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lord-squiggletits · 21 days

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OH, I am so interested in your idea for SG Tarnma.

Okay so my exact ideas for SG Tarnma vary a lot, because I think there's two different canon varieties of Shattered Glass: the original Fun Publications SG where everything was completely flipped and turned into crack-canon, and then what IDW later did with Shattered Glass IDW1 where it was more or less just role reversal IDW1 with only some "complete flipping" of lore and personality. There's also my own personal Shattered Glass universe that I built for Pay Unto Evil, so I could also answer this question as "what would Tarnma be in the SG PUE universe."

That being said I'll do my best to explain all of the different ideas I've had for SG Tarnma. All of them are pretty different so I'm not really particularly attached to any one, but here goes

Version 1: FunPub complete role reversal style. Pharma was originally a mere energon farmer get it lol and has a very meek, shy, unconfident personality. He got enlisted by the Autobots, but he spoke too quietly when they asked for his name (Farmer), so they started calling him Pharma. Then at some point Ratchet is like "yo I'm gonna make this completely untrained guy do medical operations. No I'm not gonna send him to medical school he can learn on the job!" And so Pharma becomes Ratchet's apprentice and develops even more anxiety from the hundreds of times he murders patients either on accident bc he literally has no medical training, or on purpose bc Ratchet made him. He's literally just trying his best and doesn't even want to be here. Meanwhile, the SG DJD is known as the Decepticon Jokester Division, formed as a sort of circus troupe meant to bring good cheer to the Decepticons in a time of depressing war. The members of the DJD are codenamed after the first cities they toured right before/when the war started. How reluctant medic Pharma and literal clown Tarn meet in this universe is anyone's guess.

Version 2: IDW style. Tarn and Pharma still have basically the same backstories as canon IDW1 except that Pharma is a professional assassin instead of a doctor (yknow, role reversal where Pharma is an expert at killing people instead of healing them). Also this universe's Pharma has the posh and aristocratic personality fandom thinks he has in canon lol. Maybe Pharma finds out about Tarn having a secret t-cog addiction, and he starts bringing t-cogs to Tarn in exchange for Tarn providing him intel (or some other service, idk). Maybe in this universe instead of Tarn torturing Pharma into insanity, Pharma somehow develops guilt for killing people because of Tarn, then defects from the Autobots willingly? Or they kick him out like in canon

Version 3: Pay Unto Evil SG. Tarn and Pharma would have their FunPub style backgrounds (though maybe Tarn's would be slightly more serious) with the added caveat of Pharma having the evil Matrix's mind control embedded in his brain. He still didn't join the Autobots willingly and wasn't even trained to be a doctor. Somehow he and Tarn meet and fall in love across faction lines because Tarn sees how much Pharma is suffering under mind slavery and feeling like he doesn't belong among his cruel comrades. It's a bit of a tragic one though, as Pharma warns Tarn that the Prime can look through his mind at any time thanks to the Matrix. If he finds out that Pharma is Tarn's vulnerability, he could use that against him somehow, or worse, mind control Pharma into trying to kill Tarn himself. They were both devastated when the universe swap happened and they thought they would never see each other again. Though Pharma secretly felt some relief that Tarn was now a universe away and can find someone else to love who isn't a mind-controlled walking time bomb that could try to murder him at any moment.

#squiggle answers #shattered glass #tarnma #these are really rough and most of them i havent even written down or explained to anyone before so #hope any of these strike your fancy. if they do you can ask me more and i'll try to come up with more lore #also to clarify the way the matrix mind control works in PUE's universe is that SG OP is hooked in #at all times. but most of the time he lets his soldiers be or at least only exerts passive mental/emotional control #individual autobots still have personalities they just have little pieces of Primus in their brains watching at all times #hence why sg pue pharma is able to be in a secret relationship with tarn. bc he's forgettable and unimportant #but if sg OP took notice he could definitely reach out #and just mind control pharma to be unthinking and unfeeling and try to kill tarn

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wizzardhat · 6 months

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Im rereading nona and i am baffled anew by people who listen to jod recount every single agonizing step in his slow and terrible descent and are like, "wow John was always an awful irredeemable liar and his reluctance to admit that he set off the nukes was not, in fact, him struggling to accept the magnitude of how completely and terribly he failed and became the very person he was trying to stop, but was just another calculated lie because he's a Bad Man. if it were me i would have simply not done that." I have to assume these are the same people who read "**When our backs are against the wall and everything is falling apart we rarely become heroes" and were like "huh i wonder who thats for"

**approximate quote from memory because I cannot for the life of me find the exact excerpt but it was one of Wake's "letters" that only Harrow could read while they were in the bubble

#people get very defensive about this too like if you even imply that john's actions were individually understandable #or that the person he is in harrow the ninth is different from the person he was 10000 years prior immediately after the world ended #or if you suggest that sometimes. a person can be genuinely and truly traumatized by a tragedy of their own making.#and being traumatized is not a mark of moral correctness or victimhood but a neutral reality of human psyche separate from morality #or and this is a big one #suggest they consider genuinely what they would do at each step of that journey #and dont take Well I simply woudl not have nuked the earth or #Well he's a liar so most of that was probably a lie anyway #as an answer #well #people dont like that lol #john being indefensible seems to be so important to people #that to suggest that John's downfall is an interesting and compelling study in how a person with good intentions can still end up the bad g #this will immediately be taken as Defending Him or Justifying His Actions and they will get Quite Upset #i know its asking a lot for people to appreciate the moral complexity of a well written villain who isn't like. a sexy meow meow or whateve #but it just amuses and annoys me #how people desperately need to flatten the complexity of this series #this is probably the reason why people who like TLT then turn around and recommend the shittiest books ever written as comparable #generally on the basis that they are both about Sword Lesbians #which is like. true on a superficial level.#But like. TLT is about sword lesbians in the same way that EEAAO is about a lady doing her taxes #these tags are longer than the post sorry lmao. i have Opinions about these books.

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pierfangs · 8 months

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@pierprincess : don't say that. don't say that to me. angst prompts ; accepting.

𝖎𝖙 𝖜𝖆𝖘 𝖆 𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖍𝖊 𝖍𝖆𝖉 𝖇𝖊𝖊𝖓 𝖆𝖛𝖔𝖎𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖍𝖆𝖛𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝖍𝖊𝖗, maybe because he knew that his anger and pain was bubbling so close to the surface that there was no way that he could keep it contained if they got into it. the issue was his anger wasn't loud. it was quiet and simmering to a point of unpredictability and he took him to a place that he rarely allowed himself to go. but they could no longer skirt around the issue any longer. they could no longer avoid the inevitable conversation that had his heart already 𝖇𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖐𝖎𝖓𝖌 because there was no way that either one of them was coming out the other side completely unscathed. as much as it pained david to ask 𝖜𝖍𝖞 she had done what she had, he needed to know because she must have known that there was only one way out and they had been set up to walk into a trap the moment they entered the emerson home.

𝖎𝖋 𝖍𝖊 𝖍𝖆𝖉 𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖞 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖕𝖕𝖊𝖉 𝖙𝖔 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖐 𝖆𝖇𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝖜𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖆𝖘 𝖘𝖆𝖞𝖎𝖓𝖌, he never would say that it was her fault because on some level, he didn't blame her for what happened. he blamed himself for keeping things from her, from allowing his family to be put in harms way, for allowing himself to do something so foolish and fall in love. everything she had done was his fault. but would he ever admit that to her? not anymore. david was 𝖍𝖚𝖗𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖌 and he wanted to do whatever he could to make it that she was hurting the same way he was. eyebrows raised at her plea, shaking his head as he laughed meanly, " don't say what, star? that they are all dead because of you? "

𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖆𝖘 𝖈𝖎𝖗𝖈𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖍𝖊𝖗, much like an animal would do its prey and whilst he had no intention of physically harming her, he would do whatever he could to make her on edge, to scare her and to make sure that she knew just how much she had hurt him, " we brought you in, we kept you safe, we gave you a home and we loved you, " it was easier to say we than single himself out, but it was still the truth. each of his brothers had their own connection with star, they all loved her in their own way and they would all be just as 𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖇𝖗𝖔𝖐𝖊𝖓 to learn how she had betrayed them all, " and how did you repay us? you let michael and his amateur vampire hunters sneak in and kill marko whilst we slept like cowards. you ran from dwayne and took laddie from him. you did nothing to help paul as he screamed whilst he died, " with every word he closed his circle, getting closer to her until he was stood in front of her, blue eyes completely dark as he looked at her, his expression nothing but pain and hurt as he looked at her, " you betrayed me by whoring yourself out to michael emerson and thinking that you could just kill me to get your happily ever after, " if she wanted him to be the monster and the villain, then so be it. even if all of this was killing him inside, he wasn't himself, he was letting his pain and grief for the family that he held close for so many years speak for him. even now he knows he can't hide the way his eyes glisten with tears as he stands in front of her, so close that they're almost touching and yet he didn't dare do it, " i really hope he's worth it, clara, because i'm done, " david didn't even know if he believed it himself, if he really thought he could walk away from her and not think about her again. they were 𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖓𝖊𝖈𝖙𝖊𝖉 in a way that couldn't be broken and there was always just something about them that he never quite understood. never did he think she would turn against him like this and would help destory everything he held close, " you all thought i was a monster and now that's exactly what you're going to get, "

#pierprincess #i. answered : 𝖎𝖓 𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖆𝖈𝖙𝖊𝖗.#iv. in character : 𝖎𝖒𝖒𝖔𝖗𝖙𝖆𝖑 𝖋𝖊𝖆𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖛𝖔𝖎𝖈𝖊 𝖘𝖔 𝖈𝖑𝖊𝖆𝖗.#( honestly think this is the most mean thing i've written so far )#( i am sorry star )#( he is just in pain )#( projecting his own blame )

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doctorweebmd · 2 months

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good news chapter 12 of the path to paradise is basically done so i need to edit and tweak some things before my night shift tomorrow but hopefully i'll post it then!!!

#i'm super excited. its a major plot reveal chapter AND its an atsushi chapter similar to the akutagawa chapter #where he gets awful advice has a few important conversations and thinks about his feelings #i can't wait to reveal the ages thing too #have i mentioned that i think the path to paradise is my second most favorite thing i've ever written????#(after zero-sum game of course)#just. its clever. i love it. AHHHH.#but if i'm posting tomorrow i need to answer all my comments AHHH #okay maybe i'll do that right now #my dear beautiful friend mania_sama your comments always leave me feeling like in an alternate lifetime you were my mentor #is that an insane thing to say #anyway...... on to annoy people in their inboxed #actually personally i kind of love when authors reply to my comments #like i dont hold it against anyone for NOT responding (i certainly havent to a LOT.......... bad anna)#but talking about a story and hopefully making them smile makes me so happy!!!#i'm really trying to do my best to comment on more stuff

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francesderwent · 10 months

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one of the weirdest things about *waves hands vaguely in the direction of my relationship* this whole experience. is this time around? there really isn’t a Taylor Swift song that captures it for me.

#even the MOST romantic ones? ones that I DO think capture something of the essence of love. none of them are right somehow!#i will still not be elaborating at this time #closest are probably Everything Has Changed (dust off your highest hopes everything HAS changed)#King of My Heart (is this the end of all the endings? my broken bones are mending)#weirdly State of Grace (love is a ruthless game unless you play it good & right! this is the golden age of something good & right & real!)#but there’s no hearing a song everything snapping into place like oh THIS is what it feels like #because none of those songs are about him you know??? the specificity is missing and the specificity is why I love him #Everything Has Changed is wrong because I knew a whole lot more than his name when everything changed!!#King of My Heart is wrong because it’s not QUIET enough. it’s too triumphant not awed enough #State of Grace is wrong because ‘you were never a saint we learn to live with the pain mosaic broken hearts’ just isn’t the vibe!#and neither of us have blue eyes!!!#and if this was a fictional blorbo song none of that would even matter because I can reach across miles to make a blorbo song work #but apparently not this time??#and the answer might be ‘well cate Taylor has never written a song about falling in love with an old friend’#(except for Glitch which lowkey sucks and Mary’s Song and INTHAF which go back TOO far; we didn’t grow up together)#but also…..it might be that this time it’s not primarily in my head and so I can’t twist it to fit a song #they say you know when you’re really in love because all the love songs make sense #but maybe that’s sort of the being in love with love stage??#maybe you know you’re really in love when none of the love songs can fully cross over into the uniqueness of your experience #anyway. ignore me #or send me song recs for friends-to-lovers lol #in which cate tells stories

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dashiellqvverty · 2 months

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hello the developer of tangled the series works at the daily wire now???

#like making their kids shows lmao 😭 like the bluey ripoff #i was never involved with Fandom for tangled lmao i got into the show like RIGHT after it had ended i think #but from searching him up he seems to be a very controversial figure in fandom. v reminiscent of miraculous ladybug imo #in the sense that wow this guy sure is a dick to people about his kids show #but also maybe people need to lower their expectations and stop asking this guy stuff and expecting Good Answers #like idk how to explain it it would always be the most frustrating things people would use as the Reason the miraculous creator is evil #and i’m like why is it about discourse about how he talks about this character why isn’t it just that he’s obviously a huge dick #and i’m getting very similar vibes about this guy based on the minimal skimming i’ve done lmao #anyway him apparently having very shitty right wing politics is not something i ever noticed come through in the show very obviously #but it DOES make me curious to look at it with that in mind #the show is bad but i love it <3 #but like why are we focusing on ‘the showrunner is mean to fans of the fan favorite character’ and not like #wow almost every character in this show was written like garbage #anyway. <3 #r.txt

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anachronistic-falsehood · 5 months

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I'm having a "think about the omega kids" kind of day so I figured I'd ask: What are your thoughts on the kids in candy timeline?

GOD the answer 2 this is late yet again.... been having so many thoughts about everything all the time i simply cannot keep up BUT I RLY WANTED TO ANSWER THIS BECAUSE I LOVE THE CANDY TIMELINE KIDS!! I think they're overall really interesting characters to add to the story, and while the epilogues do have their Problems, I do love the omega kids and i hope the new hs:bc writers take them in an interesting way. i think they were a great addition to the candy timeline. they make it feel more like homestuck, you know?

because like. ok. lemme explain real quick. Homestuck was a story about growing up. it started with these kids who were just entering teenagehood and had no idea what they were doing. they struggled, they learned, and they grew!!! Homestuck 2 and the epililogues would have been worse if it didn't have any kids in it. The epilogues kind of split Homestuck's theme of growing up into two: Meat has the childish villain, the one who's too stubborn to see past his own faults, (and Ult!Dirk is especially interesting to me because he was a protagonist of hs canon and is now an antagonist, and in his mind he never left Sburb and has barely grown up at all let's be real but ANYWAY), and the stories of kids who are growing up and still have so much left to learn. AGH i could talk about the themes of growing up in homestuck for ages but ANYWAY

BASICALLY: i really like the omega kids overall, they all have such fun personalities and dynamics with each other, and i think if hs:bc in the candy timeline veers its focus a little more towards the kids, it could make it feel more like homestuck, you know? i want a bunch of teens struggling through interpersonal issues and drama and trying to survive while the world ends please!!!

#literally just siting here waiting for another upd8 bc i love how vrissy was written in her most recent section and i want 2 see more #also WHERE IS TAVROS CROCKER-ENGLISH???? WHERE IS HE??? KANAYA THREATENED HIS LIFE BUT WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM AFTER THAT #grabbing james roach by the shirt I NEED ANSWERS SIR #hs^2 #homestuck #whiskeys word soup #hs:bc

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unofficialadamtaurus · 2 years

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100% on everything you said.

it’s just like. as a woc and a wlw, i can see how i’m treated differently based on both.

for many queer or gnc people, they can hide their identity to protect themselves. in the workplace this is called “covering” and can happen to a lot of different groups.

but i can’t hide my race/ethnicity. it’s visible from the moment someone looks at me, reads my name, sees my Very Ethnic features, etc.

racism shares certain aspects in common with queerphobia/transphobia (of course). but fundamentally these types of discrimination end up being two different things and trying to speak over one group because you’re part of the other doesn’t make sense.

white queer people trying to speak over poc in the fandom and excusing racism isn’t good and i’ve seen it happen in the rwby fandom WAY too much.

anyways mood below

Well said.

#illusory-torrent #unofficial adam answers #rwby #racism in fandom #adam is a fascinating intersection of multiple types of bigotry (projected and otherwise):#racism (against him and in how his character is written)#homophobia (projected because he fought the bees)#misogyny (projected because he hit blake + emotionally manipulated her)#and because the racism is the one thing that's 'in favor' of his character #(i.e. not just another reason to spit on his corpse)#people do not seem capable of looking through the other hot topics to flip their understanding of him as a character #and particularly from a meta perspective #so they instead see accusations of racism as someone 'grasping for straws' to 'defend Adam'#but that's missing the point #while yes adam was (imo) completely justified in wanting to burn the world to the ground...#most of the racism comes from how the writers planned out his arcs and traits and so on #so it's not about 'defending adam' - it's about dissecting why his character should never have existed as it does in canon #we should never have gotten to this point.

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not-poignant · 10 months

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The one character that I've really wished I could meet is Eran. (Or, more particularly, an irl version of Eran!) I've loved him since about halfway through the first Ice Plague, and I also think he's one of the most handsome characters you've created, too!

Tbh I think it would be really nice to meet Eran! He'd feed you good food or take you to his parent's place where they could feed you good food.

Like, I definitely think he'd really take care of people and just be very friendly and lovely overall. He's a good egg. :D

#asks and answers #eran iliakambar #fae tales verse #the ice plague #i definitely think that like #eran's the most Seelie character i've written #and yeah #he is pretty handsome right?#love that for him with his amber eyes #and his red-tinted hair :D #administrator gwyn wants this in the queue

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haunted-hijinxer · 1 year

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What was the worst ending you had planned for Season 1 of the 'call of cthulhu: haunted hijinx' scenario?

Hahaha! Oh boy, what a fun question! Especially since we all kind of expected the first scenario to be standalone when we started...

I remember when I first pitched the first scenario, I had the vague thought that the scenario could potentially end up being a precursor to canon BatIM events. An explanation of the Ink Machine’s origins powered by the Stone, Joey perhaps resenting Henry’s prioritizing of his family and fueling his desire to force him closer until he ultimately pushes him away, while Henry is all the more disinclined to stay if Joey keeps practicing magic after the horrors it already brought to them…

It was tidy! But I am soooo delighted this isn’t what ultimately happened, haha!

But while that was one possibility that had crossed my mind as plausible… the worst?

I suppose the biggest failure case I considered is that the ritual is completed.

Host Joey spawns Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos into the world fully, not just an echo or an aspect, and the boys neither die before this happens to reset the loop nor manage to open a portal to the past by touching the eye of the Host where part of Joey’s soul was imprisoned.

Nyarlathotep walks the earth as a skyscraper-tall tangle of tentacles and madness, and decimates a significant portion of Haiti before he finally fades from this reality once again. The JDS boys are either driven completely mad and taken into his dubious service, manage to escape knowing an entire nation is paying the price, or die...and stay dead.

After all, once Nyarlathotep emerges fully from the conduit of Joey’s mortal form, Joey is no longer the Host, is he? So all deals contingent on that state… are off.

#This is also why when Henry was trying to punch Host Joey and he pushed a failed roll into a fumble #All the Host goop went into Henry even when they went in the past #With Joey no longer being in any way the Host the boys had lost that safety net in the past as well #ALSO WORTH NOTING I added a lot to this scenario #As originally written the GOOD ending is the party killing the Host and then the body they are all sharing as well to save Haiti!#Also honorable mention to the alt ending the group thought about A LOT at one point #where the boys escape while still all trapped in Henry's body #And try to go back and run the studio as ''Henry'' with Sammy and Joey still in his head #unable to tell anyone (like say Jack) lest they all get committed #call of cthulhu: haunted hijinx #thren posts #thren writes #THERE ARE SO MANY WAYS FOR THINGS TO GO WRONG IN CoC LOL #It's amazing how well they've handled most of these scenarios' perils so far??#thren answers

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bythebonefire · 1 year

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WHAT FORM OF LOVE DO YOU EMBODY?

love as hunger

[ love as ravenous desire, love as something fragrant and home-built ] when florence welch said "we all have a hunger" and when jenny slate asked "who will come into my kitchen and be hungry for me?" and when violet trefusis wrote "I want you hungrily, frenziedly. passionately. I am starving for you..." and when anne carson asked "what are we made of but hunger and rage?"

love as tenderness

[ love as gentleness after a lifetime of cruelty ] when ocean vuong said "sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined" and when pablo neruda said "like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar" and when anais mitchell wrote "all i've ever known is how to hold my own, and now i wanna hold you, too”

love as violence

[ love as bloodshed, crimson as a knife slipped between your ribs ] when ocean vuong said "to arrive at love, then, is to arrive through obliteration" and when franz kafka said "you are the knife i turn inside myself; that is love" and when ada limon said "how do you love? like a fist. like a knife" and when richard siken said "sorry about the blood in your mouth. i wish it was mine"

#well no surprises here lmao #with grills there's a quote--it's actually from a bollywood movie I think #'my love is not a poem that is written in pencil'#and that's one i think about for him a lot in his various ships #it tracks that ferno's is the gentlest of these lol #wingdings... well i dunno lol #i don't think anyone in the mobfell family had a healthy model of love growing up #and wingdings avoids it as a necessary point of avoiding a vulnerability #but wouldn't know where to start in an honest relationship tbh #i tried doing it for mobpaps but it didn't really work #he's only really had one (1) ship and I think there's a degree of like #naivete that makes most of the answers in the quiz not really fit for him

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amethyst-halo · 1 year

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all i want is for in the fifth book alderheart yells at nightheart for his sins. the sixth book is nightheart fixing all of his sins by apologizing to sunbeam and his clan-mates, successfully rallying everyone to exile bramblestar or at least throw him in the elders den, get squirrelstar to change sparkpelt to her rightful name, and get a kp bf. is that really to much to ask?

FOR REAL

the way they're setting up this "alderheart is 'the only nice one' in tc" with alder's natural mildness makes me really want him to call nightheart out directly and have it stick

of COURSE i want like everyone to yell at him but he's only got like. positive connections with alderheart and sunbeam atm and i love sunbeam but i don't think she'd yell at him like i want. or if she does it'll turn into "you're just like everyone in tc" or whatever

honestly personally sky made nightheart downright irredeemable to me but i hold hope that he'll end on a decent note instead of the erins treating this like he was always in the right and just a sad bullied little boy

#i struggle to put my feelings on nightheart into words bc every post about him makes me adjust my wording #but i don't like him. he is very close to being one of my most hated characters as he is right now #nothing against u if u like him! unless ur antagonizing squilf and sparkpelt and finchlight etc #his pov is just. so badly written. and also creepy #sketch answers #anonymous

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lumilasi · 1 year

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Hiiii I was reading FS series and so far AM LOVING IT!! (That ending doe whyyy imma cri (;—;) and just, wanted to ask how u even came up with it? Do u have favorite parts?? (Or least fave, can't imagine that personally thou (〃´∀｀)) asdgfsssd sorry if this is random or weird I just really wanted to let u know I liked it a lot! Might've skipped sleep couple times ahahaha....(^—^);

Thank U for writing! Hope u have a great day!!!!!

Hi there, sorry for late reply! (got this last night basically lol) and don't worry! It's random but in a good way lmao

(Also, don't worry things get better if you continue reading the series, trust me C; But up to you of course! I know its a long ass story when you put all 3 fics together lmao)

Also pls don't skip sleep, sleep is good! Sleep is important haha

I can't recall exactly where the idea came from, I think I was just toying with the concept of "What if AFO WASN'T absolute horse shit of a parent & Somehow friends with Toshinori WITHOUT making All Might evil?" or something along those lines.

Hmmm....I do very much like that one scene, where Hisashi and Toshinori chat in a car, or more like Toshinori shares his woes with his friend, and Hisashi says something very simple, but it is very profound in the context of the story/their relationship. (I drew this scene and wrote a whole ass essay about why I loved the scene so much for some reason lmao).

Hisashi Kicking Toshinori outta hero form was also pretty fun, namely because you as a reader KNOW who Hisashi is (and Toshinori doesn't, yet), making the whole thing kind of ironic.

Also, Tenko pretending to be a starfish. It was just one of those cute kids train of thoughts moments I really liked writing. (Since I've drawn all these scenes in question, I'll plop the artworks here so this is not just a wall of text answer lol);

As for least fave, it is actually pretty typical (at least in my case lol) that there's always something I feel like I could've written better. Don't get me wrong I very much still love FS, but even my favorite story has some things that in hindsight...if I wrote the fic now, I'd do differently. Call it learning what works/what doesn't/what could work better and all haha!

These things are:

How Hisashi's brother died. I now feel like how it went down doesn't...quite fit with the kind of character Hisashi became. It was meant to be tragic, kind of accidental, but, ehhh...maybe it doesn't feel enough like an accident? Admittedly this detail is something I could easily go and change as it's just couple of lines of dialogue and a scene, but finding those bits would probably take ages. (Will I do this small but kind of significant change? Who knows, maybe someday lol, I did rewrite an entirety of Reanimate at one point, or well one half of it back in 2020)

The whole Todoroki family sub-plot. Now, the way it was written came from the current understanding of Endeavor's character at that time (pre Touya flashbacks) which, kind of...ironically ended up making me write him worse than he actually turned out to be in canon, (Enji's still a terrible, abusive father and a person ofc, don't get me wrong, but he's def. violent sooner in my fic, than he was in canon) and now, I'd probably approach that plotline differently with the new info I have.

Maybe I wouldn't make a full on redemption arc for Enji as, well, I don't really care about his character much outside the impact he's had on his family, but def. wouldn't have written him as violent as he came off, given the timing of things.

Maybe The Midoriyas could've prevented things from going to that point it ends up in canon, and get Touya to see he has more value than just living up to his dad's amibitions, and MAYBE Enji starting to see his son as an individual, rather than his extension.

Or something. IDK.

Like said, Enji's one of the more boring characters in bnha to me, which makes writing him/focusing on him kind of difficult, hence IDK if I'd be able to pull off such an idea easily. I feel like he has very little interesting substance (to me, this is subjective OFC) outside the whole "bad dad" plot, and as a cherry on top, his design just... manages to combine a lot of things I tend to find kind of unappealing to look at in a character lmao. It's not even rescued by his writing, like what happens with All Might for example.

In fact, if I can get away with not showing Enji on-screen in a story (Without just killing him off/putting him in jail, those aren't my favorite solutions to issues like this, and have only used the former, once), while still showcasing the negative effect he's had on Dabi (and/or Shoto) I will do it. Quite obviously, I did not feel like it'd work for FS, not having him be on-screen at all.

....Well this is a long answer, this last part got especially rambly, but kind of fitting given how long my stories tend to be too haha! Hope it satisfied your curiosity :D

#answered anon #family secrets fic #todoroki family #Funnily enough I just today got a comment regarding to the topic around Endeavor and how he's often written in fics #so this was actually in the forefront of my mind coincidentally lmao #I'd definitely pick a different approach to the todoroki sublot for this fic now #but since this fic is already complete I guess its too late for that lol #changing it would require much bigger changes than I did even with Reanimate's revamp and THAT was a massive project #so most I might do someday is the point 1 #Maybe even changing OFA's name to the correct one as its currently based on a headcanon I had at the time #before his actual name was revealed #tenko shimura #Dad for one #touya todoroki #toshinori yagi #all might

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#he also has one more scorpio in mercury #next time harden or doc is baffled at maxeys constant need to work.... just show him this #scorps do NOT like going into things without preparing or trying in some way or form #put that with the go getter in cap and ure gonna have a scorp whos IN in that gym namean?#the scorpio venus....#it's like with most scorpios. when theyre doing right theyre really doing right... but when theyre doing wrong...#in thinking theyre doing right... when they might not be.....#i can see how maxey .. despite the way WE love him... perhaps.. is not the most... critically acclaimed partner to be #in wagsites #he needs a cancer or a taurus bad #BAAAD !#hmm... ill make sure to keep an eye out for that #maxeys relationship with gemini iq and his constant pestering of iq #with the 'he too big time to answer my facetimes now 😔' from max rlly was written by the stars lmao #great deep lover and great overall surface/summary go well in a person but in two persons #always looking n feeling in two opposite extremes!! can be tuff! scorps need that LOYALTY loyalty #so they can feel secure enough to give all that back n more #if they see too much 2 sides of the coin goin on when theyre so focused on one.. might not be so gr8 !#scorps can take a joke against themselves as can cancers n tauruses #but they all have a kinda Stop barrier to that that only scorps/cancers/tauruses can feel out the best b4 that happens #and feelings actually get hurt then #gems might be too outwardly to see that sometimes and a misunderstanding might happen that a scorp will harbor forever #maxeys cap keeps his bond strong with iq tho!! they just have to keep checkin in with eachother n stuff!#just to make sure theyre doin alright!!#i love not traditionally compatible people being a couple/friends. i love seeing what theyre wary of n what works #anyways!!!#maxey #mr power with a purpose !!!!#it's either bball or superhero and one gets paid the other gets comics!

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👀 You should give me a run down on *checks notes* everything Cars related. Assuming I only remember like four events from all the movies combined. And that time the dude with the hitch was a spy.

You just opened a fucking HUGE can of worms, and now you gotta lie in it.

So we start off with Cars 1. I mean this in the best way possible, I am not telling you anything about the opening scene. The opening scene is the BEST scene in the ENTIRE FRANCHISE and if there is anything I want you to experience first-hand, it is that. Even after watching this movie a million times (which I may or may not have done), this scene still gets me hyped. Go watch it. (Also, the song is a fucking banger. Stream Real Gone by Sheryl Crow.)

Okay, and so here we're introduced to Strip Weathers, Chick Hicks, Lightning McQueen, and LMQ's main motivation.

Strip "The King" Weathers is planning to retire after this race, and he's kind of like the last of the elders left on the track, if that makes sense. He works as someone to give LMQ advise and be a rival to who is basically the primary antagonist of this movie.

Chick Hicks is the primary antagonist of this movie. He does not mind cheating to win, he is a fucking asshole to others, he has willfully almost committed manslaughter on like three separate occasions, and I hope he dies a million deaths.

Lightning McQueen is the main protagonist, okay? We all know this, this is a surprise to literally no one. He starts out as this cocky, full-of-himself asshole who would rather have fame than be a genuinely nice person. This changes later on through being in Radiator Springs, but that's how he starts off.

Anyway, from the scene I showed you, Chick starts a giant car pile up, Lightning makes it through, when they all go for a pit-stop, Lightning doesn't get new tires because he's a fucking idiot, while he's in the lead his tires pop, and there ends up being a three-way tie between Strip, Chick, and Lightning, but Lightning only managed to tie by the tip of his tongue. Literally.

This is revealed after Strip tries to give Lightning some advice but Lightning spaces out the entire time because he's imagining what it would be like to race for Dinoco. Big surprise, the winner of this race was supposedly going to be Dinoco's new Golden Boy! A tie-breaker race between Chick, Strip, and Lightning is scheduled to happen in California, but Lightning has to do a meeting with his sponsors, Rusteeze. He doesn't like the people at Rusteeze because he doesn't like rusty cars. Totally not racist, McQueen, totally not racist.

Anyway, McQueen tells Mack, his transporter, to pull an all-nighter to get to Cali, but then we get another fucking AWESOME music scene. LIFE IS A HIGHWAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY-

Then another really cool scene happens were Mack is falling asleep while driving and four hot rods show up and start fucking with him. Best scene in cinema history, I swear on my LIFE. Anyway, Lightning McQueen falls out the back of the trailer and ends up on the highway and speeds off, looking for the Interstate, but winds up in RADIATOR SPRINGS.

He, uh, he destroys the town, to put it simply. He then ends up being arrested and is taken to court the next morning. The person that takes him to the courthouse is Mater, who, get this, is a rusty tow truck. The judge ends up being Doc Hudson. (This is a surprise tool that will help us later!) Doc wants LMQ out of town but then Sally shows up, who LMQ confuses to be his lawyer, and Sally ends up getting Doc to force LMQ to fit their road.

Doc challenges LMQ to a race to get out of things, LMQ agrees, it's one lap around the butte, and LMQ loses because he can't drive on dirt. Not that important but two cars named Mini and Van (they're a couple) accidentally makes it to town. Lightning asks them for help and they just kind of run off, thinking he's insane.

Slowly but surely, the townspeople start to forgive him and he starts to grow as a person. (Doc gives him racing advice at some point but Lightning doesn't listen.) Because the road is looking so much better than it was before, the townspeople start fixing up their respective establishments. Lightning goes to Doc's clinic while looking for Sheriff so he can get his gas to finish up the road but Doc is doctoring on Sheriff so he leaves. He ends up finding Doc's garage, and, surprise, Doc is actually the Fabulous Hudson Hornet!! Lightning tells the town, they laugh, that's that. Lightning and Mater go tractor tipping and LMQ talks about what it would be like to work for Dinoco.

"No more rusty old cars-"

"What's wrong with rusty old cars?"

"....Well, not you, Mater. Other rusty old cars."

LIGHTNING MCQUEEN, DO YOU HEAR HOW RACIST THIS SOUNDS?!

Whatever, the tractors end up running through the town the next day, Lightning sees Doc driving, there's this big argument, Lightning finishes the road, buys something from every single towns person and fixes the lights that the town used to have. The lights were used to impress Sally because....there was a romance plot going on that I forgot to bring up. Honestly they just went on a drive to an abandoned restaurant and talked about what the town used to be and Sally offered him a room at the Cozy Cone Hotel, it really wasn't that much.

Lightning is forced to go to California because Doc called the media, Doc realizes that this wasn't best for everyone but was only best for him (just like how Lightning said that Doc hadn't done anything for anyone other than him in a while because he's lived in this town for decades and none of his friends knows who he actually is [part of the big argument]). Doc and the towns people go to the race as his pit crew.

Chick, oh my fucking God, CHICK, decides to ram into Strip and causes Strip to have a really bad crash. Lightning forefeits winning in order to help Strip, no one likes Chick anymore, Lightning is offered to work for Dinoco, he declines in favor of Rusteeze, and Lightning moves his base to Radiator Springs, therefore putting this long-abandoned town back on the map.

So that's the first movie, right? Now for me to get into analyzing different parts of this movie because I enjoy this far too much.

So, like, Doc ended up in Radiator Springs because he was forced to stop racing after a big crash. He became pretty closed off and bitter, so LMQ, a famous race car, coming into town isn't exactly the best thing that could have happened to him. But with Lightning becoming a better person through this town helping him, Lightning is kind of helping Doc go through some of the same character development. Doc learns to really come to terms with everything, realizes that he's been lying to himself and others for an unreasonably long time, and steps back into the racing world as Lightning's crew chief. I just think that Lightning and Doc's character development paralleling each other in opposite directions is kind of cool.

(Also, I don't think Lightning was an entirely different person because of Radiator Springs, I just think that fame changed him a lot and RS brought out the him before that.)

Also, I saw someone say that when Chick was talking to Lightning about the twins (Lightning's biggest fans, Mia and Tia), Lightning's mind wanders to that drive with Sally, and how that shows that before RS, he thought that what the twins were giving him was love, when it was really just adoration from a distance, and that what he had with Sally was actual love. And I fucking love that observation so much.

This post is so long already and I'm only just starting Cars 2 XD

(I also would just like to say for the record that as I started writing this part, I started watching Cars 3, too.)

Alright, so, Cars 2's plot is so out of left field in comparison to the plot of the first one, it's fucking insane. It starts off with Finn McMissile sneaking onto an oil rig because a secret agent that was in deep cover ended up being killed on the job. Finn is then spotted and a bunch of lemons (the name for a specific group of cars) then start chasing him and shooting at him, and a huge part of the rig blows up, therefore killing a bunch of lemons, and then Finn jumps into the water and becomes a fucking submarine car and what the actual fuck is happening?

So the big bad guy (or so we think) is like "Now that that bitch is fucking DEAD, who could possibly stop us now?" and then it cuts to Mater who says "Mater! Tow Mater! That's who! Is HEREEEEEE to help!" because his friend, Otis, who is a lemon, broke down outside of RS.

Blah blah blah, McQueen is back in town, it's revealed that Doc died, Mater breaks into Wheel Well and pretends to be a waiter so that he can eavesdrop on McQueen and Sally- wait, did I just say that Doc fucking died?!!?

Yep. I did. They just kind of... gloss over that. Like, it's just a simple thing about how it felt wrong to have someone else win the Piston Cup the first year after Doc died. That's fucking it. Like, what the fuck???

Anyway, at Wheel Well, Mater calls into the Mel Dorado Show and secures McQueen a spot in the World Grand Prix. At the first, like, I don't know, party or something? For the race, Mater accidentally gets in the crossfire of some spy bullshit and Finn (with his new partner, Holley Shiftwell) confuse him for some American spy.

They hack into Mater's headset during LMQ's first race in Tokyo, causing him to lose the race, LMQ yells at him (so we admit that LMQ is still an asshole, then?) and Mater decides to go back to RS, but gets completely pulled into the spy bullshit.

Throughout this entire movie, Mater is constantly being told in some way or another that he's nothing more than an incompetent, idiot tow truck, so that kind of fucks with him, y'know?

Anyway because nothing else in this movie really matters other that we kind of just skip to the end. Apparently, the lemon conspiracy was to create a fake biofuel that would have this giant race, the World Grant Prix, to promote it, in which all the racers would be required to use it. However, when aimed at with a high electromagnetic pulse, it'll cause your engine to blow. Therefore, the world would turn on renewable fuel and lemons, who were the lowest minority according to the Cars Universe (also, lemon is, like, an in-universe slur, just felt like I should mention that), would become super rich and powerful because, like mentioned before, they had complete control of the largest oil reserve in the fucking world.

The last race doesn't require the racers to use Alinol because it's supposedly dangerous, LMQ uses it anyway, Mater blows his cover because he's horrified that the lemons are planning on killing LMQ, he, Holley, and Finn get kidnapped, Mater escapes to warn LMQ only to realize that there was a bomb planted on him that could only be deactivated through the voice of the person that said it, Mater figures out that the real bad guy was Sir Axelrod (the guy that organized the WGP in the first place), and Sir Axelrod goes to jail while Mater gets knighted by the Queen of fucking England.

Oh, yeah, did I mention that Mater almost blew up the Queen of motherfucking England???

(Oh, and Holley and Mater are dating now. Felt like I needed to mention that.)

Yeah, this movie was a fever dream. It's my favorite one of the three, though, so I refuse to insult it.

Now for smaller moments, LMQ is introduced to this Italian race car named Francesco Bernoulli. There's this bit where they first meet that directly parallels the bit in Cars 1 where LMQ is flirting with Sally. I'm just gonna link the post I made on that bit here. Also, Francesco gets a custom bumper sticker made that just says "Ciao, McQueen!" and then at the end of the movie, LMQ makes one that says "Ka-ciao, Francesco!" Anyway, my point is that there is no heterosexual explanation for that.

And then there's the fact that Mater's character arch in this movie is basically "I'm being told to be different than I really am, and that I'll only ever be on thing, but what I need to do is embrace what I really am, regardless of what everyone else thinks, because I'm the only one that has any true authority over myself."

.........Mater is fucking trans-coded.

Then there's Lightning McQueen stuff. The first thing I wanna talk about with him comes from the first one and goes into the second one. One of my favorite ways to view the first movie is McQueen overcoming his personal, bigoted beliefs (rusty cars) on his own. Like, yeah, he gets some help every now and then, but it's not as if his hand is being held through every step of the way. And then the way he treats Mater and realizes his wrong-doings is him realizing and amending some of the beliefs that he still holds on a smaller scale.

LMQ is intersex coded. A running joke in the first movie is that LMQ doesn't have headlights and that they're just stickers because he's a race car and doesn't need real ones. And upon telling people this, only male cars are surprised by this, meanwhile female cars don't really question this. In Sally's case, she gives him an affectionate nickname based on it. However, we are told that Lightning McQueen is a man throughout this entire movie. Then in the second one, we see Lightning getting real headlights put in. Almost as if it was like, y'know, top surgery or something.

Also, two background characters, Sarge and Fillmore, are shown on a dinner date when the group was in Italy and then at the end, Fillmore is like "If you're saying that I switched out Alinol with my organic fuel because I never trusted Axelrod in the first place, you're dead wrong, man! It was him," while pointing at Sarge. Sarge says "Once big oil, always big oil *glances nervously at Fillmore* Man." Fillmore, teasingly, "Tree hugger." (Sarge calls Fillmore a tree hugger in a somewhat derogatory manner earlier in the movie.)

I'm sorry, but, like, those two are definitely dating.

But also, the idea that a minority just doesn't wanted to be treated like shit anymore, so they decide to do something bad, and we're supposed to root against them because they decided to do something bad, despite the fact that it came from genuine issues and trauma having to do with the way society functions??

Didn't realize we were gonna go there, Cars Universe, but go off, I guess.

And then there's Cars 3.

So, uh.... I don't like Cars 3?

Don't get me wrong, it's a really good movie, but I have my issues with it, y'know?

It starts of by mirroring Cars 1, with the whole "I am speed" and racing montage thing. Here, we're introduced to Cal Weathers, Bobby Swift, and Jackson Storm.

Cal Weathers is the nephew of Strip Weathers and is the new racer for Dinoco. He's a bit slow, and I don't mean that speed-wise, but, like, I am, too. He's adorable and I love him so much.

Bobby Swift is basically only there to take Chick's place since it was three cars in the first movie, however, instead of being an antagonistic asshole, he's the friend that completes the trio.

Then, finally, there's Jackson Storm. He's meant to be the antagonist.... I guess? Like, there's nothing that really makes me want to hate him, y'know? Like, with Chick, I hated him with a burning passion. With Professor Z (Axelrod's spokesperson for the lemons) and Sir Axelrod, I was conflicted because what they were doing was super bad, but they also had a point. Those are the two ways that you should really be looking for in a villain. Hell, even if the viewer likes the villain better than the protagonist, that's still good!! Because it means that you wrote a good villain!! But with Jackson Storm, he's just kind of..... there. Like, he's ageist. That's kind of fucked up. But that's..... that's it. And even then, it's ageism in the same way that you would hear someone say "You scream like a girl." It's wrong, yeah, but it's ingrained into our heads so even if we have progressive beliefs, we'd still end up thinking or saying it from time-to-time because that's just kind of how society works. Jackson Storm is such a dry antagonist and it honestly kind of sucks, because he has so much potential as a character.

Anyway, Jackson beats McQueen out of nowhere despite being a rookie, even more Next Gens start showing up which causes other racers to either be fired or retire, like Bobby and Cal, respectively. McQueen crashes and has to heal and decides that if he's gonna beat Storm, he needs to train like him. Rusty and Dusty, owners of Rusteeze, sell the company to an even bigger company run by a guy named Sterling (your stereotypical billionaire capitalist who claims to be on your side but has money as his first priority no matter what) and ends up being trained by Cruz Ramirez.

(Oh, also, Chick Hicks has a talk show now called Chick's Picks with Chick Hicks. He has a super smart data analyst on the show named Natalie Certain.

The thing about Chick is that, while he is an asshole, you aren't just born an asshole. Something has to make you that way. And while some of that can be chopped up to fame getting to him and the fact that he was always coming second to the same person, but there's no way that that can be it. Like, murder isn't really the kind of thing that something that simple will cause you to do. Which means that there was something from his past that caused this switch.

Which, when thinking about his character like that, it honestly makes him a lot more interesting. Especially since Doc's story kind of went the same way. He was this confident, happy kid until his crash, and then the racing world abandoned him, and he started to become more closed off and depressed and bitter towards the world. Having the main antagonist have such a big and clear parallel to the main role model is so cool, in my opinion.

Like, my love-hate relationship with Chick Hicks is definitely leaning on the hate side, but he is the kind of guy that I'd want to put under a microscope and study or put in a cage and poke with a stick, y'know?)

Sterling says that if McQueen doesn't win the first race of the next season he's gonna have to retire. McQueen agrees, Cruz starts training him, but it really ends up with McQueen training Cruz. There's this big thing where they end up at a demolition derby and by a stroke of luck Cruz wins and earns her first trophy. See, the thing about this was that they were undercover and at the end of this their cover was blown. While driving back to the training facility, McQueen blows up and is just a huge asshole to Cruz about everything that has happened so far. Cruz's tragic backstory is revealed here but what I wanna focus on is OH LOOK! LMQ IS BEING AN ASSHOLE AGAIN, AFTER CLAIMING TO HAVE LEARNED HIS LESSON!!!

I know that the whole point of Cars 1 was for McQueen to be a huge dick, but he learns his lesson in the end. In the second movie, that behavior is repeated, and then he claims to have learned his lesson. In the third movie, and you're not gonna believe this, that behavior is repeated, and then he claims to have learned his lesson. This is honestly one of the reasons why, while I love him, I just don't like him. He's kind of like the Sharpay Evans of these movies, y'know? He goes through character development in each movie, only for it to be scrapped for the next one. But the thing about why it's somewhat likable in Sharpay but not in McQueen is that Sharpay is A, the antagonist and B, a child. McQueen is neither of those things. It just becomes tiring and annoying at the end of the day.

Anyway, what I didn't mention is that Doc being dead is, like, a huge thing in this movie. LMQ and Cruz end up going to Thomasville, which is a fictional place in the state of George, because that's where Doc used to race and where his family lives. They help him and Cruz train and then they get to Florida for the race. McQueen races for half of it, but then when Sterling is trying to get Cruz to go back to the training center, McQueen stops racing and gets Cruz to take his place. Smokey, Doc's best friend (brother? Cousin?), who was acting as Lightning's crew chief, is then replaced by LMQ, who is acting as Cruz's crew chief, therefore cementing his place as the new Doc Hudson of the narative.

Cruz beats Jackson, it comes up as both Lightning and Cruz winning, Lightning can keep racing if he so chooses, but he decides to continue training Cruz. Tex, the owner of Dinoco, buys out Sterling. There's a quick clip with them racing at the butte that parallels the ending clip of the first movie, where Lightning was racing at the butte with Doc.

The only thing about this is that, like, we're also supposed to be really happy that they managed to beat Jackson, but, like, if anything, I'm just glad that Cruz proved her worth as a racer. Lightning beating Jackson is far from satisfying because I just..... didn't like any of them.

(There's also a series of movies called Planes. I've only seen the first one out of the two and I haven't watched them in years, but I wanted to at least bring it up because they take place in the same universe.)

That kind of leads us to where we are now. Last year, Disney announced that there was going to be a Cars series. A few days ago, the trailer for the series, which would officially be named Cars on the Road, was released. It's going to follow Mater and McQueen on a road trip to get to Mater's sister's wedding. You can watch it here, if you'd like!

To be completely honest, there is DEFINITELY some stuff that I missed while typing this out. I can talk about these movies for ages, and because it was already getting so long, I didn't bring up any of the shorts, comics, or books. But yeah, that's that. Imma just link my fics here, like you asked earlier, and that'll be it.

For now, anyway.

(Not) In A Rush

Something Straight Out Of A Postcard

Dancing With The Storm

The Stars Cannot Compare

Wild For Wheels

The Joy Of Painting (Each Other)

A Mornin' Cup Of Joe

Thinking Out Loud

Broken Walls (Hurt Like Shattered Glass)

Kiss Or Kill

#ive written a lot more cars fanfiction than ive thought #answering asks #bunny boo #cars stuff #my writing #no but genuinely there is so much stuff i could talk about #i didnt talk about how perfect the timing of the lyrics with the opening scene in the first movie is #i didnt talk about why most people thought that the time jump between the second and third movie was too big when it really wasnt #i didnt talk about how mater and lmqs song in the second movie also fits excruciatingly well as a lightning/francesco song #i didnt talk about finn mcmissiles character development and how important the opening scene of cars 2 is to understanding his character #i could talk for so much longer but this was already long enough XD #pixar cars

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