#it came in the middle of both of them

[faithinlouisfuture]

Emmy please … that’s not a blunt it’s reading glasses.

Louis is an old man 😱

stoppp 💀 it’s not reading glasses!

are you normal or did you download the photo in 4k? 😭 bubble butt <3

#anon #that’s a blunt he hasn’t lit yet #the vibes are immaculate for lighting one up #Chris the 🤖 was lagging so we’ll never know if this was posted for Chicago or All This Time #it came in the middle of both of them #louis in the studio

[starry-bi-sky]

I'm in A Mood™ (stressed) so im going back to my roots of melting two character together into one person. So bruce wayne!danny fenton. Danny Fenton who, for eight years, grew up in a beautiful gothic manor with his mom and dad under the name "Bruce Wayne". Playing piano with his mother, running around the manor with his father.

Then when he's eight it's ripped away from him. There's blood on his hands and pearls pooling at his feet, and both his parents are dead in front of him.

And he gets shipped off to distant relatives "the Fentons" shortly after, Alfred close on his heels because someone needs to take care of him, someone that knows him. Bruce goes to the Fentons for the safety of anonymity. Gotham's press wants to sink its teeth into him.

Danny misses his city even if it took everything from him. There are shadows in his eyes and he's pale as a sheet even beside his distant cousins, and they change his name to "Danny Fenton' because nobody should know that their newest child was illustrious orphan Bruce Wayne.

They call him Bruce behind closed doors. Danny prefers it that way, he clings onto the name -- the one his parents gave him -- like a lifeline. He makes friends with Sam and Tucker. Tucker takes one look at the willowy, morbid little boy standing in the corner like a shade, ghosts in his eyes, and drags him out into the sunlight, and takes him over to Sam.

When Danny is twelve, he's still not over it -- and he's a little obsessed with the Fentons' research, with the morbid. He has books upon books on death, murder, detective work. Anything he can get his hands on. And stars. He loves stars.

Alfred owns the apartment next to them and comes over regularly. Danny clings to him.

When Danny is twelve, he's still quiet, meek, a shy little thing prone to being bullied. Freaky little Fenton with the night in his eyes and too-cold skin even before he put one foot in the grave. in a sleepover in his room with Sam and Tucker, he tells them the truth. They're his friends, he trusts them.

"My name is Bruce." he murmurs, voice quiet as the breeze, always quiet. he's staring at his star-covered sheets.

"Like Bruce Wayne?" Tucker asks, a joking tone in his voice.

Danny smiles a little, lamb-like with insecurity. "I am Bruce Wayne." And he takes them down to the lab, disrupting Maddie and Jack, to prove it. Sam tells them of her own wealth then shortly after. They start calling Danny "Bruce" in private too -- its trust. Thats what it is. It's trust.

Sam goes to media functions and comes back with aching feet and complaints on her tongue -- and Danny soaks it up all like a sponge, splayed across a beanbag chair with Tucker in her room. He's not envious of her, he used to go to events with his parents and they kept him safe from the ugly of Gotham's Elite. For the most part. He's had comments made at him, he doesn't miss them.

Alfred returns to the manor semi-regularly, Danny goes with him. he wanders the hallways and helps Alfred clean, the last thing either of them want is for their home to fall into disrepair. He brings Jazz with him next time, then Tucker, then Sam. They all help him clean, and he shows them his room. The one across from his parents', it feels strange.

When Danny dies when he's fourteen, the first adult he tells is Alfred. He and Jazz go over to his house more often than they stay in the Fentonworks building. At least at Alfred's, the food doesn't come to life. Alfred sits at the kitchen table and weeps when Danny tells him, Jazz is upstairs, and its just the two of them.

Danny's ghost form wears pearls around his wrist and the gloves look stained with some kind of black substance. He looks like a child who died in a lab accident, but he also looks like a child who has shadows dripping off his shoulders, curling at his feet, hanging from his eyes.

because amorphous blob batman has my heart always and danny/bruce will not escape it even in death even if that IS the only reason im giving him Mild BatBlob Vibes...so far

when they go to the manor, alfred helps danny make a pile of stones between Martha and Thomas' graves, nobody but the two of them (and sam and tucker) will know what it means. (not even bruce's children later down the line, not for a long, long time)

danny dives into ghost fighting on shaky feet and not half as witty as he once was in one world. he's skittish, skittering between blasts from shadow to shadow and clumsily making his way through each battle. but helping people lights a fire in him. he still has shadows dripping off his feet but there's a purpose in his eyes.

and god help him, he's going to help people.

#dpxdc #dp x dc #danny fenton is not the ghost king #dp x dc crossover #dpxdc crossover #dpdc #dpxdc prompt #this is just me torturing danny for a little bit because im stressed and i cried for an hour while i was driving so im taking it out on B #thanks for being my little stress ball danny #aha my old middle school habit of frankensteining two characters together is resurfacing again :) yall should've seen my wattpad drafts #in middle school. i had 50 of them and most of them were me combining two characters together to make one person and putting them in one au #my most memorable being skydoesminecraft and harry potter. THAT was a fun worldbuilding experience #do i think that growing up with the fentons would fix bruce/danny completely?? hurm. no. dont kid yallselves jazz is not a licensed #therapist not even at like. nine when she meets danny. she's not helping him through his trauma in the slightest. she's nagging. #she's his sister or sister-like figure before she's his therapist. would he be #*entirely* like canon bruce tho?? no. dannybruce is a mix of the both of them. but this is still the first post of the au and is more so #just me doing the equivalent of popping a stress ball so nothing is smoothed over. mostly im just trying to keep bruce's trauma prominent i #danny's character because he IS Bruce. i dont want him to just be 'danny with bruce's backstory but without any of the ugly bits'. #danny and bruce is used interchangeably because they're the same person but sorry if his personality feels imbalanced i came up with this o #the spot. was going to type more but the stress has left me. for now. watch ur back danny 👀

[introspectivememories]

tim and bernard who break up and it's nothing big, no one cheated or anything. it's just their lifestyles didn't work out well together. tim cannot give up vigilantism currently and bear cannot handle the level of danger tim puts himself in. and on the other hand, tim cannot handle the fact that bear chooses to run into danger as an emt bc he already worries about everything but now he has to worry if he'll find his boyfriend convulsing from fear gas in a random alley but also bear who felt the life drain out of darla cannot stand the thought of not helping people and runs headfirst into dangerous situation after dangerous situation hoping that every person he saves can somehow make up for the fact that he could not save darla.

(he very pointedly does not think about the fact that there was nothing he could do because if he thinks about that, he'll spiral until they have to lock him in arkham too)

and so they break up but they were tim & bernard in high school and when they started dating they balanced out the worst of each other and they became tim&bernard. and everyone who knows them, knows that they're better together but they cant be together, they refuse actually because they cannot lose another person to the violence of gotham and by the time they figure out that they cant work together as long as the other is an emt or vigilante, it's too late for both them. they've already left too many pieces of themselves in each other.

tim still knows what bear means when he says "tim" in that exasperated voice. tim still goes boneless when he hears bear say "baby" in that firm tone. bear can still read tim like a book. he still knows the right way to massage tim's neck so that tim can go to sleep. everyone at the first responders gala knows not to bother ceo drake-wayne and senior emt dowd when they're talking.

(and if they're standing a little too close to each other than what is normal, who are they to judge? everyone knows that dowd and drake-wayne have history)

and if everyone on the night shift has caught red robin with his head tucked into the crook of emt dowd's neck as emt dowd runs a soothing hand up and down the vigilante's back, well then, they just quietly back away.

(after all, dowd's one of like, five, emts that can get the bats to receive medical treatment so if turning a blind eye to whatever the fuck they have going on is what allows them to give back to their heroes, then the night shift will do it every time)

and of course, tim and bear are practical people. they loved (love) each other sure, but when your lives are fundamentally incompatible, well, you cant get too stuck on the what-ifs, that's for sure. and so they do find love with other people and yeah, maybe it's not what they expected love to be when they first fell in love with each other. it's not the bubbly, stomach-swoopy, cant stop grinning, feeling that permeated tim&bernard's early days or the i Know you/you Know me that was their middle or the quiet despair that was their end but it is contentment. and in a life with as many losses as theirs, contentment is something they hold dearly

and they're happy! truly! but sometimes, at galas when they're making each other snort champagne out their noses or in darkened alleyways when their clothes are both stained with blood or at rallies for stricter gun regulations in gotham where they both sit too close to each other, fingers enclosed around each other in a death grip, when the presenters inevitably bring up grieves

(worst school shooting in gotham in decades, there's blood on their hands and blood in their mouths and darla is dead in between both of them and there is a chasm so wide that they are screaming to get their voices across and she will always be dead and maybe this had always been the problem that she is dead and there is no coming back from that and that there is blood on their hands and blood in their mouth and blood on their han-)

but sometimes, most especially on opposite sides of the street, as life pulls them in different directions, just sometimes, they see each other and just for a second, nothing too long, the flap of a hummingbird's wings, the time it takes to blink, an electron's orbital, they look at each other and for the briefest moment, blue on brown, a barely noticeable stutter in their steps, the space between heartbeats, because this is all they will give themselves because they do not dwell on what-ifs or what-could-have-beens, or what-should-have-beens, or delusions of a softer world, their eyes meet and they think to themselves, god, in another life, i would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with him.

#what the fuck is this #the theme was wistfulness. hopefully that came across right. and like i wanted this to be all 1 text block so you feel how it all collapses #into that 1 thought they have at they end but fuckass tumblr has a 4096??? text limit for a single paragraph???? so here's multiple paragra #anyway here is my middle of the road sad timbern hc. do i think this will happen? no? is this still a fun world to play in? yeah absolutely #also super huge fan of darla haunting the narrative. darla as this chasm they cannot cross. darla as smth they shelter each other from #but also smth like a 2 way blade. it cuts them both. it will never stop cutting them. smth smth the wound will always bleed #also i cannot stress how important it is that they are happy with other people!!! they are both satisfied with other people. it's just that #they have a very specific history and they are the only two people who really know and understand that history #and also it's not that theyre unhappy with their partners but just that smtimes they look at each other and... wonder. in a softer world #maybe i could've been a chef and you could've still been a superhero and we could've still worked out. maybe we would've gotten a boat #together and maybe we could've come home to each other. maybe i could've trusted you to come home to me. maybe you could've #understood my need to help people. maybe we could've held our love as something precious. #maybe in a softer world our love wasn't something that hurt us both. #i need to lay down. im going crazy #as always i do love reading yalls thoughts in the reblogs and replies!!! #bernard dowd #dc #tim drake #timbern #timber

[puppyeared]

throws oc lore at u <3 (anton belongs to @poicyss )

#im in the middle of doing an updated voice claim video and im taking a break so i made these lol #this is probably only canon to starshadow!au but if i had to guess she probably came from another planet than dimension #so.. technically an alien instead of an abnormality??? lol #making objects float comes from the star antigravity!! im sure she could make the opposite happen and pull things toward her w gravitationa #pull!! a few of her powers are inspired by mario galaxy so that was borrowed from the pull stars and other gameplay mechanics ^_^ #her meet cute is basically something that was supposed to be for mutual benefit and then it gets out of hand and they escape the facility #together or smth.. theres a reason why she doesnt exist in antons canon and thats bc the universe cant let them be best friends LMAO #BUT LIKE IT WORKS... antons indestructible and could withstand her radiation and nobody wants to talk to him anyway #and theyre both curious they could like talk for hours while anton does ''''work''''' on her (they are just chatterbugs having a good time) #i wonder what kinda stuff they would do if they escape.. maybe they explore the galaxy together who knows hehehehe #kicking my feet and giggling like an idiot #my art #myart #doodles #my oc #friend oc #anton #augusta #starshadow #sillies family #SQUEEZING THEM. DUNKING THEM IN MILK AND THROWING THEM AGAINST THE WALL #lobocorp #lobotomy corporation #sort of????????

[nashvillethotchicken]

I wish there were more black people who were into iwtv so I can talk about how Louis's class and race interests intersected

#iwtv #amc iwtv #iwtv 2022 #its so crazy cus hes from a rich lightskin family in new orleans #like he says hed be a free man of color (not black) if not for jim crow #the intraracial dynamics of new orleans pre-1970 is so genuinely interesting to me and we never get to really get into them bc louis spends #all his time with white/nonblack people and when he is with his black daughter its different bc theyre so isolated from the great black com #like louis was absolutely in jack n jill as a kid. hed be in a blue vein society. hed be an alpha based off his name alone like #hes the black bourgeois class and its so crazy that people say hes middle class in fanworks like no babe. they had darkskin servants #i think it also stems from people relating blackness to poorness. ldpdl is not poor in any sense of the word #he inherented a literal plantation!!!! but because hes black people downplay his class interests (except for other black people) #yknow who really was poor? lestat! like eating syrup sandwiches with the lights and water cut off by the city poor #and yet people act like he grew up hyper rich in fanworks and its like... thats not what happened #you can talk about how jim crow and white supremacy squashed/manipulated the black elite class in nola while acknowledging louis' class #like they both came into the relationship with money (louis' money might have been shorter than lestats #but they still had money) #ldpdl #like i would even wager that louis family dont even consider themselves black like that #cus blackness is defined by whiteness and since louis spends all his time with white people bc of his business hes treated as and sees him- #self as black in a way that his family isnt. theyre only black when theyre made black if that makes sense #theyre black when white people are around

[mcleavemealone]

Every single one of the s2 teens are trans and no one can convince me otherwise. They're all so queercoded it's wonderful

#dndads #dungeons and daddies #dndaddies #dndads2 #normal oak #scary marlowe #lincoln li wilson #taylor swift #your honor they're all trans #link and scary both came out when they were little #normal came out around middle school #I think Taylor took the longest to figure it out and tried to compensate by being overly masculine with his interests #all of their parents are very supportive #I think it adds an extra layer of humor if none of them know the others are trans and they all think they're the only one

[the-cookie-of-doom]

What if Demon!Kim/Human!Chay AU? Read more for smut >: )

Chay tumbled onto the bed naked, catching himself on hands and knees, and Kim was already behind him, clawed hands digging into his hip as they dragged him back, pushing into him, and Chay sobbed once, tensing in anticipation of pain—that never came. Kim dragged Chay up by his hair, pressed a sharp-toothed kiss into his neck. 

“Do you think I would ever hurt you?” he demanded, pulling Chay farther onto his cock. Pleasure licked up his spine—he was dripping for it, he didn’t understand—

“Kim,” Chay gasped, clutching at the hand now around his throat. “How—” 

“Your body is mine.” Chay shivered at the harsh growl in Kim’s voice, at the filthy way Kim ground into him. “To do with as I please. And right now,” a hard thrust that pulled a moan out of Chay, “I want to fuck you, and I don’t want to wait.” 

“Oh God—” Kim pushed him back into the bed, and Chay could do nothing but take it, writhing beneath the onslaught of pleasure that set his body on fire. Black silk sheets, cool against his burning skin, were his only relief. He panted, open-mouthed and wet, hands scrabbling for purchase, slipping. Kim was the only thing keeping him from collapsing all together, supporting Chay’s body with inhuman strength. He laughed. 

“I’ll take care of you, angel.”

#cookie speaks #Kim got jealous #teleported them both back home #immediately fucks Chay through the mattress #and Chay learns the fun way just what Kim can do to his body #he only preps Chay because he likes taking him apart and making him bed #but when he's feeling impatient he can just snap his fingers and Chay is ready to go #a fact chay is going to have a LOT of fun with lol #sorry if this feels dubcon Chay really is into it #im just in the middle of studying and this came to me and I didn't want to stop to write a Whole Thing #kinnporsche #kim khimhant theerapanyakul #porchay pichaya kittisawat #kimchay

[antisocialxconstruct]

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#I have.... a Vision for my next puppy surprise customization #basically I want to take the two with the most obnoxious color schemes (one is marbled pink/blue/yellow/purple with pink/white hair) #(the other is like pink and purple confetti with purple/pink/teal hair) split them both down the middle and swap halves #and then sew them back together so they're like inverse of each other #and then turn them into little clown dogs with like neck ruffles and bells and face paint etc #idk where the idea came from. I'm usually not into clowncore but I keep looking at them and just thinking 'these are destined to be clowns' #and now that I have a pattern for the babies based on the kittens... I could grab some puppy heads from the puppy pile #and make them some little clownlets #the only problem is like........ I need fabric and trinkets and such 😭 #the downside of being brand new to a crafty hobby is that you don't have a stockpile of supplies. you just have to keep spending money #and I don't have money right now!! I was supposed to get a raise this month but it only JUST got approved #so I won't be seeing any increase until next month #but anyway... I can still start..... I can disassemble things.......

[comedicreliefonlyworkswhenfunny]

Horikoshi, repeatedly: People are shaped from the environments that they are born in. They are complex and not two dimensional. Some hard times affect others more, and they can lash out in harmful ways. That doesn't mean they're bad people, and that doesn't mean they can't change. Their actions may be reprehensible or unforgivable, but they are still human.

This fandom, time and time again: That can't stop me because I can't read.

#like all of the LOV #the Todoroki family and how they all have their own ways of interacting with the trauma passed down to them #Bakugou's family life and the expectations and bullying from society #Midoriya facing discrimination for being quirkless- from his MOTHER AND TEACHERS NO LESS #Iida trying to kill Stain #Stain's ideology having roots in actuality but still being flawed because of his methodology #you don't HAVE to agree with all of them #but you are expected to SYMPATHIZE with their issues and UNDERSTAND who they are and why they got to that point #you can't condemn Endeavour for his abuse while showboating Dabi's unhealthy reaction to it #they were BOTH a product of their enviornment and they BOTH have seriously hurt people with their actions #you can't support Dabi murdering innocent people and then get mad at Bakugou for being a bully in middle school #you can't support early Shouto for being a dick to the class and condemn Bakugou for doing the same thing #they both grew up in harsh enviornments with difficult expectations. heavy pressue. and a warped view of the world #it's not about who had it better or worse #a cookie is burnt if it's just the bottom or the entire thing is charred #you can get salmanella from chicken that's raw all the way through or from just one piece not being cooked well enough #y'all need to stop supporting character flaws but only in the direction you like #you can't say that Mic supported Uraraka's excellence while saying he was also right to condemn Bakugou #no fucking duh Uraraka's potential ONLY came out because BAKUGOU brought it out (unlike Todoroki freezing Sero whole) #you can't say that Mic's human tics and that his underlying issues are good while saying that Aizawa pushing his trauma aside is bad #bruh they are doing the same fucking thing #I love All Might as a character but I can't support him as a mentor because of the devestating effect he has had on Midoriya #the amount of sheer hypocrisy in this fandom is astounding #that shit goes from sentence to sentence- y'all will literally put contradictory statements right beside of each other and not bat an eye #also stop comparing Bakugou to Endeavour- they have similar arcs of understanding but one of them is a literal child #it's really rude to the Todoroki family to say that their abuser and tormentor is just as bad as a middle school bully :/ #Endeavor growing and changing as a person is one thing you can chose to indulge or support- you can like or hate him #but his arc is specifically ABOUT being shaped by hid environment and how that can affect others (his kids) #not to mention how they all have different ways of responding to the treatment and different feelings about his future #you can't read that shit and keep trying to say 'no there IS a right answer' because there's not.

[gibbearish]

yknow what bugs me is when ppls criticism of YA media boils down to them just not knowing how teenage crushes work

#'bella being depressed because edward wasnt at school is unhealthy obsession' no that's called having a crush #'him asking her out by them hearing a rumor saying theyre dating and bella going 'what should i say' +him responding 'well i guess you could #tell them yes. yknow just because its easier' is lame and boring' are you kidding me i ate that shit up at that age #when two shy awkward people flirt thats how you end up in a relationship is you both kind of just sidle your way up to it #and i dont even feel like that one contributes to like 'things abt him that arent necessarily red flags on their own but as a whole point to #bad things' like. from what i gathered feom the movie bella did not seem like the type to like some big first move #like. shes an emo bruh girl. if it wasnt some sort of edgy teenage heartthrob performance then shed just brush him off like #every other Conventionally Attractive Dude™ falling all over her #ppl keep acting like her not going for every other dude who wants her is a character flaw or bad writing but. like #literally just have you ever met a depressed teenage girl. #shes Not Like Other Girls™ and finds regular guys who express emotions in regular ways boring #her wanting him over every other bland boring safe guy she could have in an instant isnt a plot hole‚ its characterization #also i disagree with the vibe that she's just a blank slate like. as someone who was a depressed teenage girl #she didn't come across as blank to me #she came across as. depressed and emo and trying so very hard to look cool and mysterious at all times and had #spent her life up to that point praying to find out magic was real and could whisk her away into a life of adventure and romance and drama #you look me in the eyes and tell me that girl didn't spend middle school chewing through every book she could get her hands on #as fast as possible. #idk #origibberish

[tyrannuspitch]

been looking at some images today, time for my wildly uninformed opinion. the difference between celtic and nordic knotwork is Like So:

#thought of this in words then googled it and well. look at them. tell me i'm wrong. #nordic art prefers Beasts to people and you can find a beast or two in celtic art too. but like. by and large #like the OVERARCHING PRINCIPLES. like so!!! #tbh it's possible both had influences one way or the other #or at least like the celtic and islamic stuff came from the same principles. Divine Perfection. #i was always told celtic knots being endless symbolised eternity and therefore god. not sure if it's true but it wouldn't be surprising #and then on the other hand i can totally see people looking to viking age art for art nouveau bc it's all fairytale and romantic #and people love to romanticise the middle ages #but. i know literally nothing about art history. i am simply observing

[coolspacequips]

Honestly dipped back into hsr at the last second of black swans banner bc I wanted her so bad lol, but I haven't played in forever so I could only pull a handful of times then give up.... Then I hated acheron's look so much I dropped it again LMAO but now that they're lesbians caught in an Eldritch horror romance 👀👀👀👀

#i like the game q not just not time for both this and genshin #then all the women were wearing that same dress and i got fatigue #then black swan came out and I'm only sapphic i had 2 shoot my shot #then acheron's looking like a rehash of seele's look which i also....... wasn't a fan of let's say #but as much as i hate that look and those shorts they keep putting on the girls that animation changed my brain chemistry #i shouldn't be surprised it's like a dark verse eimiko 😣 #once i realized she was the raiden expy i should've expected lesbianism but i don't know honkai lore at all outside of Star rail 🤷 #text posts #anyway I'm gonna have to get back on the game 😞 #well i will say the one thing i DO know about honkai verse for sure is that there's gonna be lesbians #seeing all the sapphic fans get so excited then seeing Western fans still complaining that it isn't enough or that it isn't real/male gazey #can't stress enough for the millionth time that this game comes from a country where queer stuff gets censored #and one thing i know about honkai is that they made their lesbians canon in another game and then got hit by the censor hammer #and one thing i can respect about hyv in the middle of their fanservice bs is them saying it the lesbians can't have it no one can #so now there's no PC ships and every other character has a same sex 'best friend' bc that's what they're allowed to call them lol #anyway

[astral-catastrophe]

Being the way I am, I ignore the shit I haven’t processed, but now I’m crying because I don’t want to go to camp

#Last year I was alone #Like earlier I mentioned that I was so upset with being alone that I cried almost every time I wasn’t with someone #Bc it was the first year without my best friend going #Then my next closest friend came to camp late bc she was on a cruise #And she said she felt bad bc she didn’t know I was lonely #And even tho she and the crush are both gonna be there this year #I’m gonna feel so fucking alone bc the bad memories always creep in and I don’t want them to hear that. #I don’t want to go #last year sucked #And it was at the height of my middle of the summer depressive episode #which is coming back #So I’m gonna be depressed again and feeling bad #And I keep remembering my grandpa #Gods I miss him #I keep thinking that he’s still here but it’s been four fucking years #And I had an anxiety attack this morning because I saw someone who looked like my ex best friend #So I’m not doing okay #And I’m alone at home crying #After nearly two weeks of always having a friend right next to me #I want to stop existing

[unproduciblesmackdown]

asia kate dillon in visible: out on television, episode 5, “the new guard”

#asia kate dillon #and for some intents & purposes: #winston billions #and you know; even: #billions #they have a whoooole five minutes smack in the middle of the episode & appear for a sentence or phrase in the opening/closing montages too.. #again just disappointing when disclosure the documentary abt trans rep in media gave 5 secs of an Aside unspecifiedly referencing taylor.... #give it a few years and This lgbtq rep in tv media came through and then some. tyvm #these are consecutive but Not continuous But...every pair is continuous lol i.e. gif one and two are two halves of one moment; three & four; #and so on. like i said there's five whole minutes...selecting moments to gif for both visual and the essence of the dialogue lol... #extra smitten with the shot in the next to last gif. hearts #confusing search results re which eps of this miniseries they appeared in might be due to the credits never listing the interviewees #but they showed up via Interview Format in episode 5 and they were the narrator for episode three #just so the people know...got that handy streaming link if anyone wants it lol...watched it all to be sure & to learn. pretty enjoyable #oh and naturally this is the result of soph nothingunrealistic doing the research legwork to be like just found out akd was in [this media] #and then i go ah...digging noises #note that they have One earring and their nails are a great like bright And deep red. we know the V necklace says they/them and the other #like rectanglish one i'm going to keep theorizing is a comet or shooting star #love the teal and the warm tan...the everything

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

Which era of Archie Sonic did you enjoy more? Pre reboot or post reboot?

Hmmm that's a good question. Idk I think I liked some of the writing post reboot better and I did like the new characters. I also personally think the removal of the love triangles specifically made the comic so much more enjoyable for me and opened up for better characterization for Sally. However, reading post sgw I did miss some of the old charcters (rip all those claimed penders ocs) and their now unresolved storylines, was sad at the loss of certain character struggles (like Rotor who was struggling between his health and wanting to be in the field again), and I missed how pre sgw had just some of the most insane or out of the blue plot developments/world building choices.

In terms of enjoyment, though, I'd have to say post reboot for the following reasons:

1. I enjoyed pre reboot for what it was more often than not, but I had my most fun during Flynn era. I liked how the Penders era moved things to being more serious, but I often felt like he had good and interesting concepts/ideas without the writing to back it up. Meanwhile, while Flynn wasn't perfect either, I felt like he was able to make a lot of those established relationships more believable to me, and while he also made some batshit plot choices he had more of the writing skills to back it up. This is all to say that aside from some stuff at the very beginning of pre reboot, it was a long while before I was able to really enjoy what I was reading instead of just taking things I liked where I could. Post reboot was a lotta Flynn, so despite the loss of characters and plotlines I enjoyed greatly, I at least felt like I could enjoy everything post reboot.

2. It didn't have all of those Sonic based love triangles. I know I know I'm a multishipper I ship Sonic with a lot of people but by god. I just could not take the Sonic/Sally drama anymore. Bunnie/Antoine was fine. Flynn actually made me believe in Julie-Su and Knuckles as decent partners. But by that point (and this is coming from someone who loved Sonic/Sally before reading the comic) everything going on re-Sonic and Sally's romance prospects with the opposite gender and each other was like beating a dead horse. And for Sally specifically, she had been recharacterized so so so many times pre-reboot just for the sake of drama that she often...didn't feel like her own character. So post reboot with the love triangles and the romance with Sonic removed I felt like we could really see who she was as a character and a clear vision of her ambitions/cares. I could feel like who she *is* wouldn't be changed on a whim for the purpose of plot.

3. As they say, people get better with practice. And while I thought some of his pre-reboot stuff was interesting, I felt like by post reboot era, Flynn had grown better at depicting the nuance of living under the eggman empire.

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So yeah I guess I'd say, gun to my head? Post reboot. But it's really more complicated than that. I did enjoy both a lot, and especially in the last like 80 issues pre reboot. Pre reboot was wild an interesting in a way that I enjoyed with characters and storylines I loved, but it wasn't always written amazingly and contained much too many ongoing love triangles and mehhh canon relationships to me. Post reboot gave certain characters more time to shine as characters, reverted the pre reboot growth of other characters, delivered some of its nuanced situations better, and was largely written nicely, but you could often feel that the post reboot team was now restricted in a much different way than they were pre reboot (like, pre reboot's struggle was keeping up with existing storylines and relationships and keeping things true to what they have been, but post reboot's struggle feels more like it may have had some of Sega's restrictions we see nowadays).

In the end, though, I miss characters and storylines from both pre and post reboot after the cancelation.

#anon interview #archie sonic comics #sonic the hedgehog #Thanks for the ask anon! #Like I said it's all just complicated. There were some things post reboot I liked when it came to making things closer to the games' style #and continuity‚ but there were other things I felt were a bit of a loss to say the least #To me the removal of the love triangles and the giving her an actual character was good for Sally #But I can't help but feel like Knuckles reverted a bit. I do love canon Knuckles a lot‚ and it's fine that they added Relic and Fixit so he #wouldn't be completely alone on Angel Island‚ but I really miss the family he built with the Chaotix + Mighty and Ray #I miss Lien-Da and Shard and Scourge and Elias (among others) so so much‚ but I also loved new post reboot characters like Eclipse and the #egg bosses and the freedom fighter teams #Honestly I just wish we could have had meaningful resolutions to both the pre and post reboot timelines because I cared about them both #Although tbh at least post reboot got to finish the saving the world light gaia/dark gaia thing. Pre reboot left just in the middle of #current events #Anyways I digress #If you have any more questions on my thoughts re the archie comics or anything else like that‚ feel free to shoot me another ask!

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any time u say ralsei is cute or sweet or whatever ur playing right into his trap btw. not ralsei’s trap, toby’s

#this is not me saying ralsei is evil btw he is not. at least i dont think so. though he certainly is hiding something #but i mean specifically in the sense that i think toby very intentionally crafted ralsei to be a character that the player would latch onto #and really love. so that they will make choices that most strongly show off their love for him like making kris hug him and compliment him #and thats the catch. is that its not us doing these things with him - we are making KRIS who does not seem to be too fond of ralsei do them #almost paralleling this fondness that many players have for ralsei is the fondness/reverence that he seems to hold for US #and good lord do i find that fucking interesting #in any other media ''[character] loves you fans just as much as you love them!'' would be cute #but here im just like DAYUM WE'RE BOTH PARASOCIAL! #ralsei and the player trying to smooch each other while poor kris is in the middle of all this #im joking but this really is so fascinating to me. that there is this almost mutual sort of love between ralsei and players who like him #and the only way players can express that love is via an unwilling kris #and ralsei is possibly aware of that distinction and fully goes along with it KNOWING KRIS IS NOT OK WITH THIS bcuz he holds the player in #higher regard. oohghgughguhhhohoho #i hope this made any sort of sense i hadnt considered the player's side of things when it came to this before but now that i have #ough #serena.txt #deltarune