#just yknow. wildly thinking thoughts.

[five-pebbsi]

on a scale of 'what is wrong with you' to 'literally unable to do it by design it is taboo' how messed up do you think an iterator trying to mix the genome of an ancient with another creature would be post mass ascension

#dont question this #we're just... we're just thinking yk #rain world #all purely theoretical #rain world spoilers #just yknow. wildly thinking thoughts.

[reel-fear]

people who still make Joey the ink demon despite canon steering far away from that being the case this is for you I am sending u kisses XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO <3

People who make Joey well-meaning, sympathetic, a lighter shade of morally grey than canon I am also sending u lots of love <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3!!

And people who generally steer wildly from the direction Bendy takes with its characters and has fun with it I hope to see more from all of ur aus and rewrites!!

#ramblez #batim #batdr #this is not me saying aus that don't do this r bad blah blah I just personally have a super soft spot for Joey being the ink demon #since I really like the idea storywise the symbolism of Joey becoming the ultimate monster of this story #joeys who also take a very sympathetic role who are more morally grey than canon also hold a special place in my heart #joeys who think what theyre doing is right not just for them but for their staff who genuinely care abt them who love them mwah #I just love to see very unique takes on these characters I kinda miss when it was only like chapter 2 so everyone had this wildly #different but very unique and fun takes on where we thought the story would head hell for a while we didn't know if Joey was evil or not #thats what spawned Encore it was originally just a collection of theories I thought would come true #esp since I dont think bendy is a particularly well written story its fun to see the fandom have such fun wild ideas on where to take #the concepts and idea presented in bendy that never really panned out into anything interesting or were discarded or retconned #yknow? I miss the days where the aus were wildly out of sync with the actual story when all we had was a few names a few tapes #and we all went wild making our versions of the story and characters and then got so attached to them we doubled down #when canon didnt deliver on em #umm oops this is long have a great new year folks! Get wild get weird with ur bendy aus and rewrites #lets have fun this year and take canon as optional bc lets face it Bendy isn't great but man is it fun and I care abt that way more than #the quality of the story tbh #it had great ideas and executed them uh badly! But idc bc I can stir those great ideas in my head all day and see others do the same <3 #anyways yeah thats it love ya guys have a great 2024 <3

[coloursofaparadox]

i ✨️cannot sleep✨️ and vaguing about shit on the internet feels more cathartic than writing it out somewhere else. suffer.

#im having. thoughts. on one hand. VERY badly want woods and chicken farm. #on the other hand. i do actually like friends? #and the likelihood of making friends as a queer person in a small town is uh. yknow. not as good. #but idk if its important enough to me to put my life on hold indefinitely to create more ties to an area that ill eventually have to leave #if i ever want a chance at supporting myself financially or buying a tiny lil starter house? #ideal situation is i start a gay commune with like minded friends. but uh. people have not been good to me #on the whole 'trust em with your plans' front #sigh. idk. id love to be able to afford a place thats still in the general area but that is never going to happen #unless i can spontaneously manifest /literally/ a million dollars #i am done with romantic relationships i think. if one happens at some point? cool. but i am not basing my life plans around it. #and will not sacrifice my own peace and wellbeing just for the sake of one #god. looking for queer friends who want to live on a farm with me platnically and we all have our own space but #also raise animals together and hang out sometimes. and dogs are a requirement. #i just! want! queer commune! where i can go back to my own little bubble and have my own space too! #aaaaahhhhh!!!! albertas real estate is starting to look real good right about now! #ugh. u g h. i fluctuate wildly between 'im very VERY content not speaking to a human for a week at a time' and 'platonic life partner. pls. #maybe i just....take a page out of 18 yr old me's ballsy ass handbook. and uproot my entire life to move somewhere completely new #where i know no one have no connections and in a completely different climate 😎 it worked out last time #i could so just fuck off somewhere. oh my god it is so tempting.

[deadbeatdadjokes]

“your choices don’t matter”

yeah ok sure maybe this is true as far as the end result is concerned, like whether Lancer sided with his friends and let them seal the fountain which sustained the only world he really knew or sided with his father to allow the world to then be slowly engulfed in darkness-both options result in the ‘end’ of that world (meaning the dark world in the classroom). He made the choice himself and yet the ‘end’ came anyways.

But I’m like 90% confident if you asked him I’d know which timeline he’d rather be in.

#been thinking about this lately #i think this is an interpretation of the beginning of ch2 for me like #no matter what ending you get in ch1 you end up in the same spot in ch2 (same exact intro too until the patch was released) #but you have a timeline where the circumstances leading up to that same event are wildly different #and though it hasn’t manifested in super relevant ways (outside of Snowgrave) it’s still worth noting the potential differences #i mean I play favorites here so #would a lancer who never actually successfully rallied a mob against his father have the confidence to withstand his manipulation? #would he ever lie awake in a room that isn’t quite his and wonder if maybe spade was right? #of course you’d never know since you’re never given the chance to ask #do the card castle people still harbor a resentment towards you for fighting or killing them even though it’s brushed off in ch2? #like obviously yeah in within the context of their world but for us for the game I wonder how much of this will actually #(if ever) #come into play despite it all leading to the same place (just wildly WILDLY different roads taken to get there) #deltarune #lancer deltarune #just some thoughts yknow do with them as you please #your actions matter bc they affect the ppl around you directly but some choices don’t bc the inevitable unknown always occurs #little can be done to circumvent what is predestined it’s like knowing the ending to a show you’ve never watched any other part of #like yeah I know how it ends but how do we get there ends up being way more significant thematically

[ethicstownpod]

This has a point - bear with me! I turned twenty-two a non-specified number of days ago. I was at work. My colleagues, upon learning this, got me a card and a cake and threw me a party before our DnD game. They put all this together in the span of my right hour shift; I've only worked there six months. My colleagues are some of my favourite people in the whole world.

My flatmate loves tiktok, an app I despise. But every day she saves rat videos, and then shows them to me when I get home from work/class. My other flatmate once hand-drew me wrapping paper of a hideous little cartoon man because he knew it would make me laugh.

My cousin, who’s eight, always asks everyone else if they want to play with his X-box before he does. There’s a girl in my class who always stops people on the way out to tell them she really liked the points they were making in discussions that day. Every discord server I’ve ever been in has a channel for sharing pictures of your pet. I’ve never met a person who doesn’t want to brag about their friends. I love when you make a baby laugh on the bus, so they try to make you laugh in return.

And now the point! The point is that I think people are so good. So unbelievably, fundamentally good. And I want to write people like that. Even when they’re not being actively good, there’s So Much Good inside of them. There are so many wonderful people in my life, I feel I would be doing them a disservice by not portraying just how amazing people can be.

#writing #positivity #ethics town #writeblr #podcast #and for ppl who like reading tags here's a nice story about rhys (january rhys) #the first time we met he asked me what i wanted to do #like as a job #and usually i dont tell ppl or lie bc its embarrassing but i thought 'this is such a nice boy and and ill never see him again #(lolllll) may as well tell him' so i did #and he was like 'wow thats so neat i bet youd be good at that ppl could do with that my friend does that you should talk!' #yknow bc hes adorable #anyway its like 2 1/2 months later were at a mutual friends b-day. weve spoken about like 1 work thing in the interim bc #rhys aint big on discord and i really have no need to be talking to cast most of the time and like we dont really know each well tbh #but he asks me how my thing i want to do for a job is going and for just a second i genuinely think im going to cry #ive never told ANYONE i wanna do this before. so ive never been asked about this before. and more than that this was a maybe three minute #conversation we had amidst a 50 hour w/ 3 hours of sleep weekend during which time many more interesting topics were covered #why and how tf he remembered that will always be lost on me. but i said 'yeah slow but its happening' and he said 'good i hope you do it' #and then i segued wildly before i did cry at someone elses party #anyway ppl are so great #just so so unbelievably great #there isnt really an end to that story the thing i wanna do takes a reeeeally really long time #buuuuut rhys and i are actual friends now (in case you cant tell by the Everything i say about him lol). which is nice

[leon-on-the-froggy-chair]

i am so sleepy right now but i was thinking abt Luis.

And yknow. every once in a while i think about this in horknee context bc this lil skill is just wildly attractive but also i think about how, when Luis spins that lighter so effortlessly, he never once drops it. and the movement is fluid, skilled and he just does it without second thought. Like its long practiced and its been a part of his life for a while. And its something i feel like he started learning to try and look cool.

But he couldnt even flick it open or so much as hold onto it during his final moments. How awful and pathetic must one feel in their final moments as they feel these small things slip away. Something that was once second nature and easy, done like a sort of unconscious stim, becomes impossible as you feel yourself slip away. The lighter tricks wouldve been a skill he'd have put time in to learn, and as small as it is it just shows how rapidly he declined and i cant imagine how deeply devastating that would feel as all that time slips away into something that never mattered as your efforts to be somebody, be who you wanted to be, also slip away. Also goes to show how much he really mustered EVERYTHING he had to save Leon with that gunshot. And

yeah that prolly didnt make sense

I'll prolly have more to say when i can hold a coherent thought but i am so tired

#luis serra #silly ramblings #i made myself sad

[lakesbian]

How do you think Alec would have handled getting the Valkyrie treatment? Being made into a puppet in the same way that he did to other people, his sacrificial suicide being subverted by another cape who uses people as tools but in a much more complete and permanent sense, coming back wrong and having his cape identity irrevocably a part of his body and self, and no longer being able to take off the mask, is this anything?

see i've rotated this extensively in my mind before because i think coming up with how a cape's design would turn out if they got glastig uained is a really fun exercise (do that shit to lisa for some Fun eyeball body horror!!) but i'm struggling to come up with what would happen to alec :( the most obvious answer is the crown becoming like. Attached. to his head. but id ont know if that's too far out there. there's also the concept of having his face frozen in a permanent smirking expression but i feel like that would go Too tragically counter to the point of a 'surprise hes back again' au wherein he would be expected to. yknow. realize and experience some of his feelings again at some point. so yeah i'd need someone else to help me figure that one out.

anyway the actual experience of being glastig uained. if i recall correctly in ward brian says it was basically just like waking up feeling like everything from before he died was just a few days ago not Years ago so i don't think alec would care that much that someone was using his ghost or whatever for shit while he was dead, relative 2 all the other problems in his life. wouldnt even notice with the type of shit hes got going on. the big reason why this au doesn't really work is that it's just Wildly Unproductively Depressing. it seems like ciara only starts bringing random people back by the time aisha is like. what. 20?

it works Fine and Actually Thematically Interesting Well that brian is like oh FUCK youve GROWN UP when he gets back because it's relevant 2 their sibling dynamics. but it does. it does not work if alec gets back and aisha is like 20. it's just depressing. from alec's PoV it would be "congrats you've been brought back into a world where your best and only friend is too old and character-developmented for you to actually have a close connection with even though for you it feels like she was still your age only a few days ago and also your fucking shit ass siblings are here too and btw the world ended so all of the nice luxuries you were enjoying previously are not options anymore. go feed the earth gimel sheep boy." and from aisha's perspective her best friend would be back but in a monkeys paw way where he did not get to grow up with her and he's still little and sad and fucked up and more like one of his siblings that she's caring for/trying to help vs the equal best friendship she Wants but Can't Have because he is Fifteen. so now everything sucks and is sad for everyone involved. :(.

i would say "on the 'up'side this is a hot new contender for scenarios wherein lisa could feasibly decide alec is her new sopping wet fixer-upper" but she already has an even more absurd and unstable option (that one cop) so as usual alec remains background. btw he would be offended on taylors behalf that lisa had replaced taylor with victoria (who he does not like because shes annoying) and entirely oblivious that taylor had ever thought or said anything about him being sucks and utterly lacking in interiority. AUs that have potential to be funny wrt alec's interactions with the other undersiders but are wildly fucking depressing when you get to his interactions with aisha.

if we fudge a bit and say ciara brings him back like riiight after gold morning aisha would only be a bit over a year older than him so that's more doable in terms of character development and eventual reconnection but it'd still be a mess. i'm not articulating my explanation of how aisha's character development works rn and i don't feel like saying something wrong so i'll just leave it here but trust me it'd still be a mess. maybe an interesting one but a mess

#ask #worm spoilers #scarf don't look

[sailorsplatoon]

another random dedf4 thought of mine.... i'd like to hear ur thoughts on it in the deepsea metro, acht had access to a handful of forms of entertainment one way or another, probably a lot of books, they made music, and probably a few old vhs tapes of octarian movies & show reruns. the one thing completely new to them in inkopolis though? video game

four probably has a lot of different games and shows them all to acht, her favorites in particular though are probably uber complex fighting games, she has all the combos of her favorites memorized by heart. she likes a lot of different fast paced things though, like shooters (although turf war/ranked is oftentimes way better then any shooter game since. yknow) acht on the other hand likes slower paced things, like single player story focused games, theyre a big fan of visual novels and probably always gets all the endings. collectively though the two of them love puzzle & strategy games, both of them huddling over fours computer scrambling to figure out a hard puzzle one of them has spent several hours trying to figure out. oh and they both have a minecraft world. four is really bad at building so acht does virtually all of it hope u enjoyed this 'little' 'ask' of mine. have a good day!

OOOOH I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!!

As I was reading this I was thinking “I hope they have a shared Minecraft world” and then they did!!! Acht must have made the two of them an amazing house with a ton of different rooms and secret passages. Then Four just enjoys living in it, every now and then building a red stone roller coaster.

And I adore the idea of the two of them playing puzzle and strategy games together! Especially since there are quite a few co-op puzzle games out there. I could imagine them trying as many as they can and then getting excited when a new one comes out.

What if they had an Animal Crossing island together? They both work on making it look exactly how they want it, while also making up intense drama between all of the villagers.

Your idea of Four playing more fast paced games while Acht enjoys calmer ones is just perfect. It fits their personalities and dynamic stunningly. Excuse me while I go obsess over this for the next eternity.

I can imagine the two of them playing wildly different games while in the same room, so Four is shouting at the screen about losing in a match in a fighting game while Acht is just there like “I’m close to unlocking another ending.” They celebrate their victories together.

Thank you for all of this new daydreaming material. I love thinking about these sillies and you’ve given me a whole new world of things to consider! As always, thank you for the ask, and I hope you have a good day as well!

#side order #side order spoilers #acht splatoon #dedf1sh #ahato mizuta #agent 4 #agent 4 side order #Dedfour #Acht x Agent 4 #asks #ask box

[parameddic]

"So, Captain Strand..." BJ began slowly, drumming his fingers around his mug. His attention drags a little after the rest of the 126 as they disperse from the firehouse kitchen. The big bald guy, Paul, had been sweet enough to make him a coffee when serving everyone else. "He seems nice."

Nice is not quite the word BJ would use, but he's talking to TK, not Mel back at the club. Were he talking to her, he might have used something closer to... Self-assured. Too friendly. The sort of guy who assumes you'll give him a free lap dance just because he's a little charming and bought you a drink.

...Alright. Maybe that was too mean for a man he just met. Especially one who, somehow, fathered the much sweeter, much more aware TK.

"You didn't tell me your dad was also your captain."

"Captain Strand?" Not his Cap anymore, but in the firehouse Captain Strand was often 'Captain Strand' more than he was 'Dad'. BJ's assessment of him got a grin out of TK, head dropping almost as a nod and almost bashful on his Dad's behalf, "Yeah, he's pretty great." BJ had good taste, huh? First choosing an excellent roommate, and now thinking highly of TK's father. He was pretty sweet, actually.

TK thought privately, for a beat, that BJ was in fact often pretty sweet.

BJ asked him about Owen being his father, and TK --

Dropped his mug back to the table with a light thud, sitting a little straighter in his seat. Didn't he? (Mouth open, staring. Ohmygod.) He totally -- definitely, at least once, he'd -- (he revisited the skydiving, wildly aware that in fact he'd never mentioned once that the man who had cancelled was also captain of the firefighting team at the 126.)

"I really didn't," he said, more astonished than grinning (promise), arms crossed in front of him. He could have sworn that he had, like, it wasn't an intentional surprise, but. He drew back, still a little surprised at himself for this, "I mean he's - he's firefighting captain, my cap's Captain Vega," like maybe there was that to be said about it, "But I - yeah, I moved down here with him. I thought you knew." Dad was so well-known it was, like, kinda weird to think he had no idea. Yknow?

#ic #ofyorkshire #hmmmmms at this but im not going to write something else so i will post it. here he is #love u

[thesoftestcowboy]

thoughts on the colors red, blue, green, and yellow? any comments on the shapes triangle, square, or circle?? rhombus

first of all i gotta tell you that im enjoying this ask twice as much cause i got multiple spam asks since yesterday and did not expect an actual question... anyway. im gonna answer this 200% in earnest, as it should be, obviously (yes i actually did write this out, strap in ig)

red: listen i know everyones favorite color seems to be blue for some reason but red is RIGHT THERE. i heard somewhere that not all languages differentiate the same colors as english (and other european languages), but the first color after light/dark there will be a word for is usually red. idk if thats true but seems plausible, cause yknow whats red? fuckin berries to eat, also blood (either concerning or also to eat, ig). cavepeople knew red was important business. also its pretty and you use it to make pink.

blue: not to imply that blue isnt also good. its got a range. looks very fresh. i do like a teal-ish blue but others are cool also. its really rare in nature ig? but if it does occur its looks rly good! (im saying this rn cause my desktop wallpaper has blue flowers lmao) also if i had a cent for every time i had dreams with intense, seemingly really significant blue night skies, i'd have 2 cents, which isnt much but weird etc etc.

green: ok i like green but, unpopular opinion time, i want neither a green couch nor a green kitchen. i want a pink couch and a blue kitchen. that being said green fucks and is part of some iconic things, such as HES GEEN, and also my favorite song green soop by dooboo, which references the fact that soups can be green (@geminyde)

yellow: finally yellow is super underappreciated. im kinda mad that yellow doesnt suit me super well in clothes cause theres so many cool yellow things id want on a shirt. people only ever think of bright neon yellow but it also had SHADES.

now, the shapes. people at art school will try to convince you that these have some deeper meaning and even a gender (??) cause some guy whose name i forgot claimed they do and thats bs. heres the actual truth about them. triangle pointy. also an instrument! theyre really flexible cause they can have wildly different angles and like?? thats different from squares, which are literally all the same, except for size ig? but thats nice it gives them a sense of stability. theyre ol reliable. ever wonder why they had town squares but never town triangles? well,

anyway the circle is most definitely the princess of shapes. you might think its really basic compared to like uhh a trapezoid or whatever cause you learn about it in kindergarten, but its so fucked up it has ZERO angles?? but then if you wanna render it its got a huge amount of angles/into infinity instead? you can calculate any shapes area with basic maths basically but ohh noo not the circle. its soo special. we love that for him but you gotta be honest.

ngl i had to look up what a rhombus is and its just idk a Raute ig. its a rectangle who wants to be special. which is fine we all need some attention sometime but like, its a rectangle on its side. its doing its own thing. i think it should have a different english name tho tbh. rhombus reminds me of the name rhonda and that has a different vibe. idk if that one was also a question or just an addition tbh but there u go

so thats it thanks for asking like comment subscribe

#please no one ask why #reply #txt #doppelnatur

[souldagger]

hey! so i just finished i, robot as part of my crunch to finish my reading goal by the end of the year. ive loved fiction about robots and synthetic consciousness for a long time, so i was aware of it and the foundation books, but hadn’t actually read it before. i had… a wildly ambivalent time! i was wondering if you had any essays/collections/books/scholarship you would recommend responding to it? im still formulating my thoughts and would love to get other perspectives (including your own, if you want to say anything about it!)

uhhh yknow, funnily enough, for how influential "I, robot" was, i cannot think of anything i've read that's directly in conversation with it, at least not any more than the average scifi robot story is by default. I mean, i think with how strongly the three laws of robotics took hold in popculture any story about robots "defying programming" - which often gets tied to their gaining sentience - can probably be traced back to asimov's robots (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep/Blade Runner, Ex Machina & Westworld are some more notable examples here, i think). that's all i got though, sorry!

(i can also mention a couple books i haven't gotten around to yet that might be of interest here: When HARLIE Was One by David Gerrold; He, She, and It by Marge Piercy; Virtual Girl by Amy Thomson; Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente; Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky)

also, i personally loved I, Robot! but that's mostly because i really adore a story that revolves around a strict set of rules and finding the exploitable flaws and loopholes in those rules. and that's basically what most of the stories in I, Robot are about lol

#sorry i couldn't be of more help niko!! #i wish i had anything in terms of essays/nonfiction but alas. 😔

[jupiterjelliez]

Ink Demon vs Vesty

I'm rambling my thoughts here!! There's been plenty of questions surrounding whether Ink and Vest share thoughts, are two completely different people or simply just different forms of the same being (similar to Ink Bendy and Beast Bendy in BATIM [as in they were the same person, just looked different]) so here are my thoughts about it. I'm gonna be using the names Ink (Bendy/Demon) and Vesty so it's easier to tell who I'm talking about. They are the same person. Ink is no longer just a wandering souless monster anymore, he can speak and think for himself. Ink Demon only appears after you hurt Vesty, which what we know from the Keeper tapes, he was severely wounded, tortured basically and probably does not respond to pain that well. Traumatic reasons yknow? That's when Ink actively looks for you and tries to hunt you, always having the black and white presence whenever he's out to kill you. If you're playing the game straight through, it's a low chance to get an Ink Demon attack after the transformation scene outside of Gent. In my personal experience at least, I didn't see him once until the ending. Okay, if they're the same person, why does he act so wildly different towards Audrey? This is more getting into headcannon possibly canon territory as none of this is truly explained. I personally think, because Bendy has always been visioned as a monster for his entire life, he tries to deceive you in some way. His Vesty form is the only time someone has ever looked at him with joy, so he plays up that role. Being nice, helping out, not speaking, just to make Audrey think they are not the same. The transformation scene has to be my biggest evidence, as when it's revealed, he glances at you and just does a walk of shame to go hide, both from the signal towers and probably the crushing reality of Audrey now knowing. When Audrey mentioned the Gent building, Vesty was very visibly upset and did not want to go. Audrey pushed and he had no other option but to help and follow. He is aware he is extremely vunerable in this form, that's why he stays out of trouble, he isn't stupid. The second Audrey loses sight of him, he completely dissapears. This also is never explained, nor does Audrey ever comment on it. Next scene is the Ink Demon stopping Audrey from entering Gent, no black and white filter which presumeably means he's not killing her. But the towers flash on, he transforms and has no other choice but to leave. When it comes to in-game scenes and such, Ink Demon feels way more friendly-ier then beforehand after the Gent scene. For example, before recruiting Vesty, Ink would always say how it's fate for her to die and how he'd find you regardless but afterwards, he warns you of Wilson and offers to help you when at your most vunerable (ending cutscene). I'm not saying Audrey and Bendy are now buddy-buddy, but they definitely have some sort of respect for one another. For christ sakes, Bendy quite literally saves her from being consumed by Shipahoy. He only gets aggressive once again when Audrey tries to break the cycle, the one thing he didn't want her doing. If you had trauma of no one ever liking you and only hurting you, I bet you'd become immediatly aggressive to whoever would hurt you. As to why after shocking Vesty, Ink Demon immediatly tries to hunt you down and the second he doesn't feel your presence in Animation Alley, he calls out to you instead. I don't blame him at all. That mf has been thru some shit. Anyways I think that's it, my silly lil BATDR theory / headcannon.

#bendy #ink demon #bendy theory #batdr theory #batdr #bendy and the dark revival #bendy and the ink machine #batim #if someone disagrees thats ok #but i will still get disgruntled at people who treat him as two seperate people #clearly fake bendy fan #slash j #but not rlly

[floralovebot]

Literally no one cares about this but I recently rewatched barbie mariposa and it reminded me of how different I view Henna's intentions compared to how a lot of other people viewed her. And I should say first and foremost that I'm not shitting on anyone's interpretation of her! I just think it's really interesting

But I remember when I first started seeing posts for mariposa and how a lot of people thought she was queercoded or just headcanoned that she liked Mariposa and it was so obvious because of how Henna was always like "we're so similar you can join me we can do this together". And like... now I can probably see that but I think it's so interesting because when I watched this movie as a kid, and even now, her intentions always felt so far from that?

I always saw it as Henna trying to take advantage of how insecure Mariposa was and manipulating her into joining. It also felt like a comparison to Elina dealing with Laverna in the first movie. Just the whole, "you have this major insecurity and I know about it and here, I can fix it :)" yknow? What she said and the way she talked to Mariposa always felt manipulative to me, especially once it got revealed that she was the villain and lying to everyone else about how good she was. Lying about wanting to help the queen, lying about wanting to help the citizens, lying about wanting to help Carlos... she was even lying about wanting to help the skeezites because it was heavily implied that she was just using them so she could take over efficiently. It just goes on and on and her trying to "help" Mariposa always felt like another example of that to me.

And I think the way Henna treats Mariposa was supposed to be a really big comparison to how everyone else treats her yknow? Like you have Willa being very supportive, no matter what Mariposa does. You have Rayna and Rayla gradually going from slightly antagonistic to learning that they're being assholes and genuinely wanting to be better people, both in general and to Mariposa. You have Carlos genuinely feeling the same way that Mariposa does, a very literal comparison to Henna just saying she understands but never actually showing it.

And maybe I'm looking into it too much but I always thought that they purposely made it really vague as to whether or not Henna actually would've kept her promises if Mariposa joined her. I don't think it was supposed to be obvious? I feel like that just goes along with how cunning and manipulative she is throughout the movie! As viewers, and even the characters themselves, we just don't know if she was telling the truth or if she was intentionally lying to get Mariposa to trust her.

Idk again I'm not shitting on any of the henna liked mariposa headcanons, I just think it's super interesting how people can interpret her actions and intentions in wildly different ways which very much goes along with her lying to everyone and being one of the best two-faced villains in the barbie cinematic universe (yes i'm including preminger. henna could beat his ass)

#barbie #barbie mariposa #she's so interesting to me!! #and i love how everyone interprets her actions and dialogue differently #because it makes so much sense given her characteristics and how she acts throughout the movie #like. we don't know! we don't know if she's being genuine or not!! we don't know if she's lying!! #with a lot of the barbie villains its pretty obvious if they would break their promise #i feel like laverna is a good example of that actually #but henna is So good at lying and So good at acting the way people Want her to act #and i think thats the biggest thing with her act #its always based on what the person wants to hear. what would connect to Them and make Them feel good #so it's just... not obvious if she genuinely wanted to help mariposa or if this was just Another lie to get people to trust her #BUH #into the barbieverse #but for me since everything else was revealed to be a big dookie lie i just assumed it was like that with mariposa as well #personally im very much on board the mariposa/willa train so idk maybe i was too far up that to see henna's potential #akjgdhkjadhg

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Putting these two thoughts together bc i dont feel like making 2 separate posts about it but i do think one of enstars strong points is that it has a varied unit size and each unit has their own distinct music style rather than having each unit be 3-4 people and styling them after different subgenres within the same broader category. Wider audience appeal if you can have both 2wink and Undead making wildly different music from each other yknow

And my second thought was i do not understand people who produce 1-2 characters in a unit and then hate the other member(s) like. They are in a unit because they like each other and are okay with spending a lot of time with each other. Do you think anyone in Alkaloid hates Aira or do you just think he sucks because he's a 15yo boy who is still learning how the world works and isn't your perfect little baby you can coddle all the time.

#shay speaks #the last one is specifically abt the weird amnt of hiiroPs ive seen who hate aira's guts #like theyre besties. they're in gay love. what #do you think hiiro would willingly continue to go out with aira and even ask him to go out #if he didnt like him on some level???? #do you think tatsumi would actually want to hit aira with his car. absolutely not #this isnt abt like. producing one character but not the others bc like. i do that #tattsunP but not alkP but i actually do care abt tattsun's relationships with alk #and how much they mean to him. i dont think he should leave alkaloid bc they would not be the same #but theres such a weird cross section of these people for every unit like. wh #your fave would hate you for hating their friends