gotten a straight up love confession or anything of a yautja and a human hooking up...(yet)

First off I want to state what IS canon about how yautjas view humans in general.

A majority think of us as cattle, and most likely VERY appalling.

They have stated that we are "soft meat" and compared to the tanks that they naturally are? Yeah we are :')

It's important to them to breed with the STRONGEST And most oomans will find it hard to impress a yautja without being in a near death situation 💀 and somehow survive said encounter

Also the fact that I think it's impossible to even crossbreed with a yautja so....

1 not being nearly as physically capable as them and 2 not being able to ensure a bloodline with them (that would be accepted in yautja society) ???

Again the odds of hooking up with a yautja are SLIM I'm talking 🤏 but in HALF

But of course we all knew that.

I guess the prime example of a yautja and a human even having CHEMISTRY was very much in Alien Vs Predator (2004)

I don't wanna go into too much detail since I recall their being a post about them somewhere on Tumblr

BUT the way they simply interacted with each other was just!!! Sus!!!

Sadly this movies script was cut VERY short due to the filming deadline the crew had and what we lost was some very cute Scar and Lex interactions!

Again I'm sure you can find an article about what the interactions were (bc I can't remember) but I remember them being a tad bit more intimate!

Even just the way they were staring at each other in this scene like yeah! Lex had proven herself to be a great warrior! But come on!

She earned his respect and he gave her an honorary marking! (If that ain't romantic idk what is)

But yeah again Scar being actively in love with Lex has never been stated as being canon I think? (God I hope I'm wrong)

They weren't even the first to have such a chemistry! The OG ship is of Machiko Nagochi and Broken Tusk!

Another instance of a human female proving herself to be a great warrior and a yautja marking her because she has earned his respect!

If you haven't read the original alien vs predator comics I highly recommend them!

I don't want to spoil anything regarding that epic story 🥺♥️

But yes that is all that I have on this topic

Everything else is just more speculation and fan canons!

I do love that Yautjas are simply just a natural threat to humans and id prefer them to stay that way!

I love that a majority of them would simply ignore humans and have little care for them unless proven otherwise! It makes earning the respect of one a big deal!

#limbo writes #limbo rants #yautja #anonymous asks #blog ask #blog stuff

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altraviolet · 5 months

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I missed the anon ask but this has been in the back of my head for a while and one of the other asks made me think about it even more again.

So like, early in it got mentioned that the Lost alight crew never runs into themselves. I think it was that every universe they go to, the counterparts of the mechs on board are either already dead (like Tailgate Prime) or never existed (like how Minimus Magnus wouldn’t exist in SW’s universe).

Is this foreshadowing that they won’t be able to go back to 0001 with our Soundwave on board? Unless I missed something it’s never implied 0001 Soundwave died, and the idea of going back on purpose only recently became a possibility. Are we gonna get Rodimus + Soundwave’s Sorta Friends defending his right to stay with them over going home for what the crew needs? Because I’ll cry if we are.

Nice question :D Have you read the IDW comics the fic is taking place after? I ask because the answer lies in the logic/rules of the comics, which this fic is using, as well.

0001 Soundwave died in the comics. It was mentioned in the very first chapter- TFP SW realizes LL Megatron lost his Soundwave and this is what prompts him to board the LL:

Soundwave could not conceive of a situation wherein Megatron would ally himself with the Autobots. Unless... unless he was lying in wait. That Megatron had lost his Soundwave. And had been surrounded by Autobots. He must be biding his time, pretending to be an Autobot, until his true allies returned to him. Soundwave was suddenly a lot more interested in the Lost Light.

So TFP SW could indeed go to 0001.

Funfact- I initially misread your question and typed up the next 3 paragraphs, but I'll leave them in, in case it helps answer other questions, too:

The LL crew we're following is a duplicate of the 0001 crew. In the comics this is explicitly stated (meaning it's not a secret, it's obvious), with the natural conclusion being that none of the LL mechs we're following could ever return to 0001, unless their original counterparts there have died. So, for example, TFP Soundwave could return to his own dimension because he's not a duplicate. But Megatron can't go back to 0001 unless the Megatron there is dead (which the comics left somewhat ambiguous in my opinion, but JRO has stated that Megatron was put to death for his crimes, in which case, the laws of the fic won't forbid Megatron from returning).

This (the bolded stuff above) is something that is really important readers know, actually, and I realized a few weeks ago that most of them probably won't know as they haven't read the comics. The ending of the fic isn't going to hit as hard for them. As we get closer to the ending, I'm gonna put in author's notes that people should read the comics if they can. They're out of print but There Are Ways To Find Them. The comics are regrettably inaccessible to blind/visually impaired readers, but everyone else should really give it a try.

I hinted once at the duplicate thing, but didn't elaborate on it, as I assumed readers understood. I'm not really inclined to go through a huge explanation in-story, but a future scene will hopefully clarify things enough that everyone will be able to follow what's going on.

I'll refrain from saying anything else at this point, as I don't want to spoil anything :)

#goudabrie #ask #echo garden related

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bonesandthebees · 2 months

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I AM OFFICIALLY BACK IN THE LAND OF PST!!!!!! WOOOO

Pretty plane photo for ya :D my flight was delayed 2 hrs crying inside it's so late but we BALLL I'm just so glad I booked tomorrow off of work lmfaooo

I also managed to sleep a bit on the plane so I think that'll help, the last two hours I just binged a podfic tho it was so good omgggg

I've been dipping my toe back into the batfam fandom, I never read fics for it but I was in the fandom via tumblr memes and also I'm just a big comics nerd in general lmfaooo but yeah I literally preloaded 30 batfam fics for the flight today 😭😭😭 in a brief moment of intense hyperfixation and actually started one!! And holy shit it's amazing I haven't been this excited for a brand new fic in a little while it's been nice, also I'm so proud of myself for venturing into diff fandoms bc prev to this year I hadn't read anything non dsmp since 2020 lmfaooooooooo, but this year I've started reading other fandoms and it's been great:D

Anyways dawg nyc spoiled me I got off my flight and expected an Uber right away but there was an ungodly amount of ppl waiting so now I'm just waiting for my grandfather to pick me up shfkfkdkdkk slightly worried bc he . Doesn't have a phone so I'm praying we coordinated it properly but o777 we ball !!!

welcome back to the best time zone!!! so sorry about your flight delays I know just how hellish that can be. thank god you don't have work tomorrow though. I hope you get plenty of rest icy <33 and rip your uber plan, I hope your grandpa was able to pick you up and that you got home safe!! I get so stressed every time I'm the one being picked up from an airport I'm always just running around lugging my suitcase with me struggling to find whoever's car I'm looking for it's a mess

#ask #icyfox17

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spider-xan · 2 years

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Take this trivia from TV Tropes with a grain of salt, as I haven't been able to track down the interview, and I would guess it's in a printed edition of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen that never got transcribed online, but yeah - not only did Alan Moore completely throw Mina and Jonathan under a bus for his weird Victorian girlboss characterization and the fucking awful romance that ended up strangling the long run of the comics, but Mina and Irene were apparently interchangeable women in his mind, and he couldn't even remember Irene's name, despite her being one of the most famous characters in the Sherlock Holmes canon loooooool

EDIT: Found the interview, which is from 2001, and the description is accurate! However, it spoils the ending of Dracula, so don't read it if you don't want spoilers. Moore also calls Jonathan a 'milk sop' and refers to Dracula feeding on Mina to the point of leaving scars as 'erotic', if you want other highlights, ugh.

#dracula #dracula daily #i generally like his work #and early loeg can be interesting if you like #think of it as a satirical victorian superhero team comic #divorced from the source material #but yeah it gets really weird and awful

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businesstiger · 1 year

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What is the Melodrama plot?

OHOHOOOROWJQHQ WHERE DO I BEGIN. HOW DO I EXPLAIN THIS. UUMMMMMMUHHH. ITS?????? THERES A LOT. I can't explain EVERYTHING(half because I havent made it up yet LOL and half because I don't want to spoil what I HAVE made up for anyone who'd possibly be interested in maybe reading it in the future once it's in production, or if there's like someone completely new to M...! and doesn't know what it's about yet and doesn't want a massive info dump(if that's you, hi, I'm sorry)), I'm not too sure how in depth I should go into this but BASICALLY,,,, like the main synopsis is that uhhhbnjj...

Cadenza Manor is sort of a place where ghosts and angels live or just use it as a place to rest before moving on. There are people who are able to see and interact with these spirits(called mediums). Mediums aren't very common and are generally not known about, the previous owner of the manor was one of these people. After his passing the manor falls under new management, that being Carmen (the worst character and also our main protagonist). The first problem is that Carmen is not a medium, the second is that he brought a poltergeist with him(which in this universe if very different from a normal ghost, they are basically that but worse), and the third is that he's incredibly immature and not at all equipped to run such a place (he inherited the manor). At some point Simon(another medium but it's a bit more complicated than that) shows up and fixes like one and a half of these problems but not without things flipping upside down and getting worse. There are weird relationship/self-image/legal issues, a detective is after Carmen now, and there's some freaky body horror, and also angels that eat each other and the manor itself. Not directly because of Simon (at least not all of it) but it was bound to happen anyway.

I said I didn't want to info dump but AACKKK THERE IT IS. ITS SUCH A MESS AND I COULDNT CONSENSE IT ANY MORE. There's a LOT more to it, I've been working on worldbuilding a lot lately and a lot of things have changed and gotten better, I'm really liking where the story is going and I'm super excited to work on a full comic!!! There's also a lot that I haven't come up with which is why I'm working on a smaller project set within that universe, just to get an idea of what I'm in for

TL;DR: the series is about ghosts, angels, and some funny guys that live in a big ol house

#ANOTHER OLD ASK WHOOPS #i hope this is comprehensible #melodrama...!#asks

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altra · 8 months

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I see all this fantastic a glitch in time fanart and those amazing fanfics, and I have to try and not look too closely, cause I have not been able to read the comic yet.

Not for lack of trying. I pre-ordered it on Amazon months ago, but when it came out and the shipping day arrived, it told me they don't have it in stock anymore and they would send me an email when they have it again. :(

Im curious if anyone else has that problem of not getting their copy.

And I haven't been able to find the comic anywhere else that would ship soon. Which is a real bummer.

It's so hard to not spoil myself fully haaa

#Danny phantom #a glitch in time #i want my comic pls #Amazon you have betrayed me

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cruciatusforeplay · 3 years

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This is part two of a hella big post. Check out part one here. These are all a lot more recent, so I'm gonna try to be less spoilery, but there are gonna be some.

A not-so-brief history of Hawkeye in Comics Part Two (spoilers below the cut)

A note on events, dying and doubling down on Hawkeyes

Comics love doing big events, and I'm not covering them in here. Partly because they are huge and complex and to just focus on Hawkeye would be an injustice to the stories, but also because the amount of stuff I would need to spoil would be way beyond just a little Hawkeye. Clint was involved in Secret Wars (1984), which was one of the first crossover events of its kind. Another notable era is 2004-2009, where there is an incredible amount of superhero politics driving big narratives. If you're new to comics, you might not know that characters dying is common and rarely permanent. This is relevant because while I said that I wouldn't talk about events, I think it would be pretty uncool to not mention that Hawkeye dies and is brought back to life (Avengers Disassembled, House of M, New Avengers #26). It's around here that Clint picks up the Ronin mantle.

This is also when Dark Reign/Dark Avengers is going on. For anyone who'd like some Clint whump from this era, there's a top notch naked torture scene in New Avengers Annual (2009). Clint is involved in several other big events and crossovers over later years, but that's definitely a seperate list.

In the time where Clint is dead, Captain America is hanging out with a group of newly formed Young Avengers, including archery badass Kate Bishop. Cap suggests to her that she take up the Hawkeye mantle and gives her Clint's old bow. After Clint returns, he becomes initially her mentor, before they form a very close friendship. Clint is initially doing Ronin things, but even when he lays down ninja robes, they decide to be very Hawkeye about the whole thing and both keep calling themselves Hawkeye, despite the obvious confusion this causes.

Hawkeye's ears: Hawkeye vs. Deadpool #0-4 (2014)

This is a fun little miniseries that you could treat as a Halloween special if you so desired. It's set in the time after Fraction's run and there are a few callbacks, but nothing major if you've not read that. Clint is a little short-tempered and hypermasculine in this run for my personal taste, but it's got lots of grumpy Clint Vs sassy Wade while they vaguely attempt to team up. The thing this run does really well is Clint's deafness, despite the lack of visible hearing aids. There are comments around lip-reading, wearing aids when wearing other headgear, there's some sign language, and this is the run where Deadpool pulls his mask up so Clint can lipread and see his face while he signs (facial expressions are really key in sign language). It's lovely. Otherwise the run gives you a Kate cameo, some Deadpool and Hawkeye disaster/shenanigans, and perhaps most importantly, the return of the skycycle.

Key background: All New Hawkeye #1-6 (2015)

This run is often overlooked, but the art in the flashbacks is beautiful. We get some key information around Clint and Barney's abusive home situation - with their dad who drank and beat them, and how they ended up in care after their parents died, and subsequently their early days in the circus. There is a definite shift in how Barney is characterized as a bad influence compared to the 2003 run. It parallels with the rest of the arc which focuses on Clint and Kate Bishop working together to get some kids out of a very bad situation. The rest of Lemires run is a little weird and has no major repurcussions for anyone except Barney (which I won't elaborate on because it's relevant to the Fraction run).

Back to your roots: Tales of Suspense #100-104 (2017)

Seeing Clint cycle back and return to Tales of Suspense is really lovely. This comic is one of my all time favourites. It's incredibly tight story-telling with a great plot and really fun dynamic. The premise is Clint and Bucky teaming up to figure out the body trail being left after Black Widow's death. Clint is obnoxious and a delightful mess, Bucky is sporting a permanent scowl and is hilariously level-headed. It's a lot of fun and it's a lovely build on the tension and teamwork between these two idiots (who I, as an avid Winterhawk shipper, am completely gone for, but even without that, this is a great comic.) It also has some killer covers, and the facial expressions are absolutely hilarious.

Hawkeyes together: Hawkeye #13-16 (2017) and West Coast Avengers #1-10 (2018)

The Hawkeye run is Kate Bishops run and it has a larger continuing storyline that runs from the beginning of her Hawkeye and way into WCA, but I've listed the issues that you'll want for Kate and Clint shenanigans, and you should be able to catch up without the rest if you don't want it. These comics are ridiculously fun, especially West Coast Avengers, which has Kate leading the team this time. There's loads of jokes, and it strikes a nice balance between Hawkeyes being disasters and being hyper competent. Truthfully, this is Kate's show, and Clint takes a backseat, but their dynamic is killer here so I think is deserves a mention. There are also plenty of Clint related wardrobe malfunctions and Lucky the Pizza Dog is around.

Our most recent boy: Hawkeye freefall #1-6 (2020)

I haven't read this one yet, but it's been extremely well received by the fandom. As a result, good news: no spoilers! It's a short run, which may have had something to do with it being published during 2020, and specifically around a time when Marvel were experiencing some major distribution issues (which would have led to digital release only and as a result lower sales), but that's all guesswork because I haven't actually researched it. This run has someone dressing as Ronin and letting Clint take the blame for their nefarious deeds (oh no!). Clint makes some classic Clint (read: dumpster fire) decisions, and the art looks fun and vibrant. Can't really give you more without reading it myself 😅 If you need more Clint still, he's also rumoured to be knocking around in the 2020 Black Widow run, but I've not had the money to get my mitts on that yet either.

Notable AUs:

Marvel is a big fan of throwing a well known cast into an alternative universes, so there are a few other places to look for him.

The Ultimates universe was largely speaking a bit of a shitshow, but they did give us a very dark and gritty Clint, so if that's your jam, ultimate hawkeye is the place to be. Old Man Hawkeye appears alongside Old Man Logan, and they are both, you guessed it, old. It's not the only time we get Clint as a wrinkly dude (the second half Lemire's run also has some timey-wimey stuff happening), but this is a version of Clint who is going blind (granted we've seen that before too, but this is a darker vibe than Blindspot). Wanna know who the greatest marksman is without his sight - old man Hawkeye for you! Finally there's the Zombie 'verse: zombie Clint is a little confused, but he's got the spirit. Clint got zombiefied and then left in some rubble as only a head for 40 years before getting picked up, so he's a little worse for wear. If you need that in your life then Marvel Zombies is your universe. For a full rundown of all the universes including animated and MCU, click here.

Notable aliases:

Clint's been a few other people than Hawkeye in the 616 universe (the main Marvel Comics universe). He used one of Hank Pyms growth serums and became a giant strongman in Avengers #63 (1969) and stuck around in his Goliath form for more than a few issues. After Cap had died, Clint returned from the dead and tried on Captain America for all of one issue in Fallen Son #3 (2007). He decided (with a little help from Kate) that it wasn't right to wear the uniform, which in turn led to some interesting tension between him and Bucky Barnes when Buck did become the new Captain America. Finally, there's his most well-known alternate persona: Ronin. Clint becomes Ronin after returning from the dead, wanting a break from his Hawkeye persona and an opportunity to become Ronin arises in New Avengers #27 (2007). Clint is not the only person to have used these aliases. Additionally, Hawkeye has been used not only by Clint and Kate Bishop, but also by Bullseye during the Dark Reign.

The things we haven't talked about

Like I said at the very beginning, there is a lot of Clint Barton knocking around in comics and even with all this there's a lot of content I haven't focused on. For instance, I've not talked a lot about his relationships, beyond his marriage to mockingbird (and really I only scratched the surface with that), and honestly once you start getting into interpersonal relationships we're starting to move on from what can be done in a Tumblr thread.

There are also some topic specific threads floating around, which you might like to look at too.

@vaguelyrotten has done a run down of some great dumpster fire Clint Barton comics (some of which I haven't listed) and you can see that here.

@bobbimorses did a great summary of Clint's historical deafness for instance which you can find here.

There's also this little bit all about Clint and Bucky in canon (thanks to @nightwideopen ) and how Winterhawk became a thing (thanks to @1000-directions )

This is slight sidenote, but @clintscoffeepot did a really great comprehensive of Fraction Clint's apartment which is just a really useful writing resource and you can get that here.

There is also this website which I stumbled across fairly far into writing this post which does actually look like it might be comprehensive.

If I've missed anything major, or listed something incorrectly or you just have some Clint related opinions that I need to know about, do hit me up.

#clint barton #Hawkeye #hawkeye comics #hawkguy and other costumes #deaf hawkeye #comic #comic books #marvel comics #let's talk about comics

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igonecrazy · 3 years

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All of the Loki posts I've seen recently on your blog have put me in a Loki mood, so in the spirit of that, could you recomment me some Loki-centred fanfiction to read? Any ship or no ship is fine, but I know nothing about comics (so works that rely heavily on that context will probably be lost on me) and haven't watched the Loki series yet and don't want to have it spoiled. If that's too specific just tell me to fuck off lol, also, I'm really greateful for the cat posts just in general and wanted you to know that.

Hello! ☺️

Hmmmm🤔 Loki fics....I've read quite a few..my main Loki ship is Frostiron..but as you might know..I've been in Hannigram fever for all of 2021 ☺️🖤 and before that I had other fevers.. including Malec..so it has been some time since I read their fics..but there was this one fic that..I think I ventured into it without actually going through all the tags and it broke my heart so much that I've never been able to quite forget it..nd there was another which had Loki as a lady and 🥺 that fic was so much better than the entire series 🙈 anyway..lemme go hunting on ao3 for a min..also I found this while i was hunting fics abo Frostiron fic..which I think really is adorable 🥺 I found this really cute one that I remember reading 🥺 THIS SERIES broke my heart! I found the fic I was talking about before!! And I remember crying and then cursing myself for not reading the tags properly! Have read them properly ever since ✌🏼😌 what was the other one I mentioned.. THIS! I freakin love this one! And then this work that was mostly @bouncydragon and my tumblr shenanigan..which was then turned into a fic (it even has art!😃!) by them....fluffiest crack! ☺️

Have fun! If you do read any of those do tell me! As much as I love Loki I've never posted anything about him..I have a lot of stuff for him in my head..and in my docs..but I never ended up posting! The first fic I ever wrote was for Thor and Loki brotp🥺 but I never put it anywhere 😅

Also! Thank you! ☺️ Cats are just the loveliest!

#asks #loki #frostiron

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gleefuldarrencrissfan · 3 years

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Fic Name: Near Misses

Fic Author(s): flaming_muse

Fic Summary: Kurt and Blaine could easily not have met on a staircase in high school. They could have met a few years later in college instead.

Fic Trope(s): College Klaine, friends to lovers, Alternate Universe, Oblivious Klaine, Slow burn

Fic Length (Word Count): 205536 Words

Fic Rating: Explicit

Fic Warnings or Triggers: Angst, but nothing too heavy.

Fic Status: Complete

My Review: I had so much to do today, and I accomplished very little, and this fic is to blame. I've read it before, so I opened it with the intention to just skim it and try to remember the gist so I could post a review. Instead, it captured my attention, and I was sucked into its plot immediately.

I'm a sucker for slow burn, and this fic definitely fits the definition. Poor Blaine especially takes a long time to have his epiphany that he wants Kurt as more than a friend. At one point, I was yelling at my phone, saying, "Get it together, Blaine. Of course, you are boyfriend material if said boyfriend is Kurt Hummel." The author does a masterful job at describing Blaine as he slowly but surely realizes this for himself. Sorry if I'm spoiling something, but I don't read something if it's not Klaine endgame so this shouldn't have been that big of s spoiler.

I loved the other characters as well. I've been told before that I do a great job at capturing a character's voice when I write, but this author made me feel like an amateur in this area. Each character's voice felt accurate as if they were real lines from the show, especially Rachel Berry. She definitely captured Kurt's and Blaine's voices as well. I loved being able to get a window inside their heads to their thoughts as well.

One of the things I loved most in this story is the dialogue. It was so witty, especially Kurt's dialogue. He was as comical and sarcastic as he is on the show. I laughed out loud more times than I could count.

Ultimately, this is an amazing fic, and if you haven't read it yet, it definitely deserves to be on your bookmarks. Trust me on this.

Fic Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/469623/chapters/811807

#klaine fanfiction #trope College Klaine #Trope friends to lovers #Trope Alternate Universe #Trope Oblivious Klaine

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sugiwa · 2 years

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spoiler alert for avatar: the last airbender and the legend of korra

if you haven't watched these shows or read the comics... *totally not judging* what are you doing? go watch them now! they're worth it! don't spoil the show for yourself by reading this-

do you think that azula (atla) deserves a redemption arc? or at least a better ending? in tlok we don't know what ever happened of her (although we don't know what happened to many of the major characters, like suki, mai, ty lee, and the oh-so-great cabbage merchant... other than the fact that they all died-). the transition between atla and tlok was kinda huge, i understand, and they tried to make up for it through the comics, but... they just don't do it. not all of the topics are covered. sokka and the rest of the characters i mentioned are killed off, and all of it is a mystery... i asked my other atla obsessed friends this question the other day, and i got a lot of "well, wouldn't it be cliche to have zuko AND azula have a happy ending? that's too... disney. and besides, the reason they didn't tell us what happened to azula is probably because she died off in her mental asylum and the fans would NOT be happy with that answer". they're not wrong, but... ugh, i NEED azula + the gaang + iroh wholesome moments!!! or maybe that's too big of a dream... i just want to see the whole picture, and know the whole ending!!! but... as of now, it looks like we won't be getting that any time soon T^T

Sugiwa: I have in fact watched ATLA and LoK. I think Azula did deserve some sort of closure. We see by the end of ATLA that she was very much a broken child also searching for love and acceptance within a family that encouraged her ruthlessness. She had a lot of issues that needed to be solved and wasn't raised in an environment where she saw what she was doing as wrong. Zuko, through his banishment and Iron's attention, was able to find this out on his own. Azula was always under Ozai's watch, so she saw his praise as love and sought it out at any means. I think they could've added another season where we learn about the aftermath/Zuko's mom. I'll be honest, I'm not a huge fan of what they did in the comics. I kinda would've been ok with their mom being dead, but them coming to terms with how her death happened and getting closure from one another.

#submission #anon

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somelazyassartist · 4 years

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Okay ignore the fact that I cannot draw Magnus or Merle well, but these are my current lgbt+ headcanons for them!! Apologies if anything here contradicts canon, I've only read the comics as I have some audio processing issues and haven't been able to make it through a single episode of the podcast yet, so currently I'm waiting for my preorder of book 4 to arrive in 2021 to know anything past Petals to the Metal ;^; please don't intentionally spoil anything for me, I've already accidentally stumbled upon a lot of spoilers already!! (Click for better quality)

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chamiryokuroi · 4 years

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Wha! I don't think I've ever talked to you before and I'm surprised because we stan Desmond in this goddamn household-- okay on a serious note, I've always loved your blog but I had a question! AC Uprising comic? Is that new or am I slow? (Could be I'm just slow seeing, as embarrassing as it is to admit while loving the series, I haven't played many of the games. I know stories but haven't been able to play due to no compatible consoles and a shit computer--but at least I have a better one now!)

Ok so AC Uprising is one of the AC comics. This one was released on 2017 and finished publishing in 2018. Dont want to spoil much but the comic revolves around Juno and her plans after ACIII, it includes characters from previous comics plus new ones as well as characters from the games and of course the introduction of our baby boy Elijah, the son of Desmond.

Do not go into it expecting to see much of Elijah, storyline follows mostly an assassin girl and her ancestors past as well as Juno and her plans, but is was good! I just last week got around to read it end to end and I enjoyed it so I recommend it!

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scifinal · 4 years

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DW s12e10: It's Quite Unfortunate That This Child Keeps On Regenerating

It's only fitting that the first post on a blog called "SciFinal" should be about a season finale.

Not that fitting is the fact that in said post I'm going to begin where it all started for me.

Part One: How I Even Got into This Mess of a Show in the First Place

While I call myself a huge Doctor Who fan, even a – *gasp* – Whovian, I must admit I am not as familiar with the franchise as I would like to be; I've seen the new show, I've seen Torchwood (though, admittedly, I had to force myself to finish the fourth season – but that's a story for another day), I've listened to a handful of audio dramas (including Kaldor City, which I consider to be canon for both DW and Blake's 7) – mostly Torchwood audio dramas, but who cares, – I've read a couple of comics, I've got a novel or two somewhere on my bookshelf, I've seen the first couple of seasons of the classic show, but that's about it. I can't say I grew up with it – it wasn't on TV when I was a kid, there isn't an official Ukrainian dub, et cetera, et cetera. I first heard about it when I was about thirteen, when my classmate did a project about something they liked – and was pretty dismissive of my peers' hobbies at the time, believing myself to be somewhat above them, so I didn't pay much attention.

Then somebody finally pressured me into watching it (I believe I was fifteen or something back then) and I loved it. The first two episodes of the first season, I mean. I watched those, texted my friend something like "consider me a Whovian now!" and abandoned the show completely only to return to it maybe several years later.

I loved it. This time, for real.

Doctor Who has been with me ever since that time, it has a big soft spot reserved for each and every Doctor ever in my heart, and for each and every companion. I know full well it's cheesy, and it's stupid, and it's technobabble-y, and it's glorious in all of its cheesy technobabble-y stupidity.

And I hate this finale.

Part Two: Doctor, Why

I hate this finale – because I hate Chris Chibnall. Mind you, not the gentleman himself (I don't even know what he looks like, and I can't be bothered to Google), I hate what he did to Doctor Who.

Now, when it was revealed that the would replace Steven Moffat I felt... nothing. What did you expect? I had no idea who the man was. I know now he's made Broadchurch, and I know he wrote a bunch of stuff for Torchwood back in the day, including Cyberwoman. I had to drop Broadchurch because of how well-handled the depressing atmosphere was, and I love the flawed, dumb, sexy-cyber-bikinied, almost-fifteen-minutes-of-Ianto's-whining-including (I know because some time ago I literally cut almost every single moment of Gareth David-Lloyd whimpering, moaning, groaning, screaming, and mugging at the camera out of the episode and made those bits and pieces into a beautiful clip show called "I HATE THIS" to explain exactly why his face was and still is so punchable) mindless fun that is Cyberwoman (this is also one of the two episodes in which they actually do something fun with the pterodactyl living inside Torchwood's underground base). The latter also led to the creation of one amazing in how it develops Ianto's character audio drama entitled "Broken". I love Broken. I am now forcing you to look at its cover because of how much I love it.

Here we go. Now, back to the point of me rambling pointlessly

In his video "Sherlock Is Garbage, and Here's Why", a well-known YouTuber hbomberguy pointed out how Steven Moffat's problem is that he is more than capable of writing a good one-off episodes, but ultimately fails at managing multiple complex, overarching stories, as visible when you look at the difference between Moffat's individual episodes and his run on the show.

Now, I believe that Chris Chibnall suffers from the same affliction: he's a good screenwriter but a terrible, terrible showrunner. Sure, he's made Broadchurch, but Broadchurch, in its essence, was a complete singular story with a beginning, a middle, and an end. There were no bigger, incomplete arcs expanding at the expense of other episodes, and the show did exactly what it was originally designed to do: it told an uninterrupted story.

Here comes Chris Chibnall's run on Doctor Who.

Now, while Steven Moffat was ultimately not very good at managing overarching stories, he tried to do so nonetheless, and the fans seemed to like his attempts. And while I can't be sure as to whether it was Chris' original vision for the show or he and his co-writers were merely trying to emulate Moffat, he attempted the same. A friend of mine has even pointed out how, to her, it was painfully obvious how the writers of the finale were desperately trying to copy Moffat's style (to give you some context, she grasped it from a 30-second clip of the CyberMasters' reveal, and that clip basically consisted of me filming my laptop's screen and laughing at their design, making the video wobbly and the audio distorted). At the time of writing this post this friend hasn't seen a single episode of Chibnall's era and, as far as I know, has no wish to do so – mainly because of two reasons that both have something to do with the finale:

Somebody's already spoiled it for her, so who cares;

I ranted to her about how shit this finale is and now she hates everything about Chibnall era.

I am very sorry for the latter, since I genuinely believe there are some nice episodes in these seasons, and I especially like the "historical" ones, they really are quite a lot of fun, I like Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison fighting badly CG-ed alien scorpions, I love Lord Byron and Mary Shelley running around a haunted house trying to escape from a Cyberman (even though it's all too similar to the Agatha Christie episode from Russel T Davies' run), I adore that episode about Rosa P–– oh, wait, no, that one was crap and ripped off Blake's 7... Anyway, I love Jodie Whittaker's Doctor, I am a big fan of Graham, I like Ryan just fine, and I can put up with Yaz, even though it's been two seasons and I've still got no idea what's her personality supposed to be, and I absolutely love the new Master (he reminds me of a cute little pug with a big Tommy gun). There is plenty of good stuff in these two seasons, they are lots of fun to watch, but this finale... Oh god, this finale.

Part Three: We Had All of Time and Space at Our Fingertips and We Ended Up with This

We are getting to the point of this whole thing. I would love to begin with the obvious, the twist, but there's so much wrong with this who-cares-how-many-parter than this one big thing.

It is inept. It is impotent. It is incompetent. It is bad at almost everything except its okay camera work, somewhat good (for a British TV show, I mean) effects, and its really solid performances.

Its editing is tone-deaf to the extreme. There is a moment in the final episode where Ko Sharmas asks who will be the first to cross the Boundary and step into the unknown, and immediately it cuts to Yaz walking towards it, all fast and silent. I would love to show you a clip of it, but I don't have one and I can't force myself to download the episode and sit through this shitshow again just to present you with a ten-second clip. Nonetheless, that part is not edited like a dramatic moment. You edit comedies this way. Bad comedies. Bad editors edit bad comedies this way.

Its plot is incoherent. There are several plot threads in this finale, and they're managed in a way that doesn't make the viewer care about all of them at the same time, rather the viewer goes "oh, I've completely forgotten this was happening" and then, before they can even begin to care, the show cuts to something else. It's all over the place and oh so annoying.

The plot armour is painfully obvious despite every attempt to disguise it. There wasn't a single, solitary second when I believed the Doctor was really going to sacrifice herself and, lo and behold, here comes the old guy ex machina to do it for her. The only questions I was asking at that moment were "How are the writers going to prevent the Doctor's death now that they've seemingly created themselves a way to go on forever?" and "How can Whittaker care so much about her performance in this scene she's literally almost crying?". I wholeheartedly related to the Master asking "So why are we still here?" and shout–– hiss–– mumbl–– whatever-ing "Come on, come on, come on!" – at that point I've suffered through at least forty-five minutes of utter nonsense, people going preachy, religious Cybermen with Dalek motivations, that absolutely ludicrous scene in the previous episode when the show was trying its worst to make me perceive autonomous flying Cyber-heads with laser eyes as a serious threat, a shit twist and... Oh.

I've got to finally touch on the shit twist, haven't I?

It doesn't make sense. No, I mean it. I guess it makes sense from the show's writers' standpoint to retcon everything in a way that would allow them to go on forever without having to come up with a way to circumvent limited regenerations, yes. And I won't be touching upon all the lore people say this twist has ruined. No. It doesn't make sense as it is.

The twist is revealed to us by a madman that claims to have hacked into a database, claims to possess control over the Doctor's mind, and gives the Doctor and the audience no actual solid proof that the Timeless Child is, indeed, the Doctor. We have Ruth, sure, and she's nice enough (damn, I want that vest), and she's a Timelord that happens to own a TARDIS that looks like a blue police telephone box, and she calls herself the Doctor. Here's Ruth:

I really like Ruth. She also makes no sense from the show's timeline standpoint, since the Doctor's Type 40 TARDIS only got stuck looking like a police box in 1963, so there's no reason for the Doctor to not remember being her.

We also know that the Judoon have identified Ruth as "the Fugitive"... except in one of their previous appearances in the show they weren't able to identify their targets exactly and thus were seeking out non-humans. There is a possibility that they were only looking for a Time Lord on Earth.

You know what? It's possible that Ruth is actually the Master messing with the Doctor. I have just as much proof of this as I have of the fact that the Doctor is some kind of an endlessly regenerating superbeing.

But this is not the most maddening thing here. I loathe it, but I don't loathe the twist itself: I loathe its lifelessness, I loathe how empty, how unemotional, almost robotic it feels. When somebody'd spoiled the finale for me, I got angry, and I started asking questions, and when later I saw the actual thing...

This gif. I can't even explain how accurate it is. I stood there, in the middle of my kitchen, episode paused, holding a cup of cold tea and desperately looking around as if in my surroundings I could somehow find that emotional reaction that this show failed to evoke. I was ready to burst into tears of how empty it felt, and how empty I felt, and how the same show that has Christopher Eccleston go from literally foaming at the mouth with pure hatred to shocked silence in a matter of second because of one sentence that you, a viewer, can't help but be astonished by failed to make me feel the tiniest speck of literally any emotion. And slowly, I felt that vast void in my chest fill with sheer, pure, flaming hatred for the person who made me feel nothing, for the story that left me not bored – but empty.

And the next moment, in its own unique way of being absolutely tone-deaf, the show introduces the CyberMasters, looking ridiculous, being asinine in concept, making me burst into laughter with their dumb design. Wow.

So.

Chris Chibnall's Doctor Who is no longer a show. Chris Chibnall's Doctor Who isn't even, as somebody on Stardust said, a fan fiction. It's a rollercoaster. A lackluster rollercoaster that lifts you from the vast caverns of frozen hell, devoid of any life whatsoever, soulless and abandoned, to the heavenly torture of being so bad, so utterly awful and ridiculous, that you can't help but laugh as you watch something you used to love be distorted and deformed to the point where you can't recognise it anymore nor really care. This is what Chris Chibnall's Doctor Who has become. And I'm going to continue my ride on that grotesque rollercoaster. I'm going to pirate that ride and get on it again. Because I'm a masochist. Because I want to feel something, even if it's hatred towards those that make me feel nothing.

Because some time ago my fifteen-year-old self watched the first season and learned a lesson that I hold dear after all these years – that I can't abandon hope, and that someday, somehow, things are going to get better. That the future is being written right now. That the future can change.

#doctor who #thirteenth doctor #doctor who review #i hate this #review #sci fi

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