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#reblog

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so far i have swiftstar / swiftbreeze (sonic) and berrystar / berrybranch (barry)

i need to warrior catify the sonic characters but that site i used for alligences is gone and i dont feel like using google docs let me out of this hell

#toby.txt

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i need to warrior catify the sonic characters but that site i used for alligences is gone and i dont feel like using google docs let me out of this hell

#toby.txt #'u can still acess it via the way back machine' yeah ... it wont save what i did though whats the point /not srs

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they?? look so alike?? this has probably been done already sdkasjd

#reblog #fanart #fave

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You can tell me that their color scheme is a pure coincidence

But I won’t believe you.

Happy pride month! <3

#reblog #fanart #fave

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in sonic 3 rachael needs to come into the room like 'maddie, when you adopted sonic i could never understand your passion for your weird kid,' then she lifts up amy rose and goes 'but now I have my own weird kid and if anything happened to her I'd kill everyone in this room and then myself'

#reblog #fave

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most important part of the knuckles show, hands down

#reblog #fave

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just found this comment and its making me giggle, the funnier thing to me is what did big do to get so low on ur list

#toby.txt

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i dont give headcanons about music taste cuz i am always wrong about that, however just for once i think that scourge would listen to simon curtis, he just gives me that vibe

#toby.txt #scourge the hedgehog

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if im correct and this isnt fanart someone has posted and claimed to be penders art then i just want to fucking share this tails redesign that will apparently appear in TLSC and there are tears in my eyes

#toby.txt #do i add the tails tags to this #do i #ken penders #the lara-su chronicles #tlsc

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the sonic franchise has a misogyny problem

hello everyone, are you ready for another long essay by me? because i sure am. this has been on my mind for a while now. i've already talked about how the sonic fandom tends to treat the female characters worse than the male characters. but what about the franchise? do they treat the female characters better? well, in this essay i'm gonna talk about the misogynistic aspects of the sonic franchise. i'm not just gonna focus on the games, but also on other adaptations. so sit back, and lets have a long talk.

(art by evan stanley)

the lack of recurring female characters

quick question, how many recurring female characters can you name off the top of your head? no, the non game characters don't count, and no, the ones who only appeared in one game and then disappeared don't count. i can only name four recurring female characters - amy, blaze, rouge, and cream. maybe vanilla too. compare that to the amount of recurring male characters - we have sonic, tails, knuckles, shadow, silver, the chaotix, eggman. yeah you can see the problem. and these four characters aren't even utilized that well as of late. blaze especially has so much potential. she lives in another dimension for christ's sake. but sega just doesn't do anything with her. she deserves her own game to explore her dimension. like, there's so much potential with these characters but they just don't do much with them.

the way they treat their lead female character

amy rose is the main female character of the sonic franchise. i've already written an entire essay on how she's treated so i'm gonna try and keep this short. the way sega used to treat their main female character is appalling. she already got enough hate from the fandom, and sega just didn't make it better. just look at how the social media team used to treat her

i have never seen any sonic characters get this much jabs from the social media team as her. heck, i've never seen a lead female videogame character get treated as badly as amy. and the way they purposely go to exclude her? just look at what happened with mania. it was supposed to be a celebration of all things classic sonic but they didn't have her there even though she was a classic character. instead they brought two characters from an obscure arcade game. which... yeah its nice to see obscure characters get the chance to shine but you don't have to exclude a main character for that. and even in origins, though she's in the marketing and cutscenes, she's not playable. why? and before you say "oh its because she wasn't playable before", tails and knuckles weren't playable in sonic 1 either yet they were able to be included there. so what's wrong with making amy playable? what else am i supposed to call the purposeful exclusion of the classic era's only female character other than misogyny? seriously, i've never seen any other franchise do this to their lead female character. even PRINCESS PEACH gets treated better. peach got her own damn game. what's sega's excuse? if they treat their lead female like this, what does it say about how they treat their other female characters?

and one last thing. i've already touched on this before but it makes me angry so i'm gonna rant on it again. the way sega seems to think amy's role in sa2 in reminding shadow of his true promise to maria is replaceable. and every time she's been replaced, its a male character who took her place (chris in x, implied to be sonic in archie). and honestly, i don't have high hopes that they'll let her keep that role in the movie either. i don't even have high hopes that she'll appear in the movie. forgive me for being a negative nancy but i've been disappointed too many times.

archie's treatment of its female characters

lets talk about archie now. pre reboot archie sonic, especially before flynn came around, was an embarrassment to the franchise for many reasons. but what i don't see many people talking about is how they treated their female characters.

lets start with sally, since she's the comic's lead female. those who know her from satam know her as the leader of the freedom fighters, a strategic genius, a no nonsense princess who is determined in her goals. but in archie, especially when penders came along, her agency was taken away. once king max was rescued, penders didn't know what to do with sally. so she had little personality besides being a princess. and need i mention how he tried to kill off sally in the most anticlimatic way? she spent most of the time after the endgame arc being stuck in the castle, not joining sonic and co on battles like she used to. and need i mention the utterly disgusting aspect that is her """"""relationship""""" with geoffrey? there is one issue i particularly remember when geoffrey kissed sally without her consent and sonic saw it from afar. what does he do? does he confront geoffrey about it? does he protect sally? nope, he just thinks that sally is trying to make him jealous. what the fuck?! she's legit being sexually harassed and you're just going to blame her for it? i know this was the 90s but STILL. and to make matters worse, sally is 16 while geoffrey is in his 20s.

and let me talk about how characters are introduced solely to be a love interest. like mina mongoose. i've got nothing against her but lets face it, she was introduced solely to create drama in sonic and sally's relationship. and they even gave her super speed just so she could have something sally didn't, so she could be a "competition" to sally. they didn't even do anything with it later. and flynn has it retconned so that mammoth mogul was the one that gave her that power.

and speaking of which..... ig every female character has taken interest in sonic at one point. we have sally, amy, mina, fiona, bunnie.... it seemed like they wanted sonic to have as many love interests as possible. i mean just look at this cover

and if they weren't into sonic, they were into any other boy. mostly knuckles. and speaking of which, lets talk about julie-su. she's supposed to be this strong woman type character but penders made her whole personality being knuckles' gf. she occassionally showed her "girl power" when she was sticking it to vector (who was turned into a misogynistic asshole to make julie look good. granted this was before heroes gave him a personality but after that you'd think they'd change up vector's character). flynn and occassionally bollers tried to make her interesting but she just didn't do it for me imo. and lara-su, knuckles' daughter who was supposed to be the main character of the "mobius: 25 years later" arc, got sidelined in her own arc. she doesn't have much of a personality there other than wanting to be the next guardian.

now when flynn came along the treatment of the female characters got better. and even more so after the reboot. but i feel like this is something we should talk about.

"only male hedgehogs can go super"

this is, without a doubt, the stupidest mandate ever. i get it, going super is something not everyone can do and if that was the case, the super form would lose its specialness. but why specify only male hedgehogs? the "hedgehogs" part is already stupid enough because tails and knuckles have gone super before, but why the "male" part? why specify that? seriously, give me one good reason why only make hedgehogs should be able to go super. i can't think of any reason this mandate exists besides sexism.

female characters being less utilized than male characters

this kind of ties in to the first point, but the female characters are generally less explored than the male characters. we have few recurring female characters and sega doesn't even utilize them that much. again, blaze has so much potential. there's so much about her to be explored, but sega just..... doesn't do that. we don't even see her much in the games anymore.

and lately, cream is also being excluded from the games. the last mainline game she appeared in was generations. and tell me, what was the reason for cream to be replaced by the chao in team sonic racing? this is amy's little sister figure, and you're just gonna replace her without giving an explanation as to where she is? at least with espio and charmy, they had a reason to not be with vector here. but with cream, there's no reason she's not here.

the female characters have so much potential. they have interesting aspects to them, dare i say it, some of them are even more interesting than the male characters. but sega just doesn't see that.

that's all for my rant. in short, sega has a history of mistreating or underutilizing their female characters as compared to their male characters. though its getting a bit better, they still have a long way to go.

#reblog #analysis #good post

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julie su doodle

#toby.txt #julie-su #i need to step away from ms paint lol #not that its bad or anything its just kinda harder for me to do sketches the way i want them to #but opening csp everytime feels so draining to me???? idk

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so sonic chronicles is a ds game, huh

#toby.txt #(writes in big letters PLAY THIS OR DIE and underlines it 3 times) #heard it might be good? im planning to play rush anywya #desume save me... desume... #im not brave enough to try to hack my 3ds and i think my sisters hacked one might not work anymore? idk where it is anyway

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This is it folks. Perhaps one of the best pieces of art I’ve ever requested to have commissioned done by the fantastic @/finn_ette over on Twitter and posted here with their permission. I cannot thank them enough for it. Because this is the cover for the latest arc of Rediscovered Frontiers. One that I had envisioned in my head for a while and needed the right artist to bring to life.

This… is the RETURN TO NEW MOBOTROPOLIS arc.

It’s been a long time coming. Now Sally Acorn, Julie-Su, Tangle the Lemur, and Nicole the Holo-Lynx must either face the past to find a better future… or allow it to break them.

Rediscovered Frontiers is a Sonic the Hedgehog fanfic whose main premise is that the IDW continuity is the Post-Super Genesis Wave reality from the Archie Comics. Nicole’s PDA was found by Tangle the Lemur and Whisper the Wolf, and together they managed to free Sally from Eggman’s control. Now, these remnants of a past world must join with friends both new and old to explore this new world and uncover the secret histories of Earth… and Mobius.

#oh this looks cool i gotta read this #on chapter 1 rn #reblog #fanart

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Sonic’s cool and all but why did they have to give him even cooler siblings that exist for 40 episodes then cease to exist

#reblog #fanart #fave

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i had the lineart done for abit i just had to color it but! finally finished some ocs :), horse is unnamed and the cow is called thyme, theyre adopted family

the horse is a cowboy and hides behind a cool dad persona, he has time powers hes hidden from his daughter he can stop time for 5 minutes and also go into the future and past for 5 minutes (has a high chance of not going to whichever point he actually wants to), hes kinda chill if you ignore all of that

thyme is a sweetheart and a teen with a awkward growth spurt <:) she has minor plant powers, she cant grow full trees or anything, she can grow small flowers, at most a patch of them, and manipulate them (i.e poison ivy to wrap around someone), she knows how to schoot a gun, probably has some psycholocal horror goign on

#srb look at my ocs boy .... #i still need a name for the horse GODD HELP ME

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crying rn ;,)

#toby.txt #this is the 2nd time my art has gotten tagged as fave . <:) the joy and whimsy