#and as such it was kind of a mess

[thelediz]

Sonic Underground Episode 18: Friend or Foe

I’m watching Sonic Underground in search of inspiration to finish a fic I’ve been writing forever. It’s a sad state of affairs. See the recap of the first three episodes here, if you're interested!

The plot (for want of a better word): In search of their mother, the Sonic Underground explore the dreaded Floating Island! But it’s guardian, Knuckles the Echidna, has been tricked by Sleet into thinking the Sonic Underground are the bad guys! Can they convince him to join the side of good before it’s too late?

Aaaah! It’s the Knuckles episode! Oh my god, these episodes are SO TERRIBLE, I love them!

Okay, so apparently the Oracle sent the triplets to the Floating Island. “The Floating Island is fraught with danger. Beware the echidna.”

In my headcanon of Sonic 3 having happened before this, you can just imagine Sonic going “yes. Beware the echidna. His stupidity is a damn menace to himself and everyone around him” but in canon, Sonic’s just being irresponsible as ever.

And immediately gets caught in a trap. We are amused.

Back in the day, Knuckles was known for his traps. I’m surprised Underground kept this, because by the time Adventure came out (which was just after this series) they’d basically abandoned that part of Knuckles’ character in favour of him being a gullible treasure hunter. Hilariously, the Archie comics (which remember, this series often pulls from) ignored both bits of characterisation.

This series also introduced Knuckles’ pet dinosaur Chomps. I cannot explain this character’s existence and will not attempt to.

Knuckles is tricked with a deep fake. Which, I mean, credit to this series’ Knuckles that at least it’s a hologram, instead of Robotnik just telling him Sonic is bad.

(Also, side note, it’s kind of funny that these days, deep fakes are made with AI, so the voices tend to be a bit too fast, whereas back in the day, you had to piece together words from old recordings, so they tended to be a bit slow. Just interesting how technology changes things…)

While Sleet and Dingo run away from Knuckles, Chomps eats their hologram thing. Because how else would the triplets figure out Knuckles isn’t evil?

Another weird thing this series added is the Sacred Pools, which are like… magic water fountains. Knuckles uses them to see things and communicate with people… and fast travel. It’s weird.

So, as contractually obligated, Sonic and Knuckles immediately get into a fight, despite Sonia suggesting they reason with him. After Knuckles has already thrown punches. This does nothing because Knuckles cannot be reasoned with. I love this idiot.

Meanwhile, Sleet and Dingo are searching for the underground chamber that the Archie comics used as the Chaos Emerald shrine. Confusing bit of lore here, because in Sonic 3 and Knuckles, the underground shrine was for the Super Emeralds. The Master Emerald (which is what actually keeps the Island afloat) has always been kept above ground, but for some reason, the Master Emerald wasn’t part of comic or animated continuity until after Sonic Adventure. The Archie comics had the twelve (? I think… I’d have to go check and I’m comfy in bed right now) emeralds in the shrine which kept the island afloat (until events happened that coalesced them into one with Mammoth Mogul inside and it was a whole thing so let’s just move on). Sonic Underground has a Master Emerald, and shard-like things that will show up in a later episode, and it’s all a bit confusing really.

Sonia and Manic are in a hole underground because of Knuckles' traps. Naturally Sonia has to get them out of there, instead of, you know, the guy with power over the earth. Sigh.

 Anyway, this makes them run into Chomps, who shows them the hologram. Which has the triplets in a different standing order than before. Who needs continuity?

And Knuckles cements himself as an idiot by breaking a bridge he himself is standing on. Now, anyone who’s played the games knows that Knuckles can glide, so this is not actually a problem, but he can’t actually do that in Sonic Underground. He gets off the bridge, but while Sonic homing attacks (before this was a game mechanic, it was an animation trope) himself out of danger, Knuckles gets too close to the edge of the trap and starts falling.

Side note, if you ever want to get super drunk, take a shot every time Sonic says “bummer majores” in this series. You will die.

So while Knuckles nearly tumbles to his death, Sonic literally stands by, makes jokes, and applauds. But he saves the idiot in the end, so it’s okay. I feel like this whole episode could have benefited from someone fast forwarding some of the animation on Sonic and Knuckles, but they needed the extra seconds.

Meanwhile, Sleet and Dingo find the Emerald and take it, and the island starts falling. Everyone comes together for a final chase… only for Dingo to get distracted and drop the emerald. They bring out a bunch of SWATbots to ensure the episode has reason for –

THE SONG: (Things are not always) What They Seem. Which quietly steals a bass line from Sonic 3, I think. Kind of funky anyway. Go off, kids.

Anyway, they get the emerald back, Sleet throws away the communicator so he can pretend to have not heard Robotnik threatening him, and we end on Knuckles roasting what definitely looks like a giant heart (“kroopnik, an echidna delicacy”) for everyone’s dinner. Sonic declines to try it.

Knuckles reveals that Queen Aleena was on the island when he was a kid, and shows them a marking she left in the rocks. A message for her children, telling them that Knuckles is the first ally they need to defeat Robotnik.

This will not go anywhere except one episode later in the series. Don’t get excited.

But yes. Aren't you glad that while this series will never have fan-favourite Tails, or logic, or good animation, it does at least pay lip-service to Sonic 3? Yes? Yes? Anyone?

Oh well. Come back tomorrow for more, I guess.

#sonic underground #lediz fics #sonic the hedgehog #knuckles the echidna #sonia hedgehog #manic hedgehog #this was a Plot Important Episode #and as such it was kind of a mess #welcome back to the Trashfire

[mumblesplash]

(teaching my art class)

me: and what’s the number one rule when designing characters with wings? …well?

a handful of students, sighing reluctantly: no good fa-

me (interrupting them): NO good-faith attempts at realism, EVER. you want all the bird dweebs and physicists jumping ship as EARLY AS POSSIBLE so they’re not around to cinemasins your ass when you get to the cool parts of your story, and…ugh, what now, gerald

gerald (my least favorite student): why not just do some minimal research instead of-

me: listen you little shit i can and will singlehandedly tank your 4.0 gpa

#mumbling #don’t worry i’m not actually an art teacher i would never #no one deserves that #the art class is a metaphor #man when i was in high school i did NOT fully register how messed up it was that teachers could just do that #like the gym teacher at my school would give straight-A 4.0 students bad grades as some kind of power trip #for underperforming on athletic tests she didn't even pretend to prepare us for

[egophiliac]

I have SO many thoughts about everything and they are in no kind of order yet, so here's just some quick little bits in the meantime!

I am not normal about any of these characters!

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 part 6 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 part 6 spoilers #me just staring at the ceiling thinking about anime characters #if i start talking about the big stuff now it's going to turn into a huge rambling mess so in the meantime #i did not get sebek (yet) (i need to contemplate my gems...) but i did see his groovy #he is just full-on cinderella-sparkles bibbidi-bobbidi-booing into that armor! magnificent. #and i really don't have enough words for how much i love tiny malleus. he is perfect. he is precious. he is everything to me. #he knows who his dad is no matter what some crusty dead talking ectoplasm blobs say #(man no wonder lilia's got hangups if THAT was the general attitude he was getting) #('eww you got your dirty bat cooties on the prince' go sit in the corner with mrs. rosehearts you absolute garbage) #(...i did kind of love that lilia started to wake up because the senate said one nice thing to him) #(and he immediately was like 'this is not reality') #(sounds about right) #on a lighter note i was just. SO charmed by the little throwaway about ✨dragon lord consort esteemed diplomat revaan✨ #who picks the vegetables out of his food and hides them under the tablecloth #everything i learn about this man makes me like him more. he was SO dumb. #now we know where malleus gets it from i guess #also unrelated but once again the fact that i named my mc tamago has had unintentional consequences #tamago take the tamago and tamago tamagao tamago #frikkin love that when yuu gives the egg back you can just be like 'i love him. this is my baby now.' 100% accurate. #also yuu continually referring to malleus as tsunotarou even to the senate = amazing. yuu really has NO self-preservation or awareness. #they fit right in with everyone else #<- see what did i tell you. huge rambling mess. #and i haven't even BEGUN to talk about MELEANOR -- (is dragged offstage by a hook)

[adobe-outdesign]

there was a period of time during the early days of Neopets wherein they would redesign an older pet. in order to pick a redesign they'd offer a poll with a few different options, like this:

but during 2001—2004 they would do polls with several completely normal, similar-looking options and then one (1) just completely messed up option that they never acknowledged or explained

my personal favorite was the Gelert one

#neopets #neotag #mynci #kougra #gelert #outdesign posts things #I like the mutant gelert we got but I also kind of unironically wish that messed up design was the mutant #presumably these were joke options but you could vote on them which makes me wonder what they would've done if the gag option won #greatest hits

[jamiethebeeart]

Lineart by @ovytia-art which was such a blast to color - I love the entire vibe of all of them hanging out together so much @green-with-envy-phandom-event

#greenwithenvy2024 #danny phantom #i picked it for Dani originally but i really do love seeing all of them interact together it makes me really happy to see #fun fact the flats (including background) took almost 4 hours. + i had to spread that up over a few days due to eye problems slowing me dow #but it was so so worth it. no one else will really understand but working on it gave me the same kind of goofy fun stress free feeling as #when me and my friends hang out at our dennys. i have a newfound fondness for nasty burger. #anyway do NOT look too closely at the car background because i /know/ they're messed up perspective just. hush. #i designed some nasty burger logos for this based on the canon sign! it was very fun!!!! and i reused them for another piece #dp jbee

[emacrow]

Cass secretly brought home a cardboard box during Mr. Freeze attempt to freeze gotham again after patrols.

Problem being is nobody knows that she brought home a creature until things started going missing.

First it was Damian's favorite katana, then dick's nightwing mask, Tim's personal coffee mug that he still accusing of Dick taking it, Duke's special sunglasses, one of the Barb's purples USBs, one of alfred's cookie mixing batter spoons, Jason's old Robin cape during a few months or so..

It came to Bruce attention the moment his batman belt went missing when he went down the batcave...

Someone brought something home that taking their stuff and mostly all point to Damian who swears on the lararus pits themselves that he didn't do it.

Cass is quiet the whole time.. until Tim noticed and pointed out that in the board of missing stuff and clues that She didn't get any of her stuff stolen..

Her face went still before a tiny adorable dust of pink went across her face as she handed signed that she may have.... found a abandoned creature during patrols... a couple of months ago.

Cass leading them to her room to her closet that look iced cold yet able to function still where a makeshift nest of sort of soft blue space related blankets, and all the stuff that were stolen along with other items they didn't even noticed were taken.

And the culprit behind it all was a tiny little looking 8 year old boy with pale skin, glowing defying gravity like black mixed white hair, with pale mixed greenish blue eyes. The kid wearing one dove hoodie Jammies, staring wide eyed at them.

Before the batfam can speak, Cass made a shushing motion with her mouth as she signed that he can't really control his voice that sound much like a banshee.

Part 2

#dpxdc #dc x dp #danny phantom #dp x dc crossover #dp x dc #dc x dp prompt #dcxdp #de aged danny #cassandra cain #cass find a lil banshee ghost boy during patrol and saw adoptable #danny screamed at her to warned her off of the danger situation she was heading to get close to him #cass think danny is some kind of banshee hybrid #Danny's ghost wails count as a banshee cry right? #cass kept him in her room trying to figure out how to introduced danny to the group without danny mid panicking.. #danny went through major trauma that messed his core up bad #some banshee warn people of death and can be protectors #danny see cass and thinks she is elle..

[criticalsyourroles]

now i've watched a fair amount of d&d i've started to pick up on the differences between dm style i think

like brennan IS all the bad guys. every game he dms is brennan vs the players. he makes npcs and battles that make his friends throw things at him and he smirks the whole time. he makes them tell him their worst fears and then he makes them do it. and it's awful and amazing and really funny

matt IS exandria. his characters and battles never feel written or constructed, they just feel like things that already existed in the world. it's all about verisimilitude with him, and he's amazing at it. he tends to fade into the background and let the players react to the story and it makes everything he does incredibly cinematic

aabria dms like she's just another player at the table reacting to the story, right up until someone gets lulled into a false sense of security and tries to fool around and THEN she throws a curveball by making them deal with the consequences of their choices. she's like oh you think that's funny?? then i'm about to be hilarious, bitch. and she keeps getting away with it bc she's just that good!

basically, brennan's an evil bastard, matt's the world, and aabria's the queen of consequences

or:

brennan - fuck

matt - around

aabria - find out

#brennan lee mulligan #matt mercer #aabria iyengar #sorry but this made me laugh agdjgsjsgs #petition for a d20 series dmed by brennan w aabria as a pc where a couple eps in her pc kills brennan's bbeg and they swap seats #revealing she was the dm all along #i also really want a round robin series. all dms at the table and they take turns controlling the narrative #whether it's in order or just like. every time one of them kills the dm's npc they become the dm or smth #it'd be really fun i'd love to see what kind of mangled mess of a story we'd get #i haven't listened to that much taz but griffin seems to be a mix of brennan and aabria where he does things for the bit #and then eventually he's like oh btw the bit is immense emotional trauma. whoops!

[bet-on-me-13]

Ellie is a Clone Misunderstanding

So, I' sure most of us have seen a story/prompt or two about Ellie being on the Teen Titans or Young Justice right? Here's my question, does she tell them about her being a Clone, or does she just omit that from her resume?

Imagine a scenario where Ellie is on a mission with her team (Let's say YJ for this). They are nearly done, when she gets hit by some type of Ecto-Weapon in the middle of the fight?

She is hurt, but shrugs it off and continues the battle. In the end, the team manages to come out on Top, and they return to Base.

The others are fretting over Ellie, asking how she is doing and if she needs ant help. She's never once been hit while in Battle, her Phasing Powers are stronger than even Miss Martian, so they are understandably concerned for her health.

She tells them that she's fine, and goes off to her room to rest, telling them to drop it.

Later that night, one of her teammates goes to her room to fetch her for Dinner. They knock on the door, but she doesn't respond. After a while, they decide to just open the door and find Ellie collapsed on the floor. She never made it to her bed.

They rush her to the Medical Station, and call in the League.

While there, they try to figure out what happened, but nothing comes up with the Weapon that hit her. (They took it after the battle for study)

Eventually, they get the results back from the Doctors. Her cells are dying at an alarming rate. Her energy levels are Unstable. Her DNA is deteriorating. She's Destabilizing.

She's a Clone.

All the evidence is there. Her DNA is deteriorating because she wasn't made complete, and her Cells can't keep up with the damage anymore because of that.

If this Ellie is a Clone, what happened to the Real Ellie? When was she kidnapped? How did they not notice their friend being replaced by a Clone?!

They need answers, and unfortunately Ellie isn't waking up any time soon.

#Dp x dc #Dpxdc #Dc x dp #Dcxdp #Danny phantom #Dc #Dcu #Danielle Phantom #Dani Phantom #Ellie Phantom #Young Justice #Ellie is a Clone Misunderstanding #Misunderstanding #They don't know what happened to the real Ellie #They are mad that they didn't notice #There was nothing too notice #Ellie is kind of in a coma #They try to find where she was made to find the “real ellie” #It leads them to Vlad #He is reformed by now but always takes the chance to mess with some heroes #Dan finds it hilarious #(Remember that he's vlads son now?)

[verflares]

say, what do you think ever happened to that boy from the forest? you think he ever found what he was looking for?

#i have the vaguest hope here that tumblr wont utterly crunch the quality but i think it might be in vain. alas. #anyway take him..... i dont want to look at him anymore #link #oot #mm #loz #oot link #loz fanart #this guy + ss and botw/totk link are my fav guys btw but i think This one has my favourite story across his games and in loz lore itself #gods favourite chewtoy....... he didnt deserve any of that :( #this came out really messy i was kind of just messing around with lineart stuff so im a bit iffy on it but. i like the colours at least #Okay. anyways #my art

[tobisaw]

art dump It’s mostly tommy sorry

#and also mostly blood ! #some of these are kind of old. i’ve been messing with my designs a bit recently #hlvrai #tommy coolatta #hlvrai tommy #dr bubby #hlvrai bubby #benrey #benry #hlvrai benrey #hlvrai benry #tw blood #tw nosebleed #my art #now don’t post again for another week i’m going to be out of state

[khayalli]

uh- yeah, no, my car is just shitty. Definately...defiantely not just making up excuses to see him haha....

#idk what to tell you #i just like him sweaty and mussed up #tmnt #tmnt art #donatello rottmnt #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #future donatello #f!donnie #rottmnt fanart #tmnt 2018 #I LIIIIVEE #kind of #alternatively: yandere!donnie who messes with your car so you come visit him #hm......... #hmmmmmmmmmmmm #khayas art

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

christ sometimes I just wanna. steal a time machine & go back & sit down next to my 9-year-old self and just like. let them pull out their pokemon card binder & gush about their holographic gyarados or whatever. I'd just smile & ask questions about motherfukcing bulbasaur & tell my kid self that I thought they were a neat person, & someday they'd find other people who thought so too.

like i'm a grown adult who honestly finds most kids stuff boring, but. damn if i could go back & hang out with my baby self & listen to them ramble...just so they knew someone was listening. i would in a heartbeat. thinking about u kid

#wouldn't roll my eyes or check my phone or get bored or nothing #I'd just listen to that little dork & smile & encourage them & let them explain how their favorite gameboy games worked #i was the kind of kid my adult self would find annoying & uninteresting but like #most of the actual adults in my childhood felt that way too. including my dang parents. #and ya know sometimes they showed it. a lot of times without realizing it. and that messes a kid up #if you don't make an effort kids WILL recognize your disinterest and lack of attention. #kids deserve to have caregivers who show interest and engagement #even when it's over stuff that adults find boring. especially then maybe #your kid doesn't have to be fun or interesting or easy or well behaved to deserve positive attention #they deserve positive attention because they are YOUR KID #if love is unconditional then DISPLAYS of LOVE and AFFECTION must also be unconditional #not something that must be earned #telling your kid that you love them is not enough. that is step one out of like a thousand #if you just tell your kid you love them but you don't demonstrate affection and interest and patience and warmth and etcetera #your kid isn't gonna feel loved! I Love You will just become a trite phrase that they regard with mistrust! #bitch you gotta FOLLOW THROUGH

[honeydewdonutgirl]

Percy figuring out Kronos is actually behind everything:

Fans wondering how the hell he made that leap:

#he literally thought of it out of nowhere #honestly I love this show #but that episode was kind of a mess. #too much stuff #should have been two episodes #I just think they tried to cram too much into one episode #disney #pjo disney+ #pjo hoo toa #percy pjo #pjo spoilers #pjo fandom #pjo series #pjo tv show #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy and annabeth #percy series #percabeth #pjoverse #pjo #annabeth chase #annabeth pjo #grover underwood #percy and grover

[keferon]

Well...I have to say I know nothing about canon Combaticons and their gestalt, but I read The Combiner Quirks of the Combaticons by Gayrob0t today and this is so so good odktjfjfmfn I just had to draw at least one scene from it

#transformers #maccadam #Combaticons #Bruticus #First aid #tf first aid #LISTEN #this fic is f u n n y #I love those idiots even though I know nothing about them #First Aid having...a time.. #just imagine being a part of a gestalt #and then the whole other gestalt is getting a crush on you #what kind of rainbow mess is this #ahahahah #anyway #size difference is fun #the denial all Combaticons are boiling in is also fun #this fic is in progress #so it's not my usual 50-100k words hahah #it is pretty short and absolutely hilarious rigkjfkgm #fic fanart

[nina-the-ninth]

Happy birthday to the birdboi

#persona 5 #p5 #p5r #persona #goro akechi #my art #yes I know his birthday is tomorrow I’m impatient #google says it’s the second in New Zealand therefore I have license to post this #actually kind of proud of this one I’ve been art blocked recently so I was just messing around w brushes #think he came out kinda cool

[chiptrillino]

...older Fire Lord Zuko with a sheer top and his tits out you say?

ID: three drawings of aged-up zuko from Avatar the last airbender as fire lord. on the left side a full body of zuko front view. In the middle, zuko from the waist up leaning over a cluttered table growling and spitting flames at the viewer. In the third image on the right, zuko from the waist up sits bored and exhausted in his chair. cluttered desk and paperwork in front of him. End ID

I probably did advertise the sheer top wrong! it's more like a robe! just… a bit seethrough… because… you know… self-indulgence…? for me… ? for us? (yes he only has one lense in his his glasses becasue we in the fandom just know why!)

art-blog: chiptrillino-art

#chip!ask #chip!art #zuko #atla #fire lord zuko #me finishing art??? uhm... maybe? idk #listen sometimes you need to like... just go by vibes because you have to get it out of your system.... #and you don't feel like fact checking if this is accurate or not you just saw it thought it was preatty kind of fit and went with it #that... that is the result of that... -sweats- #and then you kind of like it a lot.... #also fight me i refuse to give him a propper top knot! #it will always be messy... some how... this guy is just a mess... fight me! #the loser lord #said apriciative #i was vary close to give him just a monikel but i didn't know how to attach it #also glasses gaang yaiiiii