We all agree the epilogues suck but ADMITTEDLY, once you get past Dirk, Homestuck^2 is kind of really good, and I'm very excited for where James and his team take us :33

Thinking about this unit swap thing I made a tierlist for where I swapped the unit members based off of the colors and textures and stuff that my brain assigned the characters (because synesthesia), then figuring which vibe they fit best with it?

And like some of the like, past units are very difficult to figure out with this method. I'm already ignoring ages and schools a bit, so that's not a concern here. Just kind of like, what criteria should I be using for the past units. Even with the present ones there are some that I've put together that I'm kinda like. hmmmm... at because they don't really fit, they're just better than other combinations in terms of the uh.. feeling of the colors?

Adam and Eve is also hard to figure out.

It's a fascinating thing though, I've been trying to think of potential storylines and how they're different in order to fit with the swapped variants.

IMO the problem with TCW is that Anakin is that he's not really movie!Anakin but a 'combination of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo' (which is what Filoni advised Matt Lanter to give during his audition). I tend to think of it as TCW!Anakin is a bro but movie!Anakin is a nerd.

i have.......a lot of thoughts about this.

for the first few seasons of tcw, anakin being ooc really irked me. but i thought about it and it really seems like instead of expanding on anakin skywalker of the prequels, filoni instead expanded on darth vader of the original trilogy. sometimes it seemed like instead of trying to add to the story of the prequels, he was trying to fix the prequels.

that's my kind interpretation. my less kind interpretation is that he took everything traditionally feminine out of prequels anakin. the prequels, to me, have always been a story for gifted girls: you have a character whose emotions are constantly being repressed and invalidated by systemic forces, who is so naturally talented that those systemic forces are terrified of him and try desperately to keep him obedient and compliant. at no point does prequels anakin care about the plot; he cares about the people he loves. tcw anakin, however, is all plot and no feelings. aside from the rush clovis storyline, it's like he and padme don't even know each other. obiwan is just a coworker. tcw was decent at developing individual character arcs but seemed to completely disregard the idea of relationships as something that could develop conflict. obiwan fakes his own death and anakin is mad about it for all of like, half an episode. there's barely any emotional consequence to anything.

it's interesting that you say filoni directed lanter to sound like luke and han, because prequels anakin has an extremely unique vocal cadence, and that above all other things made him ooc to me. prequels anakin nearly always speaks in couplets, and his language is often stilted and rigid. many people mistook this as bad writing, but his dialogue is written the way darth vader speaks. and to just completely disregard that is so sad to me, because prequels anakin is so carefully wrought and so unique as an action movie protagonist.

not to mention, you know, anakin spends most of attack of the clones afraid his mom is going to die and submitting to padme. there's a whole scene where he gets all weepy and begs her to love him. he offers to do anything for her. tcw anakin might as well not be married for all it impacted the story. (and that pisses me off so bad, like...secret marriage?? it's such a delicious trope??? and he did NOTHING with it.)

in all 3 movies, anakin's emotions are always simmering below the surface. he's dramatic. he's whiny and immature. he has absolutely no control over himself. he's always in a state of inner conflict and turmoil, because he's always in an environment in which he feels he has to perform the role of jedi. hayden's performance is so brilliant. every time i watch the prequels, i'm really in awe of what he managed to accomplish emotionally while maintaining the wooden vader dialogue.

tcw anakin has no conflict except the story arc of the episode he's in at any given time. nothing that happens affects his emotional trajectory. even when ahsoka leaves the order, he's just like "aw shucks" and moves on. his hair is the only thing that grows.

near the end, tcw anakin does get angrier (and larger) but it's still not the same anger of prequels anakin. prequels anakin is desperate and terrified and honestly a little pathetic. tcw anakin is just a kind of an asshole.

and obiwan...you could replace obiwan with nyan cat in every scene and it would have no effect on the events of the story. he feels one (1) emotion and that's when satine dies, but that emotion has no plot consequences. in other words, the great failing of tcw for me is that the plot affects the characters, but the characters don't affect the plot. plot-driven characters, not character-driven plots. and even though i feel like my personal tastes are pretty wide, i'll just never enjoy stories that prize plot over character.

by the end i liked the clones and ahsoka's development. i loved how often bad guys had to go up against bad guys (the fight between sidious and maul...i was screaming). but for me to get there, i had to totally divorce it from my interpretation of the prequels and look at it for its own merit, the way i do with fanfic.

That's not what the game said it meant... >_>

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 3: Enveloping Feelings.

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 4 (soon))

i just spent the last hour crying over technoblade. i miss him so fucking much. this sucks. why did he have to die? he was so kind, he seemed untouchable. he was going through the worst fucking thing you could go through and all he could think of was how to make things better for people in the future. how could he make it so his type of cancer could be better treated in the future? how could he make it so his siblings could go to college, or do whatever they wanted to do with their lives? could he make sure that when he died, there was still something he could say posthumously to his fans? could he make people laugh even though he was dead? could he put something out to remember him by?

he was never serious about it. he would never let up. he nearly got his arm amputated and he was thinking of jokes to make for his friends and his fans. he knew he was fucking dying and he said "im owned" to express it. im fucking owned. he was so fucking cool. he's someone i want to be like. he was one of the few celebrities i ever wanted to meet.

like everyday i hope it's some kind of joke. this is some long, elaborate joke, or one of those dreams people talk about having where it's ten years of their life all packed into one hour or one night. i want his friends to have him again and i want him to be happy and alive. i want to be able to perk up seeing he's posted a video again. but it's not a dream. it's never going to happen again. im never going to be over this. it's never going to get easier.

save me horror cowboy game ocs save me

Me at 3 a.m. apparently : *Rolls a new Elden Ring game with my fav pkmn chara face for absolutely zero logical reason ⚔️🦌🩸*

(untrue, the logical reason is I wanted to.)

So, Hyrule didn't know previous to healing Twilight that his life spell could work on others and not just himself. I am choosing to extrapolate that his other spells work the same way, and he could choose to cast shield or reflect on someone else if he tried to protect them, he just has traveled alone before prior to this and only now has the chance to cast on other people in a not "attacking them with lightning" kind of way

With all of that in mind,

loser troll has finally gotten around to plagiarizing me (his shit post vs my drabble that was clearly the 'insp' for it given that he literally stole lines and dialogue). keep in mind that my drabble was posted in may of last year, recently self reblogged, and then his blog which [checks archives] didn't exist until today.

anyway if you see a blog post with a soren, sarai, callum drabble featuring sarai teaching soren how to fight in the main tags it's plagiarized/stolen work, thank you

Back in February (?) I thought it would be funny to gijinka-ify Etho's tama as he appears in the zombie AU. Winston is. Very beloved on my IG even though he's very much not canon/just for fun. Here's a few thingies I've had rotting on my desktop.

today's keiji is: it is now manwhore monday (it's friday)

very sad still see the saria/silence divorce headcanon still going around

have you ever tried to consider that they never dated before lone trail because it would be unrealistic with the timeline and the events and also because it would be overshadowing the actual truth of why they couldn't get along

Just remembered I drew these in January. The river

some super messy sketches from this post i ended up not using!! holding him and shaking him like the girl from finding nemo

*kicks feet* tehe so who do u have a crush on

Another my au specific sketch because I forget that these two are Not my ocs half of the time

Anyway. I like to think about traits they find appealing in other people sometimes,, , not just for crushes really, but their choices of friends mainly

Because for Acronix, I tend to write him befriending people with hobbies or jobs that allow them to create things, namely being Ray (blacksmithing) and Cyrus (technology) as his best friends (besides Krux ofc), but also specific to my au, being friends with the master of form during the fsw (who I hc as having many hobbies in the visual fine arts) and of the ninja, I'd imagine him befriending Nya (, also technology)

And though Acronix isn't much of a creative himself, he'd be happy just observing his friends work or making use of their creations

In Krux's case, I'd think he values people that are honest and straightforward about things, people that are not afraid to speak their mind with him. Leading to him being friends with Misako (also partially due to shared interests), and Roya (an oc of mine), and though I don't have much written about them, I also imagine Krux being friends with the former masters of Sound and Earth.

. Anyway the idea of Acronix having a crush on Ray is so silly to me because I don't think he would really Know if he had a crush on Ray, or anyone. In his mind he just thinks he wants to be Really Good Friends with him, until everything gets cut short at the end of the war. And then later he has similar feelings about Cyrus, until he eventually just goes. Hey Wait A Minute