#dats pretty neat

[amarriageoftrueminds]

went to sleep watching yt vids of people getting mythical-creature tattoos and had a dream about Ancient Greek (demigod?) Hero Steve meeting Minotaur Bucky (just a dude w/ horns and hooves and a nose ring) in the labyrinth 😳

so... there's a helluva thing

#stucky #ficbunny #steve rogers #minotaur bucky #should not have been that hot tbh #bucky barnes #MCU #au idea #greek demigod steve #stuckbunny #dat's me #poor bucky being kept prisoner assumes steve is there to kill him and steve is horrified #also pretty sure there was some kind of fuck-or-die aspect but my waking brain fuzzed that out like a weak bitch #yet each man queues the thing he loves #also not to be horrifying/sexy/hilarious on main but: #remember that weird thing in greek myth where drops of mythical creatures blood caused other cool stuff to appear when dropped on the ground #like gorgons? skeleton soldiers springing up from dragons sown teeth etc? #okay but what if it was like that for... other body fluids? #bucky and steve's mythological sexy times accidentally creating a bunch of neat magic pets when somebody forgets to clean up LOL #if sex staffed their armies ooo their enemies would be in for it

[thatdeadaquarius]

That language SAGAU but the Reader can only communicate writing on paper.

Either the Reader is mute and they (characters) don't know/understand sign language or they somehow lost their voices on their transmigration to Teyvat and can only write now. But the characters are left trying to decipher what the Reader wrote.

Examples:

Kaeya: "I may say, that was very unexpected your grace. One such as yourself should be more aware of who you are."

Reader: "wat, y u sayin dat?"

×

Gorou: "Oh, your grace! Careful now. I am most certain that you stepped on something unsightly right now. Let me clean your feet, your grace."

Reader: "r u srs rn? Fml"

Ooooo, this is nice, this is niiccceeee /ref

this would be the energy⬇️

Man I love this show, I gotta finish it (it’s Komi Can’t Communicate for those who want to see it) where she basically is too shy/introverted to speak (non-verbal neurospicy it seems like to me actually lol) and really wants to make friends and do normal things despite not speaking, her main way of communicating is writing (and her first guy friend who can just read her facial/body language really well lmao)!!

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Sun: Gender Neutral Reader (they/them)

Planet: Headcanons-ish?

Stars: dashes/mention of most characters

Comets & Meteors: Content Warnings: Reader/”you” are mute/lost their voice, & Trigger Warnings: None Known.

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This kinda falls into that post I made abt texting lingo, abt us being nigh incomprehensible when using texting lang. (its basically a code lol)

but i think it’s always neat to see nonverbal rep so here we are (also i think imma go ahead and say it is both selectively mute but also enforced by video game laws!)

u know a good explanation would be for this is actually abt how we technically are only allowed to freely communicate when we’re in chats,

so I could see that still being the only way we can commnicate in Teyvat (look am i little excited abt taking “video game world” a little too literally in every genshin AU ever- maybe.)

tbh i could see so many allogenes having to either learn to make room for you in convos and u also having to get wayyy more expressive in body language/facial expressions

tbh i think itd be pretty easy to get ur meaning, like in a battle or smth fast-paced where u couldnt write, like how Tinker Bell can?

if u dont know what i mean just search “tinkerbell scenes peter pan” on youtube and u can see ppl just having a full conversation with no words with her, which i think would deffo happen with ppl like Kaeya, Lisa, Lumine, Venti, Heizou, Ayato, Yae Miko, Thoma, Beidou and Itto surprisingly i could see it (ppl in the distance just think theyre all talking to themselves sometimes when ur not as visible hehe)

OMG they get u nice gifts for writing all the time, like the newest compact pens from Fontaine, the finest small, medium, and large notebooks from Inazuma,

like a little compact pocketbook so u can easily fit it in pockets!

u know Im absolutely sure you could literally start the texting appreviation trend in Tevyat like this-

like just so it’s easier to communicate with you, a lot of people are willing to adapt/take on abbreviations like “ttyl, gtg, wth, lol, lmao” even stuff like “etc”

lol u start a whole trend in the writing letters business, hehe silly medieval Teyvat is silly and medieval

yknow I think the quieter vision users would definitely find you to be peaceful to be around and easy to understand just with writing (also deffo most likely to adore the soft moments together of just ur pen scribbling and the sounds of nature or a cafe or something around them),

tbh i also think these ppl would be motivated to talk to you alone, or get you away to just talk the two of you for all the reasons above, like Xiao, Aether, Kazuha, Ayaka, Chongyun, Zhongli, Diluc, Sayu, Ei, Sucrose, Eula, Ganyu, Ningguang, Tighnari, Alhaitham omg he might literally be able to take his headphones off around u bc youd be in such quiet spaces all the time, and bc u dont talk he doesn’t have to worry abt u getting loud either lmao

…and then ofc, there’s the bitches that try and guess what ur writing ahead of timeeee 😭

bein all like, “Uh… you.. would like.. to go to… a restaurant… to get some- OH OH I got this one this time! Some pita pockets! …Oh. A drink. Right. Sorry, again.”

definitely Itto, Cyno, Heizou, Xingqiu, Fischl, Amber, Collei, Dehya, Wanderer, Childe, Venti, Keqing (she just used to being fast ok), Kaveh lmao

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I hope my reply was a little fun!! THANK U FOR SENDING THIS I LOVE THIS SM!! Man it’s so hard to make you feel my appreciation for this idea thru the damn screen

like how do i send a virtual hug

ANYWAY, if you or anybody else had an idea for celebrating 1000 followers lmk bc i am STRUGGLING with this same issue for that,

like how to make u guys feel my love 😩 ❤️‍🔥

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Safe travels ignihideous,

💀♒

♡the beloveds♡

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[pedge-page]

I can imagine preggo wife literally talking and talking and talking in the middle of a movie and gets offended and leaves when Joel tells her to quiet down

Joel Dealing with Preggo Wife : Yapper

notes: Oh I had fun writing this! no warnings (maybe some Fugitive and Raiders spoilers), Enjoy!

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Joel’s pretty excited for movie night. It’s one of the few films the two of you don’t argue over and can pretty much watch the entire way through without disruption.

Or at least, it used to be.

Joel settles against the couch armrest with his feet propped up, knees bent slightly so you have room to sit in front. He’s got any snack you could think of within an arm reach away, and he’s got the title on pause so you can scooch your fat booty and big belly comfortably. Usually takes about 15 minutes of squirming, smacking his chest to “fluff” it up, adding a pillow at his crotch, then taking it away because you like his hard cock there instead, elbow in his groin and then his knee, then you gotta get up to pee before starting the whole process over.

“OK Im ready!” You say after 15 minutes on the dot, snuggling close to him with the back of your head rested against the crook of his neck.

He finally hits play, and the Lucasfilm logo flashes across the screen. The tropical forest and ominous music plays as the familiar font of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark fade on to the screen.

“Joel. Joel. Hey Joel.” 

“Y-yes?”

“Did you know Indiana was named after George Lucas dog? Who also was the physical inspiration for chewy?” You ask  rhetorically. 

It takes him a second to understand you’re asking him a question. “What?”

“Chewbacca! From Star Wars!”

“Oh ok neat,” he says with some enthusiasm, but quick to end it and get back to watching the movie—

“Yeah also Sean Connery is also apparently—well guess how much older he is to Harrison Ford.”

“Um—I don’t—I don’t know.” Joel says slowly, watching as Indy carefully removes the sand from the pouch and weighs it to the gold idol.

“C’mon, guess!”

“I really don’t know, can we—“

“12 years older than Harrison in Last Crusade! My mom was like ‘WHAT no way’ and I was like ‘Yes way’ and she was like ‘He's his father and he's got all that white in his hair and receding hairline’ and I was like ‘Joel's only in his late 30s and he's got white in his beard.’”

Joel can’t hear a damn thing happening on screen except the shouts about hating a pet snake named Reggie. “Wha—“

“Not that you look anything like Sean Connery in Last Crusade. Maybe in like Bond —oof he was the hottest Bond. Plus you got like a receding beard-line with all the patches, I don’t know, but my mom was like ‘Ya know Joel's got more white hair lately since you've been pregnant’ and I was like ‘Nah uh’ and she was like ‘Ya huh’ and I was like ‘Huh I wonder why that is…?’ Anyway but nope only 12 years between him and Ford—“

Joel turns to look at you with a frown, a bit confused and amazed at how you have so much to say, right now, oblivious as ever. 

It doesn’t phase your rambling one bit: “—Like damn, but you know Harrison Ford has always been handsome. But like in the bad boy kind of way, not like handsome upstanding like Christopher Reeves? When I saw The Fugitive, I was like ‘oooohhhh I'll be his wife now’ hahaha! no no I’m sorry, he’s famous and I’m not so that’s why I married you, but that's such a fall film don't you think? Minus the murder and betrayal and fucking Dr Charles Nickles like was he British or not? He was in and out of an accent the whole time? Didn't make sense to me but yeah, it's just such a fall Cozy film.”

Joel looks back at the screen and realizes Marion is already being cornered by the Nazi creep: “Ah huh—honey—“

“OH! I Love her song! It’s kind of like Leia and Han’s from Empire except the last notes are different, like it goes do doooooo instead of da dat dada daaaaaaa, That’s just John William’s for ya, but you’d never notice they were so similar!”

Joel opens his mouth to say something but nothing comes out as you continue:

“—Also I know you said my mom made good apple pie but I really wanna try to make it because I want you to like mine more, so I need you to get some apples and pie crust and butter and stuff from the store, I’ll make a list so you can get it. They said we need ground cinnamon but I think ours expired like 5 years ago so don’t forget that. And then I'm gonna tell you how to slice the apples since I can't handle sharp objects and then oh I need you to get the mixer from the top shelf and then you have to mix it all together and slice the top with like little heart patterns and then put it in the oven n stuff ‘cause it's hot and I don't wanna burn OH and that reminds me—!” 

“BABE!”

“Hmm? yes?” You ask with a innocent smile. 

“Let's try to be quiet and watch the movie ok?”

He offers a gentle smile and nods, pointing towards the TV again and settling to watch it with his beautiful wife.

His very very very unhappy wife. Your eyes haven’t left his, face now downturned in such a scowl, he should be shitting his pants.

You roll your jaw at him once, teeth grinding against one another with slitted, murderous eyes. Joel gulps, too afraid to glance back at you again. His eyes are wide staring at the commotion on the television but, now in your deadly silence, he can’t seen to focus on it at all. 

Instead of saying anything, you roll polly up to your feet, arms crossed over your chest defensively as you utter a loud “Hmph!” before storming away from the living room.

He’ll have to deal with groveling tomorrow morning when you might be a little more welcoming. But on the bright side, he’s got way more room to spread out on the couch and he can hear the movie much better now! 

......... 

He switches it off and runs upstairs to get on his knees by your side of the bed, begging for your forgiveness and promises of a Clyde's milkshake to go. 

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[emma-frxst]

Love Yourself

Pairing: colossus x reader

Warnings: body insecurity

Summary: anon asked “Gotcha! In that case, i had this idea about fluffy Piotr x chubby fem!reader, she's insecure about her body, Piotr is such a gentleman and respects her boundaries and also tries to help her see how beautiful she is, maybe he could lift her spirits with some innocent tickling and kissing while they cuddle in his cold room? He loves hearing her laugh and showers her with compliments to see her blush and get flustered cause I think hes just that kind of guy❤️”

You and Piotr were out and about in the city, doing some holiday shopping.

You walked up to a store window, admiring a pair of shoes that caught your attention. Your eyes drifted to the other goods within the display. Your eyes stopped and stared at the impossibly thin mannequin.

You let out a sigh as you pulled your jacket tighter around your body. Your insecurities began creeping up on you.

Piotr came out of the store next door, just in time.

“(Y/n) I have found best workout pants and-“ He stopped mid sentence, his focus on you. “what is wrong darling?”

“Nothing, just ready to head back.” You flashed a faux smile, hoping he wouldn’t see past it.

“Me too.” He agreed.

Piotr could tell something was wrong, but he didn’t want to push it.

“Why don’t we go back to my place and watch film?” Piotr suggested, hoping to take your mind off things.

“Sure.” You replied, ready for some colossus snuggles.

Piotr’s room was rigidly neat, as was his lifestyle. Wake up. Breakfast. Workout. Teach. - that’s how his days usually went. But then there was his time with you, which he’s gladly more flexible with.

You and piotr lay snuggled up in his bed, you insisted having the thick fuzzy blanket, it was always cold in his room. ‘Good for keeping germ count down’ he says. ‘Reminds me of home’ he says. But all in all you weren’t complaining, it just meant you got to snuggle up close to your metal man.

“Will you tell me what is wrong ?” Piotr spoke up after a few minutes into cuddling and a movie.

“I just, it’s stupid….”

“Y/n…”Piotr gave you the look. “Not stupid.” He assured you, now sitting up.

You rolled over to face him, mirroring him.

“Look..I saw the mannequin in the store and it was like stupid thin, like not even humanly- or mutantly- possible. Makes me feel insecure even more than I already am”

“No need for you to be unsure of yourself. You are perfect.” He tucked your hair behind your ear. “You are kind, smart, beautiful....I could go on but my English fails me when it comes to adjectives..my point is you are amazing , y/n!”

His comments earning a small smile form you.

“Da, do I see a smile?”

You blushed, his compliments sending you into a tizzy. He was always good at getting you all flustered.

“Yeah, yeah there’s a smile.” you teased.

“I bet I can see a bigger one.”

“Oh no.”

“Dats right.” The expression on Piotr face unmistakeable, you were about to be relentlessly tickled.

As the laughs fell from your lips, Piotr’s heart swelled, he just wanted to see you happy. And if some childish tickling was what it took, then he was happy to oblige.

“Okay! Okay! I give up, You win.” You said breathlessly, only then Piotr stopped his relentless attack of tickles.

“Da. There’s that smile.” He boasted.

“Yeah, yeah.” You said, feigning being upset about never winning the tickle battle.

“I try not to cross boundary, y/n, in all seriousness, I only want for you to see you, how I see you. I want to see your pretty smile and hear your laugh.”

“You’re too sweet Piotr Rasputin.” You leaned up to give him a peck on the lips, but Piotr held your kiss for much longer, and kissed you much deeper.

You liked where this was going.

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#colossus #piotr rasputin #colossus x reader #colossus fanfiction #deadpool fanfiction #piotr rasputin x reader #mine #kacceywrites

[eskat]

Dat FFXVI event got me thinking. And my main take away? Fire, is pretty neat.

#ffxiv gpose #gposers #gpose #fiery fire #sparky sparks #temperature >= pretty toasty #x'eskat ghural

[childofaura]

DAT BONKERS FELL BANNER THO

FUCKING. DUDES. GEEBUS. ALL THAT SCROLLING FOR THE SKILLS.

But anyways, thoughts:

1. Byleth.

:/

I really don’t care about Byleth at all at this point. Cool unit concept though with the Sothis possession. Edit: Oh shit, that’s the artist for Echoes. Ok that’s pretty neat, I think that art style actually suits Byleth better.

2. Maria

I didn’t even know she was possessed at some point?? But then again I never played Shadow Dragon so that’s neat that we’ve gotten a Fallen Staff.

3. ANANKOS!

YESSSSSSSSSSSS!

AUGH MAN I WANNA GET HIM. I LOVE THAT THEY MADE HIS ROBES MORE VALLITE-DESIGNED. I LOVE THAT WE SEE MORE OF HIS FACE. I LOVE HIS ART. I LOVE THAT IMARI WILLIAMS IS PLAYING HIM. I LOVE IT ALL.

4. FUCKING?

FALLEN CHROM??

FELL KING CHROM???

I’M NOT EVEN MAD THAT IS SOME METAL SHIT MY DUDE! Like I honestly couldn’t care less about him getting another alt because that FUCKS.

5. LINUS

THEY’RE GONNA GIVE US MORPH LINUS. I WANTED HIM TO HAVE ANOTHER ALT BUT NOT LIKE THIS.

Overall, I’m probably not gonna really summon (maybe for Anankos only) or make a video on this banner but this lineup is fukken EPIC. Good luck to the Chrom fans, hope you get him!

#Fire Emblem Heroes #FEH #Gosh the Fallen banners almost* never fail to disappoint #*The Edelgard one did #I'm still a little bummed we aren't seeing Dedue or Miklan but that's ok #I'm gonna probably just try and save orbs and MAYBE do a little summoning for Anankos

[neon-green-reagent]

Vampire Films That Suck My Blood

But don’t SUCK. You know? What I mean? They’re good. Anyway. 

Let’s start with the super obvious ones you’ve probably seen. And if you haven’t, go see them, they’re classics. Near Dark (my personal favorite), The Lost Boys, Interview With The Vampire, Horror of Dracula (Hammer), ‘Salem’s Lot, Blacula, From Dusk Till Dawn, Let The Right One In, and Fright Night, by which I mean the one from the 80s. Now we can get into some deeper cuts. 

Night Owl | Filmed in black and white and set against the backdrop of the New York nightclub scene of the early 90s, this one is OOPS ALL VIBES. It’s full of house music and brutal murders. One of those films that feels intensely gay despite its best efforts to be straight. Very moody and arthouse. Obviously I recommend the hell out of this for a very specific crowd of people.

Pale Blood | What a nutso concept. A human is running around killing people in the style of a vampire. So a real vampire shows up to stop him. With Wings Hauser being super unhinged, as he tends to do. Lots of neon lighting that makes it all extremely 80s. And a neat little turn at the end that gives it a satisfying twist. 

Bliss | Vampirism as addiction. It’s been said, but this isn’t just about having an insatiable need. It’s about getting so goddamn high that you destroy everything around you and awaken from being blackout destructive and realize you’re ruining your own life. Pretty intense stuff. Meaning it’s very bloody and wild. It goes the extra mile, for certain. The main character is a painter, so there is also a super gorgeous painting that she creates in her very high moments that I wish I could have on my wall. 

The Night Flier | An adaptation of a Stephen King short story starring Miguel Ferrer, which I personally feel should be recommendation enough. But I’ll gladly keep going. Ferrer plays a tabloid journalist who is chasing after a serial killer who thinks he’s a vampire. THINKS, right? He just THINKS he is? Well, the deeper he goes, the more it looks like he has a real one on his hands. And he’s so fucking cynical that he’s probably going to stare into the abyss and the abyss will stare right back. 

30 Days of Night | Hey, I just recently rewatched this one. It still slaps. In Alaska, there are periods during the year where the sun doesn’t rise at all. In this case, a bunch of vampires are like SWEET. And go there and absolutely body slam everyone in town. A handful of survivors are left trying to defend themselves against these superhuman creatures that are... just the scariest looking fucking things. It looks like if a human were crossbred with a shark. What a LOOK. There are so many memorable and standout moments in this movie. Truly just watch it. 

Fright Night Part 2 | We all know the first movie. But the sequel tho. DAT SEQUEL. The big draw being Jerry’s sister Regine and her entourage of absolute characters that follow her everywhere. They’re out for revenge for the death of her brother, and suddenly the tables are turned. Charley becomes the one that can’t resist the vampire’s charms, and Regine is laughing all the way to the blood bank. She’s a queen. 

Vamp | Another intensely memorable and awesome female vampire. Grace Jones dominates the screen here as Katrina. A vampire stripper who kills when she mates. She for sure steals every scene she’s in, but the movie is also bombastically neon 80s with the dumbest and most fun sense of humor. It’s a charming movie with an amazing villainess. 

The Hunger | AND ANOTHER! Sorry for being so gay, but here’s a lesbian vampire movie. Miriam Blaylock is a vampire looking for love. And she both cares and doesn’t if that means eventually keeping your desiccated, still alive body in a box somewhere down the line. She’s a complicated lady. This was beautifully shot, very dream-like, and also stars David Bowie for some extra gay. 

Dracula (1979) | Genuinely my favorite version of Dracula. It was based off of a stage play version. Which means all the names are reversed and nothing lines up with the book, but Dracula just seems fated to be adapted very loosely. Frank Langella swaggers rather moodily through the piece, melting every woman he passes with a look. I like this take, that Dracula is just a Chad that no one can possibly outdo because no one is good looking enough to stop him. It’s all rather romantic and swoony while also featuring one of the most terrifying ghouls in cinema history. 

The Forsaken | Vampirism as an STD. If you’re bitten, you’ll battle daily with the virus that’s trying to consume you. Which makes the movie coded extremely queer, which is very fun for everyone, because it thankfully doesn’t stop there. The bad guys are super flamboyant and fun. The good guys are getting a little too involved with each other and sort of ignoring the girl sitting between them. And it makes one wish they could’ve just made it as gay as they wanted to, but the subtext is still very fun. It’s also action packed and exciting. Think 2001 version of Near Dark. 

#horror recs #vampire movies #vampires

[bwambiee]

hiiii kayla :3 i am just stopping by to wish you most wonderful day/night and drop some self-ship questions because me and rinnie (he doesn't want to admit it but it's true) are wondering about you and yoichi ૮꒰ྀི⊃´ ꒳ `⊂ྀི꒱ა

how do you guys express affection towards each other when you're alone vs. in public? and what yours and isagi's ideal day off looks like? <3

waaah hi angie ! ‘m havin da nicest day now dat u popped in <3 i would luvv tew answer u ‘n rinnie’s selfship questions (yoichi’s actually super curious abt u ‘n rinnie too ahsjd he’s so nosy)

me ‘n yoichi actuallie don’t express much pda in public bc ‘m not a v pda’ish person ૮꒰ つᯅ⊂ ꒱ა so i always tell him tew not show it off as much when we’re out (but i loove takin’ pictures of me ‘n him bc i dress him up pretty hehe) i like linking pinkies wif him though ! or hand holdin’ . he does dis thing where he rubs my knuckles ‘n blows hot air bc they’re cold ‘n i swooon . but in private we’re v affectionate ! ‘m like a koala clingin’ onto him at home bc we barely get any chance tew cuddle since we’re so busy :( i like snugglin’ ‘n huggin’ him from behind whenever he’s doin’ somethin’ ‘n he always tells mi tew playfully leave him alone but i kno he likes it ! i like doin’ dis when he cooks or when he’s playin’ games bc he’s soo warm esp when he wears hoodies ! ‘n for day offs , since me ‘n him are so busy (he’s got trainin’ ‘n practices and i have uni + ballet . so stressfwul) we don’ get much time tew ourselves to relax so ideally . . we rllie like cleaning . ‘m a bit of a stickler when it comes tew cleanin’ bc i like it when things are neat ‘n tidy (yoichi’s a neat guy but he always leaves his socks around ugh!) so when we have da chance we clean every friday ! either dat or he helps mi study since i’ve got soo many labs ‘n finals are comin up ໒꒰ྀི っ ⸝⸝ ˂ ꒱ྀིა

#💬⋆୨୧˚𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝓁𝑒𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈 #ᥫ᭡ ◞𝓚𝓐𝓘𝓢𝓐 ⋆˖ ࣪ #˚₊‧ ꒰ა 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝑒𝓈 #₊‧꒰ა angie ໒꒱ ‧₊ #dis was soo long ‘n so sorrie. ! wheneva i ramble abt mi lovey i can’t stop :( #but dis was so fun angie ! me ‘n yoichi had so much fun answerin’ your questions <3 #yoichi was hoverin’ ova mi shoulder when i was typin it out (so nosy)

[partnersincrimesuau]

I don’t mean to sound all “show-offy”, but I’ve got an SU Non-Gem OC villain for a fan made SU continuation in my mind to share if you don’t mind. His name is Ragmion. He’s an alien from another planet and is of a race VERY similar to the Gems. He is very tall, being slightly taller than Garnet, pretty muscular, has a mostly black and red color scheme, has very dark grey skin, has black spiked up hair, has a big red JEWEL on his chest, has red eyes with BLACK sclera, and is EXTREMELY powerful.

Okay wow lemme just screenshot every other ask in this ask series and respond to them all at the same time, gimme a sec -

OHH MY GOODNESS DAT'S A LOTTA ASKS -

BUT!!! this is HONESTLY a really cool concept you've got going on!!! Ragmion sounds awesome and badass, and with the in-depth backstory you've got on for him, it makes his sadistic and murderous demeanour so clear and understandable!!! There are some villains who are just 'evil for the sake of being evil', but as you've explained, Ragmion is clearly a villain with morals!!! Evil morals, of course, but still morals!! XDD

I also love the continuity you kept with Pink not knowing about non-gem life, that's a really neat detail ^^

I love your idea so much!! I'm REALLY sorry for my late response, but thank you so much for sharing this with me!!! :D :D

And hey, about drawing him... I'm sure that if you practiced a lot you could draw him in no time!! Believe me, not that long ago I was actually not the best at drawing myself ;^^ but a lot of practice and experimentation got me to where I am now!! I'm sure that if you start sketching now, you can really surprise yourself with outcomes in the future!! I believe in you ^^

Once again, thanks so much for sharing this all with me!!! I'd love to see a picture of Ragmion in the future if you do end up drawing him ^^

#thanks for the ask!!! #long post #ask #not partners in crime #steven universe #steven universe au #steven universe oc

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I...do not know WHY they chose to make Eel and Viper brothers. But I'm gonna come down on the side of "dat's pretty neat" because I like fun details that make the world feel bigger.

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Digimon Savers Commentary Episode 39 - The Human World Annihilated! Yggdrasil’s Decision!

In this episode, with the two worlds on a collision course, BanchouLeomon steps in and buys some time. Meanwhile, Yggdrasil shows one of its Royal Knights, Craniummon, a clip show of the series to justify its decision to annihilate humanity.

Oh hey, time again for that spoiler warning for the thing that’s going to be revealed at the end of episode 45! I have no idea if there really is anybody reading who’s actually going to be affected and want to heed these, but hey, fair warning, just in case.

It’s a very short recap for once! …Yeah, they’re gonna be subjecting us to enough lengthy reused footage elsewhere in this episode that at least they have the decency to make this part short.

The episode opens with BanchouLeomon still standing dramatically atop that one building. He’s staring up at the rift and the Digital World in the sky, looking pretty worried about it.

We then get several shots of various landmarks all over the Earth, establishing that the Digital World isn’t just hanging over the sky in Japan; it’s above every single point on the human world at once, even though the Digital World is also a sphere. Interdimensional shenanigans like this do not play by the rules of three dimensions.

(Shout-outs to these very confused penguins at the South Pole.)

The DATS group are also staring up at the sky, their Digimon partners still in their evolved forms after last episode’s battle. (Hooray! Looks like they’ve finally got the hang of not randomly devolving for no reason when there’s still a crisis.) ShineGreymon has reverted from Burst Mode to his regular form, though. Burst Mode isn’t quite the same as a normal evolution level; apparently it’s something that can only be maintained through imminent fighting spirit in the heat of a battle.

Yoshino:  “This is the worst thing that’s ever happened in history.”

Love the playing with Yoshino’s catchphrase. She uses it as hyperbole so often, but no, this time it might literally be the worst possible thing ever.

Tohma uses his digital organiser to show us an extremely detailed and scientific simulation of what will happen if the human world and Digital World collide. Yup. DISAPPEAR. Very good simulation there, Tohma, excellent job.

Tohma:  “It’s not possible for both worlds to exist in one dimension. If this keeps up, both our world and the Digital World… will be obliterated.”

Yep, exactly like Tohma was afraid might happen last episode if Belphemon kept blowing open Digital Gates everywhere with his attacks. Whoops. Now it’s actually happening. Thanks, Kurata.

Now, look up at the sky!

Break open that unknown door!

And it’s the opening! Everyone sure is currently looking up at the sky and seeing an “unknown door” that’s just been broken open, aren’t they. Don’t know if this line in the song is supposed to be quite so directly referencing the barrier being destroyed, but it’s appropriately possible to read it that way right now.

There’s also this one shot in the opening of the destroyed barrier and the two worlds. It’s fairly blink-and-you’ll-miss-it ��� I don’t think I noticed it on my first time through before reaching this arc – but it’s neat that it’s always been there.

When we get back from the opening, we’re in the Digital World, which of course is having the same problem of an infinite Digital Gate spreading across the horizon while the human world hangs ominously in the sky. Specifically, we’re at the site of a giant tree we haven’t seen until now.

Inside the tree, an Ultimate-level Digimon named Craniummon is meeting with Yggdrasil, that godlike being that Suguru was last known to be searching for, years ago.

Digimon Analyser: “Craniummon. […] He’s one of the Royal Knights who protect the Digital World.”

For the only time in this series, a Digimon being introduced as part of a Certain Group is actually relevant! We will be seeing several of the other Royal Knights too, because all of them exist to serve Yggdrasil.

Yggdrasil makes its entrance rather flashily at the top of a huge podium of rock, as glowing motes of light form into lightning between floating crystals, opening up a dark spherical portal. When all’s said and done, though, the Yggdrasil who emerges looks… basically just like a human figure in a cloak. Huh.

Yggdrasil narrates, much like Tohma did, about the disastrous state of the two worlds right now, that they’re set to collide and annihilate each other completely.

Craniummon:  “Is there no way we can avoid the collision?”

Yggdrasil: “There is… one way.”

Craniummon: “What may that be?”

Yggdrasil:  “We can remove the human world first. Then the collision itself will never happen.”

So, here’s the thing. Let me spend the commentary for this otherwise not very interesting episode introducing you to my Hot Take about Yggdrasil and its motives, which I really believe is deliberate on the writers’ part despite never being explicitly stated. I trust them to know what they’re doing and have thought about this, and it makes Yggdrasil a much more interesting antagonist than without.

See this statement of Yggdrasil’s here? That destroying the human world (or, really, just either one of the two worlds) is the only way to stop the collision?

It’s a frickin’ lie.

Spoilers for the end of the series, except not really because this is a kids’ shounen anime and of course things are going to turn out okay in the end – Yggdrasil, being a god, is actually perfectly capable of literally just fixing the broken barrier and putting both worlds back safely in their own dimensions. That’s what it does at the end, so there’s absolutely no reason it also couldn’t just do this right now.

It's not doing that, because it’s using this entire situation as an excuse to convince its Royal Knights that they need to destroy the human world completely. The annihilation of humanity has always been its goal this whole time.

Craniummon: “What?”

Yggdrasil:  “If there is a way for one of us to survive, then it is illogical for both to perish.”

Craniummon sounds rather shocked at hearing this proposal. But look, see, Yggdrasil’s definitely just being logical and pragmatic about this. This is totally the only way to save at least one species out of the two.

Craniummon: “Then what shall be done about the humans?”

Yggdrasil: “They will also be eliminated.”

Craniummon appears to be thinking that, well, even if we have to destroy the humans’ planet, at least we can try and save them, and maybe grant them asylum on the Digital World or something? Yggdrasil doesn’t even seem to consider that option. The humans should just be eliminated along with their world, obviously. Like that’s the only possible outcome of this approach. (Like that’s what it’s really after.)

Yggdrasil: “The humans have continued to make mistakes without even reflecting on the error of their ways.”

Craniummon: “Are you saying… that they deserve to be killed?”

Yggdrasil: “Their existence does no good and only causes plenty of harm.”

It sure does seem to be saying that they deserve to be killed, doesn’t it, Craniummon! It’s not even trying to argue that the Digimon deserve to live more than humanity and so it’s picking the lesser of two evils, or simply that it’s being selfish on behalf of Digimon by choosing to destroy the human world over the Digital World. It literally just seems to think humanity deserves to die, entirely irrespective of the current crisis in which one species supposedly needs to.

Craniummon: “The billions of lives that make up the human species will be annihilated. Are you certain about your decision?”

As much as he can get across beneath his obligation to be subservient and respectful towards Yggdrasil, Craniummon sounds extremely not okay with the idea of callously killing billions of sapient people. Credit to him.

(During some of these shots in which Yggdrasil is speaking, we get some partial close-ups of its face. Let’s pretend we don’t notice that this is totally Suguru Daimon’s face here, since that won’t be relevant until next episode. Consider this a teaser, rather than a hint, because let’s be real, they’re not fooling anyone.)

Yggdrasil: “Then… You shall see for yourself whether there is any worth for these human beings to survive!”

With this, in its efforts to convince Craniummon that humanity definitely totally deserves to die, Yggdrasil summons its magic crystals to show Craniummon a clip show.

…And yes, I really do literally mean a clip show, unfortunately. It seems Savers’s animation budget was tight enough that they only had enough to make nine and a half episodes of new footage for the final ten-episode arc of this series, so this episode is half clip show. At least they managed to find an actual somewhat relevant plot reason for a clip show to be happening in-story, so that it’s not completely meaningless to be seeing all this repeated footage.

Yggdrasil: “Everything began when the humans perceived the existence of the Digital World. A world which they were never originally meant to interact with.”

As Yggdrasil starts narrating us through clips of the original Digital World expedition team, note its particular belief that humans were never meant to interact with its world at all. That’s a bit more than just some random prejudice like we heard people like Gotsumon spout earlier on in the series; it is in fact the core of the reason why Yggdrasil insistently wants humanity gone.

Yggdrasil: “But the humans’ intellectual curiosity would not leave things be. They forcibly tried to link the two worlds together.”

Too bad for Yggdrasil that humanity contained some Manly Scientists like Suguru whose curiosity would not be stopped even by the barrier between dimensions. But hey, Yggdrasil, isn’t that the entire point of science? To learn and discover new things? Why wouldn’t you want to make the two worlds interact and become linked, simply to learn what’ll happen if they do?

Yggdrasil: “Then they began to eliminate Digimon without justification.”

Okay, in some fairness to Yggdrasil here, Kurata’s violence was pretty unjustified. It’s still only talking about the original inciting incident with the Lynxmon that started everything, but even that was entirely Kurata’s fault.

Still, though, Yggdrasil is saying “they”, as if it was all the humans who were responsible for this. (Or, well, I don’t think it’s using a specific pronoun like this in Japanese, but if it actually wanted to refer to literally just one human as being responsible then it could be doing so. It’s not.)

Yggdrasil:  “In addition, they destroyed the equilibrium between the human world and the Digital World by placing greater significance on their own lives.”

It’s talking about the time that Kurata detonated the very first space-time bomb, despite the risk, in order to escape. Look how very terrible an act this was, so selfish, placing greater significance on their own lives. As if that’s not what a Digimon would also have done in that situation; as if it’s not what almost any sapient being would do when cornered and scared and weighing up their own imminent death against possible indeterminate future bad things that might not even happen or affect them for all they know.

Craniummon: “The humans are indeed selfish beings. However… Is it necessary to go so far as to exterminate them?”

Craniummon concedes the point that that kinda sucked on the humans’ part, but is still extremely unconvinced that this means they all deserve to die. As a sensible person would.

Yggdrasil: “Then remember the worst day our world has experienced.”

Yggdrasil then goes into more clip show of Kurata’s original massacre. It’s interesting that it considers this to be the single “worst day” for the Digital World, even though, at this point in the series, Kurata has done a lot more massacring than just that. He probably killed far more Digimon in the series’ present than he did in that one brief attack that got cut short by a very angry Mercurimon showing up. Yet Yggdrasil still presents that one as the worst day ever? There might be a reason for that. Hold this thought, I’ll talk about it more later.

These clips of the massacre and Yukidarumon being killed are longer than they need to be for the purposes of us in the audience simply being reminded that this happened. But at least it makes sense in-universe for Yggdrasil to be showing this much of it to Craniummon, to help drive home the point about how terrible humans are. (And it only shows Yukidarumon being shot, not her sad death scene with Ikuto, because that more personal story isn’t relevant to Yggdrasil.) Not all its clips later on in this episode will do that.

Yggdrasil: “Even so, I continued to watch over the humans. I wanted to be certain whether or not these humans were truly a baneful existence.”

And look, see, Yggdrasil was being so patient, giving these humans a chance despite what they’d done, wanting to make sure they really were that terrible. It’s not like it’s a monster immediately deciding to destroy them all on a whim based on one single isolated incident! There was definitely absolutely nothing at all that caused Yggdrasil to decide to hold off on annihilation right then and give the humans a second chance, no, that was all Yggdrasil’s own choice, because it’s so gracious like that.

(I hope you are picking up on the heavy sarcasm there. We’ll learn about what I’m getting at with this in a later episode. This statement seems legit of Yggdrasil on a first watch, but it’s not!)

(…Actually, another interesting point is that Craniummon ought to know full well about what I’m referring to and that Yggdrasil isn’t telling the whole truth here. If he has any opinions on the fact that his god isn’t being entirely straight with him, though, he keeps them to himself.)

Back in the human world, a crowd of civilians in Yokohama are staring up in horror at the Digital World in the sky. (Huh, I guess the whole city hadn’t actually evacuated. Perhaps a lot of people were simply taking shelter while the Belphemon stuff happened, and have now come out of their homes because it’s… technically safer… for now? until the two worlds collide?)

DATS are helping people evacuate safely (actually, it’s specifically Yoshino we see calling for people to stay calm and get to shelter, look at her go with all the logistical things as always). The turbulence across the rift also comes with huge lightning storms, causing yet more destruction in the city.

The evolved Digimon swoop in to help, catching entire buildings before they collapse, destroying falling rubble, and safely landing a damaged plane that got hit by the lightning. Please appreciate the comparatively tiny figures of Rosemon and Ravemon underneath the plane’s wings, they are totally helping just as much as ShineGreymon and MirageGaogamon, okay.

Hopefully this can go some way towards changing the general public’s mind about Digimon. They’ve spent the past several weeks steeped in Kurata’s propaganda about how all Digimon are warlike and vicious and coming to invade us, but hey, look, here are some Digimon helping to save them! We do get a shot of the plane’s passengers looking in awe out the window at MirageGaogamon as he helps them land, like he’s their hero. Good dog.

Yoshino frantically asks Tohma again if there’s any way they can prevent the two worlds colliding. There is not. (I note that Tohma isn’t instantly jumping to the solution of “well, if we destroy one of the worlds first…”, almost like that’s not what any reasonable person would conclude is a valid solution to this.)

Masaru:  “Then wouldn’t it be safer on the opposite side of Earth?”

I love Masaru. This thought is so delightfully straightforward of him. He doesn’t care about how logistically feasible it would or wouldn’t be – just, what if we took everyone and moved them all to the other side of the planet, as far as possible from where the unstoppable bad thing’s going to happen? That’d work, right? Oh, Masaru.

Unfortunately for Masaru, Tohma informs him that that wouldn’t even work, because the laws of three dimensions do not apply here and the Digital World is crashing into the entire planet at once from every side. But in fairness to Masaru, he didn’t see the establishing shots showing us this, so he didn’t know that!

Yggdrasil: “The dimensional wall grew even more unstable, and Digimon started falling one after another into the human world. That is because the humans continuously experimented on the Digital Gate for no good reason.”

Back in Yggdrasil’s chamber, its words on this are accompanied by a shot (actually new footage) of Kurata looking at a stash of his space-time bombs. If the cause of the barrier being destroyed last episode hadn’t given a pretty big clue to it, this makes it clear: the reason the barrier was weakening the whole time? Kurata’s fault, through his usage of and experiments with space-time bombs.

When they first used a space-time bomb to escape the Digital World, Suguru warned that it was potentially dangerous, untested technology. Nobody knew at the time, but it seems like every use of a space-time bomb damaged the barrier and weakened it a tiny bit. That one single bomb to help them escape would probably have been fine, if that’d been it. But then Kurata brushed off the warnings, likely telling himself that was obviously just Suguru being stubborn and getting in his way like always, and continued using the space-time bombs with no heed to the fact that he was slowly tearing the universe apart in the process.

(This also explains why most Digimon incidents seemed to be centred around Japan and specifically Yokohama, assuming that it’s also Yokohama in which Kurata had been doing most of his experiments. The barrier would have ended up at its weakest there, thus more Digimon getting pulled through by human emotions.)

Yggdrasil: “The Digimon, confused under the influence of human desires, went berserk against their own will.”

I like that Yggdrasil phrases it this way, because although I’ve been saying this a lot in the commentary, I don’t think the series itself has ever said as much in so many words until here – that these emotion-fuelled rampages happen against the Digimon’s will. It certainly helps for Yggdrasil’s current narrative that the Digimon are victims of dark human emotions, and of course Yggdrasil is conveniently not going to mention that these dark emotions are almost never the humans’ conscious fault.

(This is naturally accompanied by a bunch of clips of the early-series Digimon rampages, soon to be followed up with DATS’s efforts to stop them. These clips at least are all reasonably short and varied and not tiresome to sit through, serving the appropriate clip-show purpose of just reminding us that these things happened.)

Craniummon: “However, there are Digimon who have sided with the humans.”

Yggdrasil:  “Do you mean DATS?”

Craniummon: “Yes.”

Craniummon has to be the one to bring up this point in humanity’s favour. Yggdrasil probably wasn’t going to mention that unless it had to.

Yggdrasil:  “Of course, their efforts to prevent unnecessary fighting between the humans and Digimon are worthy of evaluation. After all, they did turn the Digimon back to Digieggs and send them back to their proper place.”

Look, see, Yggdrasil’s evaluating DATS’s good deeds, it’s considering all sides to this, it definitely isn’t biased at all!

It also, legitimately, isn’t trying to argue that this was bad of DATS in any way. Seems Yggdrasil also understands that literally the only way to stop an emotion rampage is to turn the Digimon into an egg, so DATS were doing the best they could for those Digimon.

Yggdrasil: “However, that is overshadowed by the act of humans modifying Digimon to be used as weapons, and proceeding to slaughter other Digimon one after the other.”

Obviously. See, it totally evaluated the minor good deeds done by DATS, but clearly that’s all totally outweighed by this next terrible thing that Kurata – wait, no, humans in general – did. No acknowledgement whatsoever of how, if DATS worked to send wayward Digimon home for so long, surely that’s a sign that humans are generally good and Kurata’s actions are an outlier. No, humans are all one homogeneous blob: they did bad things, then they incidentally did this one good thing, but that doesn’t matter because then they got right back to doing even more bad things.

Craniummon: “That is indeed inexcusable.”

Craniummon doesn’t seem to be able to protest the biased way in which Yggdrasil is laying out this argument. He does agree that Kurata’s slaughter of Digimon is inexcusable, and that’s all he can think of to comment on. I don’t think he’s used to questioning his god’s logic or authority in any way at all.

Yggdrasil’s clip show goes on to show us, fairly briefly, the assassination of SaberLeomon. And then we get Mercurimon’s death, but, like, a way too long version of it. It’s not just a brief clip to go “hey, remember when this happened?” We literally watch the entire scene again, from Mercurimon telling Ikuto to live as a human with a Digimon’s heart, to him punching out the Gizmon, to his moment of death. It’s not that I don’t like that scene; I do! But it doesn’t hit nearly as hard watching it again this way, when we’re not in the moment like we were in episode 25, when we know that really what’s happening “right now” is something entirely unrelated and geez can we just get back to that already.

It's also not a clip which actually helps Yggdrasil’s narrative at all? Yggdrasil is doing all this to convince Craniummon how terrible and definitely worthy of death humans are – so you’d think it wouldn’t choose to show him a clip of how Mercurimon died believing in a world where humans and Digimon could live together. That’s completely the opposite of the point it’s trying to make here. That really is the writers turning this into a clip show purely for clip show’s sake, and not because it’s actually serves this episode’s narrative.

Yggdrasil: “They even found legitimacy in using repulsive and evil means, such as fusing humans and Digimon together, to gain power.”

Man, Yggdrasil’s really laying it on thick. These awful humans didn’t just do these evil things, they found legitimacy in them, like they thought it was good and right, how could they. And I mean, to be fair, Kurata did, but Yggdrasil, bro, you still didn’t need to frame it that way. Nobody else who hated Kurata and everything he stood for ever felt the need to do that when talking about how terrible he was.

Yggdrasil goes on to cite the destruction of the Holy Capital, showing that to us in too much unnecessary lengthy detail – but at least this one does very much serve Yggdrasil’s argument, because it was pretty sad and horrifying to watch poor city turtle friend be horribly killed. (Still doesn’t hit as hard when it’s not in the proper narrative context of its own episode, though!)

It finishes up its argument by talking about Kurata – or rather, still, humans in general; at no point does it ever specify that only one human did all this, which is quite deliberate of it – reviving Belphemon, the dangerous Demon Lord that caused the Digital World a bunch of trouble in the past. We get some more clips of Belphemon attacking the city, Kurata beaming himself into its body, etcetera.

Yggdrasil:  “In the end, they have trapped both their own world and the Digital World on the path leading to their self-destruction.”

So, yeah, sure, it was humans (literally one human) who did this. But now that we’re here talking about all the Digimon-massacring that Kurata did in the present day, and all of these Belphemon events that led to the world-ending crisis we’re in now, here’s a very big question.

Why didn’t Yggdrasil do anything to stop it?

If it cares so much about Digimon, you’d think it would have wanted to. It has not just Craniummon but all of its Royal Knights on its side as powerhouses to supposedly keep the peace and protect the Digital World. That’s way more power than just the three Ultimate-levels DATS had at the time. And yet, the entire time that Kurata’s massacre was going on, or when he’d revived Belphemon with the goal of taking over both worlds, where the hell were they? Nowhere. Certainly not helping in any way, as far as we ever saw.

I don’t think this is a plot hole, because I trust Savers’ writers more than that. I believe it was very much on purpose of Yggdrasil that it didn’t order its Royal Knights to intervene in any of Kurata’s massacring. It wanted to let things escalate far enough that it would eventually lead to this situation we’re in right now, in which it seems completely believable that the only way to save the Digital World is to destroy humanity, and in which Kurata’s – no, humanity’s – atrocities have grown so great that it seems like they might deserve it.

Yggdrasil has always wanted humanity gone. At the very latest, from the time of Kurata’s first massacre, possibly sooner. But despite its godly powers over the Digital World, it seems it doesn’t have enough power to annihilate the humans on its own and knew it would need the help of its Royal Knights. It must have known the Knights would protest, like Craniummon is still somewhat trying to do here, if it simply asked them to commit genocide on an entire species for little reason other than “one of them attacked us first, also I just don’t like them being there.”

So Yggdrasil sat back and watched the events of the series unfold without intervening, even though it totally could have done and prevented so many Digimon deaths, all so that it could manipulate the Royal Knights into believing they have to destroy humanity for the sake of the Digital World. What a conniving, two-faced, selfish little asshole this god is. Yggdrasil’s also a really interesting villain, for totally different reasons to Kurata.

None of this seems to occur to Craniummon, for the record. He would have known about the massacre going on, but apparently he’s so loyal to his god that it never crossed his mind that it was really freaking suspicious that he wasn’t being asked to step in and help in any way. Apparently it never occurred to him to do so of his own accord, despite not being ordered to, either.

This is also what I was getting at earlier when I noted that it was interesting that Yggdrasil called Kurata’s very first massacre “the worst day” for the Digital World, even though that one was shorter and no doubt had far fewer casualties than the one in the present. That massacre was over quickly enough thanks to Mercurimon that Yggdrasil probably had no time to even ask its Royal Knights to step in. So that one’s not Yggdrasil’s fault. But the longer one, in the series’ present, which Yggdrasil had plenty of opportunity to stop and didn’t? Uhhhhh, let’s just not present it as significantly worse than the first one, actually, in case it might cause any Royal Knights to wonder why the hell they even allowed it to happen.

Yggdrasil calling the first massacre the worst one also speaks to how it had already made up its mind to annihilate humanity after that point. No need to paint any future atrocities as even worse when you’ve already decided that they’re all going to die in revenge for that first one anyway. All of the atrocities that happened afterwards were just chessmastering to Yggdrasil; they didn’t matter in terms of it actually making up its mind about humans.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this Ted Talk of mine about Yggdrasil’s manipulation, because there isn’t much of interest going on in the actual episode at this point. Some amount of these Belphemon clips to get across Kurata’s terrible deeds makes sense in the narrative… but then it just inexplicably goes into Masaru achieving Burst Mode and pretty much the entire final fight sequence of episode 38, which is, again, kind of antithetical to Yggdrasil’s purpose with this? You’d think it wouldn’t want to show any examples of humans fighting to defend the worlds, just in case Craniummon got it into his head that humans might actually be worth saving, gasp.

Like, as much as I gushed plenty about how I love the final fight scene in episode 38 back in last week’s commentary, this suffers from the same problem of “we’re not in the moment any more so it doesn’t hit as hard”. And not only that – it’s also just especially egregious that we’re being clip-showed a lengthy scene that literally happened last episode. Nobody needs reminding of that!

I suppose this is the animators being really proud of their hard work in making that scene look genuinely really good, and therefore taking any excuse to get to show that footage again. I guess I can understand their sentiments there, but also, come on.

(Oh my god the entire Belphemon-related recap section was literally four minutes of reused footage about this one event, I just checked.)

Yggdrasil: “Just as I thought, the humans do not deserve to live.”

Sure, Yggdrasil. Just as you thought. As if you hadn’t already made up your mind yourself, and watching all of these clips made you solidify your decision to do this. Like this is obviously the conclusion any sensible person would come to after seeing all of this. Clearly Craniummon should think the same, right?

And, of course, no mention whatsoever of the fact that these clips really don’t prove humanity’s awfulness nearly as much as Yggdrasil is insisting they do, because of the certain running theme of only one single particular human throughout all of these atrocities. Nah. Definitely all of humanity’s fault, they all deserve to die.

Craniummon:  “If that is your will, Yggdrasil, the Royal Knights shall obey.”

Interestingly, Craniummon does not actually state that he agrees with Yggdrasil’s stance on this. All he’s doing is deciding that he’s going to obey Yggdrasil’s orders, since it’s abundantly clear that the god isn’t about to be persuaded otherwise. I don’t think he does agree with Yggdrasil at all. However, his duty to his god comes before his own personal feelings, and that’s that.

Masaru:  “Damn it! Are you really sure we can’t do anything?”

Back in the human world, this is not the first time this has been asked, but Masaru can’t help but ask it again. He cannot stand the idea that they just can’t do anything to stop their worlds ending. Still not a fan of being powerless!

Tohma merely shakes his head, defeated.

Just then, the four of them notice something way off towards the horizon. On the top of Mount Fuji (I’m not sure if its distance from Yokohama is accurate here, but shush), a stream of glowing orange energy is erupting upwards towards the Digital World in the sky.

It’s BanchouLeomon, using all of his power to try and stop the sky from falling and hold the two worlds apart. The DATS team head over there on their still-evolved partners (using them for transport! Gasp! But this doesn’t count as an instance of evolving them specifically for transport, since they were already evolved from the Belphemon fight).

MirageGaogamon: “He’s slowing down the Digital World with his Digisoul!”

He sure is! Which is very interesting, considering that Digimon aren’t supposed to have Digisoul at all. That’s a thing that humans have. How about that.

Yeah; I was already pretty convinced BanchouLeomon was Suguru on my first viewing, but this made me extra sure I was onto something there. This shouldn’t be possible for an ordinary Digimon. And if that wasn’t enough, this Digisoul is also a very familiar orange colour.

BanchouLeomon: “I’ve unleashed all of my Digisoul! In moments, I will become the stone foundation that supports the Digital World!”

Fun Greek mythology lesson for you guys! The common depiction of Atlas as carrying the Earth is incorrect; in the original myths, he stood on the Earth and held up the entire sky. How is it even possible to do that from a single point on the ground? Apparently, if the sky is falling towards the planet from every single point at once on a super-dimensional scale, just like the Digital World is here. BanchouLeomon’s going to quite literally pull an Atlas for us, to buy as much time as possible before the collision.

One other thing of note is that he uses ore in these lines, the Japanese “I” pronoun that BanchouLeomon and not Suguru uses, so it’s very unambiguously BanchouLeomon in control for this scene. It seems like it tends to be him by default when they’re not talking about something that’s specifically to do with Digisoul and evolution, aka Suguru’s area of expertise. Suguru probably doesn’t want to risk being recognised otherwise.

BanchouLeomon: “Masaru! Go to Yggdrasil! Before my life runs out!”

He knows full well that he’s not going to have the strength to hold this up forever. And interestingly, it seems like BanchouLeomon and Suguru have a hunch that Yggdrasil may be able to do something about this interdimensional crisis – something that isn’t just “destroy one world to save the other”, because of course BanchouLeomon wouldn’t accept that outcome. Huh. How about that.

BanchouLeomon: “From this point on, you will face even greater calamities! In order to resolve them, you must meet Yggdrasil!”

From the first sentence alone, it almost sounds like he’s talking about how this “even greater calamity” is Yggdrasil, perhaps because he knows whose face Yggdrasil is wearing right now. But alas, based on the second sentence, it seems like that’s not actually what he’s talking about. Still, yes, he sure does seem to think that Yggdrasil can fix this calamity, and not, you know, make it worse.

BanchouLeomon: “Since you are Suguru’s son, you should be able to do it!”

Aww, BanchouLeomon believing in his friend’s son! In contrast to how he was disappointed by him in episode 35 after the Ruin Mode thing. It would be even cuter if this was actually Suguru saying this (while speaking about himself in third-person to keep up the charade), but alas, it’s definitely BanchouLeomon in this scene.

Conveniently it seems like one of the tallest mountains in the Digital World was falling right onto the peak of Mount Fuji. As it falls far enough for BanchouLeomon’s hands to physically grasp it and hold it up, he roars in exertion with an even brighter burst of Digisoul.

When the light fades, the entire stream of Digisoul has solidified, like amber, holding the two worlds apart with BanchouLeomon trapped inside it. The imminent collision has been halted… for now.

Masaru drops to the ground at the summit and rushes towards BanchouLeomon, but there’s nothing he can do to help. He screams the Digimon’s name in anguish, hating that such a strong comrade of theirs has basically had to sacrifice himself for them.

Masaru:  “Let’s go, ShineGreymon. To the Digital World.”

ShineGreymon: “Yeah.”

Yoshino:  “Wait a second! How are you going to get there?”

Masaru:  “It’s right there in front of us. We can just fly straight towards it.”

Oh, Yoshino, ever having the practical concerns, and Masaru having the most straightforward solution. The Digital World is literally right up there in the sky; getting there is no longer an issue like it always was before.

Masaru’s voice is subdued and his face isn’t shown for these lines. He’s not at all happy about the idea that they have to go on ahead while BanchouLeomon stays here fighting to keep everyone alive, but what else can he do?

(This is in fact the first time Masaru’s been able to willingly get himself to continue onwards while a comrade stays behind fighting to protect them, without someone or something else needing to literally drag him away. He still hates it, but he’s actually capable of it now!)

Tohma:  “It’s too dangerous! The dimensional barrier has crumbled! We don’t know what condition the skies are in right now!”

As usual, Tohma’s being cautious, and he’s not wrong that the skies are extremely turbulent right now – but really, Tohma, what have you got to lose? If you guys don’t even try to do anything, the worlds are definitely doomed.

Masaru:  “BanchouLeomon is risking his life to support the Digital World! We’ve got to show the same amount of guts that he’s shown!”

Not that Masaru would need BanchouLeomon’s incredibly gutsy act to spur him to do something equally gutsy himself, but I do like that he’s framing it this way and being inspired by him. (He doesn’t even realise it’s his dad in there, but oh man, if he did.)

This fervent appeal prompts everyone else to agree with Masaru, even Tohma.

Yoshino:  “It may be better than waiting here for our deaths.”

Yoshino gets it. They’re not going to achieve anything by staying here; they might as well at least try.

And with that, they’re all headed up to the Digital World to meet Yggdrasil! Who is totally going to be receptive and willing to help them, as we’ve seen, right.

Overall thoughts

Let’s be real here. Thanks to all the clip-showing, a significant chunk of which isn’t even a good clip-show either, this is only half an episode. And the half that’s actually new content is all pretty transitional, just setup for this final arc, with nothing massively interesting happening in it.

So, unsurprisingly, this is very much in the running for my least-favourite episode of the series. Still, because the stuff that does happen is relevant to the overall plot and moving things along at least a bit, it does in some ways feel like a better episode to me than episode 9. Sorry, episode 9.

If nothing else, I do enjoy spotting the hints that Yggdrasil’s true motives are really all about destroying humanity no matter what, and that it’s being very carefully manipulative about the situation to convince its Royal Knights to go along with it. Plus there’s the subtle fact that Craniummon doesn’t appear to be entirely convinced by Yggdrasil’s argument, even though he decides to follow orders anyway.

Also, shout-outs to Masaru’s delightful implicit suggestion of “why don’t we move everybody to the other side of the earth?”, he is so ridiculously straightforward, I love him.

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[Dub comparison]

#digimon #digimon savers #yggdrasil #craniummon #banchouleomon #masaru daimon

[tsuki-sennin]

C'mon! Ra-Ra-Rabbit! C'mon! Ra-Ra-Rabbit! C'mon! Ra-Ra-Rabbit!

Buddy Up! Laughing, Crying, Analyzing, Ending! Kamen Rider! Revi! Vice! Revice Final Episode!

The end is nigh for Kamen Rider Revice! And I'd like to take this time to say "thank you". Seriously, I hope that my liveblogging, as scattered, unfocused, and disjointed as it may have been, helped liven up your day, even a little bit. This is all for fun, obviously, but Kamen Rider Revice has been there for me all throughout this year, and as flawed as it might be, writing about it has been both very fun and a great anchor to keep myself grounded; and knowing that even a few people were interested in what I had to say about this show is honestly incredibly humbling.

If you happen to be interested in creative content from me, please check out @tsuki-sennin-creations, my personal creative blog that I got started a few weeks ago. There's not much there yet and it's hardly, but I've got plenty of projects in the works that I hope you'll be interested. Some of them Kamen Rider related, some of them not, but I hope they'll be of interest to you.

Alright, I've put it off long enough! Say it with me now... Spoilers, I guess~!

-Ah right, Ikki's about to forget about Vice.

-...and again, I sure hope that the chaos Vice caused was staged because if not, Ikki's reputation might go down the drain.

-AND SAKURA'S STILL HOLDING THE KETCHUP BOTTLE GIRL WYD

-Ooooooh, Cross Counter Kick!

-"It wasn't make believe" :(

-LOVE-CHAN

-FUCK

-It's okay Lovekov. We all done fucked up.

-:(

-NO DON'T LIVEDEVIL ME

-ARE WE STILL FIGHTING

-Refreshing. Like a long hot bath after a cold day.

-Going all out for Round 2!

-Ohhh, that brief glimpse of them untransformed was super cool.

-Awwww... bath time.

-New song, huh?

-Going back into Ikki by means of terminating the contract.

-Man...

-What a real nasty demon.

-Bon-kun :)

-Everybody's here :)

-This feels like less of an all-out brawl and more of one last day of playtime before a friend moves away. ...it's actually kinda moving in a weird way.

-"Kick his ass, Vice!" Love-chan craves blood.

-Gotta let go of some things eventually, huh?

-Awwww, Genome changing :)

-Ooooooh, fightin' dirty with Remixes, huh?

-OH GODDAMMIT

-You bastards had to sneak it in there, huh? Motherfuckers! Was that the plan all along!? To lure me into a false sense of security and crop-dust me?

-Man...

-We're truly going through them all, huh?

-Oh hey, Ptera Remix.

-We didn't even get to the midseason forms :(

-Man...

-Not goodbye.

-I am you... you are me...

-"I'm gonna remember you... whatever it takes..." :(

-Sayonara... Vice... :(

-Man...

-The fam :)

-There they be.

-Man...

-Been a few months, huh?

-Vice Duck?

-"Revolting?!"

-Blue Bird! With Dai-chan!

-Awww :)

-Trying all over again.

-Hana-chan... Tamaki-san... Even Hiromicchi!

-Kagerou :)

-We deed it.

-Smile :)

-Awwwww, Lovechan :)

-Hello, Hikaru-kun!

-You seem like you're doing pretty good for yourself.

-Gotta study.

-Dr. Sakura Igarashi.

-Muteki da!

-Ahhhh, Mama!

-"Haaaaaaaaaaaaa, get fuuuuuuuucked!"

-Makoto Hatsushiba, stuck in jail.

-"So, want some 'help', huh George?"

-Let's go, George.

-He took his cool rock back :)

-Ayyyyyy, Ikki doin' soccer again!

-Oh hey, it's Kimura.

-Epic.

-That's what every Kamen Rider longs for, huh? No longer being needed, but able to live a normal and happy life with friends and family even beyond the reach of those hardships.

-Oh, who dat?

-Kazuyoshi Miura, currently the oldest known professional soccer player in the world at the age of 55.

-That's pretty neat, actually.

-Wanna go pro, huh Ikki?

-:)

-We're boiling up!

-Still the same old Ikki, huh buddy?

-Ohhhh, he Vice talkin'!

-That was pretty good, Maeda.

-Nearly a whole year has gone by since I started liveblogging Revice.

-Now we need only wait a week or so before we start with Geats.

-Hip hip hooray

-Oh? What that?

-"Mine."

-Oh, there he is! Esu Ukiyo.

-"This random treasure chest outside your family's bathhouse is a Gamer Zone, you little scrublord."

-Ah, so we're not getting a last episode Vistamp.

-"See you soon. >:)"

-...rather refreshing, actually.

-How would I rank the Reiwa era shows so far?

-Hmmm... well, Zero-One was consistently great aside from some stumbles in the middle and near the end that left me only wanting more for certain characters, Saber started on the wrong foot but improved drastically with themes I personally really got behind, then

-Well then… now that Kamen Rider Revice is over, I think I'm gonna spend the day unwinding, pondering... maybe I'll get around to the next episode of Delicious Party Precure today if I'm feeling up to it.

#revice #kr revice #kamen rider revice #revive the vice: imprinted like stamps and fossils #revice spoilers #kamen rider

[marichanmari]

You and you brother share the same birthday? Does that mean you guys are twins dats pretty neat 😀

No, his birthday is the day after mine

[starlight-starwings]

The Adventure Zone: Ethersea, Dust 2, and live shows quotes:

• Trees don't grow on trees!

• - Look at this stuff isnt it neat?

  - Yes I think that your collection is complete now.

• - What I will also give you with a nat 20 is... harmarbahbahbahbah

  - Excuse me what? I missed that last part

  - Harnarbarbarbarbar.

  - I dont see how that helps us but, thank you?

• - Zis has nothing to do wiz us!

  - Okay. Tel me why. Then you explain it.

  - Okay zo the magic coming from the zingularity, that we are going to collect, with, with this crystal, yes? Zis worm, uhh is not, by its nature, ze zingularity! Yes?

- Right but its probably got magic... all over it.

- No! No Ze water... zis water dat we are in, right? It is... it is... Okay. Zink if it like this: Imagina a glass of water. And you drop some uh, coloring into it. Some dye in it. Yes?

- Alright. Alright.

- So zen you are going to put objects into this water, yes? Zey will um, become covered in ze dye. Because it is in the water, yes? Now if zey are zings that abzorb things, if they are different colors when zey go in, ze differences between the objects will make ze dye in ze water affect zem differently. Yes? Zis is how ze Ether, in the Ethersea works.

- Riiiiight.... so he should just try talking to it-

- No! Zey worm is just zoaked in ze magic! And so

- Whys the worm here then?

- Why are- why are we here?!

- Whoa... whoa... that may be... might be even beyond my-

- No iz cause we fell into ze clam! That waz not a metaphysical question! We are here because we vell into ze clam. Listen. Listen. I know this is weird right? Giant worm! An uh, we're very small, and we're looking for the giant, ya know zing that makes things small and giant, right? But zis is not it! Zis building is not it, zose screw things are not it, ze worm is not it. Zey have all just been affected by ze same magic we are trying to find, but zat magic is not here. I have studied magic literally all my life. And zis is not it. Uh zis is like- Amber, I would not tell you how to uh punch a shark with your uh uh furious fists; Zoox, I would not tell you how to swim with the farts that come out of your feet. So I need you to trust me that I know that zis- the only thing that can happen here, is that zis worm sees us, as food like it sees zese, uh, things in ze wall, and eats us and poops us out as this white uh, tree gross stuff that comes out of its butt. Right? So...

- Ah yea that's fair.

- I love it when he's compelling.

• - Uhh it's a 6 and a 9 dude, heh heh heh

  - Oh I get it.

  - (fake laughter)

  - Yea so if it-

  - Dad um, theres uh... sex number, uhhhh I guess. Sorry its so (unintelligable) young thing for us young bucks

  - I think it was invented in like 2005

  - Yea thats pretty recent. We just came up with it. Hey dad if you try to follow up on this gag at all, I will hang up

  - (loud, real laughter)

  - This is not a "yes, and" situation

  - No no no no

- It's not a "yes and" it's a "no thanks."

- I'll just open another window, lemme see

- Im about to close all the windows on my computer, and then...

- (gasp) oh my god

- (laughter)

• The problem with being lied to and manipulated iz that now, in retrospect I can not tell what waz a good day and what seemed like a good day because zis is how you wanted me to feel. Zis is the problem that I have. It iz not that I hate chu, it iz that I do not know what iz me, and what iz you. And what is ze church, and what it is that I want. Because for so long, you and the other teachers only saw me as a vessel to be filled with your ideas, and your beliefs. And you would do anything to have me accept those. I am afraid of every other feeling because I do not know if they are yours or if they are mine, but my resentment is my own. And zis is the anger I will keep coming back to, to understand who I am. And what fuels me is knowing that I am not you. As- I do not want to be only resentment, yes? But when I see your face and the symbol, and the church, it's all that I am. Pleasure doing business with you.

• - Amber who is zis fellow over here? He seems... I dont know, important? Weird?

  - lemme think about it (out of character) do I know him?

  - Roll uhh an investigation check.

  - Kay. Sixteen.

  - Plus anything?

  - Nuh clean.

  - Um they look familiar but you can't quite put your finger on it.

  - (back in character) Well they look familiar but I cant quite put my finger on it. Ah well!

• You might be different, ah but uh different is not bad. It just means that you will have other strengths and other challenges along ze way. But I have seen you handle yourself very well in several different um, absolutely difficult and terrifying situations. And I think the only thing that is wrong with you is the same thing zat is wrong with everybody else, which is we are all just trying to understand ourselves, and understand who we are and uh what we are doing.

• - It's one of the jobs that was offered to you

  - noooo which one? Was it one of the good ones?

  - Make uhhh

  - Perception?

  - Yea perception or investigation, she just flashed it at you real quick.

  - That's uhh wow a natural 1 I dont even know if that's paper. Hey! Whats with that banana you got!

• - Well is it coloquial or is it irrelevant?

  -  It's actually pronounced the cloaca, is where hes at

• - Do you have a jacket zat I could have? Zis is unrelate-

  - They will cover your whole body

  - No its unrelated, I just needed a new jacket

  - Umm no! What are you talking about?

  - I just thought that I would ask

  - Have I ever come to your domicile and said like "hey! Selling any pants today?" That's a wild thing to do!

  - Oh I did not say selling I was hoping you would just give it to me.

  - Have I ever showed up at your domicile and said "gimme pants! Its me ya pal uncle Joshie gimme pants today!"

  - We haven't known each other this long.

  - No we haven't! Thats exactly right! We wicked have not!

• We don't want your boomerang dude

• (in deep voice) I agree, lets continue on our sacred mission

  - Oh shit, Optimus Prime is here?!

  - Autobots, transform!!

  - Sam Witwicky

  - Sam Witwicky!

  - Sam Witwicky!!

• - Sam Witwicky did you bring the robot weed?

• - You know hes kinda squiggly and uhhhh wiggly... he is an octo- holy shit.

  - What?

  - Squiggles was ze smiley face!

  - What?

  - Squiggle- Squiggles- Squiggles! Skittles! Was ze smiley face!

  - Travis is broken!

  - Squiddly diddly?!

  - Skittles? Squiggles.... was ze smiley face avatar at ze auction.

• Griffin trying out different voices for Nermal made me laugh. It doesnt really work to do in text because he does the same line multiple times in increasingly ridiculous voices.

• I could being your face down to a steak, cut it into nice strips for my brood

• - Im going to throw the uh, chance lance at the laser eye

  - Okay. You didn't say it was an eye, but I like that. Thats cool.

  - Well it is!

  - Where else is it gonna go its not a laser belly button

  - Well wait wait wait a minute! Im the one that came up with it, so I oughta say what it is.

- Yea what is it?

- It's a laser eye! Were you not listening?

• - Tell me about its smooth endoplasmic reticulum, Travis

  - It's sexy as fuck!

• Point at the face that looks like your face. For pain I mean.

• Shrets not reaaaal. Its just a naaaame.

• -  I got an 8

  - I got a rock

• You can not call it a gift if it was not asked for or offered. You imposed this on us. This is not how a gift works. And second; your understanding that strengths come from- through suffering? This is not the way. This is not an acceptable... pathway for us to move forward.

• - Thats a 10!

  - Yea... no

  - How much defense could a chain have??

  - It's not about defense-

  - He makes a good point, Griffin

  - It's not about defense! Its about you threading a chain-link with a crossbow bolt that you have tied a rope onto! There is no universe in which this-

  - Well when you say it like that, Griffin, it sounds wild!

  - Yea! It is wild! You see- Cambria laughs at you! The big worm monster laughs at you!

  - Wait a minute wait! Wait a minute. Now when you make an attack roll youre rolling again somebodys armor class, correct?

(All talking over each other now)

  - Did- you- dad-

  - Now wait, wait a minute-

  - Objection! The- the judges

  - Can we talk about this?

  - I don't wanna talk about anything else!

  - All the jury members stand up and shout objection! At the same time.

  - I don't have to win over a judge- a jury

  - And the judge is like this isn't how court works, but I agree! Ob-

  - I just have to win over you!

- Yea you're not gonna do that! Ive made my position perfectly clear. You can say you rolled a 10, what you did was you rolled a 2 plus 8. No way!

  - Alright

  - I wanna hear dad out!

  - Yea!

  - No no, let him speak

  - Okay no no! Make your impashioned armor class argument.

  - Now I'm just a simple fantasy lawyer, but my client

• stop rolling thunderclap damage!

• Herosim isn't some title that you earn for yourself and then you get to trot around. Its a thing that you do.

• If TAZ has a unifying theme, I've had a lot of thoughts about it, and if TAZ- The Tazmasphere- has a unifying theme, it is bullying people in administration positions.

• - If you have one of these, its called a map, and it will show you how to get to ze parlor, hmm?

  - Uh okay. And she goes over to uh a- a desk, a small sort of information desk, and picks up a piece of paper and jots something on it and then hands it to you and its just a note that says "just fucking follow me!"

•  - His name? Franz....ch.

   - Franged?

   - Frenched

   - Sorry, Franche? 

  - Can you guys not make a big deal out of it everytime?? Im trying to- I don't have a billion names written time this time!

• - The more you lose, the more important it is to protect what you still have, you pessimistic asshole. Because there are children that are in Founders Wake that have never seen a fucking polar bear! And we have ze chance to save things so that- maybe you dont care right now. But maybe they will! Huh?? Maybe its not about you, you selfish piece of shit!

• You zink you are very special because you feel this way. You zink that you have a big picture kind of mentality and that you see things in a clear way that no one else. But I'm going to tell you a secret, Sir. I grew up surrounded by people like you. People who live their life and make their decisions because of some promise of a better zing coming right? And zat everyzing they do now is all worth it because of whats to come, right? But ze problem is when you are looking at ze big picture, ze the things that you often miss, right, iz ze little things. And so you become so focused on the big picture and working towards ze next thing, zat you lose focus on how you are affecting the world you are in now. You think the world will be better huh? The next one. Do you know how it got to be like that?? Because of assholes like you who focused on "better" and ze next thing. And growing and taking more and being more and having more and instead, maybe if you focused a little bit more on what was going on now, we wouldn't be in ze fucking predicament here under the ocean, surrounded by polluted water, zat we are. Did you ever think about this??

• But with her many arms she rips sun from sky and boils all the water-  misbehavior

• That's why Gary Gygax used to say "this is my little nephew, Matt Mercer"

• It's a good point, but not relevant.

• I've always had the sneaking suspicion that when people aren't with us, theyre not really doing much of anything. Have you guys felt that ever?

• - Nah we, me and Dylan can handle it

  - Whos dylan??

  - Sorry??

  - Uh, from- from deeper in the ship, the- the door to the bridge opens up, and you all see just this skeezy waistoid of a dude walk in and hes like "Hey what's up? What's going on?"

  - Sorry who are you?

  - Who is Dylan??

  - This is my friend Dylan.

(Laughter)

• I- no! I don't think so at all! Im not with them. No I'm- I- Im- I like the mortal world! I like the- the I like the oceans, I like the- most of the people Ive met and I like all the creatures Ive met. I- I dont know why anybody would want to... get rid of this! I... I understand that people have lives and memories and- and all these things about the past, but, you know I recently learned that I'm not gonna live in it. I- I don't have that past to live in. So I don't wanna tunnel into... whatever Nirvanna or whatever these people wanna do. I just... I wanna enjoy this beautiful world that we have; this existence we have! I wanna appreciate it! I don't- I don't see any sense in trying to go somewhere else. Im! Not! With! Them!

• - My will

  - What?

  - My will

  - Oh okay.

  - Oh he did it in a scary voice. I hated that.

  -Yea idk why..

  - Like the devil-

  - I can't hear it on my end, hows it sound?

  - It sounds fucking scary man

  - It sounds terrible

  - It's the scariest-

  - I'm trying to turn it off so please- please ignore me (demonic laugh)

  - The volumes are too low and I tried to change this one slider and now I sound like this!

  - It's wonderful to me that you got this fun new sound board in our penultimate episode.

  - It's not- Ive had it for a little bit but I don't normally have these.

•  - Your mind reels with a question as you blink away tears: where the shit am I? To which your own mind answers: I do not know

  - Okay Griffin, but whats happening in the game??

• Yes! He's gained the power of literacy, and now he's unstoppable!

•  - You have thwarted me again, Springfield

  - Im walking away, I cant hear you actually Im walking away

  - Wait

  - Nope. Im not gonna! Im gonna walk away!

  - Okay. I wish-a you wouldn't.

  - Okay I'll see ya around. Bye!

  - That's a weird thing to say after you said that cool shit about Siren

  - I know but you keep talking to me and now its weird!

  - You're not walking away!

  - I want to though!

  - You keep responding

  - Okay now I'm definitely gonna walk away

  - Doesn't sound like it

  - Aw man.

  -(Quieter) Okay I'm walking away

  - Hey wait come back!

  - Yea?

  - What are you still doing here, man?

  - God dammit!

• -You ask a fucking lot of questions. I get it, that its like-

  - It's my whole deal!

  - Yea but even so... it's... it's... tiring.

  - What else would you have me dooo?

  - You could just chill.

  - I'm not The Statementer! Like I don't come when youre doing your job I don't-

  - I've got a question for you.

  - What is it?

  - What did birds evolve from? (Out of character) and then I go

  - Well the science-

  - (dinosaur screeches) And a bunch of-

  - No you didn't let me answer!

  - Velociraptors jump through the windows!

 

• - Do you have a spectral pen, um?

  - A regular pen that he can hold? When he's not-

  - Yes it's fine I can man-manifest myself into a corporeal form. Please excuse me for just a second.

  - Hang on just a second-

  (Very loud obnoxious screaming from Justin)

• - Mr. Parsons? It seems a missive has come for you.

  - Shhh. I hate this part.

• My name is Augustus Parsons; and I'm totally nuts.

• - That was a NICE ectoplasmic blast

  - That's what she said!

#theadventurezone #TAZethersea #TAZdust #my posts

[thecornwall]

Cornwall’s Random Card of the Day #284: Volcanic Dragon

Volcanic Dragon is a rare from, I think, Mirage? Says here first printing is Sixth ed, but that can’t be right. Seen here in its Starter 1999 printing.

So, this is a pretty neat rare. Haste, size AND flying is a potent combination. But nowadays, this card is an uncommon. Why dat? Well, mostly power creep, but you can always argue that Volcy kinda just lacks that little extra “oomph” that puts a card into the rare category. Square stats would help. As is, it’s a powerful uncommon which can function a lot like a slightly-smaller, repeatable Lava Axe. Closing out a game from nowhere is one of the funs of being a Red deck.

#mtg

[amarriageoftrueminds]

Illegal Aliens AU

Instead of crashing the Valkyrie, Steve is sucked into the Tesseract Portal like Redskull and wakes up in a healing room in Asgard

(maybe Heimdall spots him and yoinks him to safety because he doesn’t deserve to die that way). 

The Asgardians are miffed he is there since Asgard isn’t exactly immigration central, and are considering kicking him out 

but Prince Thor speaks up in favour of allowing him to stay, since Steve has safely delivered the Tesseract to them, and he certainly cannot be allowed to return to Earth, because he knows too much. 

So instead of being isolated and alone in Modern New York, Steve is the only alien man in Asgard, literally alienated, trapped there, and now functionally immortal because of exposure to the magic and food.

and he goes right back to being The Weakling, treated like an infant by well-meaning but patronising Asgardians, because he is a baby, not even a hundred years old, look at him he eats like a bird!

(although plenty of them think being Midgardian is scarcely better than being an animal)

queue Steve moping around doing his Sadness Errands but in a staggeringly beautiful medieval-looking city with Magic 

MEANWHILE... 

Frost Giant Bucky has the same backstory as Loki

but, instead of being adopted by the Odinsons he was adopted by the Barneses, a loving Asgardian family with three Valkyrie daughters of a similar age

who all dote on him, see him as the family baby and have always told him he was adopted and accepted that side of him, even though he has to keep it secret from the general public 

but King Odin knows about him and has long been using him as a mercenary, to go around the Nine Realms doing his dirty work, and Bucky is trapped

he works under an alias - the Winter Knight - a witch-warrior with a magic arm, whose boss move is to summon a bow of frost, with icicle arrows. 

but day-to-day he has to pretend to be a normal Asgardian guy, though he can’t get close to anybody outside his immediate adopted family because of his Terrible Secret 

he wants to retire and settle down; maybe do some realm sightseeing, build spaceships in his workshop, tend his magic garden, raise flying horses ...

and maybe secretly he is a nerd who is obsessed with Midgardian things because pff magic is Bor-ing

and wishes he wasn’t the only non-Asgardian on Asgard, that he could find someone who knows what it feels like, who isn’t biased against Frost Giants... 

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tl;dr: Instead of crashing the Valkyrie, Steve is sucked into the Tesseract Portal and wakes up in Asgard, where he later meets Adopted-Asgardian Secret-Frost-Giant Bucky, who feels just as isolated and lonely...

#dat's me #stuckbunny #stucky #steve rogers #bucky barnes #MCU #illegal aliens au #asgardian!bucky #mostly this is me imagining bucky with superlong pantene-pro-V asgardian hair #with pretty rings and plaits and buns #having kinky shivery ice-sex with steve some how #but also: getting to visit earth with steve #when steve goes back with thor to join the avengers/stop loki #and bucky being ENCHANTED by the way winter is treated in new york #the whole concept of christmas and ice-skating and snowball fights and sledding and SNOWMEN #but also in summer ICE-CREAMS and POPSICLES and everyone thinking bucky is GREAT becomes he can make his surroundings cool #thinks where steve is from is SO NEAT