I changed my icon, sorry to my mutuals
i have a really dumb joke i wanna make.
i respect people who want to keep their menstruation to themselves but i have to make it everyone's problem. Literally if it was socially acceptable to lead every conversation with "I'm menstruating" i would.
Can this poll end on exactly 69,420 votes. Not notes, votes.
Of course
Yes
Maybe?
No
Hahaha funny number but no
Max you've been here 10+ years you know better
Vanilla Extract will equally help and hurt
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Jesus with the buttons Max
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I need someone to scream about Latino!Shadow with me or I’m going to die
shadow believing himself to be a "failure" for not having saved maria's life, despite having been specifically created to cure her from a progressive and fatal health condition. her grandfather was so incapable of facing her prospective death that he coopted a military project aimed at weapons development (unkillable thing that takes life) to try and instead create a cure (unkillable thing that protects life). and in the end, the opposite of what was supposed to happen, happened - he was created to preserve her life, and instead, she traded it to protect his.
but like - taking that concept of "failure" (e.g. "i failed to fulfill my purpose, which was saving maria's life; maria died while saving me, it should have been the other way around-") and the anger and survivor's guilt - taking all of that and turning it on its head and reframing events so that he DID save her, just not the way gerald or the other scientists had envisioned.
like.
maria was so lonely. gerald looked at maria and saw a girl who was going to die. he saw her diagnosis and her predicted lifespan and threw himself into the effort of saving her life, keeping her alive, while taking her with him to the ARK station where she could be more easily quarantined from pathogens. she was surrounded by adults who were consumed by their work, and a grandfather obsessed with prolonging her future, instead of enriching her present. she wanted to see earth because she wanted to see LIFE, and people, and have friends - and instead she was in this cold, lonely, boring coffin in earth's orbit.
and then shadow was made, and all at once, maria had a friend. she had a peer who'd seen even less of earth than she had, who wasn't a researcher obsessed with measuring her, who was probably getting poked and prodded just as much - if not more - than she was. he was cognitively her equal, and experientially her junior, and for the first time in her life she had somebody she could protect, and teach, and cherish. everybody else was an adult - she'd never had a friend before.
maria wanted to see earth because she wanted to see people. because space was so disconnected, and lonely, and cold, and she wanted to wake up and have something to look forward to, and there was nothing like that in space before shadow. she didn't actually care about being cured - she wasn't afraid of her diagnosis the way gerald was, she wasn't the one who was going to have to mourn her own passing - she just wanted to have a chance to live and love and learn.
shadow taught her so much, because he was so new and needed guidance on basically everything, and in order to relay that information to him, she first needed to understand it herself. she got her first friend, her first partner in crime, her first sibling, her first royal pain-in-the-ass, her first peer, her first buddy. she learned what it felt like to want to protect somebody. GUN stormed the ARK, and maria learned all at once that she'd rather live a short life knowing she'd done everything she could to protect her brother, than live a long life knowing his had been cut short. shadow thinks he failed his purpose, because he was supposed to 'cure' her and instead she bled out while he survived. he's wrong.
I do not believe for a second that Amy is straight. My girl is fucking surrounded by Sonic copies of all genders: Surge, Shadow, Metal, Silver, Blaze, and Sonic himself like,, it’s Amy’s world and the (not) Sonics are living in it.
i dont agree with a lot of the posturing against people who only watch kid's cartoons because it feels mean-spirited. like if you want to do that it's cool and i don't think you're committing some moral or intellectual sin--but it is very silly when people who do this forget that they're watching cartoons for children, not in a 'you can't expect children's media to be good' way or even a 'the politics of children's media aren't worth analyzing way' but in a 'you have to be realistic about genre expectations' way. because that's how you end up with arguments over whether steven universe should have killed people or not
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