#THIS UNUSED POTENTIAL

[chubs-deuce]

since I did some fancy outfit fuckery with Al and Charlie, I figured Vaggie should be next,,,

#I love her sm actually and I think it's a travesty that canon did her lowkey really diry in terms of writing :( so much unused potential #hazbin hotel #vaggie #vaggie hazbin hotel #digital art #fanart #art #my art #outfit design #character design

[halfagone]

Here's another crackish idea:

While in his ghost form, Danny can emit extremely powerful ultraviolet rays. So powerful, in fact, that any Kryptonian that so happens to be nearby at the time can withstand Kryptonite poisoning and/or exposure. It doesn't affect normal humans, thankfully, but Kryptonian biology has always interacted differently with ectoplasm.

Danny's not complaining. Whenever it's a cloudy day in Metropolis, or one Super or another is down on their luck, Danny is happy to give a hug or hold hands to make their day a little brighter.

#dpxdc #i've noticed i write a lot of superman x danny phantom ideas specifically #i love danny and the batfam of course #but there is just so much unused potential between these two mediums

[lu-kario]

i don't know how fandom manages to portray kaidou as an 'uwu smol boy must be protected' type of character when he's the most obnoxious, pretentious smug little chuunibyou shit (mikrus) out there.......

#justice for kaidou shun #im not saying i hate him im just saying he has unused potential #kaidou shun #saiki k #saiki kusuo no ψ nan

[snackugaki]

.... i need a simpler way to draw the bay turtles whathefuck

#fanart #bayverse tmnt #tmnt 2016 #bay Donnie #bay Venus #bayverse Donnnie #bayverse Venus #bay tmnt #Venus and Jennika get their turtle tatts post-City At War arc #am I still bitter we didn't get 237401713 TMNT movies like we got Transformers? #fkkn YES #are you kidding me #they could've followed up with Krang's oath of revenge and brought in Triceratons #or as I've BEEN saying #City At War arc would've been a good fit for those movies #UNUSED POTENTIAL #anyway #beep beep joining the Donnie the Family Tattoo Artist headcanon wagon #I don't know if their mutation would make them more tolerant to pain #or if their thick scales just makes it harder and it hurts roughly about the same even with a modded tattoo gun #Venus just tanks the whole inking process from clan tatt to the daisy on her wrist #the meditation balls are the kind that ring #Donnie almost fell asleep mid-tattooing because of them #guess bay Venus is just a master of the internal arts #still can't figure out how they'd implement external arts/chi in that iteration #unless they use Super Advanced Tech So Intuitive It's Basically Magic if they dip into TMNT's scifi aspects #Casey absolutely would've gotten the broest bicep clan tatt #and use it as an excuse to get sleeves #i'll draw my daughter in ANY iteration #WATCH ME

[bumblingbabooshka]

Do you think Kes' ability to pick up on things so quickly is linked to her being an Ocampa? Like, since she's 2~ years old in canon (and has distinct memories of her father) I imagine her species doesn't spend much time as children and I wouldn't imagine they'd have formal schools (like entire buildings for schooling) and would instead learn from like, primarily parents or other elders. In that case learning things very quickly would be extremely beneficial for their survival. Kes: Oh yes, childhood...what a lovely few days~ Kes was a baby like for a day and then the next day she was up and ready to learn. Kes meets Naomi and every day that passes she becomes more and more amazed that she's still a baby. Wow! It's been like two months and she still can't do anything?? The doctor told her it was normal but wow. What I'm saying is they should have had Kes as a jack-of-all-trades character who could slide into pretty much any of the teams on Voyager. The Doc misses her when she's not in sickbay though!

#Kes: Doctor I'm sorry this is just the sort of wisdom you have when you get older v_v #Doctor: You're only 2 years old. / Kes: You're 'only' a few months old. #Can you imagine Kes learning that Tuvok's like a hundred? That'd be like someone saying they're over a million years old in Human aging #I'd imagine even Janeway's 40~ years is like a hundred to her #Kes gives Samantha Wildman a very difficult biology book and is like 'for When Naomi's.....(trying to guess)....4?' #'Kes is a child because she's 2 years old' boo - engage with the unused horror and hilarity of a humanoid species that is fully matured #before they are a year old. #I just think Kes is a very interesting character who had a lot of WASTED potential (like seriously she was SO squandered) and I wish she #wasn't only mentioned to like dunk on Neelix - she's a fun character in her own right even if the writers don't think so!! #Kes #st voyager #I wish Kes had stayed so we could see the makeup department try to make her look old or the writing team bullshit ways to keep her young #It would also have been emotionally devastating to see her die of old age (in the version of Voyager where she bonded with the crew and had #more episodes devoted to her personality etc etc) #Doc: What're you learning today?? / Kes: Lieutenant Torres is teaching me rocket science :)

[hopalongfairywren]

never seen you talk about it, but I might’ve missed it. so uh any thoughts on c!eret at the red banquet? I miss her dearly

One of my favorite underrated moments, possibly in the whole server, is when c!Eret was about to be executed and calls the eggpire monsters for betraying everyone's trust. c!Ponk responds 'Okay Eret, you wanna talk about trust.' Obviously referencing the final control room, and c!Eret responds that 'he knew better now not to betray people's trust'. And I just find that fascinating because c!Ponk wasn't involved in the final control room. Yes his lemon tree technically kick-started the lore but he really didn't have anything to do with the revolution arc. And we got him making a snarky comment at c!Eret! I really like hearing characters within universe, react to other characters decisions and bring up their pasts especially characters who don't really interact that often, which the red banquet was kind of the end of the Dream SMP server getting together and having characters who weren't necessarily 'important' to that plot point, show up and interact in what felt like a natural way. (barring the prison break) For a story that became so focused on history, and how our choices impact how other people view us, I feel like that just didn't happen as much as it could have. Or should have, in my opinion.

#thanks for the ask! #the wren calls #dream smp #dsmp #dsmpblr #dsmp lore #dsmp lore analysis #egg arc #egg lore #eggpire #c!ponk #c!eret #I almost answered something about the unused potential of a c!hannah/eret parallel but that's low hanging fruit for me

[funishment-time]

kirumi insight from kodaka

auto-translation:

Why did Tojo-san decide to become a maid?

auto-translation:

I think that because she could do anything, she felt it was boring to use her power for herself and felt more comfortable serving others, and that is why she was so selfless.

#danganronpa #kirumi tojo #ndrv3 #new danganronpa v3 #i'm still not done with V3 yet so i may Eat these words but #kirumi is literally the anti-junko and anti-kamukura at the same time #if they just offed her without doing an Arc about her #when she would have been a Thematic boon to the entire franchise #i will lose my mind #even if i didn't love Kirumi i'd feel this Way #HUGE unused potential here if they ignored that #maybe that's the Point #but it's hella Boring and one of the few things in the franchise that will really make me miffed if she's not important at all

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

the thing with doctor who i think is that it gets better the more you know. maybe this is true of all writing but i only know doctor who so we'll focus on that. but i think it gets better the more you know this is why my fic is not very good. i dont know many things. i think if you have a background in like, just any field you can use you can make your doctor who stories more interesting. like linguistics maths physics and music are things that come to mind for me that i would like to know to make my doctor who stories more interesting but i think it can work with, like, almost anything. biology stuff also works well adds a lot. sociology stuff history. if you know how to sew really well or youve worked in meat factories. just, if you have deep knowledge about something this will enrich your doctor who stories (again, might be true for literally every writing)

but also things you can know that are just lived and not books. like i said with that post about different countries' doctor whos, every country would bring its own history and values and perspective to the stories. but also like for example the class stuff or the queer stuff you see with rtds stories like anything a writer Knows will make their stories more interesting

and thats why doctor who could literally be so good If They Diversified Their Fucking Staff. in every sense of the word. you need disabled people, trans people, racialised people, people with different religions but you need people who know other things than writing too! which i get is difficult because theyre mostly working in their fields and not writing but like there are writers who are not or have not only ever just been writers. or just get writers with some weird fucking hobbies!

even in the most basic way even if you keep your entire show white christian able-bodied man, if you have more of those you will have better stories. it will still suck! but like, less than if you only have 1 guy writing right? thats not a novel concept artists know this writers know this thats why they work together. and i get that making tv is very complex and theres a lot of interests and a lot of choices being made that arent even to do with the stories but i find it so frustrating to think about how good doctor who could be if they let other people in to put their knowledge and their perspective in the stories

#and not just in the writing but in Every Department Obviously #i just dotn know how television is made so i dont know. like. what those are #the secret good disabled trans decolonialist doctor who that lives in my head man #like you know that feeling when an artist like...........Gets a certain theme or smth #like Knows what to do with it bc they have a certain own experience or knowledge #like when an artist truly fucking knows what theyre doing #you know that feeling? when youre like this SAYS something abt the theme/trope/idea/whatevs #you know? #doctor who is so full of unused potential #i feel like we're spinning our wheels a little bit #and maybe others feel that too bc showrunners keep being like WE NEED NEW SHOCK BIG NEW #but like. youre not gonna get that with the same old perspectives! #for truly new good refreshing you need some new good refreshing people on the mic #anyway. just. frustrates me #10 to the master but it's me to doctor who the show: you could be so much more! #like 13 and 15 are fun right? with the idk new outfit and the rwandan proverb on the sonic. fucks. but #to use rtds own words. ridiculous craven feeble gesture also a little bit. i want like. substantially good stories #i want to feel like the writer knows what theyre talking about you know? #you know that feeling #anyway #you get what im saying #the secret good doctor who that lives in my head man #except. it doesnt live in my head. bc it lives in many otherp eoples head. by definition #but sometimes i read like fic by friends who fucking Know things and im like damn #damn!!!!! doctor who could be so much better!!!!!! #i also think when youre a writer whos only a writer theres the risk of chasing your own tail a bit #in that th elonger youre a writer the more you only start writing about writing bc thats what you Know #i think thats a risk #also not a novel concept pretty sure professional writers are aware of that one gfhkjghgjg theyre not stupid

[retro-friki]

Call me Lady Prospera, the way I'm a fan of Ericht Samaya.

#g witch #gundam the witch from mercury #prospera mercury #elnora samaya #ericht samaya #mainly i mourn all her unused potential #just like Elnora lol

[yourselfcola]

so i figured out the catz scp inside the music box has three scripts at the very end of it that just specify start and end frames for animations for each dance they're used for, which means if i plug in the frames for the unused oddballz dance animations he can dance like a person

#this can also potentially be used to make them do any unused animation #petz #petz 3 #damien #gif

[biblically-accurate-dca]

Your headcanon about Moon being in charge of the animatronics' "nap time" is biblically accurate!! (to the unused content that is but still!👍)

i pride myself on my canon compliance B)

it's also such an interesting tidbit tho?? there seems to be a lot of conflict for what moon's backstory and purpose actually is in the games vs the books..

cause the books say moon being it's own entity was a "glitch" that they couldn't remove and that they were actively preventing it from coming out even before the virus infected everything... but then the games have all these small things like the daycare's nighttime mode, moon's overwhelming presence in parts & service, and whatever vanny is using it for that imply that moon is intentional and possibly even more important that sun is???

it's all so confusinggg... especially now with eclipse officially added to the mix @ _ @

#ask #i love sb's unused content it's my favorite thing ever and somehow i'm always learning something new about it #it's genuinely my favorite game of the series at this point.... there's just so much to learn and explore #despite the very large amount of problems it has it's still very special to me simply due to how much potential it has #it was overly ambitious and that's why it failed.. but that's also why i love it so much

[kustas]

#mine #witch hat atelier #coustas and dagda #I believe this boy has so much unused potential at being a little shit. But he's too nice #coustas #dagda

[wingsofhcpe]

You ever watch a movie that has the potential to make one of the most ground-breaking anti-war & anti-american imperialism/exceptionalism statements and then it just... doesn't. And you want to start screaming at the writers because they took a unique, groundbreaking idea and tossed it into the bin in order to end up writing yet another "US military saves the day from the Bad Eastern Europeans!" mediocre 1 hour and 50 minutes.

Anyway, that was my experience with Netflix's 'Spectral' in a nutshell.

#at least it was visually stunning but like you had the potential to have the ghosts of the people the US military murdered rise upZ #-to take revenge against those who slaughtered them. the potential for the US army to have to face the consequences of their actions #and in the end... nopeTM they are Actually the heroes again & the 'ghosts' were just Evil Eastern European Weapons or sth. #spectral #netflix spectral #anyway. great unused concept to perhaps use and develop further for an original story of mine.

[cosmiccomma]

here's a fun fact actually lieutenant kim kitsuragi does not practice proper evidence handling techniques

#guy acts so uptight anf then he makes a piece of evidence potentially unusable #lol! #kim kitsuragi #disco elysium

[cattimeswithjellie]

While A03 Is Down...

I don't know if anybody else out there is jonesing quite as bad for fanfic while AO3 is down, but just in case anybody is, I have thrown some of my fanfic into a Google Drive folder to share out to anybody who wants something to read. I wish I had access to more/better fics than just what I've written myself, but hey, desperate times call for desperate measures!

Here's what I've got so far, I may add one or two more if I can dig them out of the depths of my hard drive:

All Your Strength of Arm and Heart and Brain: A few weeks into Double Life, some of the soulmates find that their bonds chafe uncomfortably, while others find theirs wrapping around their necks. Scar escapes an increasingly untenable situation at the Red Velvet Keep and goes looking for somebody who might understand his predicament. Lucky for him, Pearl understands what it’s like when things go south with a soulmate who used to be a friend.

Set You Sailing From My Harbor: Another game has begun for the Players trapped in this strange cycle of death games. Grian is soulbound to the person he loves most, but in a world designed to bring about misery and death, love is a trap just waiting to be sprung. There’s only one way to avoid it, if he is strong enough to pull it off. 

I Hope You Blink Before I Do: Yes, maybe Pearl screwed up by going to the Nether before finding her soulmate. It had been a careless thing to do. But Scott has forgiven her carelessness before, as she has for him. They were best friends once, so why is he punishing her now? Is it even about her at all? (Written after Session One of Double Life.) 

This Heart of Mine That's Guilty, Not Remorseful: “MY GRIAN WAS SORRY TOO.” What if Grian had been a little more ruthless in his efforts to win the mayoral race? What if he’d noticed that Mumbo listened to Grumbot more than to him? What if he’d taken advantage of that fact, even if it meant stealing the voice of his robot child? Grumbot isn’t going to let that happen again, no matter what. 

Here's the link to the file, it should be viewable by anybody. I encourage other people to maybe post some of their fic too, it at least passes the time while we are waiting!

#double life smp #hermitcraft #hermitcraft fanfic #fanfiction #i miss ao3 like i'd miss one of my limbs #hermitshipping but only in one story #i actually really liked that grumbot story and i sort of forgot it #that storyline has lots of unused potential

[short666bread]

If I were Draco Malfoy’s post war tattoo artist :-)

Moth symbolizing change and transformation and finding light in the darkness

And the swords and daggers symbolizing killing that part of himself, not just covering it up or forgetting

The right snake is obv just a part of the mark and represents subservience to the dark lord and his cause, but the second added one on the right represents subservience to his father and his name

#nd the hearts on the swords bc I think change also has to be an act of self love not just self recrimintation #you’ve got to love your potential #draco malfoy #dark mark #modified dark mark #tattoos #:-) mm yes procrastinating working on flash by making different unusable flash