#What if it was much older than we think?

[sayurime]

Time travel is no longer a surprise to them, at least not at this point in their lives.

Their main plan was to find the chaos emeralds and use them to return to their time, in the future, as thousands of years in the future, as they discovered during their adventure, it would be easier if Knuckles were with them, the echidna had a special gift to quickly find the emeralds, unfortunately, or fortunately, only Sonic, Amy and Tails, they were stranded in the past.

On their trip they discovered that Tails' technology was impossible to find the signal of the emeralds, but luck smiled on them because after saving a young goat and hearing what they were looking for, he took them to the fortune teller of his village, an elderly woman who as soon as she saw them knew who they were.

"I was waiting for you"

They expected some prophecy, that the woman would take out some parchment where her imminent arrival was written, instead the woman only answered:

"I saw you in a dream, that's why I sent Jonathan for you"

Jonathan, the young man they rescued turned out to be the apprentice of Siddhartha, the fortune teller, Tails is not someone superstitious so he was not convinced to want to listen to this woman, Sonic, over time, has learned to respect this type of person, although only 30% of them tell the truth, Amy was excited, they sat around a fire in which the woman had a pot with something cooking,   They told him how they got there and what they needed to get back.

"And do you know how to use them to come back?" was Siddhartha's question to his story.

"Hum, well no, but I say I've used them before, it shouldn't be difficult," Sonic replied.

"As far as I know, you've only used them to beat powerful rivals, not to control time."

"How do you know what you've used them for?" asked Tails, "He didn't tell you."

"You don't need to"

The silence reigned and the three of them cast puzzled looks at each other, this woman scares them.

"If they want to go back, they must convince the guardian" Siddhartha broke the silence as he threw some leaves into the pot on the fire and with a wooden spoon stirred the contents.

"The guardian?"

The woman just nodded as she continued her work.

"You mean Chaos?" Amy asked doubtfully, the chaos emeralds and the master emerald were guarded by chaos in their time, weren't they?

"Chaos, wow, if you are familiar with emeralds, He, children?"

Siddhartha shook the spoon before leaving it on a nearby table and sitting in front of them, with the pot and fire coming between them.

"I guess then they also know about the master emerald"

"A little"

"Hm" snorted the woman "Chaos although, he was the guardian of the chaos emeralds and the master emerald, he was not the best, Chaos was once a small chao that the ME transformed into the likeness of its creators, the ancients, thinking that being a pure being would not be contaminated by the ...."

"Wait, wait, wait" Sonic interrupted loudly making a T with his hands, "I thought the ancients had only created the chaos emeralds, I didn't know that the ME too" the hedgehog was interrupted seeing a strange gleam in the woman's gaze.

"The chaos emeralds are just an extension of the master emerald, proof so to speak"

The silence reigned again, and the hedgehog returned to his place among his friends, then the woman continued.

"As I said, the ME thought that being a pure being of Chaos heart would not be affected by the energy of chaos, and he was wrong, not only was he contaminated, but he forgot his duty as guardian of the M.E, in favor of defending his own he led a race to its full extension and to his exile "

The echidna´s, still remember those heartbreaking visions that Tikal showed them so long ago.

"You're saying, Chaos doesn't exist anymore, right?" I question Tails.

"That's right"

"Then who is the guardian?"

"Don't do it," answered the old woman, standing up again, taking some plates from a shelf and starting to serve the soup she was preparing.

"After Chaos' attack, the emerald was left alone, so it created its own guardian, a creature cast of chaos energy, born from within the M.E., an eternal guardian and above all, one who would never abandon his duty"

Siddhartha answered the silent question of the travelers while handing each one a plate of soup, to which the boys were grateful. He allowed young people to organize their thoughts, being from the future does not mean that they know the whole history of the world, and, from their looks, he can tell that his words made them doubt what they thought they knew.

"Only" started the little fox, the smartest of the group from what he has seen, "From the story we know, there have only been two guardians, Chaos and... another guardian, but he does not fit with what you say"

"Really?" the old woman asked with a raised eyebrow.

"If, I say, you are saying that this guardian is made of Chaos energy, that would make him someone much more powerful than Chaos, and Chaos is known as the god of destruction in our time, and Knuckles he, he is not a god, he is strong, but"

"Hm, so Knuckles, heh, I must agree that it doesn't sound like a God."

The betrayed looks of the other two indicate that they didn't want her to know the name of the guardian, ho.

"I must assume, they know more than just a little about the M.E to even know the name of the guardian."

"Okay, if we know enough about the M.E., at least enough to know that the guar.. er Knuckles is not an immortal as you say, ma'am, maybe age is confusing you."

He knows it sounded rude, but Sonic hates how this woman talks about the "guardian", a thing whose only duty is to be tied to that magic stone with no possibility of anything else, something Sonic hates about Knuckles' duty and something they have always argued about, has said before and will continue to say, he is his own person.

"Maybe hedgehog," the old woman replied with a mocking tone.

The little hut where they were was silent, none dared to take the mysterious soup, and let their thoughts wander they know nothing about Knuckles, well this woman could be telling the truth, and that hurt them, doesn't Knucks consider them important enough to tell them something so important?   Amy wasn't so excited to meet the fortune teller anymore.

"The portal is ready master"

Jonathan's voice rumbled in the place and all eyes were directed to him making the young man nervous.

"Excellent" Siddhartha turned his gaze to the travelers and said "The portal is connected to the island, it will take you to the guardian, it will be up to you to convince him to return them to their time"

Leaving the plates full on the floor they stood up and said thank you, without really being grateful at all, they left the hut and followed Jonathan towards the portal. The old lady took the dishes and frowned.

"hm, nor my effort in cooking them"

While waiting for the portal to take them to the island, Sonic only hoped that whoever received them was not his friend, he does not know how to handle such information, he does not care that his friend is an immortal or that he is a creation of the M.E, but knowing that he does not trust him, in them, hurts him more than he thought possible.

#Knuckles the Echidna #Knuckles doesn't have an origin alone... exists and already exists #Knuckles is a creation of the Master Emerald #What if it was much older than we think? #Isn't Sonic a good enough friend to know the truth? #Does Knuckles really know that maybe he's a millennial being? #How do the portals found on Angel Island work? #Seriously #They have been there for centuries and they only work and

[michelle-jacksons-art-blog]

Try these out!

#my art #fan art #what we do in the shadows #wwdits #nandor the relentless #monster high #draculaura #mh g3 #redrew an oldie #bc I didn't like it the first time and now I love it #she's older than him by like 900 years #but she's NICER and also not afraid to break societal norms that would prevent her from dating a certain group of ppl #and also they're friends #they probably wouldn't be friends #but i think they could talk about how lonely it can get. living for so long. until you meet the right group of people #i think they would tell anecdotes to each other. once Nandor got past the silly relentless warrior act. and she finally got to talk to- #someone closer to her age that didn't look down on her #idk man I just think about characters so much. I want them all to be buddies #AND ALSO THEYRE BOTH ASIAN YAY

[angelsdean]

I need people to understand how S&P (standards and practices) works in television and how much influence they have over what gets to stay IN an episode of a show and how the big time network execs are the ones holding the purse strings and making final decisions on a show's content, not the writers / showrunners / creatives involved.

So many creators have shared S&P notes over the years of the wild and nonsensical things networks wanted them to omit / change / forbid. Most famously on tumblr, I've seen it so many times, is the notes from Gravity Falls. But here's a post compiling a bunch of particularly bad ones from various networks too. Do you see the things they're asking to be changed / cut ?

Now imagine, anything you want to get into your show and actually air has to get through S&P and the network execs. A lot of creators have had to resort to underhanded methods. A lot of creators have had to relegate things to subtext and innuendo and scenes that are "open to interpretation" instead of explicit in meaning. Things have had to be coded and symbolized. And they're relying on their audience to be good readers, good at media literacy, to notice and get it. This stuff isn't the ramblings of conspiracy theorists, it's the true practices creatives have had to use to be able to tell diverse stories for ages. The Hays Code is pretty well known, it exists because of censorship. It was a way to symbolize certain things and get past censors.

Queercoding, in particular, has been used for ages in both visual media and literature do signal to queer audiences that yes, this character is one of us, but no, we can't be explicit about it because TPTB won't allow it. It's a wink-wink, nudge-nudge to those in the know. It's the deliberate use of certain queer imagery / clothing / mannerisms / phrases / references to other queer media / subtle glances and lingering touches. Things that offer plausible deniability and can be explained away or go unnoticed by straight audiences to get past those network censors. But that queer viewers WILL (hopefully) pick up on.

Because, unfortunately, still to this day, a lot of antiquated network execs don't think queer narratives are profitable. They don't think they'll appeal to general audiences, because that's what matters, whatever appeals to most of the audience demographic so they can keep watching and keep making the network more money. The networks don't care about telling good stories! Most of them are old white cishet business men, not creatives. They don't care about character arcs and what will make fans happy. They don't care about storytelling. What they care about is profit and they're basing their ideas of what's profitable on what they believe is the predominate target demographic, usually white cis heterosexual audiences.

So, imagine a show that started airing in the early 2000s. Imagine a show where the two main characters are based on two characters from a famous Beat Generation novel, where one of the characters is queer! based on a real like bisexual man! The creator is aware of this, most definitely. And sure, it's 2005, there's no way they were thinking of making that explicit about Dean in the text because it just wouldn't fly back then to have a main character be queer. But! it's made subtext. And there are nods to that queerness placed in the text. Things that are open to interpretation. Things that are drenched in metaphor (looking at you 1x06 Skin "I know I'm a freak" "maybe this thing was born human but was different...hated. Until he learned to become someone else.") Things that are blink-and-you-miss-it and left to plausible deniability (things like seemingly spending an hour in the men's bathroom, or always reacting a little vulnerable and awkward when you're clocked instead of laughing it off and making a homophobic joke abt it)

And then, years later there's a ship! It's popular and at first the writers aren't really seriously thinking about it but they'll throw the fans a bone here and there. Then, some writers do get on the destiel train and start actively writing scenes for them that are suggestive. And only a fraction of what they write actually makes it into the text. So many lines left on the cutting room floor: i love past you. i forgive you i love you. i lost cas and it damn near broke me. spread cas's ashes alone. of course i wanted you to stay. if cas were here. -- etc. Everything cut was not cut by the writers! Why would a writer write something to then sabotage their own story and cut it? No, these are things that didn't make it past the network. Somewhere a note was made maybe "too gay" or "don't feed the shippers" or simply "no destiel."

So, "no destiel." That's pretty clearly the message we got from the CW for years. "No destiel. Destiel will alienate our general audience. Two of our main characters being queer? And in a relationship? No way." So what can the pro-destiel creatives involved do, if the network is saying no? What can the writers do if most of their explicit destiel (or queer dean) lines / moments are getting cut? Relegate things to subtext. Make jokes that straight people can wave off but queer people can read into. Make costuming and set design choices that the hardcore fans who are already looking will notice while the general audience and the out-of-touch network execs won't blink and eye at (I'm looking at you Jerry and your lamps and disappearing second nightstands and your gay flamingo bar!)

And then, when the audience asks, "is destiel real? is this proof of destiel?" what can the creatives do but deny? Yes, it hurts, to be told "No no I don't know what you're talking about. There's no destiel in supernatural" a la "there is no war in Ba Sing Se" but! if the network said "no destiel!" and you and your creative team have been working to keep putting destiel in the subtext of the narrative in a way that will get past censors, you can't just go "Yes, actually, all that subtext and symbolism you're picking up, yea it's because destiel is actually in the narrative."

But, there's a BIG difference between actively putting queer themes and subtext into the narrative and then saying it's not there (but it is! and the audience sees it!) versus NOT putting any queer content into the text but SAYING it is there to entice queer fans to continue watching. The latter, is textbook queerbaiting. The former? Is not. The former is the tactics so many creatives have had to use for years, decades, centuries, to get past censorship and signal to those in the know that yea, characters like you are here, they exist in this story.

Were the spn writers perfect? No, absolutely not. And I don't think every instance of queer content was a secret signal. Some stuff, depending on the writer, might've been a period-typical gay joke. These writers are flawed. But it's no secret that there were pro-destiel writers in the writing room throughout the years, and that efforts were made to make it explicitly canon (the market research!)

So no, the writers weren't ever perfect or a homogeneous entity. But they definitely were fighting an uphill battle constantly for 15 yrs against S&P and network execs with antiquated ideas of what's profitable / appealing.

Spn even called out the networks before, on the show, using a silly example of complaints abt the lighting of the show and how dark the early seasons were. Brightening the later seasons wasn't a creative choice, but a network choice. And if the networks can complain abt and change something as trivial as the lighting of a show, they definitely are having a hand in influencing the content of the show, especially queer content.

Even in s15, (seasons fifteen!!!) Misha has said he worried Castiel's confession would not air. In 2020!!! And Jensen recorded that scene on his personal phone! Why? Sure, for the memories. But also, I do not doubt for a second that part of it was for insurance, should the scene mysteriously disappear completely. We've seen the finale script. We've seen the omitted omitted omitted scenes. We all saw how they hacked the confession scene to bits. The weird cuts and close-ups. That's not the writers doing. That's likely not even the editors (willingly). That's orders from on high. All of the fuckery we saw in s15 reeks of network interference. Writers are not trying to sabotage their own stories, believe me.

Anyways, TLDR: Networks have a lot more power than many think and they get final say in what makes it to air. And for years creative teams have had to find ways to get past network censorship if they want "banned" or "unapproved" "unprofitable" "unwanted" content to make it into the show. That means relying on techniques like symbolism, subtext, and queercoding, and then shutting up about it. Denying its there, saying it's all "open to interpretation" all while they continue to put that open to interpretation content into the show. And that's not queerbaiting, as frustrating as it might be for queer audiences to be told that what they're seeing isn't there, it's still not queerbaiting. Queerbaiting is a marketing technique to draw in queer fans by baiting them with the promise of queer content and then having no queer content in said media. But if you are picking up on queer themes / subtext / symbolism / coding that is in front of your face IN the text, that's not queerbaiting. It's there, covertly, for you, because someone higher up didn't want it to be there explicitly or at all.

#long post #LONG-ass post #but it needed to be said! #i'm sorry if you think every creative involved with spn was a braindead asshole but the thing is. #even the most mediocre of writers understands a thing or two abt symbolism and writers working in TV are plagued by S&P #countless writers have talked abt the S&P bullshit and having to tweak and edit down their work to get past censors #it's a reality of writing for television #and the people who understand all this and understand the context of making TV in the early 2000s (to present tbh!) aren't 'delusional' #i'm sorry but it's naive to think that queer stories and queer characters are free to be told even nowadays. it's still a constant battle #times have changed but unfortunately not as much as you'd think #the confession !!!!! the confession still struggled to air and what we got was so obviously hacked down to bits!!!!!! #how can anyone think getting destiel content into the show was ever easy? #how can anyone think the pro-destiel writers weren't constantly having to be careful and underhanded in their writing? #there's a reason queercoding and subtext exist and it's this!!! it's censorship from TPTB #anyways. people much older than me have been talking abt this for ages. younger fans who are used to more open queer rep need to understand #it hasn't always been that easy and even nowadays SO many networks are still not willing to take a risk on queer stories #so creators do what they can #vic.txt

[nyctocollective]

friendly reminder that plurality is caused by trauma. trauma is defined as an event that has a severe negative impact on oneself. there are going to be dark parts of plurality that no one wants to talk about. the brain created you to cope with what it went through. it's okay to have parts (or wholes) that have “twisted” desires, attractions, innerworld or external relationships, sexual or emotional needs, etc. other people might call you disgusting, evil, immoral, but it's just part of being traumatized. it's going to be unpleasant or unsightly.

read the tags.

#shout out to our multiple pairs of siblings who fuck because of the shit our mom and dad put us through with our sister #shout out to our child alters that would put themselves in dangerous situations with irl adults if we didn't healthily satisfy them #because of what our dad and various friends much older than us did to us #shout out to our various alters with non-con fantasies‚ whether its having it done or doing it‚ because we were accused of doing it to our #family and having it done to us before we were even double digits #you might think we're disgusting but this is how the brain copes #being groomed is not an experience you shake off easily #being manipulated and abused is not an experience you shake off easily #15 years of being groomed is going to make our brain do some “twisted” shit #am i scared of posting this because a friend of mine has this account? yeah. but whatever im sure itll be fine hahah. #system #did #did system #actually did #cdid #plural system #sysblr #osdd #did osdd #osdd system #endos dni #plurality is a trauma response xoxo

[piosplayhouse]

Wait guys so Airplane's parents started new families after their divorce right. So what if Airplane has a bunch of younger half sisters that he never met. And what if those sisters were prolific PIDW yaoi fanfic authors

#that would be SO funny #90% of all pidw content fan and official is produced by the airplane dynasty #this sounds cracked out but i think airplanes estranged family is something so underexploited #so much potential #my other worse thought that came after this was what if sy is his half brother since we know hes a few years younger than airplane #but the timeline with sy having 2 older brothers doesnt rlly work so phew #svsss #sqh #shang qinghua #airplane shooting towards the sky

[clowningaroundmars]

POM posted a sneaky peek from the production room of a younger chuck with shorter hair when living back in deluxe and i just........ had so many young muckles feels man.

SO MANY

#mine #motorcity #muckles #chuck motorcity #mike chilton #if you see any mistakes no you didn't!!! :) #also this goes along with my hc that mikes lowkey a blonde fetishist #i mean his best bud in the military was a blonde...... his best bud EVER is a blonde... #do yall get my drift #ya picking up what im puttin down? ;) #also young chuck was probs a million times less confident and more anxious than he is when hes older #like if you think chucks anxiety is bad in the show.... it was most likely way WORSE before lol #its all those compliments mike pays him it builds his confidence over time :) ♡ #i cri everytim bc pom posted SO much stuff that we couldve gotten to see in the show :'( #fuckin DISNEY #add canceling this show to their long list of crimes against humanity :(

[no-light-left-on]

I often wonder about the quote-unquote logistics of Corvo the Black/Emily the Butcher endings. Emily makes more sense to me, in a way, carving her way through the empire only to come back with blood caked under her fingernails and realising that she did everything her father refused to do 15 years ago. but why did Corvo have a similar choice?

what happens to the statues later? does Emily keep her father trapped in stone? does Corvo look at his daughter, frozen in the moment and considers freeing her? is he at his deathbed when he finally reaches out and cups Emily's cheek, freeing her into a carcass of an empire that he gutted for her, in her name, in the name of her mother?

when I first heard of the endings I thought that if you reach very high chaos, you are locked into this choice - Corvo or Emily tries to free the other and the stone just doesn't budge. they are trapped. the quest is over but the world knows that the bloodshed was extreme and this is the punishment they have to face

#li.txt #dh #dishonored #kinda like the high chaos brigmore witches ending #there is no reason for corvo to kill daud if you finish BW in high chaos. but he still does. because the world Knows #but the very Active choice of the player and by extension the character to take the throne and keep their last family locked in stone.... #its certainly a choice. and it makes me wonder about many a thing #i really wish we got more info #karnaisbear mentioned that itd be cool if we got comics expanding on alternate endings and like arkane. arkane can we please get those #I just really wanna know What It Was Like to live under the rule of Emily or Corvo in the very high chaos endings #and the fact that it seems like they can still free the other person? that adds so much more angst and tension to it #is there a time limit? do years pass and does corvo grow old and weary and thinks that yes #he has done his job and he has done it well. and the empire is righted and he can hand it back to emily now #and he cups her cheek and it remains cold marble #and all he did was for nothing #and he cries #(can u tell ive been reading thru the corvo the black tag) #not to mention something similar to that but with emily!! #imagine she grows old! older than corvo was when he was frozen! #the century is coming to a close when she finally frees him and she is older so much older and corvo will have to live with losing her #in every single impossible way he has lost her #and then he gets to bury his daughter #these tags got so dark wtf

[firstroseofspring]

b’elanna vs her mother at similar ages, plus some sketches!

#my art #star trek voyager #my very first deanna…. my original obsession. if i ever read as much about betazoids as i do klingons we’re all in grave danger #also wrt the first image b'elanna is. 12 years old and as such is about to go emo mode but not quite yet. the girly girl thing is a front #sometime in winter she'll chop her hair off without permission #what do we think? human girl look to fit into the image her father has while he's still around or after to try and get him back? #miral is also a little bookish like b'elanna but on different subjects.... likes to keep to herself naturally but is also loudmouthed and #got told she shared her opinion too often a lot in university. didn't stop her though she speaks up when she thinks (knows) she's right #what did she study? don't ask me my answer changes with the weather #botany....linguistics.....military strategy.....chemistry....... uhmmmm religious studies. or even better the klingon system doesn't have #starfleet equivalents and she spent ages 15-22 doing apprenticeships for a certain (or multiple) disciplines #anyway. #kessik 2352 b'elanna has trouble sitting still for photos until she gets a little older so all the pics from before 7 are of her father #physically holding her so that she won't wander OR off guard shots or super blurry. theres more videos of that time than anything

[ahappydnp]

Talking about using the term fan- I wonder if Dan has watched Hank Green’s new video on vlogbrothers- it’s an interesting analysis of the creator side of the parasocial relationship

really hope he watched it because it was genuinely so good! i'd love for dnp to have that kind of open discussion about their perception of their community now and how they think of us as a collective/what emotions they feel when thinking about their community

#anon ask #also what hank said about how he has to remember the collective is made up of individuals with a shared interest but who are different #if im being brutally honest im still not convinced dnp fully understand their audience as much as they think #bc they essentially only interact with twitter phandom who's ages skew younger and have different motivators in how they engage in fandom #do they assume the average viewer is still a good 10 years younger than them? are they more aware that a lot of us are their age or older? #do they think we all have the same perspectives because twitter is so vocal about theirs? is in the younow chat all over again? #IM SO INTERESTED DNP CAN WE SIT DOWN IN A ROOM I WANT TO STUDY YOU

[feline-evil]

Dick or no dick confirmation Pickles was always going to be trans to me anyways; if he's swingin' somethin that's phallo babes, if he's not then his t-dick fat. What's not to get.

#metalocalypse #jay talkin #I'm sorry they wrote that awful gross little man far too likeable and relatable to on a trans level #for me not to hoot and holler and cheer for the trans pickles agenda #changes nothing about his character arc or any of the show anyone is capable of being the kind of person he is #don't make the mistake of thinking thats exclusive to cis men #his transness wouldnt change that #only adds on an extra layer to him that i think works fantastically. #Listen that dude was rejected by his family driven to drink and drugs young to escape that ran away to be in a band #is called fucking Pickles of all things and refuses to tell anyone his real last name; #over the span of four seasons and two movies he slowly starts to learn to be for others what he never had #he becomes more caring more supportive #it's not a stretch to say he undoes some of the toxic masculinity he's been keeping himself shielded behind #and learns how to be a kinder man. #all of which have no contradictions with him being trans! #In fact it doesn't take much extra thought to find ways a lot of this can line up with some trans masculine experiences #i mean. Did no one else have a younger phase where they swung as far as they could into crass rude and uncaring ways #to try and assert their masculinity only to grow and realise that you can be a man and be more caring. #Did no one else have father issues. 1 800 come on now i know those are both shared experiences a lot of us have had LOL. #at the end of the day this show aired nearly 20 years ago and is finished. we're not getting more of it #so nothing is altered nor changed if pickles is canonically trans or not ok. its fine #i mean hell i dont even need canon confirmation hes trans to me and thats all i care abt #but i think if yr getting suuuuuper weird abt needing him not to be canonically trans you have some issues #and bio essentialist ideals of gender if you think only a cis man can act like he does #again. anyone can be like that. its not exclusive. him being trans would not change him in any way shape or form lol #AND ALSO GODDDUUUGH for once i love getting to see a guy pushing 50 whos depicted as trans #do you have any idea how dire and barren it is out here. we never get to see a trans guy older than 30 and whos not a pristine model #I WANT MORE OLD SHLUBBY SHITHEAD TRANS GUYS IN MEDIA

[sylphwing]

hm. i do not like chilshi 🤔

#sylph.txt #everyone likes to joke abt how much of an epic divorce man chilchuck is #but i dont think he ever even refers to her as his ex-wife. i could b wrong bc it's been a while since i read it tho #idk a lot of his arc is him learning to b more open w others (which is essentially what ended his relationship) #and u can see how much he's grown in the chapter where senshi goes into his past #to me it would b a lot sweeter for him to take on these lessons and go back to her and make things work #it's been 4 years but he's remained loyal to her depite their issues. idk to me it rlly does feel like he still loves her he's just a fool #it's made p clear that he's a coward and that he's quick to run away so actually committing to her would b a nice way to wrap things up #we don't get to see much of his wife so i get y ppl r quick to put him w the only other man in the party #but like senshi knows abt his wife too like i do not think he's gnna b making any moves here bc he has morals lmao #(*only other older man in the party. laios doesn't qualify for old man yaoi to most chilshi likers) #(even tho chilchuck isn't old either but shh they don't care abt that) #when it comes to senshi the changeling chapter def helped him w understanding how old the rest of the party is #but he clearly still views them as significantly younger than him #i don't think he views chil as a child anymore but for the majority of their time together he did #and so going from that to in a relationship is uhh rlly weird to me! #senshi has always taken a sort of parental role upon himself #w him romance is no where as interesting as the platonic bonds he has w the rest of the party #similar to how romance is entirely unimportant to izutsumi in the succubus chapter #idk i def don't hate the pairing and there r some takes on it that i find funny #but for me i just don't see anything between them i think ppl just want an m/m ship to play with #that ao3 gap is only gnna get bigger lmao

[amarisrosalette]

just for your reminder, mondstadt literally means "moon city". moon being "mond" and city as "stadt". fyi on why i'm talking about this is because i am a literal moon enthusiast and whenever i come across this thought in my head i think "wow. my favoritest city in my favoritest game is really named after my most favoritest thing to look at." and then it just ends up strengthening my love for mondstadt even more

just wondering if there are any mondstadt enthusiasts who are also fellow moon enjoyers? plus points if you're a lore enthusiast because i REALLY wanna know the lore and origin behind mondstadt's name.

#genshin impact #mondstadt #mondstadt genshin #genshin lore #and not to mention my online name is literally amaris #which means child of the moon #that is how obssessed with the moon i am #like can venti just drop some lore to us because i'm really starting to get the vibes that mondstadt is related to the moon/lunar palace #like. mondstadt and lunar palace lore when #once again mihoyo is gatekeeping us some precious lore of them places #i also think its because either mondstadts earliest founders has a relation with one of the moon sisters? #maybe one of the moon sisters named it or its true founder named it after them #could this hint to the fact that mondstadt is much older than we think it is? #despite how isolated it was during the reign of decarabian? #like we only ever get to have mondstadt's lore form until decarabians reign until the aristocracy #not just from what we're first introduced in the cutscenes but in the books and lore pieces that we get from the game #i wonder if there is a deeper history that extends from even far beyond decarabians reign #like besides #what was decarabian doing even before he reigned mondstadt? how did he even get that position? #and once again my ramblings all circle back to venti #i hope carmen dei act II will give us some huge lore bomb about mondstadt's origins and it's name #plus the moon sisters #and pleaspleapselpaase decarabian lore i'm so fascinated with this god #like yeah ik he's a tyrannical ruler but please #ok im done

[pixlokita]

Hey Pix, how do you think 3 star Vanessa and Gregory see each other? Does Gregory think of Vanessa as a big sister, auntie or parental figure and vice versa for her?

they are

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Found family babeyyyy!!!

#pix answers #fnaf #Idk this question keeps reminding me of the fact that like my family? #Tbh we have a huge family right? and i swear idk how were related but ??? like even if idk if they’re a cousin or aunts or uncles or even #family friends xD heck I swear I even have nephews and nieces older than me 😭 idk #but like ? yeah who cares what they are we don’t think about that in the family gatherings we just vibing #she’s a cherished and irreplaceable family member whom he loves and appreciates very much #older sister? parent? auntie ? man :v that’s Nessa 💖💥 #there’s only one Nessa

[maddy-ferguson]

when people who like seasons 1 and 2 better explain why it was better they always lose me when they say "the characters were what mattered the most the supernatural plot was basically not that important it was ALL about the characters" like...that's just what YOU were more interested in not what was happening in the show? like wdym the supernatural plotline wasn't that important in seasons 1 and 2. saying that it was more balanced or more subtle i get but saying that the supernatural plot wasn't THAT important and that it's not what made anyone love the show is a blatant lie

#and like i say: brf slt #and i've seen people say this many times on many occasions i'm not even exaggerating. or making anything up #and i've been saying this for. a year and a half. minus two months. when volume 1 came out someone tweeted 'what the duffers fail to #understand is that no one watches st because they care about the russians or whatever. people watch st to see a ragtag group of kids be #nice to each other! to see a lesbian and a man with nice hair be friends!' and i said i agree with this at like 60% the 60% being ofc that #i hate the russia stuff we know this. but like. as much as i like the relationships between the characters if there's no life-threatening #things going on for more than a few dozen minutes...then i don't really care like that would be another show. (this has been a constant #i was not as into the show or the characters as i am now when i said that like volume 1 was my first time watching the show #since 2019. and it's a constant because it's still true) like that's literally what fanfic is for. or other shows. #and plenty of people watch stranger things for the russians or whatever i was actually surprised when people were ranking the subplots i #saw quite a lot of people put russia in their top 2 i was stunned. it was mostly older people older people meaning anyone who was 22 in #the past. i'm kidding but like idk people who were like 40+ and also guys? idk. like there's actually an audience for that my bad you guys #(not my bad i will always be a russia in st anti. because i hate it.) #my point is. no that was actually it. i just don't get it wdym people don't like the STORY plenty of people do. in the fandom especially i #totally get focusing more on the characters and being more interested in that i literally never talk about the supernatural plot and i #really like the characters yk and i understand when people say that they enjoyed the distribution between character things and supernatural #plot things in s1-2 more but saying that the supernatural stuff was like an afterthought and that no one actually cares or cared ever and #that it was never important is? like i get where they're coming from but also...no #and i get doing the 'if you don't take it as literally the monsters and supernatural plot things mean this and that for real life and for #the characters' i think it's very fun but like. if you don't like the genre and ignored it for the characters...?that's not really on them #i worded this like my joyce and bob post from july i hope you like it. the first sentence only #wait i actually didn't. just realized. false advertising sorry #saying this as someone who likes seasons 1 and 2 better too that goes without saying

[thatonebipotato]

apparently people are already starting to babify Simon P again,,

that is an almost 60 year old man who lived through an apocalypse and the trauma of being suppressed in his own mind for almost a thousand years, who then had to be thrown into the future where he lost his lover and was left to struggle in an unfamiliar environment while he grappled with whether or not being present in time and sane was even worth it

what do you mEAN

#simon petrikov #oh he's so innocent hes so sweet hes so ehehe >w<!!!!! #SHUT THE FUCK UP??? #kills you /nsrs #someone said he'd probably think sex was just kissing... EXCUSE ME #he is. a grown ass man. with a fiane and a vampire daughter and a phd and a good understanding of wilderness survival #you think he wouldnt know what SEX IS!?!??!?! #dies and perishes but in a BAD WAY #stop treating men and especially traumatized and likely neurodivergent men like CHILDREN challenge go #level easy but you fucked it up anyway huh #btw this doesnt apply to very specific memes #memes and stuff are cool and if you dumb him down for those thats.. i mean a little weird but its alright #i mean ppl who so very genuinely view him as some some soft helpless innocent man #is he pathetic and helpless? a little. especially in the present of Ooo. but also and not to sound repetitive but also that an adult #and one who is very much on the older side #dont?? baby him??? #why do we need to have this conversation like every other year #probably more than that honestly

[gemkun]

one thing that has pestered me for a while is the subject of ratio's age and his birthday. the latter isn't as important so i will focus on the former.

i think most people agree he's somewhere in his 30s or later but after reading these it got me thinking what if he is in fact younger. he proved professor rond's conjecture in middle school which as the mathematician's letter also states is the time veritas was recommended to the university of veritas prime. he also explicitly mentions that ratio learns at a staggering speed which could hint at the equation being solved roughly around his earlier years of high school which puts him around 14 — 15 if we use china's middle school education system. so , let's say he was enrolled at 15.

from here , i believe he went beyond and partook in several doctorates at once which is actually possible it is just unthinkable and highly inadvisable. but veritas ratio took on the challenge and earned a title that had been unclaimed for two amber eras. if this is the case , then the second message and looking at the user id must indicate that veritas had been present for 10 years at the university — as a student and as a teacher. he would have achieved his doctorates 6 — 8 years after his admission into university and since he was directly eligible to teach , we can say he has been teaching for 2 years since he was a ta prior to this and was notorious as an assistant alone. which puts him at an age of 25 years old.

this means that with his accolades and numerous achievements , he is only in his mid — 20s.

#* ✦ 𝐈𝐕. ❮ isms ❯ ⸻ ❝ #* ✦ 𝐕𝐈. ❮ muses ❯ ⸻ ❝ 「 veritas ratio 」 #okay but this is all just gem sick brain thots #cause you can argue the posted messages could be from awhile ago #but since the older messages are reposted and these comments are not #i think its reasonable to treat them as recent ones #i just think his age was quite emphasised to explicate how young he is and how much he has achieved #he could be a little younger or older than 26 but this is what i have so far #for all we know the hater could have been a student he met the first time he arrived which is how im treating it #i used the extremes of the ranges but you can also use the younger end which puts him at 24 and that would be crazy #but also when do you think his birthday is